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One of the more desirable choices, building one yourself lets you experience the joy and wonder of creating something yourself and knowing what goes on inside your Steam Machine. However, with prebuilt Steam Machines, you get the work done for you and with warranties covering the system in case any issues occur down the line. With a prebuilt, you have individual parts you have warranties on but when something goes wrong, you are the cavalry and it's your job to troubleshoot it. But if you can manage, you can build yourself something fantastic that competes with some of the other Steam Machines and you can customize everything in any way you like it.
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This will take more time to research hardware components, and assemble the system.
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It has airflow issues with the motherboard resulting to temperature issues depending your setup. I used this case with a asus maximus VI impact and a water-cooled 4790K and a GX-960. Some times i would even get system crashed due to motherboard temperatures. I even took it to 2 different and well experienced...
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