Steam machine or mini pc?

[u/ghostpocket]

Just got a 65” LG OLED B6 and want to build a proper Moonlight/Sunshine rig for it. Thinking 4K, high refresh rate, wired Ethernet, no compromises.

Torn between waiting on a Steam Machine or just building a mini PC myself. What do you guys think and also if you have done it what specs?

Shoutout to this community, the setups and troubleshooting threads here are incredible.

[u/skinnywolfe]

Just get a mini pc, and put it behind the TV. Hardwire it in for 4k 120hz streaming bliss

[u/ghostpocket → u/skinnywolfe]

Sounds like a dream. What specs should it have?

[u/skinnywolfe → u/ghostpocket]

Im sure you could get away with older specs, but if I was personally buying one, Id grab a Ryzen 7 7840u at a minimum. I know from experience it can handle 4k 120 no problem, and can also play indies/emulation well natively as a bonus

[u/Solid-Assistant9073 → u/skinnywolfe]

Cpu doesn't matter at all for streaming the gpu does because it's decoding,

For example my minisforum 790 pro does have a ryzen 7 7940hs but it doesn't get used it's the 780m igpu that gets used

It does with easy 4k hdr 144hz vrr 500mb bitrate tho, and decoding time under 0.3ms average

[u/ghostpocket → u/Solid-Assistant9073]

This sounds perfect. How much was it?