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Starting at £450. Is it a worthy Steam Machine?
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Starting at £450. Is it a worthy Steam Machine?
The £699 one doesn't seem too bad considering the spec, at least if you wanted a good system without self-building.
EDIT: Just re-read, I thought it was implying they have replaced the parts with 970m and 980m.....but they haven't....so pretty poor.
The issue is that graphics card comes in below a 560ti, it's not enough to rival consoles the steam machines have to beat them if they are to achieve the purpose of combating the console market.Quote:
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So on a device aimed at gaming the CPU is upgradeable, but the GPU isn't? Genius! I would question the point of an i7 chip in a machine with a single 860M GPU anyway, it will make little or no difference to the gaming experience.
£700 sounds pretty bad to be honest because its got similar specs to a reasonably mid/high end laptop... a quick look at pc specialist pre-builts and you can see this one for £789 http://www.ebuyer.com/642077-pc-spec...op-pcs-l672510 (seen it below 700 frequently), the cpu has 2MB less cache but is 500mHz faster at stock with a beefier onboard GPU, the GPU is the same (gt 860m is a typo its a GTX). Why would you buy one of these alienware 'consoles' when you could simply pay £80 more (currently) for something that is potentially faster AND has a 1080p screen and a battery, I would rather just setup the cables and plug it all into one of those laptops that way I can take it away with me whenever.
Have I missed something ? I like what Valve are trying to do with steam boxes but the OEMs have it all wrong, high prices and lack of upgrade ability seem silly and short minded.
Might have missed it altogether but would quite like the UI, well something similar, in fact, I'll have a look at the SteamOS, would fit well with my HTPC, also a gaming machine.
The Alienware machine does look the part, TBH, prices aren't too bad when you factor in OS/Customisation considering the £500 price point, shame the GPU isn't upgradeable.
Meh, all the steam boxes with mobile GPU parts don't make sense. I appreciate it's for the simplicity of the cooling. Can't quite remember but there was one with a low power i5 and an R9-270X coming in fairly cheap which I thought was the best of the bunch. But i'm sure at the time SteamOS didn't support AMD xD
Edit: I stand corrected, it was actually this Clicky, but it has a quad core AMD processor (I would assume not jaguar cores!) and an R9-270, which is just a lower clocked 270x. And according to that article it could fit a Titan or 290x, however, you have to be careful that it doesn't take off if you put a 290x in it... :P
Not bad for $600. Hopefully it will translate well if it ever gets sold here?
I just don't see the point in steamOS. Buying a machine for gaming that doesn't support Windows titles is insane. I know the odd triple-A title makes it, but they're few and far between, most the steamOS titles are old or just plain crappy
Well Gigabyte tried to jam a 760 in to a small box and it didn't really work.
The maxwell GPUs scale much better, we have one here but it's the slowest one. Chuck a 970m in to this system and it'd be pretty powerful.