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French retailer mocks €1039 Steam Machine with “Stim Machine” RX 9060 XT PC for €999 (videocardz.com)
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It is a bigger, don't have the Steam Controller dongle integrated, and you need to manually install SteamOS on it.

But you get a machine that can be upgraded way more easily than the Steam Machine, and a better GPU from the start.

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[–] JelleWho@lemmy.world 41 points 1 week ago (8 children)

  • Does it also come with HDMI CEC?

  • Does it come with good basically lifetime support?

  • Would it get developers optimise for that exact hardware?

  • Would it run as quit and efficient?

I'd you just going for raw hardware speed. And don't care about anything else. You can always make a faster system yourself.

But I know enough people who don't dare to touch anything near a computer, who are looking into this cube

[–] Rothe@piefed.social 26 points 1 week ago

The tear-down GamersNexus did of the Steam cube showed that a lot of very good engineering has gone into designing it so that not only does it run smoothly and without overheating despite its compact shape, it is also relatively easy to access all components and repairability is high.

Just a shame they had to settle for subpar components on account of the AI cartel.

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Good support and Valve? Like, I get people rushing in to defend GabeN here. Especially considering the Summer Sale is currently ongoing. But their support is shit. From my experience you either like what they give you or you get your money back. Little to nothing in between. Gaming Jesus doesn‘t really do compromises so can we at least stop pretending Steam Support is an actual functional instance? It definitely was‘t for me so far and neither do I expect it to be at this point.

[–] Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago

From your own experience, in your own words, you said they either solve your problem or they solve it a different way. How is that shit support?

[–] JelleWho@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I have so far had 4 advance replacement (get new hardware, ship old hardware back later) for free. Even outside warranty period. And this story is the same for all my friends as far as I know off.

So I guess we both had quite some different experiences

[–] cookiecoookie@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

You must be the luckiest person alive! I had to pay for my RMA steam deck and shipping both ways one week after warranty expired because it refused to turn on one day.

[–] arschflugkoerper@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Can‘t say I‘ve had trouble with their hardware support.

[–] Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Does the steam machine having HDMI CEC mean it will be able to stream HD video from streaming services etc?

[–] TheRealKuni@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I kinda doubt it. CEC lets it turn your receiver and TV on when it turns on, and off when it turns off. And lets it adjust volume. Stuff like that.

At the end of the day it’s still running Linux and my understanding is that streaming services don’t trust Linux users.

[–] Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago

Ah I was getting it confused with HDCP

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

No, but SteamOS does support HDR over HDMI

[–] grinning_serpent@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

They're wasting their money then. But fools have a way of accruing money they don't deserve, for whatever reasons.

[–] imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

Don't forget the size of this thing. SM should be compared to minipcs, not ATX towers.

[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It also probably does not come with the Steam pug preinstalled on the board, so you have a pug constantly plugged in into a USB. From the listing it looks like one has to install SteamOS themselves? It says "tutorial included on this page". However it might be more powerful. In the end, this is better than a do it yourself option, if you try to do the exact same thing I guess. The biggest win for the end user is, that this is readily available without waiting until next year.

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How do Steam machine users charge their Steam Controller then? Just with a USB-C cable? I prefer my external pug to that. The Steam Controller would be kind of a silly product if you wouldn‘t get a good experience without a Steam Machine so this argument is kind of silly too if you ask me. Would be cool if the controller came with a proper stand, though. You shouldn‘t expect your customers to own a 3D printer even though I totally support Valve embracing it but the controller really feels incomplete without it.

[–] charles@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 days ago

Valve's logic (as shown in the Steam Machine overview video) is that you use the integrated puck for the actual connection and then you can use the puck that comes with the controller anywhere to charge the controller (such as by your couch). The standalone puck then just needs power since it's not handling any communication.

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Puck*

[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

lol a cute badass. At least I was consistent.

[–] eleijeep@piefed.social -3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Are you really going to shit on a PC because it's not a Steam Machine? What kind of weird console-gamer brand loyalty is this?

[–] Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 6 points 1 week ago

The last thing i'd ever want to do is go with a kit for SFF. I have built exclusively for over 20 years at this point and picking a motherboard, cooling solution, PSU and overall internals myself tends to get me something that is better quality than a kit using cheaper versions of everything they can't sell to fit a price point. I don't think i've done a build as cheap as 1k since I was a teenager, but i'm not just buying the most expensive shit either.

Those silverstone cases are super fugly. It's like they haven't updated shit since 2010, and this kind of lines up since that case is well over a decade old. The case can only fit GPUs that are up to 270mm long by 129mm tall, which really limits what you can put in there. My steel legend 9070xt is 298 x 131, so it can't fit in two dimensions. I have a 3070 suprim that is 335mm x 140mm, that thing is never gonna fit either. You have to really seek out something that fits.

If I was going to give someone advice on a smaller / ITX build today i'd say go with something way more comfortable to work with like a Cooler Master NP200. My last build is a 25L ATX build with no sacrifices. Cable management is one hell of a struggle.

Very possible to build something that will be faster for cheaper, or grab a deal on a gaming laptop around the same price with better ram/storage and similar GPU, but there's no way to build something smaller than the machine really.