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Gabe Newell caps off Steam Machine week by taking delivery of a new $500 million superyacht with a submarine garage, on-board hospital and 15 gaming PCs (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 29 points 4 months ago (4 children)

WHY DO YOU NEED 15 OF THEM, GABE? 15?!?! WHY?!? WHAT?!? WHY?!?

[–] booty@hexbear.net 34 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Even if you gave them specs so insane no game could possibly challenge them, 15 absolute max top-end ridiculous overkill gaming PCs is still less than $100k. (My estimate number for "a gaming PC so expensive you would have no reason to ever build it" is $5k btw) He would have to buy 100,000 of those hypothetical overkill PCs to match the cost of this yacht. So... 15 PCs is by far the most reasonable part of the headline.

Actually 15 PCs can make for a sick LAN party so it's not like they're just there to burn money, like a yacht is

[–] KobaCumTribute@hexbear.net 21 points 4 months ago (3 children)

(My estimate number for "a gaming PC so expensive you would have no reason to ever build it" is $5k btw)

I looked at builds for NVidia's current "design your dream build with a budget of $5k" contest, and it doesn't go nearly as far as you'd think now. RAM prices are absurd beyond measure now, to say nothing of how GPUs have gone. Like it breaks down to $2.5k for a 5090 and around $1k for 128GB of RAM. If you just slapped down the best consumer CPU (~$600-700) and GPU (~$2500-3000), maxed out the RAM ($1,500-2000), included a nice monitor ($500-1000), and didn't bother cutting corners on the rest (which broadly end up in the range of $100-200 each, plus or minus some) you'd probably hit $7k with how fucked PC parts are right now.

So pretty close to your guess, since the big fluctuation is fairly recent.

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I love AI farms and I guess also crypto farms

[–] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 11 points 4 months ago

I think this is 100% AI, the amount of hardware involved makes crypto look minor.

[–] booty@hexbear.net 10 points 4 months ago

ha ha ha agony-mescaline

I remember when PC gaming was straight up cheap. Then crypto bullshit happened, and now AI bullshit is piling straight on top of it

[–] aanes_appreciator@hexbear.net 1 points 4 months ago

Threadrippers are fucking hilariously priced, like £3k+ for the slower versions of the latest generation, and even then there are definitely benefits in a few games/programs that a "typical consumer" would use. Those are retail prices btw they get way more costly for the enterprise-grade chips AFAIK.

Linus Torvalds uses Apple Silicon Macs nowadays but in 2020 he had a $3500 PC and that's without a GPU on top.

[–] Esoteir@hexbear.net 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

billionaire LAN parties obvs

[–] 30_to_50_Feral_PAWGs@hexbear.net 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Can you imagine the ping times gaming over satellite on the open sea? You'd have to run your games over a local network.

[–] Enjoyer_of_Games@hexbear.net 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

a LAN party on a local area network? can it be done?

[–] SupFBI@hexbear.net 5 points 4 months ago

I prefer WAN parties. So I can call people names and not have a bottle of Bawls thrown at my head.

[–] Esoteir@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago

still better ping than my ranked teammates lenin-pensive

[–] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 14 points 4 months ago

So he can play with others

[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago

In case 1 breaks you have 14 left duh