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Valve Claims Steam Machine Outperforms 70% of Current Gaming PCs (www.techpowerup.com)

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[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I get your point, but since people claim Steam is a monopoly, then by that logic they have a large swath of data on what counts as a gaming machine to the user base.

I get its not going to compete with a watercooled watt sucker, but that doesn't seem to be the majority.

As a person that has gamed since 1983: Up until recently I was gaming on a 2013 dell mobo converted to a Core V21 case (that's a lot of rewiring conversion --thanks dell), and using a CAD GPU.

Then work bought us new laptops with RTX cards. So graphics have improved for me.

Both of those are not hardcore gaming PCs, and this steam machine will probably outperform them.

My point being these were valid systems for gaming by a gamer. Not everyone needs an F1 car to enjoy the ride to work😀

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 4 points 1 day ago

Agreed, the best selling dedicated gaming system of the last few years is the Switch, which has less power than many phones.