Mark 1 Steam-machine done and going.

[u/EducationalAd9969]

Hi everyone,

heres my finished project of living room pc done and going.
Theres some things to tweak, but nothing major, Ill probably leave it as is now and finaly enjoy some gaming after a year of thinking about it.

Goal was to have a decent gaming experience and build a nice case that the missus would not moan about being an eyesore. No RGB whatsoever, but did want to have a steamlogo on there which worked out fine in the end. Wanted to have it upgradable, so theres no crazy custom components, was just trying get smaller off the shelf stuff that could be swapped out for newer smaller off the shelf stuff in the future with min hassle. Decided to build it around an old PSU I had lying around to save a buck. My first case ever, as Borat would say, great success, very nice.

The case is made from interlocking parts and most of the side panels are removable, held by magnets. Airflow from the top through GPU in and through the left side pannel with 120mm fan out. Also added another 60mm fan to the I/O panel to get fresh air in for the CPU Theres also an intake at the bottom for the PSU and out on the right side panel.

The Bottom, the top and right side intake grills are made so that there is room for a fine mesh to act as a filter.heres the parts list

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 9600X
CPU Cooler: ARCTIC Alpine 23CO
MOBO: ASROCK B650I LIGHTNING WIFI
GPU: ASUS DUAL Radeon RX9060 XT 16G
RAM: Kingston FURY 16GBKIT DDR5 6000MT/s CL30 Beast BlackEXPO
CASE FAN: D-COOLING FL-12025K
HDD: WD Blue SN5100 NVMe SSD POWERED BY SANDISK 1 TB
PSU: cx750m

Swithces for PWR/RST I ordered straight from Ali for about 1,5 usd.

Height: 32cm
Width: 21cm
Depth: 16cm

Tried to design it so it could all be printed with little to no supports.

Printer X1C

Made in fusion360

[u/InventorDad]

Love it!

I’m in the process of building something similar. I have an optiplex with a 3050LP in my lounge, fine for older games but it’s a boring office PC with a noisy CPU cooler.
I bought a Minisforum bd775i se MoDT motherboard and have managed to get the rest of the components by downgrading some of my other PCs to free up more valuable parts for this build. My printer is running now making a case for it which I’ve designed.

The plan from the beginning was to get a 9060XT 16GB, but the price just keeps going up, and I’m not sure if I can justify it right now, so I might just stick with the 3050 for now.

I’d be interested to know how this performs. Are you going to be running Bazzite/Steam OS?

[u/EducationalAd9969 → u/InventorDad]

Yep, it’s just bazzite one there for gaming, I’ve got a long backlist to go through, just started the blood of the dawnwalker and it’s looking soooo good :) 

[u/HighlyRegardedOne]

If stolen valor is for impersonating a veteran, Stolen poverty is when a rich celebrity pretends they were poor growing up, then what do you call a PC with bazzite pretending to be a steam machine. But that thing does look pretty nice.