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barkingspiders@infosec.pub ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Based on what you said, you can get a slightly cheaper pre built that’s more powerful. It’ll run the newer games better. The cube will struggle even on 1080 on a lot of the new AAA games. The cube premium is mostly to do with the form factor and console like features such as the CEC control for your media center. If you don’t care about that or the form factor get a cheaper pre built probably and install steamos or one of the forks.

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cloudless@piefed.social ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Yeah I do care about the form factor a lot. And I want a quiet device.

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grue@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
He did say he didn’t want a large PC. My gaming computer is damn near as small as it gets – see size comparison pic below – but (a) even that’s over twice the size of a Gabe Cube, and (b) the ITX motherboard SFX PSU do add some amount to the cost, along with the case itself. (I would’ve mentioned the mandatory AIO cooler my particular case requires, but it turns out those are surprisingly cheap these days.)

Image (Note the Steam Machine measures 156 × 152 × 162.4 mm. About the same width as my A4-H2O, but only 2/3 as tall and 1/2 as deep.)

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