valve wants $1,349 for the steam machine
this guy built a far better one at home for $906
ryzen 7, rtx 5060 ti, nvme ssd, quiet high-pressure fans, the whole thing
stronger parts, lower price, and you own every screw
Valve wants $1,349 for the Steam Machine.
This guy pulled a dead office PC out of storage, added a $50 graphics card, and turned it into a SteamOS console.
It will not beat a PS5, but it absolutely beats paying $1,349.
Everyone wanted the Steam Machine. Then they saw the price.
A console that performs like a $499 ps5, priced at over $1,049.
Press play and watch even the biggest fans hit the same wall, the price.
Here is what almost nobody mentions. It is still just a PC.
Which means every part can be bought separately and built at home.
Build it yourself, and the same machine costs half as much, sometimes a quarter.
Even the custom cases? People 3D print them at home and sell them for profit.
I priced every part myself and broke down exactly how to build one below.
everyone is roasting valve for charging $1,049 for the steam machine, almost nobody noticed you can build the same thing for a quarter of the price
this clip is valve quietly releasing steamos for any desktop, so the box stopped being the only way in
the box performs about like a $499 ps5, and it asks $1,049
the same machine from parts lands near $250 on the low end, and a $700 build beats it outright
the real story is not the price, it is that valve just turned its console into a blueprint anyone can copy
right now the free path is amd-first, so nvidia owners wait, but the door is open
valve sold you a console, the timeline is about to sell you the build
i checked every retail and ebay price through claude this week, the numbers are real
the box is the thing you buy, the blueprint is the thing you can sell
rockstar just dropped 51 fresh GTA 6 screenshots
at some point you stop asking if it is real and start asking how
dropped the full set below
#GTA6#VICECITY
in 2013 people swore GTA 5 looked too real to ever be topped
a kid screenshotted that exact quote back then
he is 19 now, watching GTA 6 make it look like a flip phone
#GTA6#VICECITY
not just a bigger map, a bigger economy
GTA 5 built one of the richest online worlds ever on the small version
GTA 6 hands that same machine far more ground to run on
bigger world, bigger economy, and Rockstar is keeping the keys this time
while everyone else is hunting easter eggs in GTA 6
a few people are hunting where the money goes
the people who got rich on GTA 5 were never grinding missions
they were selling to the grinders
everyone keeps arguing whether gta 6's map is smaller than miami
they are all measuring the wrong thing
the hard part was never drawing a map this big
it is making all of it alive at once
the people who made real money on GTA 5 were never the ones grinding missions
they were the ones building while everyone else was playing
GTA 6 reopens that exact window, only this time Rockstar runs the marketplace
almost nobody is setting up for it yet