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French retailer mocks €1039 Steam Machine with “Stim Machine” RX 9060 XT PC for €999 (videocardz.com)
submitted 2 months ago by [M] to c/games@lemmy.world
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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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[–] 12 points 2 months ago (1 child)

And then there's those of us who don't play a ton of modern games - For a ton of older games you don't need high end hardware.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Right, but in that case you wouldn't waste a thousand bucks on a Steam machine anyway. You'd get a decent budget CPU and GPU, very likely secondhand, and call it a day for like half that price at most.

    It's very expensive to have a "AAA ready" machine these days but an "indie and retro machine" can be pretty affordable if you're able to get secondhand parts at a decent price. Like you can get a used 3060 8GB for a little over $200 on eBay here and that'll easily handle pretty much any indie under the sun.

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