*** Valve Steam Machine ***

If they were to release the already manufactured ones....how do they limit scalping as much as possible? These are going to get scalped to the hilts. Only 5 year + old Steam account with at least 3 games purchased in the past 12 months allowed to purchase just 1?
 
Raymond Lin said:
If they were to release the already manufactured ones....how do they limit scalping as much as possible? These are going to get scalped to the hilts. Only 5 year + old Steam account with at least 3 games purchased in the past 12 months allowed to purchase just 1?
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I suspect supply is going to be extremely limited for the Steam Machine plus it will likely be expensive. The idea of fighting hordes of people to no doubt end up waiting weeks if not months with a pre order, for what is ultimately a low end machine at a high price has extinguished my initial excitement for the Steam Machine.

I decided to build a gaming PC instead and I tried to stick as close as possible to what I expect the Steam Machine to cost (I expect £650).

I priced up the following components and ended up ordering them:

Ryzen 5600
B550 motherboard
16 GB DDR 4 Ram
850w modular power supply
Thermaltake CPU air cooler
Nvidia 5060ti 16GB
A 3D printed MATX case

The total came to £750.

I already have a 1TB NVMe drive.

You could save £150 by swapping the 5060ti for an Intel B580 or an AMD 9060XT 8GB. You could save a further £30 by getting a non modular 600W power supply. So add on £50 for the cost of storage you could build a more powerful computer than the Steam Machine for around the £650 mark.

Although it's not the same form factor as the Steam Machine it is way more powerful and has the benefit of being upgradeable.
 
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