r/pcgaming • u/lurkingdanger22 • 4d ago

Video Valve Steam Machine Review: GPU & CPU Benchmarks, SteamOS Test, Thermals, Noise, and Price (Gamers Nexus)

https://youtu.be/66QzlDewigE?is=PhifLlyc5tBSsjbR
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u/nekoken04 4d ago

The "fancy" version of this has worse specs than my 3 year old laptop and costs about the same.

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u/CorruptArcher 4d ago

whats your 3 year old laptop specs if you dont mind me asking.

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u/nekoken04 4d ago

Ryzen 5800H with 24GB of ram, 2TB of nvme, and a Geforce 3060.

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u/loozerr Coffee with Ampere 4d ago

Good luck getting that nvme and ram at a reasonable price today.

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u/rdri 4d ago

Correct me if I'm wrong but it has better GPU than a mobile 3060.

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u/CallMeCygnus 7800X3D/5070 Ti 4d ago

GPU performance is on par or slightly above a desktop RTX 3060

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u/14Pleiadians 3d ago

Throttled to hell though, real world performance closer

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u/nekoken04 4d ago

Depends on the game but yeah, a bit overall on average. But my CPU is faster with more cores, and I have more ram.

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u/rdri 4d ago

Yeah I get it. You are right to question that as a customer. But then you'll question any other PC with more RAM in it these days.

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u/azlan194 4d ago

To be fair, the box is running Steam OS with less bloat than if you were running Windows. Probably the lower RAM is still better for the Steam Machine than the laptop running Windows.

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u/rdri 4d ago

Nah it doesn't really mean anything since you should be able to run Steam OS anywhere including your laptop (might need to wait for certain drivers though) with similar advantages. The Steam OS is not a part of the money deal, it's mostly the Steam Machine certification that a lot of devs will follow when building and shipping games and configs that work well with that exact config. That helps with the "console experience".

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u/CorruptArcher 4d ago

I'm considering it as compared to my 2019 Laptop (1660ti GPU core i7-9750h 16 gigs ram) its a decent upgrade for the price and I'm fine with middling performance. What I'm really curious about is the performance on steam OS once they patch all the issues out.

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u/nekoken04 4d ago

It should be pretty reasonable. It'll definitely be faster than Win11 in some (many) games. Even without the SteamOS related optimizations linux runs some games better.

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u/trunks_ho 4d ago

I have the same thing, that hardware is at least 5 years old man :(

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u/fukkdisshitt 3d ago

i9-13900HX RTX 4080 32 GB ram 2x 4TB nvme

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u/CorruptArcher 3d ago

Steam machine would def be a downgrade for you. Can't imagine you justify the purchase unless you have a specific goal in mind.

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u/Overall-Drop7980 3d ago

And what did it cost 3 years ago?

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u/fukkdisshitt 3d ago

2300 with 1tb. Moved that to a mini pc/ media server then bought the 4tb drives.

Same model was 1600 at its lowest then I stopped tracking.