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Valve Now Claims Steam Machine Is Capable of 'Up To' 4K (www.ign.com)
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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.

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[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 11 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

The GPU is disappointing. And I think if they want to help with sales, they should sell one that doesn't have NVMe and users can slot their own in.

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 12 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

Mmmm the problem is ease of access for hardware noobs who want to play out of the box.

Here's a fun fact, though I didn't really think it would make a difference at first, cyberpunk 2077 got a substantial performance increase when I moved it off my old spindle HDD to my nvme SSD.

They wanted to deliver a PC console experience. Plug and play. Not all these conditions for performance based on how you tweak it.

[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 1 points 17 hours ago

The suggestion to leave out the NVMe to do it yourself is, because experienced users might already own one to reuse it. Off course they have to flash the operating system and install it themselves too. But tis could bring down the price substantially. And the price is a bit more stable from VALVEs side and less dependent on another hardware part, because they don't have to wait for the companies to sell the drive for a good price. For everyone else who want an out of the box experience can still buy the "regular edition". So offering this as an alternative is a good idea. BTW I made the exact same suggestion months before the launch. :-)

[–] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 3 points 17 hours ago

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.