Comment on Our first look at the Steam Machine, Valve’s ambitious new game console
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 10 hours agoThis 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 9 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 9 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.