Zotac Steam Machine
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In the process of getting my latest toy ordered. The family is going to be in the United States for a few weeks in December and we are planning on having the new Zotac Steam Machine ready and waiting for us. I am pretty excited. Going to test it out with Linux and see how it does. I am very interested to see how SteamOS performs on dedicated hardware. The unit comes with one Steam Controller and hoping to get a second one along with it as well. It has the Steam Controller dongle on the inside so you don't have the dongle sticking out anywhere on the outside which is really nice.
This is the same Magnus 970 unit that I was looking at in September but with a quad core Core I5 6th Gen instead of a dual core Core I5 5th Gen, 8GB RAM included and a 1TB drive. Please the Steam Machine themeing and the included Steam Controller, of course.
Pretty excited. I have not had a NEW desktop in well over a desktop, have not had a replacement one of any sort for six or seven years and have not had a PC gaming machine since, well, I would guess 2001?
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@scottalanmiller said:
I have not had a NEW desktop in well over a desktop
Guessing you meant decade, haha. Not a bad build! I'm very curious to see how the controllers hold up. Reviewers were complaining that the concave shape made it awkward instead of filling your palms like an Xbox controller, feeling very "light and hollow", andbeing pressed into using the iconic D-pads falling a little short, making the experience a little off-putting since you can't use dual sticks (great for FPS game obviously when going sideways/diagonal). Preference though, of course.
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Close to down voting you for lack of feeds and speeds! Good lord man, you should know better
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I'm really interested to see what you have to say. I am really tempted to pick up the Link and Steam controller next month. I may hold off though if this works well.
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@coliver said:
I'm really interested to see what you have to say. I am really tempted to pick up the Link and Steam controller next month. I may hold off though if this works well.
I want to get the Lync but it just does not appear like it is going to be practical for us to travel with one right now. So that toy is going to have to wait for half a year at least since I will not be back in the US after December until June and even then we are not sure where we will be.
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Specs:
- Intel Core i5-6400T (quad-core, 2.2 GHz, up to 2.8 GHz)
- 8GB
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
- 4 HDMI2.0
- 1TB 2.5“ SATA hard drive
- Dual GigE Ethernet
- 802.11ac/b/g/n
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@coliver said:
I'm really interested to see what you have to say. I am really tempted to pick up the Link and Steam controller next month. I may hold off though if this works well.
I'm very curious to see how the Link goes. Obviously not a replacement for the PC which is already purchased, merely an addition to social gaming when you have friends/family over.
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@BBigford said:
@coliver said:
I'm really interested to see what you have to say. I am really tempted to pick up the Link and Steam controller next month. I may hold off though if this works well.
I'm very curious to see how the Link goes. Obviously not a replacement for the PC which is already purchased, merely an addition to social gaming when you have friends/family over.
Us too. But with the travel we don't foresee a need for it so going to skip that for now. We really want one, though. Looks like a great idea, basically a video extender for Steam.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@BBigford said:
@coliver said:
I'm really interested to see what you have to say. I am really tempted to pick up the Link and Steam controller next month. I may hold off though if this works well.
I'm very curious to see how the Link goes. Obviously not a replacement for the PC which is already purchased, merely an addition to social gaming when you have friends/family over.
Us too. But with the travel we don't foresee a need for it so going to skip that for now. We really want one, though. Looks like a great idea, basically a video extender for Steam.
This is basically my use case for it... I would like to be able to shove my gaming PC in a corner somewhere and be basically headless. Then I can flip it and the Link on and play from my couch. I've found that I don't have as much time for gaming of late so this could help in the situation.
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This looks pretty awesome. But SteamOS is Linux, how many games is it going to be able to play at this point? I love the idea, but that seems like a pretty huge limitation.
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A huge amount of games. Mostly older and indie games but there are more and more everyday. I think/hope once the Steam Machines start to catch on that will push the AAA devs to either develop for them.
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Here are the ones for Steam.
http://store.steampowered.com/search/?term=&sort_by=_ASC&os=linux&page=1
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Maybe the more meaningful question is.... which games can't be run on it?
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@Reid-Cooper said:
Maybe the more meaningful question is.... which games can't be run on it?
GTX960 + quad core - I can't think of any.
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Because of Linux, not the hardware
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@Reid-Cooper said:
Maybe the more meaningful question is.... which games can't be run on it?
Minecraft. It isn't powerful enough to run Minecraft.
