Comment on French retailer mocks €1039 Steam Machine with “Stim Machine” RX 9060 XT PC for €999
Simon_Shitewood@lemmy.ml 5 days agoStop being a drama queen, I have worse hardware than a steam machine and can play most modern games at 60fps 1080p on medium settings, or high with fsr. The vast majority of people aren’t targeting 240fps 4k on Ultra.
GreenCrunch@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
And then there’s those of us who don’t play a ton of modern games - For a ton of older games you don’t need high end hardware.
grinning_serpent@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Right, but in that case you wouldn’t waste a thousand bucks on a Steam machine anyway. You’d get a decent budget CPU and GPU, very likely secondhand, and call it a day for like half that price at most.
It’s very expensive to have a “AAA ready” machine these days but an “indie and retro machine” can be pretty affordable if you’re able to get secondhand parts at a decent price. Like you can get a used 3060 8GB for a little over $200 on eBay here and that’ll easily handle pretty much any indie under the sun.