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[–] artyom@piefed.social 0 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

I know what the specs are. Here's what your link says:

the Steam Machine runs on a custom AMD setup

You seem intent on ignoring the package as a whole. Even if you could buy the CPU and the GPU, You cannot buy the motherboard or the case or the coolers or the power supply. If you buy comparable ones piecemeal, "off the shelf", it will be significantly larger and louder because the package is simply not optimized that way. What don't you get about this?