Now that FSR 4.1 is available on the Steam Machine, Valve seems to have used it to update the store page to, well, temper expectations. Valve now claims that the CPU and GPU combo can do “up to 4K gaming with FSR 4.1,” which is a much safer claim.
Now that FSR 4.1 is available on the Steam Machine, Valve seems to have used it to update the store page to, well, temper expectations. Valve now claims that the CPU and GPU combo can do “up to 4K gaming with FSR 4.1,” which is a much safer claim.
Selling a barebones kit without RAM and SSD would be a great idea, for those who already have something they can use.
Without those massive money sinks right now, what would that price look like? Since the price was clearly increased in a similar way as the Steam Deck due to that.
Why should someone with the skill to open up a Steam Machine buy one instead of building the whole thing themselves? Don’t think the form factor and HDMI CEC are worth it for most people.
I think too. This also gives VALVE a lot more headroom and being less dependent on these Crucial parts. For the SSD sizes between 2230 and 2280 are supported (if I understand correctly). Searching PCPartPicker: SSD for relevant drives results in cheapest available parts for about 70 Euros and upwards. VALVE probably have better deals. The RAM is currently only single channel 16GB DDR5-5600. On PCPartPickerf: RAM the cheapest part is around the price point of 190 Euros.
Based on these prices, without RAM and SSD I would expect the Steam Machine price reduction at around 250 Euros, maybe more. That would bring down the price without controller to less than 800 Euros, probably even less. And VALVE can sell without waiting for these parts too and build faster and more in shorter amount of time.