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Price aside, I do believe Alienware has the right idea with their X51. It's a fully-configured PC with standard components in a console-alike small form factor case. The downside (except the price, which is typical Alienware bullshit; £1000) is the substandard GPU and the 330W external PSU. The GTX555 is pretty cruddy as far as PC gaming goes - my wife has the GT555M in her laptop and it's... just...ergh - but the machine only has a 330W PSU which limits upgrade options. Still, I gotta hand it to 'em, it's a very nice device.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/df-hardware-alienware-x51-review
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| Posted: Sun, 4th Mar 2012 08:27 Post subject: |
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| Shoshomiga wrote: | You can already make your very own steam box easily in these steps
1. Install Steam on your pc
2. ???
3. PROFIT |
Sure, it's an HTPC with Steam that you can build on your own, but one could argue the iPad would fail to meet success as it was just a touch based device that can browse the Internet, it's not like we didn't have devices like this before.
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"...like nothing else on television."
"a phenomenon."
"A tangled tale of sex, violence, power, junk food..."
"Like Nothing On Earth"
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| Posted: Sun, 4th Mar 2012 22:53 Post subject: I have left. |
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| Posted: Mon, 5th Mar 2012 07:58 Post subject: |
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sTo0z
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| Posted: Mon, 5th Mar 2012 08:16 Post subject: |
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That damn companion cube! 
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Good, I hope this is true. Microsofts console has practically ruined the Console, and PC gaming market.
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| Posted: Tue, 6th Mar 2012 15:40 Post subject: |
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| xDBS wrote: | | Good, I hope this is true. Microsofts console has practically ruined the Console, and PC gaming market. |
How would the steam box change anything, though?
It's basically just a custom computer in a small and compact format, just like the shit Alienware's trying to pull now.
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| Posted: Tue, 6th Mar 2012 15:48 Post subject: |
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| xDBS wrote: | | Good, I hope this is true. Microsofts console has practically ruined the Console, and PC gaming market. |
On the other hand we'd probably end up with yet another tv-gamepad-console. I don't' know what to think honestly. Probably it's better to wait to see if the rumors are true and if they are what kind of console/pc are they planning.
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| Posted: Tue, 6th Mar 2012 17:33 Post subject: |
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The comic and meanwhile followup now on reddit frontpage.
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| Posted: Tue, 6th Mar 2012 17:35 Post subject: Re: Valve May be Working on Secret "Steam Box" Con |
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| Quote: | | It’s a rumor right now... |
i stopped reading there ...
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| Posted: Fri, 9th Mar 2012 00:37 Post subject: |
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Agreed. When did the 4870 and E7200 come out? 2008? They both lasted me until 2011 quite satisfactorily for the most part. Some issues with poorly optimised games from time to time, but on the whole a VERY impressive piece of kit that kept me gaming.
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| Posted: Fri, 9th Mar 2012 08:16 Post subject: |
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My pc is also from 2007. Games still run very fine as for 5YO pc !!!!!!!
And I play on my 360 mostly anyway
3080 | ps5 pro
Sin317-"im 31 years old and still surprised at how much shit comes out of my ass actually ..."
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| Posted: Sun, 11th Mar 2012 17:42 Post subject: |
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| rayida wrote: | http://kotaku.com/5891697/shooting-down-rumors-valve-says-theyre-not-making-a-game-console-any-time-soon
Not any time soon in Valve time = Never? |
Not surprised/as I expected. 
TWIN PEAKS is "something of a miracle."
"...like nothing else on television."
"a phenomenon."
"A tangled tale of sex, violence, power, junk food..."
"Like Nothing On Earth"
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My current spec is a e7500@3.3Ghz, 6Gb DDR2 RAM, ATI 5870 VaporX 1Gb.
And I can play absolutely everything at 1920x1080 at max detail EXCEPT the Witcher 2, which I could play at ultra, but the FPS is a little offputting 
Even Skyrim seems to run at 60fps more or less.
I don't honestly see the point of upgrading either my card or cpu. Well.. ok, I would probably enjoy the extra number crunching speed I suppose...
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| Posted: Sun, 11th Mar 2012 18:11 Post subject: |
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with that rig
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3080 | ps5 pro
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SteamDRM-"Call of Duty is the symbol of the true perfection in every aspect. Call of Duty games are like Mozart's/Beethoven's symphonies"
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| KillerCrocker wrote: | | ...a really big picture without a spoiler tag. |
What's that supposed to mean? My rig is like what, 3 years old now by today's standards?
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Kaltern
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That's better
And that's my point I suppose, it's an older rig, and because of derpy consoles, the decent video cards out now are woefully underused.
Hey.. maybe if we get the Steam-o-Matic console, we can get games exclusively for it with top end graphics and all...
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But I have the feeling that a lot of developers are going back to PC, especially with a heavy drive from indie devs.
