Why would you get a Steam Machine when this exists? Assuming you already have a gaming PC. It's genuinely amazing.
>using wireless>not just getting a long HDMI cable
>>738936870No, why?
>>738936870I just want the steam machine to come out so my broke ass friends who spent all their money on mac products and insist windows is shit, can pick up something that can run the latest multiplayer indie slop without me having to play tech support for five different architectures in five different states. fuck you I just want to play games.
>>738936929For me it saves a cable. My router is the living room, and my PC gets ethernet anyway. So now I only need to run one instead of two.
>>738936929>2026>he doesn't have wall ethernet in every room
>>738938078PoE is dogshit
>>738938141Ethernet in your walls =/= PoE
>>738936870my pc old and a steam machine would be an upgrade
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>>738936870I tried using this to play from the office and it's total dogshit
>>738936870No matter how good game streaming gets, nothing beats playing directly on the machine.
>>738941810I haven't tried it remotely. Locally, it's near-native. I can't tell the difference in most games.
>>738944696Wow a painfully impractical and reductive truism.We really needed that in this thread.
Any news on the Steam Frame? I hope they release that before the Steam Machine
>>738945839There was a bump for some appids related to the steam machine but not the frame I think, so the gabecube will probably release first, maybe.
>>738936870i use sunlight on my gaming box, and out in the living room i've got a shitty little mini pc running moonlight. handles 4k/60fps just fine with sub 5ms latency.
>>738936870Is the physical box worth paying for? They're pretty cheap.
>>738948583No, they're severely hardware limited.
>>738948583depending on your usecase, maybebut if you can use the software version just do that instead
>>738945207I have a steam link and that's horseshit. Slapping moonlight on there helps but the steam link is heavily limited by its shitty wifi and Ethernet throughput, it takes a fat shit if your bitrate exceeds 35MBPSIt's nice to have but you have to compromise on either picture quality or latency.
>had a steam link that I kept in storage for years cause it was useless>have an idea to use it for HTPC purposes and dig it out>can't find the original power plug so grab a random one that fits the port>bricks the steam linkHolding onto this experience when I get a gabecube, absolutely not mixing cables.
Tried it for a bit but I can't get Ethernet to my bedroom so Steamlink didn't play nice in my basement.
>>738948915Werks on my machine. Might be because I'm playing on a TV from ~10 feet away though.
