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I repurposed my old i7 4790 into a living room PC and dropped a RTX A2000 in a few years ago. I was thinking of getting the steam machine as an upgrade if prices were somewhat reasonable and it if it would perform better.
The price aside, reviews I'm seeing are saying this is basically a 1080p machine close to a RX 6600 and the CPU is somewhere around a R5 3600 because of the power limits. Its better than my ancient shitbox but not that much better, and certainly not $1,000 better.
The problem with point two is that you can install Linux on any modern PC and if you just use Steam, it lets you get the same experience of a better gaming experience than Windows, even more so if you use the superior GE-Proton fork, so it's only one point that even justifies the price no matter what the inital attempt of the price point was meant to be.
For that price, I expect a 1080p screen and a controller. Holy shit it's DOA. I don't blame Valve tho, nobody can make any reasonable priced hardware due to the RAM hog that the AI shit has caused. Anyway, the goy will pay up for this gimmick slopware.
I repurposed my old i7 4790 into a living room PC and dropped a RTX A2000 in a few years ago. I was thinking of getting the steam machine as an upgrade if prices were somewhat reasonable and it if it would perform better.
The price aside, reviews I'm seeing are saying this is basically a 1080p machine close to a RX 6600 and the CPU is somewhere around a R5 3600 because of the power limits. Its better than my ancient shitbox but not that much better, and certainly not $1,000 better.
no bulltshit i paired a 5700 with an xeon 1271 for my living and spent 20 bucks on the cpu, my bro just upgrade to a 5080 so that card was just collecting dust. this product is for no one except homosexuals. at that price point just buy a ps5 pro and use the rest on gas money to the store to get it, some za on fridays and why not some strippers
The Storage alone is abysmal for that price point. This is why you should always build your own PC, even when it's nothing great at first. Upgrades over time tend to be cheaper. (RAM prices have us all fucked I know.)
For comparison, my PC is sporting 27TBs of storage. 5TBs from two NVME M.2s that cost me around maybe $500 through upgrading over the years. Those where just the NVMEs though to be fair.
I just double checked what I paid for 2025. Holy fuck did I buy at the right time. No wonder why the steam machine is so expensive for only 500GBs.
Don't worry guys. It's on sale.
The idea of the ONE and ONLY half life 3 running on 8gb of VRAM and a laptop GPU from a few years ago is a bit concerning. What would they have had to strip out to make it run well? According to GN most games run well only on 1080p and ultra low settings.
The lack of upgradeability at it's current spec is also concerning. It is small and hyper optimized, but no matter what in a few years it will be E-waste, relegated to a TV mediabox to play torrented shows or a spare desktop PC for your kitchen or garage workshop.
This is being shared around on Twitter and Discord, looks like GamersNexus. But yeah, not only is this priced rather high, it's not even really profitable for Valve. I think they put it out just to avoid having to cancel it.
16 gigs of low speed ram costing as much as a GPU is fucking insane. The government(s) should be shattering the RAM cartel with nuclear fire. Nationalize Silicon manufacturing, damnit.
This does not give me hopes for the Steam Frame. I'm guessing $999 for it.
I can't understand trying to excuse this thing. I have several hand-me-down/tossed out laptops that are nearly a decade old that aren't that much weaker than this thing. You'd need like 5 of them stacked together to even compete with the fuckin' pre-builts from a handful of years ago. Just save up a few hundred more and you can get something a universe of power ahead of this fuckin' cube.
This is being shared around on Twitter and Discord, looks like GamersNexus. But yeah, not only is this priced rather high, it's not even really profitable for Valve. I think they put it out just to avoid having to cancel it.
It's fairly likely that Valve is not paying the DIY price for parts, they're a gigantic company and buying at a scale that's going to drive those down, if even a little bit.
They likely stalled for as long as they could (and also with the Steam Deck unavailability) until they decided to just bite the bullet on pricing it at cost and whoever wants to buy it can if they want to.
