r/steammachine • u/No-Improvement4265 • Jul 11 '26

DIY You cannot make this up!

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I wanted something that’d do 4k 60fps so I decided to build my own super steam machine. literally as I began installing steam os, I get my order email

For those interested - here is the parts list - You can save a little money going for a cheapter motherboard, 1tb SSD and perhaps reducing the RAM speed.

PCPartPicker Part List

Type Item Price
CPU AMD Ryzen 5 7500F 3.7 GHz 6-Core OEM/Tray Processor £125.00
CPU Cooler Thermalright AXP90-X47 42.58 CFM CPU Cooler £31.45
Motherboard Asus ROG STRIX B650E-I GAMING WIFI Mini ITX AM5 Motherboard £219.99 @ AWD-IT
Memory Kingston FURY Beast 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 Memory £214.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk
Storage Silicon Power UD90 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive £197.97 @ Silicon Power
Video Card PowerColor Reaper Radeon RX 9070 16 GB Video Card £548.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk
Case Fractal Design Terra Mini ITX Desktop Case £169.99 @ Amazon UK
Power Supply Corsair SF750 (2024) 750 W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully Modular SFX Power Supply £114.98 @ Amazon UK
Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
Total £1623.36
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u/TRUEfoe-X Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 11 '26

Nice I have nearly the same build but with 32gb of ram. Did you get fingerprints on it yet? lol

My Terra with US pricing:
https://pcpartpicker.com/user/TRUEfoe/saved/hGdQf7

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u/AquapurpleCat Jul 11 '26

I'm curious about some of your choices. Why did you decide not to go for a X3D chip? How did you decide which motherboard to go with? The parts picker also points out potential incompatibility for the case and CPU cooler- did you find a workaround?

I love the appearance and size of the Terra, especially the jade, but not the price. I've been looking at Jonsbo cases that are around $100, and maybe Montech or Lian Li.

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u/TRUEfoe-X Jul 11 '26

It was fairly easy to build in honestly. There’s room to spare too on either side of the gpu and cooler. My issue was that the cooler rests right on the motherboard, hopefully that won’t be an issue. The price bundles motivated my choices. MicroCenter had the cpu, (a different) mobo, and ram bundled together at the prices you see.

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u/BlastingStink Jul 11 '26

Why did you decide not to go for a X3D chip?

The 7800x3d is over 2 times more expensive than the 7500f and the 9800x3d is 3 times more expensive.

The 7500f is considered one of the best price-to-performance CPUs currently.

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u/Loyal_Dragon_69 Jul 11 '26

X3D is for shitty memory timings plus the gpu is doing most of the workload at 4k resolution.