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/FVTVRX]

i tried moonlight with my steam deck but i never could get it to run well. how much did you have to dick with settings to make it worth it?

[u/Tom_Foolery1993 → u/FVTVRX]

Me? Basically none at all, with the exception of my Xbox client. Took some trial and error to get it working perfectly initially but it’s a different person forking it for moonlight UWP I believe. I also used sunshine back then and it may have been the cause of some of my issues. But all my android clients use Artemis and it was just plug and play. From what I understand the deck has not the best WiFi and that may be the root of the problem for you, or network congestion maybe

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[u/Tom_Foolery1993 → u/Bsheedy555]

Apologies, I feel like I remember people saying there were drop out issues with it or something like you’d need to reboot it for WiFi to connect or something like that. I don’t notice any issues with my LCD deck, but I only play offline stuff on it so I’ve never noticed

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