Custom gaming PCs are huge and ugly, which is a concern for me (and my partner). Size and comfort are the main advantages.

They’re just as ugly and huge as you spec them out to be. There are tons of ITX / SFF builds that look just as good or better.

	▲	ashenke a day ago \| parent [-]
		But not at a thousand dollars. SFF builds are more expensive and fussier to setup and cool down . So a well made, prebuilt Steam Machine is good value when compared with an equivalent SFF