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Steam machine / steam cube / GabeCube

pendragon1 said:

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I got to say that I wasn’t expecting much out of the steam machine after all the not-so-positive reviews and assumed I’d regret the impulse buy but have to say I’m pleasantly surprised. It’s super tiny which makes it easy to convince the wife to keep it on the TV stand. The build quality is great, very very easy to disassemble/upgrade and it’s completely silent. The controller integration and CEC are also very nice features.

If you have a high refresh rate OLED with VRR, it’s the perfect living room machine. The VRR really does a lot of the heavy lifting, making it feel like it’s punching above its weight. I’m actually considering parting out my 5800x3d/9070XT rig and sticking 100% with the Gabe cube. I honestly couldn’t be happier.
 
The steam machine and half life 3 are Valve’s kryptonite. When they announced this it almost made sense, now it just seems insane. I think they would have been better off just selling a barebones case and mini itx mobo with a bundled steamos for that platform . Let people plugin their own cpu ram and gpu or even an outboard pcie riser.
 
sethk said:
The steam machine and half life 3 are Valve’s kryptonite. When they announced this it almost made sense, now it just seems insane. I think they would have been better off just selling a barebones case and mini itx mobo with a bundled steamos for that platform . Let people plugin their own cpu ram and gpu or even an outboard pcie riser.
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I mean, you technically can do exactly that. Build your own mini-ITX machine and install steamOS.
 
Absolutely, and that’s what I think people should do. I can appreciate the neat design touches - integrated high quality wifi and steam controller networking / antennas support, light bar , remote on / off and in particular the tighter integration of steamos with that motherboard and integrated peripherals which ultimately means “it just works.” No tinkering, no asking google/chat what to do, etc. For linux with high compatibility gaming, that’s not nothing.
I think the same “it just works” could have been achieved with a barebones that they supported since cpu and ram are relatively free of requiring OS tweaks.
 
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