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Steam Machines specs revealed at CES with price

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dooder

So, most manufactures showed their Steam Machines during CES. And the price is kinda mehh.

You can find it here.

IMO the only ones which looks good are the ones of 500$/600$, which are 2 of them...

What do you think?

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Waverider

Did Gabe lose weight?

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GPTrixie

So, they basically combine worst aspects of PC and consoles. Who could have guessed?

Outside of Alienware, which is bound to be horribly overpriced, all of these are noname barebones or repainted PCs. Personally, I love the one with integrated graphics and 16GB of RAM. Did anyone bother to test that thing with any game more advanced than Tetris or perhaps (best case) Doom II? Valiant second place in 'did anyone think this through' goes to boxes with 8-16 TB of HDD, isn't it going basically against the whole point of Steambox?

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GPTrixie

Though, some of these look pretty cool, to be fair, if we could get them for reduced price (such as for not selling well) they could make pretty neat gaming Win 8 rig, I guess :P

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hackerx31337

Integrated graphics chipsets are not all the same. Newer chipsets are essentially the same as mid to high end cards from 3 or 4 years ago. Unless you insist on running everything bleeding edge with all the settings turned to max you should be able to run most stuff with both acceptable quality and performance. And if you do want to run bleeding edge, enjoy your 20K multi CPU system with 3 or 4 cards linked and only half its value in under a year. Also, anybody who intends to use the box primarily for game streaming doesn't have any real reason to spend extra on a high end card on the receiving end.

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GPTrixie

"3-4 years ago" being the key. I had laptop with intel graphics card some years ago, it wasn't bad machine, it was in fact tidy, light, perfect for some quick entertainment or movie, but I'd NEVER place anything above average amount of ram in it. Even the subpar amount it had was never fully used. 16GB? That will be fine 10 years from now, it makes no sense whatsoever today in something with integrated graphics. Either cut it down to 4 (still fine for light games it can handle) and lower price, or to 8 and use freed money to upgrade card to gaming one. It's an incoherent mutant now.

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hackerx31337

RAM is physically small and easy to cool. More RAM never hurts. GPUs take up a lot more space and high end ones take a lot of cooling which takes up more space. In a normal desktop machine that isn't a real issue most of the time but this is a REALLY small case. If you don't have room for other stuff and 4 GB of RAM is going to take the same amount of space as 16 GB then why not?

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cowbell

You brought up the 20 thousand dollar PC albatross, your opinion on computers are invalidated. Get back to playing consoles with the other kids.

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dooder

"Get back to playing consoles with the other kids."

And yet the only person who acts like a kid is you, the irony. Stop posting if you don't have anything usefull to say.

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cowbell

Goodbye "dooder39".

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itzgin

You're obviously living in the past (5-10 years back) because integrated may not be amazing, but it sure as hell has come A LONG way, and by that I mean a VERY long way.

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sviat

Gigabyte "Brix Pro" looks like a Game Cube, and Webhallen creators have lack of creativity in their case, because is same case used just in normal micro ATX computers, and Zotac I don't know how they fit all components in this case.

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itzgin

These things are a bit overpriced, I just "built" (pcpartpicker) a PC that stomped on (price vs performance) the Alternate $1339 one, which is quite silly. Total: $1372.90 With a 4670k, GTX 770, and 128 SSD. The only one that seems to be around its price point is the $499 one, if that is indeed the specs of them, considering Intel is more expensive. I just don't get why people would spend money on these when they can research and build something superior, unless somehow these Steam Machines can play console games, there is zero reason to get one of these.

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dooder

Give it time, they arn't really gifhting price/perfomance yet... They probably saw the other machines at the CES, if they're smart they will drasticly reduce the prices (atleast the overpriced ones).

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beastt

this steam box shit is a totally retarded

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