@SPG642 Literally cuz in what universe would acting like a dead YouTuber and interacting with his family and friends be cool?? It was never a good idea in the first place
@ThatFuzzyTiger@Afterthought_01@mooreslawisdead I'm not speculating. I, as an individual, can build a similar pc for $850, that pc has sellers margin and marketplace margin built in. That means the sellers got parts for ~$700. Valve is better than a single person at sourcing components, so I'm just giving you an upper estimate
@ThatFuzzyTiger@Afterthought_01@mooreslawisdead What? You're actually clueless. I didn't say I'm planning to build it for $700. I'm saying that their BoM is ~$700. And their margin is ~30-40%. If you want to know how much an equivalently powerful pc would cost, that would be $840. Again, you have no clue what BoM is
@ThatFuzzyTiger@Afterthought_01@mooreslawisdead >Gamers nexus already did a parts breakdown and their BOM calculation was approx $975
At this point you're just trolling. You have zero clue what BOM is.
@ThatFuzzyTiger@Afterthought_01@mooreslawisdead It's not averaging at $20. Framework , a small laptop company, recently shared that they're paying $10/GB. What you see on the ram stick marked is just seller's markup
@ErikInCt_ I have zero economies of scale and I can build a better PC for cheaper. Valve is either taking fat profits or incompetent at sourcing anything. First option is more likely.
@geerlingguy AliExpress is filled with X99 xeons, there's a couple that support DDR3, and chinese factories are still making X99 DDR3 motherboards. That niche is filled already.