OMFG. OMFG. Valve to announce Steambox - steam console

[Knuckle Duster]

How much you want to spend, and what do you want to do with it besides media.

I'd be willing to throw 2 grand at it in a month. I'm already willing to build the best I can piece together, but I'm going to wait and see what they offer. If it's more console than a spec and they actually partner up to brand a piece of hardware, I will lose the money just to support them. This is just convenient timing for me if it's at GDC and goes to market soon.

To me, Valve & Sega were the only huge publishers who ever gave a shit about their fans. I will still burn money to support their crazy ideas.

[TheSonicRetard]

man, $300 will build you an htpc that'll smoke all current consoles. the days of $1000 builds are a thing of the past. for $2000 you're gonna get a freaking render farm workstation.

[Knuckle Duster]

man, $300 will build you an htpc that'll smoke all current consoles. the days of $1000 builds are a thing of the past. for $2000 you're gonna get a freaking render farm workstation.

Yeah, what I mean is that in a month I'll be willing to buy an overpriced pre-built Alienware piece of shit, and a bunch of peripherals to do anything extra. It won't be a concern, and I won't have to build it myself... I've built PCs before, I would sooner spoil myself and be lazy about it.

Better worded: Willing to spend anything, willing to waste money on shiny crap I don't need if it feeds Gaben.

[gamevet]

man, $300 will build you an htpc that'll smoke all current consoles. the days of $1000 builds are a thing of the past. for $2000 you're gonna get a freaking render farm workstation.

You could build a very basic, AMD powered computer for about $600; $100 of that would be just for a 500 gig HDD.

$300 will net you a board, CPU and memory. You'd still need a decent video card, an operating system, case, power supply and the HDD. It would require really cheap parts.

[sheath]

What the heck happened to hard drive prices in the last year or so anyway? I used to be able to get 80-160GB drives for $40-60, now the starting price for any hard drive is $80.

[gamevet]

What the heck happened to hard drive prices in the last year or so anyway? I used to be able to get 80-160GB drives for $40-60, now the starting price for any hard drive is $80.

Most of the HDDs are manufactured in Thailand. The flooding wiped out most of the production plants.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/business/...VpM/story.html

When I'd built my PC back in early 2011, I had purchased a 500 gig Seagate HDD for under $60 and the other 500 gig Seagate HDD I put in there was about $70. I'd still spent between $800-$900 to build it and there are still some games I can't run at maximum settings.

[sheath]

Well, isn't that something.

[TheSonicRetard]

You could build a very basic, AMD powered computer for about $600; $100 of that would be just for a 500 gig HDD.

$300 will net you a board, CPU and memory. You'd still need a decent video card, an operating system, case, power supply and the HDD. It would require really cheap parts.

I didn't say a modern PC, I said you could build an Xbox 360 and PS3 crushing PC for under $300.

You can buy an Nvidia 8800GT for an average of $25 on ebay and it'll smoke any current console. I don't think people realize how far ahead PC hardware is at the moment.

A $2000 rig would be killer.

[gamevet]

I didn't say a modern PC, I said you could build an Xbox 360 and PS3 crushing PC for under $300.

You can buy an Nvidia 8800GT for an average of $25 on ebay and it'll smoke any current console. I don't think people realize how far ahead PC hardware is at the moment.

Yeah, that's a used video card. I guess you could build a computer using a bunch of used equipment.

E8400

AMD Athlon 64 X 2 @ 2.7 Ghz

Or you could just buy a used PC and throw that used card in there.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/HP-Compaq-dc...item27c4191dad

[kokujin]

I didn't say a modern PC, I said you could build an Xbox 360 and PS3 crushing PC for under $300.

You can buy an Nvidia 8800GT for an average of $25 on ebay and it'll smoke any current console. I don't think people realize how far ahead PC hardware is at the moment.

A $2000 rig would be killer.

Pretty much this, 2000 is crazy, the most you'll need for a HTPC is a 1000.Another thing to think about is whether you want to go with HTPC form factor.

[sheath]

Hah, is there a HTPC form factor? Mine is a mid tower.

[Knuckle Duster]

2000 isn't crazy at all, when you factor in everything I would throw at it when considering it a gaming HTPC.

At the very least, it will probably have two of these thrown in with it:

[kokujin]

2000 isn't crazy at all, when you factor in everything I would throw at it when considering it a gaming HTPC.

At the very least, it will probably have two of these thrown in with it:

You might as well just build another full on PC then, also is that a Hori VLX?

[Knuckle Duster]

Yeah that's a VLX. You could throw 2 VX/V3's into the mix for just one of those, but my point was it's not total overkill to throw 2 grand at a gaming HTPC while expecting it to have peripherals for most modern games. Wheels, Sticks, etc.

[TheSonicRetard]

Hah, is there a HTPC form factor? Mine is a mid tower.

Essentially anything micro ATX. They even sell dedicated HTPC cases (which are usually horizontal rather than vertical like a tower). If you do build a form factor HTPC, make sure not skimp on the case - my previous HTPC was built with a cheap form factor case, and the thing had so much heating problems.

I'm like you now, I just run a tower (although I keep it in the closet and I've routed VGA and USB terminal connections throughout my house).