Which is funny because the OS can be downloaded for free.Me55enger said:
Around a thousand bucks for the job of putting a PC together? I'll pass.Clowndoe said:
Also, I believe their website states "lifetime support" along with three years of "limited support", whatever that means. It sounds quite similar to what HP sells to business clients, their carepacks. The carepacks can cover a wide range of support requests, even down to limited overnight parts delivery, which in turn have to be installed by an official HP repair facility.Clowndoe said:
That is a mini-ITX motherboard with zero room for expansion and no overclocking features...and they're putting an i7 4770K in it. Wrong wrong wrong.
That is cutting it VERY close to how much power those parts can crank up, with overclocking I'm pretty sure it would hit 100% load and fry unless it was gold-standard quality. Once again leaves you with zero expansion room.
Conclusion: HUGE rip-off, do not buy.
Alexander Kirby said:
Some people don't want to put in the time and effort it takes to tune a machine for peak efficiency, especially if this comes factory-overclocked. It takes a fair amount of effort to get a good overclock; they don't just raise the clock speed, then raise the voltage if it fails to boot.Cowabungaa said:
I'd like to say that the motherboard is actually very good and has all the features that a high end ATX board would, including overclocking. As for lack of expansion room, it's a small form factor. Remember that these are designed to be in the living room like consoles. Not many people have room for a full ATX size case under their TV. And yes, the PSU is gold standard, although I must admit 500W does seem to be cutting it close and they really are asking for a huge premium to build this for you.Yuuki said:
Let's nip this in the bud:BrotherRool said:
Probably not, honestly.Auberon said:
Actually the Titan is no longer the best for gaming. The 780 Ti surpasses it in the vast majority of games and is the new king of single GPUs. It's cheaper too.Auberon said:
Umm... it has Windows AND SteamOS installed on it,so you can use it pretty much like a normal PC in every way. And with specs like that, it will absolutely NOT require games to be streamed to it. It can easily run them on its own, althought it probably will support the streaming feature I guarantee it will not require it to work...BrotherRool said:
Well, wait for something else, then. Getting someone to build your machine should NOT cost you that much. This Steam Machine is for bragging rights and not much else. There are other manufacturers, wait for them to put out something and see if their labor costs are less ludicrous.UNHchabo said:
You're a tad behind times. Titan is not a gaming card, it's a compute card disguised as a gaming card and it's main function was to make the 780 priced at $650 seem like a good deal. That phase has since passed.Auberon said:
Umm if the 4-phase VRM and H87 chipset didn't make it obvious enough, it's far from "good" as far as mini-ITX boards go. Z87 is where the high-end performance and features are, it just doesn't make sense to use anything else with such powerful components.Alexander Kirby said:
Don't worry, when the steambox was announced I went through Steam's library of Linux compatible games, and whilst steam is indeed have 10% Linux compatible (so only 2700 games that you would need to stream) most of those games are fairly small indie titles (often humble-bundle style deals because the Humble company encourage it) that aren't exactly going to tax a $1900 machinelacktheknack said:
So yeah sorry, I messed up, you wouldn't have any problems with streaming. Thanks for the info! (<- That's a genuine thanks, I really dislike spreading misinformation)Sight Unseen said:
