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[–] 71 points 5 months ago (13 children)
  • AMD Ryzen 5 - 6 CPU cores, 65 W TDP
  • AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB
  • 16 GB DDR4-3600 RAM single-channel
  • 512 GB M.2 SSD with spare M.2 2280 slot
  • 600 W PSU
  • 8BitDo Ultimate 2 Wireless

$1,139

I haven't kept up with hardware prices but this seems fair to me.

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  • [–] 60 points 5 months ago (8 children)

    Do feel like 512GB isn't a lot these days. Especially with bigger libraries.

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  • [–] 27 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Probably not a solution for everyone but the steam deck really got me on SD Cards. An external reader would still suck, but I love how cheap you can find 512gb - 1tb sd cards. Very easy to travel with as well.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Do you run them from the SD cards or just install them onto the main machine from there?

    Sorry for the Starter questions but ive been out of the non-console game for about 20 years.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago

    For my deck specifically i keep em all on the SD Card, somehow valve made it so that I personally don't see a difference between nvme and sdcard.

    For my pc yes, I just use it to transfer to my gaming ssd/nvme storage, but thats primarily because my internet is slowerthan the transfer rates.

    I probably wouldn't try running helldivers on my pc through an external card for instance, but it would work perfectly on my deck in that form.

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  • [–] 15 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    There's another slot for storage and you might be able to replace the primary drive, like I did with my Legion Go. You should be able to do 4 TB, even more if there's a SD card slot.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    You can do way more performance than that for not much more money, if you're willing to try something unorthodox in a different way:


    AOOSTAR Gem 12 Max Mini PC

    $580 ($550 for Amazon simps)

    CPU: Ryzen 7 8745HS ( 8C / 16T / base 3.8 Ghz / max 5.10 Ghz)

    (approximately multi thread performance equivalent to a Ryzen 5 9600 AM5 socket)

    RAM: 24 GB DDR5

    SSD: 1TB

    Power: Max draw 70w (on its own)

    https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GGB5L9P7/?psc=0


    XFX RX 9070 OC (16 GB GDDR6)

    $640

    Power: ~220w

    https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXLBTL4B/?psc=1


    EG01 OCulink eGPU Dock

    $100

    https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G1STZM7H/?psc=1


    ASRock PRO-650 G PSU

    $50

    Power: 650w (way more than what you need)

    Gold Rated

    https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FSTL4VDZ/?psc=1


    Total pretax cost: ~$1370

    Cost %: +~17% compared to Playnix

    50% more RAM, also its DDR5

    100% more SSD capacity

    GPU 3DBenchmark = +~60%

    OCuLink is at worst gonna knock 5%-10% off of performance/fps, compared to similar hardware just connected directly via PCIe 16.

    ... should basically crush almost anything at 1440p, if you turn off RT when you want higher fps.

    Or you can maybe find a cheaper 9070, or perhaps go with a 500w PSU, which is still more than enough, to lower that total cost a bit.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    It has DDR4 so it uses the AM4 platform which means that the CPU is several years old. I'm sure it is a consequence from the RAM prices, DDR4 has not increased as much as the DDR5.

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