This is actually a good deal. Poors chimping about the price is the funniest shit I have seen this month
Your mum's a good deal
>>109143987You're*
>>109143987anon, I'm afraid that's a complement
>>109143984Nope, sorry, i'm buying a cheap one, just to install steamOS on it like the good pirate i am.Then i will play every valve game on it, just to rub on the face of gaben!
The more bait people like OP make the closer the day comes for the guillotine.
>>109143984If it was $8000 less it would be based.
>>109144009It's waste of a good guillotine that should be chopping shareholders 24/7.
Zimbabwe dollars (north american dollars soon)
>>109143984buy-o el ad-o
why would a single person in the developed world want a budget amd gpu from 2023
>>109143984not buying your DRMcubefuck off DRMkike
>>109144033Its bot about the gpu or its specs. Its about how the gpu is optimized by steam to run smooth games on their machine
>>109144033My 1080 from 2016 is still good
>>109144127In bangalore maybe
>>109144065>sales are final> they are literally not and valve is knownfor one of the best return policies ever good bait but kill yourself
>>109144131Enjoy your self frying cards, at least you have some ghetto bling
its not like Valve can do anything about the price
>>109144120at some point you just need more than 20 fps in a game
>>109144001you're mums a complement
>>109144132try returning a random game from your library now, try giving it away to a cousin or friendsales are final and non-transferrablegood cumguzzling DRMcuck but kill yourself
Did people think it was going to be like $500 or something? A $1k pc it's pretty expected.
>>109144033>he needs to play the latest triple a unreal engine corposlop...why would I need MORE? there isn't a single actually good game that will not run on an RX 6600-tier gpu at >1080p resolution, maxed out settings and >120 fps.you have to be pretty retarded to decide to spend more than 300$ on a gpu in the current gaming landscape
>>109144271Holy cope. Literally sour grapes
>>109144239it was actually going to be about $750, but they got raped by ram prices.
>>109144327Another obvious cope. Whats next youll blame AI for the ram prices?
>>109144199>try giving it away to a cousin or friendWhy give it away when you could Family Share™ it?
>>109144199Poor?
>>109143984It has RAM in it so it costs way more than it should. Thank you, Sam Altman.
>>109143984You're right, it's a much better deal than a similarly specced PC from other OEM/ODMs. You should buy two just in case!
>>109143987No she ain't, she comes with OP included
>>109144327And now they have to try and sell it or lose everything they committed to it. RIP
>>109144132>steam>refund only within two weeks of purchase and with less than two hours of playtime>best return policies ever!!11onekys valvedronemeanwhile superior (eu based) gog store>refund for a product up to 30 days after purchase, even if it was downloaded, launched, and played.
>>109144926>>refund only within two weeks of purchase and with less than two hours of playtimeand even that they only do because they lost in court and were legally forced to offer it
I got my hands on one, and it's alright. I bought it for my friend and I kept the steam controller, which was separately boxed conveniently. He paid me the cash, we just both pre-ordered it and whoever got to it first, was going to him. I already use Debian on a bretty gud system, at least to me, i7 14700F with RTX 5050 and 32gb DDR5 6000 ram 1tb gen4 nvme ssd, nothing fancy, definitely high mid ranger, I never expected my PC to outpace it in literally every task. We got pretty lucky with 2 8gb modules instead of 1 16gb module. It came packaged with 2 faceplates, 1 this orange red like the mario switch color, and it was a felt material, and a wood faceplate. Steam OS is just big picture mode with more access to hardware, if you have a PC already, just go with ANY other Linux distro, I prefer Bazzite for these types of things. First the games, at 1080p it did alright with most games playing on high, on a 180hz display, we saw on average games hitting well above 60fps, Doom The Dark Ages hit 90fps, but hovered around 70. Indiana Jones running in "software ray tracing" mode hit 40fps, any higher settings and it was a slide show. 1 second my water for my bath is boiling, I have a LOT to say about this device.
>>109144976part 2, the shit show continuesAnd look I don't wanna be a hater.Steam OS is shit. The desktop is an afterthought, you get the full steam UI whether you want it or not. It uses blurry old KDE Plasma 6.4.3. Which is not it's biggest flaw, the moment the internal SSD hits 80% full, Steam OS resets itself and deletes everything on your drive. I don't understand the thought process behind this, but the internal SSD is only 512GB. We had loaded some Switch roms and installed a few games from our steam library and BAM the system hard resets and reinstalls itself with zero fucking warning.So we installed Bazzite on it which doesn't do this horseshit, doesn't force an online account just to use the fucking thing. The boot menu requires you use a keyboard, but the USB-C port doesn't work as the keyboard on boot. Most mechanical keyboards these days come with USB-C to USB-C cables. I had to fish out another domed keyboard USB-A just to get into the fucking boot menu. Only to find out that the DisplayPort is NOT the primary display output. That's right you NEED to use HDMI to get into Bazzite to install it. After it's installed, you no longer need the HDMI port. The front plates are magnetic and I found that out the hard way by putting it down on top of my 6tb hard drive full of pictures sitting on my desk, which is now dead by the way. No fucking warning that they contain magnets. Nowhere on the fucking box does it mention magnets. If I had a pacemaker I would fucking sue, win, and be granted tons of money. ONTO the performance in part 3
>>109144025OP can join their queue.
>>109144355>Family Share™>i took it up the ass for 20 years and now that my anus is a gaping 5" diameter gay ben finally pulled out!!! th-th-thanks gay ben!pc games and even consoles peasants have had that since 1970s and without all of your DRMcuck store restrictions
>>109145009Part 3is it worth over 100 c notes?Short answer, maybe.Once you get past the bullshit of Steam OS and install a real OS like Debian or Bazzite, the thing functions rather well. I think he ended up putting Debian on it, because that's what we use for most things. It just works and it's not immutable. The RTX5050 I use stomps it into the dirt, and this card is known for being pure shit. So beyond games what the fuck is it good for?sysbench scores as follows:i7 14700F23865 multi core8369 single core3346 ram scoreSteam Machine11901 multi core6942 single core2854 ram scoreIt felt alright, no slowdowns, and seeing the high ram score, we were able to deduce that it was 2 ram chips and a trip into the Bios, which looks similar to the steam deck's bios, showed both ram slots using DDR5 5400, which was slower than the 5600 we were promised. When using Davinci Resolve, editing video felt nice and smooth, no cuda support obviously, but it ran well for that. Using Blender we saw some stuttering with a big buck bunny 3d scene render. Which hasn't been a problem since DDR4. Trying Linux 7.1 and KDE Plasma 6.7 on Arch we ran into a LOT of problems, ones that don't exist outside of this thing. It kept saying it was overheating, and would shut itself off. The fans did not spin up, it just flashed a bios warning, and powered off. With Windows 11, it was dogshit slow, and missing bluetooth drivers. Furthermore the USB-C port did not show up in Windows as a USB4 port, and ran at USB 3.0 speeds. Works fine on Linux. When inspecting the drivers from device manager there were 4 yellow ?s and no drivers are offered on their website for Windows. I am actually blown away by this. The AMD drivers worked fine, but the hyper-rx drivers froze the system. If you like Linux, and want to support Valve by buying this as a desktop, it's a great option. It ran every distro we threw at it, Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Fedora, Gentoo, Bazzite, and Zorin all worked fine.
>>109145091Part 4fuck your text limit faggot mods.I am going to buy one when he gets his pre-order. Should you? Up to you, if you like Linux, it is a Linux beast. I don't know why Arch ran into issues, probably some driver or module somewhere fucking up the power delivery I am too stupid to install during setup. I don't like Arch or Gentoo for that reason, they expect me to know too much. With that being said, it was a fun little TV PC toy thing. I would not want it as a main desktop PC. We support Linux. We love Linux. So for us, the only Windows machine we have is a Windows 7 machine disconnected sitting in a random room we use for storage. Would I get this over a Steam Deck? No. The Steam Deck is amazeballs for being a game gear. This is just an overpriced low end PC that happens to have a decent mobile APU in it. As a laptop it would have been amazing. As a desktop with unlimited wall power, it is a bit shit. I am buying it to load some roms onto, load a front end, and put in my son's room.The Steam controller is next bois and gurlz.
>>109143984that super yacht isn't going to buy itself
>>109145109The Steam Controllerthe only reason to get this right now, because Valve put people's controller orders on hold to supply the fucking steam machine. So if you can get one JUST for the controller, then sell this as a markup on ebay, it might be worth doing.The controller has gyroscopics inside, so it's good for aiming and zelda switch games. They are about as good as the steam deck in my testing. It is comfortable and the included mouse pads are just as retarded as the steam deck with acceleration, so if you love it, it's great, if you hate it, you have to disable it. I find it intuitive but I know some who hate the mouse acceleration bullshit. I wouldn't want this to be my only input method. It's good though. The sticks are TMR so they won't get drift. There is a touch sensor in them. Works just like the steam deck. I love using it. The dongle it comes with is nice, I wish I could use double stick tape or velcro to plop this down onto, there is a 3d print that I might do that gives it a charge cradle, honestly, it should have come with one. 8bitdo controllers come with a cradle. Why can't this? The rumble is nice. There are 8 HD rumble motors inside. The pads are upgraded to basically feel like Macbook with the rumbles in them. The triggers, when the rumble works, gives good feedback. When a big event happens on screen the controller goes nuts, and each of the motors gives feedback differently. When it works, it works better than anything I have ever used. I hear there are issues with games like FH6, but we could not get that game to run on Linux outside of Steam OS. With Windows 11 and the drivers installed the rumbles didn't work like they did on Linux with them all going off at once. mmkay off to take a bath, the water should be cool enough.
>>109144131No m8, bangor. I live in Bangor. Not Bangalore.
>>109144199>Comparing the purchase of a digital download to an actual physical productVideo games have a refund window of 2 weeks or 2 hours of play time. I have had Valve refund a game outside that refund window because I bought a game, then the next day a family member died and I was the executor of the estate so I was too busy to play the game I bought for almost 90 days and they made an exception and gave me back the money when I got home and installed it but didn't like it. They're not unreasonable if you contact customer support and explain your situation. And steam has a family feature so you absolutely can share it with a friend or cousin. You can have up to 5 people playing on your library in your family group.
>>109146117>all this DRMcuck cope to defend his DRMcuck restrictionsyeah, my family is more than just 5 cucks, and have more going on in their lives to obey and track exact days and hours tracked and spied on by DRMcuck storei let a friend borrow my entire diablo collection for 2 years and forgot i even lent it to him until he finally returned itsteamniggers will never know this level of freedom
>>109146159Ok stop paying taxes, electricity and water if youre so free. Actually, rob the nearest bank if youre so free
>>109146159Gaben once said that piracy is a service problem, and he was largely right. Steam DRM largely stays out of the way, and the platform makes it easier to do things, not harder.Back with physical media, most game discs had DRM that required the disc to be in the drive to play the game, even if everything was installed to the hard disk. This was inconvenient, and led a lot of people to use cracks that bypass the DRM and let them play without the DVD. Worse schemes installed filter drivers that sometimes interfered with normal CD drive operation.Compare to Steam DRM which is generally transparent and just needs Steam to be there to reassure it that it can run. It even facilitates installing the game on multiple computers, while previous DRM schemes actively tried to prevent that. Of course DRM-free is preferable, but Steam won because it gave gamers a simple "install" button without multiple steps, and helped install your games on a new PC in a standardized, streamlined way.
