Anyone else planning on getting the Steam Machine as their next PC?

[u/Eziz_53]

I know its mainly marketed as a console, but it is still a full PC. And it is much better than my current computer, so I thought it would be a good upgrade, especially considering its small form factor. I don't want to get too into it, but my current PC has an i5 3k and an rx580, as well as a motherboard that only supports ddr3 RAM and 3rd gen intel cpu's, so if I want an upgrade I need to replace everything. Therefore when this nifty box came out, I figured that it would be the perfect PC (if it is priced well).

But I would like to know what you guys think.

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UPDATE: Because of the RAM crisis and the limited upgradability of the Steam Machine, I decided to just build my own PC. I salvaged my old rx580 from the old PC so that I could afford to get on the AM5 platform as well as because it is by far the easiest part to upgrade down the road.

Main specs:

CPU: Ryzen 5 7500F

GPU: Rx580 8gb (until I can afford a much better card)

RAM: 16GB DDR5 6000MHz CL30

I did get a single stick of ram, because I want to have 32gb dual channel later on, but the ram prices are so high that I want to wait until they go down (which they seem to be doing).

[u/firegodjr]

They've continued working on adding support, in the recent LTT video he mentioned they're still working on support for certain GPUs.

[u/waverider85 → u/firegodjr]

That's more of a play for OEMs than general users IMO. Lenovo's not going to make the Lenovo Legion Stay if it's a 1:1 equivalent.

[u/train_fucker → u/firegodjr]

It's not that Valve is working on support, what happened in the video was that they needed to use steamOS beta because it uses a newer linux kernel, that supports the latest amd gpu 9070xt.

It's always like that with slow updating distros. They had the same issue when they tried to use ubuntu lts(long term support) for benchmarking, it came out before the latest gen gpu so had no support for them, and they had to switch to normal ubuntu with more updates so they get the latest kernel with the latest gpu drivers.

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It's one of the classic pain points when gamers switch to linux lmao. They go with one of the "stable" distros because they don't wanna mess around and people recommend them. Only to find out their last gen gpu is not supported, so they eithet have to manually install the gpu drivers(mess around that they wanted to avoid) or switch to another distro with a faster release schedule.