*** Valve Steam Machine ***

How to make a Steam machine on the cheap:


TLDW: buy an old Dell desktop and add a GPU and PSU.
 
Vestas said:
Mine is waiting for Parcelforce to collect it from the GLS UK warehouse & enter it into their system.

I'd forgotten Valve do it this way, ISTR the Steam Deck took about a week to turn up & most of that was waiting for the package to be handed over. Actual transit is pretty quick.

Could be worse, they could have used UPS.
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That’s exciting!

GLS are the international handling bit for Parcelforce, forgot about their extra input into the process but they end up being the customs sorting tick box bunch and have gotten quicker since the deck deliveries
 
pingwing said:
have gotten quicker since the deck deliveries
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Not from what I can see - ordered Tuesday, packaged Wednesday, sat around until Friday waiting for GLS to pickup, arrived in UK 9 hours after they picked up and will now sit there waiting for another 2 days as its the weekend.

Pretty much identical to the deck....
 
Ah fair enough, last couple of things I've imported with GLS have been only a day or two delay with them when my deck was a week or so
 
It'll turn up when it does. I'm not in any rush, too hot for that.

I can see why Valve couldn't fit 2x8GB SODIMMs (5600MT). They don't appear to exist now - well not in terms of anywhere I'd trust claiming its in stock.

At some point in Winter when I'm bored I'll take the SM apart and transplant the lappie 2x8GB into it.
 
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TheVoice said:
How much for the shrink ray though? :p
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You're not wrong :cry:

I've had all sorts of mini-PC stuff in the living room over the decades and this is quiet and low-power (the two often don't go together!) while not requiring me to "maintain" it in any meaningful way.

Its small enough to fit in and not induce wife aggro. SteamOS on the deck was pretty much flawless for me so I'd expect the same on the SM. I value the fact that if I don't touch the deck for 2 months then I don't have to screw around with multiple updates/reboots like Windows. Press a button, come back in 5 minutes, input code and done.

I have a 9900X3D/9700XT upstairs along with a Strix Halo box so I'm pretty much covered for compute elsewhere.

tl;dr I know what I'm doing boys
 
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