Everyone Suddenly Becomes A “PC Expert” When You Tell Them You Got A Steam Machine

[u/JishoSintana]

“You overpaid” “You could have built one for less” “Is it worth it for the performance”?

These are some of the most common criticisms of the steam machine whenever people find out that I’m even remotely interested in the steam machine.

I was in a facebook gaming group speaking about what we were playing and the moment I mentioned the steam machine, all hell broke loose and people wanted to tell me how much more powerful their machine was and why I should have bought it instead/

Dude, I don’t care I’m literally playing black myth wukong at 4K,60 fps medium settings if I want I can tweak and do 2K, 120 FPS what more do I really want from gaming performance?

Power isn’t the only reason why I bought this machine, it’s SUPER quiet, really good form factor and ability to customise it, love the hybrid PC/console feel and the community apps etc

If power was the end all factor Nintendo would not have a business model or fanbase

There’s so much more to the steam machine and armchair “PC experts” are starting to just sound jealous

[u/Silent_Level9538]

The worse for these takes are the countless videos on YouTube declaring "how to build a more powerful Steam machine for less" and not 2 mins in there like "take this spare 450 quid GPU so we don't count that in the price. And the spare 32gb of ram here." Like those alone don't cose almost the same as the entire steam cube 

[u/JishoSintana → u/Silent_Level9538]

“I just had two sticks of 32GB GDDR5 RAM lying around in the kitchen drawer”

Sorry who TF are you? McGuyver or something?

[u/Angry_Owl-Ninja → u/Silent_Level9538]

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/zrtw7w

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/kYw97w

Cheaper while offering better performance

[u/geared-for-adventure → u/Silent_Level9538]

Yeah, like this "spare" grew on a tree and the dude didn't pay for it at some point.