Building a PC isn’t that bad. $1000 is plenty for a competent 1080p machine, especially with DLSS or FSR or even just Lossless Scaling involved.
If you don’t care about playing the latest and greatest, you can come in around 500 if you can find some decent secondhand deals. 3060’s can be had for around 200 used and they’ll play pretty much anything indie just fine and can probably even handle modern demanding titles with aggressive DLSS and turning features down or off. You can go cheaper with a 2060 super for about 50 less or get a 4060 for about 50 more. Team red will probably be a little cheaper overall, although FSR isn’t quite as good as DLSS at squeezing every last frame out of the chip.
If you’ll only be playing stuff like Stardew, Crosscode, etc - and there’s a ton of great games like that - then you don’t even need a discrete GPU at all.
TheMightyCat@ani.social 5 days ago
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Steam machine is 1039 euro
Fizz@lemmy.nz 5 days ago
Thats cooked, thats the same as USD
Dremor@lemmy.world 5 days ago
You have to take into account the price is always shown with VAT included in the EU, not in the US.
The price without VAT in France would be €865,83.
Fizz@lemmy.nz 5 days ago
I have a 15% vat in my country so I guess im just not used to the US not having a vat. Stupid US stop excluding tax from your prices its insanity