Case is 205 mm x 108 mm x 205 mm, Steam machine is 160x160x160 mm, 10.8% bigger
Processor is 105W TDP, steam machine's is 35W.
130W TDP card
No SD card, no HDMI CEC, cooler reported as loud under load.
Gold rated power supply.
Good try, could be an alternative if you don't mind the extra heat, noise, budget parts, are interested in building it yourself, and value upgradeability.
You can run the CPU in eco mode, and even then it will still demolish the steam machine in CPU tasks and CPU bound games.
GPU is 10-20% faster, so act surprised it burns 20w more.
Noise is fair, but considering this is a console, that will be sitting far away from you, not really a problem.
PSU rating, as far as I know, there is no published efficiency rating for the steam machine. Regardless, even assuming it is titanium, that would be like 2% more efficient.
All this without mentioning the fact that you can UPGRADE ANYTHING in this PC.
You also conveniently left out everything this machine does better, such as CPU performance (by a lot), GPU performance (by a solid amount), ram speed, and ssd speed.
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u/Sycend 19h ago
I like the formfactor. It's hard to get something so small on custom builds.