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The piston is a console pc for running steam big picture.
For $900 us you get an amd a10 3.2GHZ proc, a 128 GB SSD and 8 GB,s of ram. No mention of a video card so I can only assume it uses the integrated graphics on the CPU.
The spec's are underwhelming to say the least. You could buy a $500 laptop with better specs or build an identical pc for 400-500. ( minus the cool little case I guess)
This is not the steam box that will be made by valve it's a third party console designed to run the steam "OS". I hope valve puts together something more substantial.
They had a video showing it running tomb raider and it was stuttering quite a bit. I'm sure they will probably be optimizing it to run better before release, but is this really how they want to represent pc gaming? An overpriced and underperforming cube.
For $900 I could build a small form factor pc much more capable and hook it to my pc so I'm not sure who their target audience is. A pc game will know better than to buy it and a console gamer won't want to pay double the price of a console to play pc games of inferior hardware. I am really baffled by this.
It seems poised to make a mockery of pc gaming rather than broaden th audience of it. Worse yet is the thought that it is successful and developers start coding for these underpowered pc consoles.
So what do you guys think? Is this bad for pc gaming? Will it actually end up turning people to consoles? Is this really the evolution of pc gaming? Or am I just overreacting and make a big deal out of nothing?
Also as someone who always stays on the cutting edge of pc tech am I out of touch with what most people are gaming on? Are these spec representative of the average pc gamer?
If you don't mind post your pc spec's. I'd be curious to see what my fellow watchers are gaming on.
Mine:
I7 3770k@5 ghz
16 GB ram @1897
2 gtx titans in sli ( ordered Friday should be here tomorrow )
256GB SSD of OS
512GB SSD raid for games
1TB Raptor for games
2 TB WD black for storage
All water cooled with a homemade loop.
I know my pc is extreme and a total waste of money but building and tweaking my pc is as much of a hobby for me as gaming.
For $900 us you get an amd a10 3.2GHZ proc, a 128 GB SSD and 8 GB,s of ram. No mention of a video card so I can only assume it uses the integrated graphics on the CPU.
The spec's are underwhelming to say the least. You could buy a $500 laptop with better specs or build an identical pc for 400-500. ( minus the cool little case I guess)
This is not the steam box that will be made by valve it's a third party console designed to run the steam "OS". I hope valve puts together something more substantial.
They had a video showing it running tomb raider and it was stuttering quite a bit. I'm sure they will probably be optimizing it to run better before release, but is this really how they want to represent pc gaming? An overpriced and underperforming cube.
For $900 I could build a small form factor pc much more capable and hook it to my pc so I'm not sure who their target audience is. A pc game will know better than to buy it and a console gamer won't want to pay double the price of a console to play pc games of inferior hardware. I am really baffled by this.
It seems poised to make a mockery of pc gaming rather than broaden th audience of it. Worse yet is the thought that it is successful and developers start coding for these underpowered pc consoles.
So what do you guys think? Is this bad for pc gaming? Will it actually end up turning people to consoles? Is this really the evolution of pc gaming? Or am I just overreacting and make a big deal out of nothing?
Also as someone who always stays on the cutting edge of pc tech am I out of touch with what most people are gaming on? Are these spec representative of the average pc gamer?
If you don't mind post your pc spec's. I'd be curious to see what my fellow watchers are gaming on.
Mine:
I7 3770k@5 ghz
16 GB ram @1897
2 gtx titans in sli ( ordered Friday should be here tomorrow )
256GB SSD of OS
512GB SSD raid for games
1TB Raptor for games
2 TB WD black for storage
All water cooled with a homemade loop.
I know my pc is extreme and a total waste of money but building and tweaking my pc is as much of a hobby for me as gaming.