Comment on Our first look at the Steam Machine, Valve’s ambitious new game console
BigTrout75@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
I was hesitant about upgrading my ancient computer because I didn’t want to spend $1,200 - $2000 on a new setup. This looks like a great option.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
This isn’t going to be a high end machine, it’s probably competitive with the PS5, more or less.
You didn’t mention what you have, but you could probably get a decent upgrade competitive with this for well under $1200. The GPU seems to be about an RX 7600 ($250-260), the CPU is about a 7600 ($190), motherboard is $170, and 16GB RAM is $120. So $700-800 mandatory, plus whatever you need to replace from your current rig, and the result should be a bit faster than the Steam Machine. That’s probably a bit more than the Steam Machine, but it’s upgradeable, whereas the Steam Machine won’t be.
BigTrout75@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Lol, my dumb computer is running DDR3 / no TPM, it’s super old. I have been waiting for video cards to get better/cheaper. I’m totally down with not the fastest. If it plays 90% of my games, costs less than $600. I just read that it’s six times more powerful than the Steam Deck. The Steam Deck can run Cyberpunk 2077, so this will do just fine. Another thing that I really like is that Valve is verifying games for their hardware. The games it can’t run, I guess I won’t play. I’m sold!
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
What they posted is replacing almost all the internals. Hard drives should be fine but motherboard, CPU, RAM, and GPU, thats all of it.
Hopefully you have a case rather than a prebuilt, but you can get nice new cases for 50 ish brand new right now.