Dreams-Visions
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very. very nice.
now show me the benchmarks. talk is cheap.
PC gamers build their own.. its easy as snapping some pieces together.
The only people who buy premade Desktops just either have to much money to waste or are technologically impaired.
One of the great things about PC gaming is knowing also how to get inside the system and take care of it. Unlike consoles that just collect enough dust till they burn up.. and we dont have an option to stop it without voiding the lovely warranty.
Another question that makes me want to bump mine...
I'm sorry to interrupt the specs discussion but I am trying to relieve confusion.
Yes, you have to build it yourself. Fortunately, this is a very easy and valuable skill; I've been doing it since I was in the single digits, and it's gotten a lot easier since then. If you're not interested in building it yourself (even though it's pretty easy) then you're probably just not all that interested in what PC gaming has to offer seeing as there is a particular bent towards tweaking and troubleshooting that many find attractive about the platform.
The motherboard omission was probably a mistake. Add $50 for some generic motherboard. These don't matter unless you're looking for very specific features; I bought a micro ATX motherboard manufactured by a company that no longer exists a few years ago and my friend is still using it.
As for the keyboard and the controller, it's pretty reasonable to assume that if you desire a controller, you probably already have one; there are also keyboards everywhere, and I suspect that you probably own at least one. Rubber dome technology literally hasn't gotten any better in the last decade or so, so nearly anything will do.
There are nothing but questions at this point. We know that this is a Valve supported piece of hardware designed to run Steam and Big Picture Mode. We have chassis and a set of ports that are subject to change and specs from similar models by the same manufacturer. Whether this is the Steam Box or there are other pieces of hardware out there waiting to be revealed, I don't think anything is clear right now.
More powerfull than the PS3 or Xbox360?
Or less?
Or the same?
So in terms of DBZ powerlevels where does this steambox little pc rank?
We don't know yet. We don't know if this even is THE steambox
that's BS , and I have a very high end PC which I upgrade personally .
building PC is not "snapping some pieces Together ". Hardest part is to make sure crap is compatible and doing research prior. hell, adding water coolest to my CPU, GPU and RAM took hours of reading and making sure I won't screw my whole system. Clocking my CPU/GPU was also tedious as hell.
I love my PC but it was a lot of freaking work
So in terms of DBZ powerlevels where does this steambox little pc rank?
I really think people are overestimating Valves money, staff and experience.
They're just not players on the level of Microsoft or Sony (and even they had to sell their consoles at a loss), I don't see how Valve can possibly ship millions of units of whatever thing they make
360 - gohan
ps3 - goku
piston - superman
Just make the OS a free download for all and all is not lost(for me).
So in terms of DBZ powerlevels where does this steambox little pc rank?
I don't think Valve intends to sell millions of "steamboxes." I think they have more modest ambitions to start.
Then what's the point? Small scale custom PC sales? I mean I'd rather buy a new PC from Valve rather than Dell or whoever but still...
Linux is already free.
Anyway, this isn't exactly the Steambox so I'm curious to see how Valve's version will differ.
I really think people are overestimating Valves money, staff and experience.
Not talking about linux. These "steamboxes" made it seem like it would run a custom Steam Big Picture Mode OS based on linux. I'm still hoping for that.
Not talking about linux. These "steamboxes" made it seem like it would run a custom Steam Big Picture Mode OS based on linux. I'm still hoping for that.
As for this thing being branded The Piston and being shown off and invested in by Valve this may just be the Steambox.
how are the x51's?
my friends have had alienware laptops and those break all the time.
Are they upgradeable?
how are the x51's?
my friends have had alienware laptops and those break all the time.
Are they upgradeable?
Not talking about linux. These "steamboxes" made it seem like it would run a custom Steam Big Picture Mode OS based on linux. I'm still hoping for that.
As for this thing being branded The Piston and being shown off and invested in by Valve this may just be the Steambox.
Experience? building hardware? Lol
The computer that he built you will obliterate the comparison PC that they provide. If you step up to an i5 instead of an i3 (which I would for the sake of future-proofing, but it doesn't really matter much for gaming), the performance gap gets even larger.so now I have to build it myself or I am not interested in PC gaming?
Go back to his build. Add another $20 for a case as the cases I saw were $40, $50 for a motherboard, and $100 for Windows 8 and suddenly his "sub $500 build" is back up to price of a prebuilt X51. The X51 is also a nice looking machine for something that will live int he center of my living room.
I would say the hardest part of physically building a PC is installing coolers (stock or otherwise; more esoteric arrangements are obviously more difficult than stock) but that is mostly because it can feel like you're bending or applying pressure to components that don't look or feel like they can withstand it. This, in itself, is still not all that difficult, especially since modern CPUs literally cannot be inserted incorrectly anymore and come with thermal paste already applied.that's BS , and I have a very high end PC which I upgrade personally .
building PC is not "snapping some pieces Together ". Hardest part is to make sure crap is compatible and doing research prior. hell, adding water coolest to my CPU, GPU and RAM took hours of reading and making sure I won't screw my whole system. Clocking my CPU/GPU was also tedious as hell.
I love my PC but it was a lot of freaking work
So in terms of DBZ powerlevels where does this steambox little pc rank?
More like Yajirobe
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Isn't that dude stronger than Ya...Yam....What's-his-face?
producing and selling hardware isn't an easy task
At least one of my computers just doesn't have the back panel cover installed because we lost it.The only thing remotely annoying is connecting the front panel connectors. That's it: everything fits into logical locations, everything that isn't meant to fit doesn't fit, everything is plug and play. A lot of coolers aren't even hard to install, the Intel stock cooler has an extremely easy to understand picture instructions, etc.
The reason why people find it hard is because they're constantly stressing over fucking it up and blowing the computer up. Which is basically impossible for the above reasons.
Looks nice. Still don't understand Valve's involvement with Xi3, and why they hired Jeri Ellsworth. It feels like there's a lot yet to be revealed hardware-wise, even if this solution does end up technically being "Valve's" version of the Steambox.
Looks nice. Still don't understand Valve's involvement with Xi3, and why they hired Jeri Ellsworth. It feels like there's a lot yet to be revealed hardware-wise, even if this solution does end up technically being "Valve's" version of the Steambox.
The meltdowns are glorious! i love when people get all riled up over a half finished project that people dont know anything about!
Yes there are tons. Almost every non Ubisoft/EA big PC game from last 3 years.
The meltdowns are glorious! i love when people get all riled up over a half finished project that people dont know anything about!