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 Post subject: Steam Machines
PostPosted: Thu Jan 09, 2014 10:52 pm 
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What's your take on the prices and specs of these things? They'll be running on Steam OS and are geared more towards gaming although I have no idea what a person would do with 6TB worth of storage. I'm also concerned about heating issues with some these machines. They are built as compact gaming rigs to emulate consoles so that doesn't give them much option when it comes to cooling and airflow. Components seem to be overpriced and the mobo used are probably unable to support GPU SLI. Digital Storm's Bolt II has similar specs to my PC (i7 4770k, GTX780, 16GB RAM, 120SSD, 1TB HDD) but the price is higher by about $1,000 than my build..which supports SLI capability, better airflow, and all the other advantages of a real PC.

Next-gen consoles (PS4,XB1) are priced much lower to cater to the mainstream community so they can have a market for $60 game titles. I don't see any advantage on purchasing these pre-made Steam Machines over the options we currently have: buy a $400 console or build a PC.

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 Post subject: Re: Steam Machines
PostPosted: Fri Jan 10, 2014 1:31 am 
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So their selling point is that it runs Steam built-in and has 6TB of storage? :?

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 Post subject: Re: Steam Machines
PostPosted: Fri Jan 10, 2014 1:51 am 
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Well, the 6TB HDD is an available upgrade to any PC but most of them have 1TB HDD and 120SSD. The marketing point is that it's a "PC Console". It's an oxymoron but hey, it's all about impressions. They're trying to get people to buy PCs by masking them as next-gen game consoles.

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 Post subject: Re: Steam Machines
PostPosted: Fri Jan 10, 2014 2:43 am 
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Pointless pre-built hype that everyone is trying to build up. Linu-I mean SteamOS is also pointless until you get alternatives to everything that is just as great to Visual Studio, Office, etc etc then sure Linux is viable as though Valve is trying to change through gaming. From a gaming aspect you don't have that much support from AAA developers and so why would I want to be dual booting games I want to play? That is the problem. Macs slowly happened, but it's still just isn't there. Sure you have big studios like Blizzard with compatibility for it, but meh.

Now let's ignore the pre-built and OS part of it. How about that controller? From all I've seen it seems like it'll go somewhere. That's the only successful thing I see coming out of it.

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 Post subject: Re: Steam Machines
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I'd be impressed if this Steam Box was an actual console and not an attempt to give the impression of a console by stuffing over-the-counter PC parts into a small form factor case......I already have steam games on my PC...I even have a Logitech PC game pad....Why would I want this?.....

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 Post subject: Re: Steam Machines
PostPosted: Fri Jan 10, 2014 4:56 am 
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Pretty overpriced, but honestly even with the price premium, you would probably save the premium charge by buying newly released games on a discount. In the long run, perhaps you'd save money.
But anybody who knows anything about computers would build their own "Steam Machine".

I would even call my Mid-ATX computer a Steam Machine just because I have it hooked up to my tv lmao.

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 Post subject: Re: Steam Machines
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I don't get the point of Steam OS. I run Steam on Big Picture mode sometimes since it's more comfortable to navigate around it with a gamepad but when it comes to browsing websites and even just looking at your Steam cart, it's much better to run the regular window version and browse on Chrome. I play half of my PC games with a controller and the other half with mouse+keyboard. It just depends on the type of game. I still can't find any reasonable advantage of buying a "Steam Machine" over just having a PC that runs Windows.

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 Post subject: Re: Steam Machines
PostPosted: Fri Jan 10, 2014 4:58 pm 
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inky wrote:
I don't get the point of Steam OS.


Linux. That's all it is about. Getting Linux to spread.

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 Post subject: Re: Steam Machines
PostPosted: Fri Jan 10, 2014 5:21 pm 
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What's a linux?

Is that like a mix between a penguin and a lynx, who got drunk one night and made a baby?


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 Post subject: Re: Steam Machines
PostPosted: Fri Jan 10, 2014 11:11 pm 
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Tasdik wrote:
What's a linux?

Is that like a mix between a penguin and a lynx, who got drunk one night and made a baby?

Close, but it's a mix of some guy that named it after himself with the old name he created for it.

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