stevedice
@stevedice@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Anon asks out a girl 2 days ago:
So it is a consequence of too much reddit. Also, what’s up with your username, baby? How pathetic can you get?
- Comment on Squad Goals 2 days ago:
you belonged to a marginalised group
Oh, shit. I left out hugely important context. This happened in Mexico so it’s probably neither of those.
- Comment on Squad Goals 3 days ago:
Twice I got my face plastered on the flyers of a conference because none of the other speakers looked Mexican enough. I still don’t know if should have been offended.
- Comment on Anon asks out a girl 3 days ago:
I’m curious. Do you just speak like this on purpose or is it a consequence of too much reddit?
- Comment on Anon asks out a girl 4 days ago:
Why, oh why, do you think you deserve my time and effort for anything else than making fun of your lack of intelligence and social skills?
- Comment on Anon asks out a girl 4 days ago:
And this just cements the fact that you can’t read. You’re not original, because your dumb misinterpreted study has been posted and debunked to hell and back.
The person I just celebrated an anniversary with would be very amused to read this. And like me, she’d recognize
And you’re also delusional. I’m not surprised.
- Comment on Anon asks out a girl 4 days ago:
I went to a bar, stalked a woman and had to bite my tongue to avoid saying m’lady. I can’t imagine why she said no.
- Comment on Anon asks out a girl 4 days ago:
Then I would tell you’re not original, we’ve all seen that “data” and it doesn’t say what you think it says so you can’t read. I’d also remind you reactions like that are why you’re single.
- Comment on Anon asks out a girl 4 days ago:
Impossible. It’s the females!
*insert Skinner meme*
- Comment on it's friend shaped! 5 days ago:
Sometimes I conjure up the delusion that having a big feline is doable if raised from birth because my little feline is such an adorable baby that she shows her belly to literally everyone she sees even when she’s never met them. But even this cute ball of fluff will dig her claws into my leg to avoid falling when she rolls over while napping on my lap. Imagine if those claws were 4 cm.
- Comment on CompSci freshmen can relate 6 days ago:
What if I don’t wanna get shipped to El Salvador for throwing up gang signs?
- Comment on Anon has a boyfriend 6 days ago:
gay: anon has a bf fake: anon has a bf
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Yes, you are definitely bringing nothing constructive with your goalpost moving.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
No, it’s a thread about the market differences between the PS3 and the Steam Machine. You’re just being in your obsession with being right.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Ah, brilliant argument. Shall I take this as your agreement that $750 is not console pricing?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
It’s not a console in the same way the Steam Deck isn’t a Switch competitor. I get what you’re saying but putting “console price” at over $750 would just mesh it with PC pricing and then the distinction would be meaningless.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
You’re quoting someone else.
- Comment on Valve Addresses Steam Machine Anti-Cheat Concerns, Says It's Working Towards Support 1 week ago:
Yes, it is riskier. That’s not my point, though. It is that telling people “just don’t do that” isn’t helpful.
- Comment on Valve Addresses Steam Machine Anti-Cheat Concerns, Says It's Working Towards Support 1 week ago:
Umm, actually. All proprietary software is unethical and introduces huge risks to your PC. People should stop playing any game that has such closed closed source.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
That PC at microcenter is much faster than the Steam Machine.
Here’s some benchmarks for the 7600M, that has the exact same specs as the GPU in the Steam Machine.
notebookcheck.net/AMD-Radeon-RX-7600M-GPU-Benchma…
Here’s some benchmarks for a 9060XT which is the GPU on your link:
notebookcheck.net/AMD-Radeon-RX-9060-XT-16GB-Benc…
And here’s some benchmarks for a desktop 7600 which is another card people are comparing the Steam Machine to:
notebookcheck.net/AMD-Radeon-RX-7600-Benchmarks-a…
In case anyone doesn’t wanna wade through the terrible way notebookcheck presents information, I’ll post the numbers for CyberPunk High Preset at 1080P just to give you an idea of the performance difference. Nothing particular about why I chose that game, it’s just the first I found that was on all 3 links:
RX7600M: 62.3 FPS RX7600: 90.1 FPS RX9060XT: 127.2 FPS
If we set the 7600M as 100%, then the 7600 and 9060XT are 144.6% and 204.1% respectively.
I think people are thinking the Steam Machine will be way faster and that’s why they’re coming up with these outrageous prices.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Only one of those 3 consoles is comparable to the Steam Machine. You can’t grab a product from a different segment in the market and lump it in with the rest just because they’re the same kind of product. If that were the case, I could just look at a ThinkCentre and say “see? $200 is PC pricing” but that would be insane because nobody looking to buy a ThinkCentre would consider a Steam Machine – just like nobody looking to buy a PS5 Pro or the disc-version of the PS5 will consider a Steam Machine either. So yes, youe failure to consider market segments means that you are wrong.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
No, but there’s some unhinged people arguing it’s gonna be $800 or even $1k.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
You’re the one that brought up Valve selling at a loss because you think anything under $800 would be selling at a loss. It is not.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Seems like they changed it two months ago. That still puts a $650 30% above the PS5 MSRP so no $650 isn’t console pricing.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
And if my grandma had wheels she’d be a bicycle.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
You seem to think the Steam Machine will be much faster that the specs imply.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
An educated guess. The specs of the “semi-custom” components perfectly match with existing products. However, if I were to put my tinfoil hat on, I’d point out that the 7600M has been out for 2 years and you still cannot find a laptop with one. Almost as if someone snatched up all of the supply.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Care to share a link to a PCPartPicker with that?
Nope. Already closed the tab and can’t be bothered to do it again. I did check the link you provided and I see where you went wrong. We’ll get to that in a bit.
It’s literally not, they custom developed it for the product, similar to the Steam Deck one, it is based on the architecture used on laptops, but so are Playstation and Xbox AFAIK.
It literally has the exact same specs as a Ryzen 5 7400F and an RX7600M. But hey, you were right, the CPU is actually not a laptop CPU.
Can you provide a link to such a prebuilt? Here’s the first prebuilt I could find with similar specs, and it’s 1k periphio.com/…/firestorm-7600-prebuilt-amd-gaming…
Sure I could. I won’t because you already did and your prebuilt even is a $50 cheaper than the one I had found. Remember that I said we’d get to why the part list you posted was wrong? Here we are. An RX7600 has 32 compute units and a boost clock of about 2.6GHz. The
RX7600M“custom GPU” in the Steam Machine has 28 CUs and a boost clock of about 2.4Ghz. This results in the full size 7600 being anywhere from 30% to 70% faster than its mobile version depending on the game and about 50% in synthetic benchmarks. So those PCs with “similar specs” you brought up are not similar at all.And the other one is 700, your point is?
What other one? The one nobody bought? I guess Valve could go the same route if their goal is for nobody to buy their product.
It didn’t happened with the Deck because it’s not sold at a loss, so it’s cheaper to assemble a similarly built PC for you. But I definitely saw several posts through the years recommending people just buy a Steam Deck as their machine in certain conditions. If the Steam Deck costed 300 I guarantee you people would be using it as their daily drivers or building clusters of them.
It didn’t happen with the Deck because it’s one of the worse ideas ever conceived. It won’t happen with the Cube because it will remain one of the worst ideas ever conceived.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
The PS3 was using a rare CPU that you could only get from it or from some enterprise dealer at a much higher price. The Steam Machine is a standard x86 computer that can’t match the ubiquitous ThinkCentres in price/performance.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Assembling your own Steam Machine with similar parts will cost around 800
No, it won’t. $800 will get you a machine that’s around 50% faster. Controller included.
Even if you assembled it yourself you would be missing features, such as cec, wake by controller, sleep mid game, etc. LTT will try to build one, it will be interesting to see what they come up with, but I’m 90% it won’t have feature parity.
Fair enough.
There’s lots of engineering gone into this machine, they’re way more compact, less power hungry and more quiet than anything you can build yourself.
It’s literally a laptop CPU with a laptop GPU.
Buying the same build as a prebuilt brings a premium and costs around 1000
Also not true. A 1k prebuilt is around 70% faster. Controller not included, though.
Valve purchases stuff in scale so they can diminish their margin and could potentially sell it cheaper than prebuilts, and possibly cheaper than building it yourself.
Sure, but that’s an argument in favour of it costing less.
Consoles are sold at a loss, and they recover it with games because the platform is closed.
Yeah, and the best selling console of the generation is $450 for the digital-only version.
The Steam Machine is not closed, they can’t be sure they’re getting game purchases, because people might be buying this to be their work computer. So they have to price it as a PC, with margin on hardware, not promise of future returns.
Stop this delusion. If this was an actual possibility, it would already be happening with the Steam Deck. Yes, I know you know someone who did it. I know someone who bought a Surface to put Linux on it. There’s dozens of us!
Price might fluctuate between now and announcement, RAM prices are going crazy nowadays.
That I see happening. RAM/storage might triple in price tomorrow which would push the price of the whole industry up.