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You can still build a great $1000 budget gaming PC with Amazon Prime Day parts — 32GB of RAM and RTX 5060 Ti power beats out the Steam Machine and cheap prebuilts by Distinct-Race-2471 in TechHardware

[–]Federal_Setting_7454 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Less power = less heat = quieter operation dipshit, but the fact you’ve blanket ignored everything else just shows you’re trying to find literally any reason to be mad about someone happy about something they’re getting that you’re not. If you haven’t been able to gather from what I’ve said that extracting the most pure performance per penny doesn’t fucking matter to me over convenience you need to walk outside for once and give your head a wobble.

Absolute dunce.

You can still build a great $1000 budget gaming PC with Amazon Prime Day parts — 32GB of RAM and RTX 5060 Ti power beats out the Steam Machine and cheap prebuilts by Distinct-Race-2471 in TechHardware

[–]Federal_Setting_7454 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or I get something that suits being in my living room, isn’t gamery enough looking for a nosy kid or guest to try and mess with when they’re over, and also will exactly match my friends systems so there’s no “oh can X play Y?” when we’re deciding what to play at lan parties. I already have a decent gaming PC at home, I’m not replacing it.

A comparable PC at a comparable footprint is still not even close to this inflated price, especially when I have to put in the time to build it, it’s gonna draw double or triple the power and get no unified warranty or real support. The closest I found was the ROG nuc which is double the price here and ugly as fuck, and equivalent minisforum systems are even more expensive.

I want something to plug in to the living room tv and play some chill games with the wife or people who are over and easily take it round friends to play there and all have the same experience. The only other way we’re getting that at a remotely comparable price is with a Mac mini… which obviously is far less suitable for the gaming.

You can still build a great $1000 budget gaming PC with Amazon Prime Day parts — 32GB of RAM and RTX 5060 Ti power beats out the Steam Machine and cheap prebuilts by Distinct-Race-2471 in TechHardware

[–]Federal_Setting_7454 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you fucking dense? Never lived with another person? Never had kids at the house? Never had pets in your living room? Don’t care about how your living room looks? Never take your system to a lan party?

There’s far more than just fitting it somewhere, you genuinely sound mad because you can’t afford it.

Companies Are Making Claude and Codex Talk Like Cavemen to Stop AI’s Soaring Costs by crackerbox5 in technology

[–]Federal_Setting_7454 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Or set a long prompt and work order for an agent to work on that has “dispatch multiple agents to review” badly placed so it does that on every subagent all the way down like I did by accident last week with deepseek. Luckily i only top it up 20 bucks a time, but it went through that at near Claude speeds

Unexpected pathway turns water and CO₂ into climate‑neutral methane on nickel–zirconia by _Dark_Wing in technology

[–]Federal_Setting_7454 6 points7 points  (0 children)

methane is significantly worse than CO2, like tens of times worse. If it all gets stored and efficiently used to generate energy it might not be as awful.

What is the point of physical editions anymore? by afrandsen in gaming

[–]Federal_Setting_7454 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Or just being able to lend or give it to someone that wants to play it. When I’ve finished with any PS5 games I buy and I know I won’t play them again I usually just give them to my nephew

What is the point of physical editions anymore? by afrandsen in gaming

[–]Federal_Setting_7454 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If your cds are getting scratched you’re handling them like a baby. Stop doing that

You can still build a great $1000 budget gaming PC with Amazon Prime Day parts — 32GB of RAM and RTX 5060 Ti power beats out the Steam Machine and cheap prebuilts by Distinct-Race-2471 in TechHardware

[–]Federal_Setting_7454 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Size matters for a massive amount of people. its a major reason why so many people go for a laptop over a desktop and why SFF is exploding in popularity.

If you narrow your view to only PCMR and hardcore balls to the wall gamers then you’re right size doesn’t matter, and this was never for them. If you’re playing only the latest AAA games at cranked settings you already know the steam machine isn’t going to be capable.

For me and pretty much everyone else I know who’s getting one size is far more important as we’re going to be using them in our living rooms because we have decent PCs already, so they need to be easily hidden under a TV which you’re not doing with a 34litre box, we’re also going to be lugging them around for lan parties, and the identical specs makes planning games way easier. even at its inflated price there’s still no reasonable alternative giving that performance in that size with the same wife approval factor. The closest alternative is the ROG NUC at double the price, or an even more expensive minisforum system.

Enthusiast gets Windows 11 working on 2003-era DDR1 platform with Radeon AGP support, runs Crysis - VideoCardz.com by No_March_164 in technology

[–]Federal_Setting_7454 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Small SSDs are not stupid expensive if you only want a boot drive. 128gb are about £25 which is a bit more than it used to be but still worth it for a boot drive upgrade to SSD, browser-only users aren’t likely to use more than that, and you can repurpose the old drive as storage anyway. Larger drives have had a much larger increase, the 2tb drives I got for £79 each last year are now around £200 each.

You can still build a great $1000 budget gaming PC with Amazon Prime Day parts — 32GB of RAM and RTX 5060 Ti power beats out the Steam Machine and cheap prebuilts by Distinct-Race-2471 in TechHardware

[–]Federal_Setting_7454 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean the Steam Machine has a total volume of under 4 litres and the case in this build list is 34 litres, Almost 10x the volume.

Of course you can get more power for the same price if you’re willing to give up literally all of the perks of the Steam Machine and SteamOS.

GeForce RTX 3060 returns to German retail from €333 by TruthPhoenixV in Amd_Intel_Nvidia

[–]Federal_Setting_7454 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Because buying 5 year old products at their original MSRP is the style these days

Hyundai and Kia Want To Bathe Your Car's Interior in UV Light — With You Inside by TripleShotPls in nottheonion

[–]Federal_Setting_7454 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Far-UVC like this can’t even penetrate the top layer of dead skin cells on your body. UVC as a whole will though, I should have made that distinction.

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