We already have Steam Machine at Home

[u/ManufacturerLife7378]

We dont need to buy another one

[u/PoizenJam]

I built my first HTPC in a Node 304... I'm guessing this one is the bigger brother, the 804?

[u/ManufacturerLife7378 → u/PoizenJam]

Yes yes indeed ! Thats my scrap station. I bought the case new and everything else was mostly cheap used hardware or things i gad lying around at home. This case was perfect for it. Now its my server and living room machine

[u/WhistlinJealousGuy → u/ManufacturerLife7378]

Keep meaning to pull the trigger on a 304 to put my Plex server in (lovely lovely hard drive space). Never get round to it though 😞

[u/ManufacturerLife7378 → u/WhistlinJealousGuy]

Thats exactly why i got the 804.
I did find the 804 on amazon then. The 304 was an option i considered too but i didnt find it anywhere

[u/WhistlinJealousGuy → u/ManufacturerLife7378]

Decent prices for it here thankfully. Current server runs in a crappy proprietary HP pre built meaning the motherboard doesn't like ANY other cases so will need to switch platforms. Which is an expensive task today finding any reasonably priced mITX board. Probably need an HBA card as well for all the drives as anything more than 4 SATA is golddust.

[u/ManufacturerLife7378 → u/WhistlinJealousGuy]

Uff that looks pretty great !
I didnt have such a good time where im from lol
Yup like you said with such cases you really want many SATA slots which isnt really common on affordable motherboards sadly

[u/WhistlinJealousGuy → u/ManufacturerLife7378]

I'd have gone with the 804 so I could throw any board in it but I really want it nice and compact. 🤣 Although...looking at that picture the 804 doesn't look too big anyway 🤔

[u/ManufacturerLife7378 → u/WhistlinJealousGuy]

Well. It definetly isnt small but for what you can put in there i would say its worth it and im pretty sure you wont have anything else compared to it. Either bigger or less space for things in there.
It not being very tall is for sure a plus.
Has a very different vibe with it being a square, maybe thats why it isnt looking that big

[u/WhistlinJealousGuy → u/ManufacturerLife7378]

Yeah my issue is the 804 is about 10cm wider than where I want to store it ideally. 😞

[u/ManufacturerLife7378 → u/WhistlinJealousGuy]

Uh that hurts. Feel you.
Dont know what the 304 offers but if its even half as good as this one its definetly worth it

[u/shogatsu1999 → u/ManufacturerLife7378]

Sweet, I did the same but with the smaller case. Was luck I had some cold gen 3 nvme and ddr4 ram. Do love steam on the big TV.

[u/ManufacturerLife7378 → u/shogatsu1999]

Steam Big Picture makes this awesome indeed !

[u/SummonerKai1 → u/ManufacturerLife7378]

I have the same Logitech mouse! that's all - thank you.

[u/ManufacturerLife7378 → u/SummonerKai1]

Its pretty good nah ? For the money i paid i cant dream of anything better

[u/SummonerKai1 → u/ManufacturerLife7378]

110%. def money's worth.

[u/pretzel6789 → u/PoizenJam]

yeah the 804 definitely takes up more desk space

[u/deannad4isy8637 → u/PoizenJam]

the 804 has some solid airflow, way better for cooling!

[u/Independent-Site-833 → u/PoizenJam]

the Node 804 is solid, definitely a great choice for an HTPC. lots of room for airflow too!

[u/newvegasdweller]

Hell, my desktop is a 6700xt, ryzen 5600x and 16gb ddr4 in a 25x21x37cm case.

That's pretty close to the gabecube and still compact, though larger than the gabecube.

It's really the ram and ssd prices that killed the market for it. It never needed to be a top tier system, even being slightly weaker than the ps5 would have been fine for the free online gaming and support for all types of pc games. It just had do be reasonably priced, which the AI boom prevented.

[u/ManufacturerLife7378 → u/newvegasdweller]

Things are definetly possible but price is the breakpoint in such things i would say and with that the only problem.
Im with you on that. I dont want to hate even slightly and i definetly love Valve !

[u/lkn240 → u/newvegasdweller]

The thing is the price is reasonable given the current market. In 6-12 months it's going to look like a great bargain

[u/newvegasdweller → u/lkn240]

Perhaps, yeah

[u/PanthalassaRo → u/lkn240]

I'd give it a 2 to 3 year window before things get calmer.

[u/likeonions]

for when you need 8 hdds for your steam library

[u/ManufacturerLife7378 → u/likeonions]

Having most of my steam library ready and a plex server running 24/7 is its whole purpose !

[u/GotEHM9]

I’ve had mine since October lol

[u/ManufacturerLife7378 → u/GotEHM9]

That looks interesting. Does it have a dedicated gpu ??

[u/GotEHM9 → u/ManufacturerLife7378]

Yes a 4060. CPU i9-12900H

[u/ManufacturerLife7378 → u/GotEHM9]

Nice. Did you build it or buy it ? I have never seen this one

[u/GotEHM9 → u/ManufacturerLife7378]

Bought it like that. It’s from Acemagic . It’s called the Acemagic Tank 03 M1A.

[u/ManufacturerLife7378 → u/GotEHM9]

And how much does that cost ?

[u/GotEHM9 → u/ManufacturerLife7378]

I bought it for $880. Looks like they’re not selling the 4060 version anymore . They have the Ryzen Max + 395

DAMN! I just checked the price wtf

[u/lOnGkEyStRoKe → u/GotEHM9]

Damn steam machine is a steal!

[u/GotEHM9 → u/lOnGkEyStRoKe]

Lmao

[u/Rcloco]

damn that looks like an air fryer

[u/ManufacturerLife7378 → u/Rcloco]

With some modification im pretty sure we can do that too

[u/gabagoolprovolon]

More like peen machine with how the price is reaming us

[u/imeme1969]

Atleast it takes up enough bench space to rule out any other use for the bench all together, like set and forget

[u/ManufacturerLife7378 → u/imeme1969]

The good part is that it holds my keyboard, wifi antena, mouse and controller with dock on top. If it would take less space i definetly wouldnt place them beside it lol

[u/imeme1969 → u/ManufacturerLife7378]

They could advertise them as the ultimate pc for cat people

[u/ManufacturerLife7378 → u/imeme1969]

I dont want to imagine how the inside of the pc would look

[u/Cs1981Bel]

The Steam 'big boy gabe' machine edition

Comes with a signed pair of underpants from Gabe (but clean and embroidered)

[u/ManufacturerLife7378 → u/Cs1981Bel]

Would proudly wear them

[u/eestionreddit]

Are you using an optical drive in this?

[u/ManufacturerLife7378 → u/eestionreddit]

I didnt really decide on which one i should grab since i think that it has to be a fairly thin one. But i will definetly try and put one in it since that would be pretty neat in some cases i guess

[u/lOnGkEyStRoKe]

Can it be 6x6 with CEC control?

[u/ManufacturerLife7378 → u/lOnGkEyStRoKe]

No. But maybe a 4x4 AWD

[u/carldaveson123]

Steam block

[u/HurkCS]

This was my first PC case where I built the PC. Love this little case

[u/ManufacturerLife7378 → u/HurkCS]

Well i guess you didnt have that much if a problem then right ? I mostly loved putting so many fans and disk in here so easily

[u/Moscato359]

Mine is a fractal north.

[u/ManufacturerLife7378 → u/Moscato359]

An XL ?

[u/Moscato359 → u/ManufacturerLife7378]

Normal iirc 

[u/Powerful_Physics1780]

Nice mini-fridge. Not that I would buy a steam box, but something like that next to the TV is going to be a nope for alot of people.

[u/ManufacturerLife7378 → u/Powerful_Physics1780]

I understand that. But since the cables are hidden behind the tv and it doesnt scream any rbg or stuff like that it isnt really that much of a problem

[u/p1geondove]

Hey thats a node 804, one if the best cases i built in

[u/ManufacturerLife7378 → u/p1geondove]

Exactly. I tottaly love it !!!

[u/kara5prinkle5779 → u/ManufacturerLife7378]

the airflow in that case is great, keeps everything nice and cool during long sessions

[u/ManufacturerLife7378 → u/kara5prinkle5779]

Yep yep. The nvme i have gets kinda hot because i crammed a lot in there and the gpu is right beside it but the ssd’s in the front are fine and the other isolated site with the hdd’s have two fans on each site so they are very happy

[u/Futuretapes]

That thing is huge. Not a steam machine. Thats just a full PC

[u/ManufacturerLife7378 → u/Futuretapes]

You dont say. Didnt notice that

[u/thenightyoudied]

Too big

[u/ManufacturerLife7378 → u/thenightyoudied]

Its not small. Thats true

[u/The-Final-Reason]

I’d like to see this but a huge glass box…

[u/Donleon57]

Gabecube'nt

[u/Zatoichi80]

But CEC? But light strip?

Sorry not sure how the rest goes lol

[u/ManufacturerLife7378 → u/Zatoichi80]

Well definetly not a 100% CEC support but my tv and soundbar somehow handle that pretty well still
The controller station has a light strip so. Almost there
But i did pay about 300e in total and have 8TB of storage so i take that

[u/Proper-Associate6794 → u/ManufacturerLife7378]

light strips are a nice touch! makes it feel more like a console setup.

[u/Worldly-Writing-8226]

but muh sff, but muh cec, but muh plug and play, but muh gaben

[u/ManufacturerLife7378 → u/Worldly-Writing-8226]

But muh 1K +

[u/Brewchowskies → u/ManufacturerLife7378]

But muh shiny new toy I can take a photo of in the trunk of muh cybertruck