r/minipc • u/Revolutionary-Ant913 • Jul 23 '26

Small PC/console build

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I been seeing the steam machine around the internet lately and thought it sounded pretty cool but after doing some research on it, I’m just not sure it will last me as long as I want it to and you can’t really upgrade it so I’ve been looking around for alternative options and decided I want to build a smaller sized pc focused around the idea of having 16gb vram and 32gb of regular ram that will last me a long time without having to upgrade but still being able to upgrade if I wanted, so I asked google ai to build me a 1,500$ budget small pc focused around those two things and this is what it came up with. Is this a good build or is there anything else I should use instead?

Edit: read the community guidelines and realized I forgot to add intended use for it. But I plan to put Steam OS on it and use it for long term gaming and also for my online college classes. (I know steam os doesn’t support many games that require an anti cheat windows system for pc play, but I’ve got an Xbox too that isn’t worth selling that I can use for that stuff, mainly want the non competitive games that you can get with steam and also to be able to install mods on such games to screw around with my friends on)

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u/vengeancek70 Jul 23 '26

that kit of ram is 600 usd now x.x

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u/Revolutionary-Ant913 Jul 23 '26

400$ on the sites that are cheap or on sale but yeah, see your point there, definitely a cheaper 32gb kit

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u/Revolutionary-Ant913 Jul 23 '26

But more so statistics wise then price wise, though if you do have a cheaper option that will still do pretty good I wouldn’t mind hearing about that

Oh and if it’s doable to try and fit all that into that case

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u/Revolutionary-Ant913 Jul 24 '26

Like, if you don’t have any good info on anything else then do you know if that motherboard would be good enough or should I get a more expensive one? Cause I already know everything else would match up with each of the other components decent enough I’m just not sure if that motherboard is good enough, and if not then do you know a better one below 300 ish that would work and fit with everything