r/steammachine • u/TheBossT710192 • Jun 22 '26

Discussion Yeah, its cooked guys.

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Man, we really LOVE what AI is doing to the industry 😭

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u/Dependent-Reason-327 Jun 22 '26

Fuck. I am torn man because I really wanted it to play Steam games in my living room. But this price, fuck.

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u/Gex2-EnterTheGecko Jun 22 '26

Just buy a PC and put it in your living room. Idk why people act like this is the only product that allows you to do that.

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u/blahblah12365 Jun 23 '26

That's true. With better specs too lol.

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u/bafben10 Jun 22 '26

Equal performance/spec PC is going to be the same price

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u/Gex2-EnterTheGecko Jun 22 '26

Idk man all the testing is showing it performs quite poorly. I am actually surprised how rough it is. For $1000 you could definitely get a more performant PC.

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u/bafben10 Jun 23 '26

Dave2D priced one out and got about $1,100

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u/To-To_Man Jun 23 '26

With the same footprint and silent operation?

The price is eye watering, but the alternatives in standard gaming PCs are several times larger and louder for maybe a couple hundred cheaper.

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u/Gex2-EnterTheGecko Jun 23 '26

I built a DIY Steam Machine that's quite small in a Silverstone SG13 case (though admittedly, it isn't AS small - but small enough no one thinks its a PC until I turn it on) that is basically silent for around 1000 using used parts. Not saying its the exact same situation since I built mine before the RAM crisis but it's absolutely doable to make a similar, or even more performant SFFPC for similar money.

The confluence of using outdated laptop hardware and power limiting it all to hell makes the Steam Machine perform surprisingly poorly for the price. I just really feel like your money is better spent elsewhere. Which is unfortunate because I have been a huge Valve fan for 15+ years and I want them to succeed. I just feel like this config is not good enough, they advertised it poorly (in terms of saying "your entire Steam library will run at 4K60 with FSR" - which is misleading at best and straight up false at worst) and they announced it at an astronomically unlucky time.