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Cheap and small Steam stream machine?

olan1225
By olan1225
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Since I got the Steam In-House stream beta today and I loved it I was wondering what is the smallest and cheapest system that you would be able to stream to? I would love to have a monitor wall mounted above my bed with a receiving computer on the back, something like raspberry pi but with an ARM-processor capable of running steam.

What is the best way to go about this? Does it have to be a complete mITX system or are there any other things capable of doing this. I really want to use the real in-house stream and not limelight or anything on a raspery pi since I really liked the way the built in stream feature in steam worked!

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These amazing deals from Tigerdirect for Mining machines.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=8882058&Sku=B69-00087

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A nuc might be the way to go, but they are very over prized. Maybee it is simpler to just run a hdmi cable to my bed and skipp the streaming part, but wireless systems are awesome!

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Cheapest laptop on Craigslist with wireless n 5ghz. Could probably find one with a broken screen.

i7 4770k, 16GB Corsair Vengeance

Gigabyte z87, Phanteks Enthoo Primo

7970

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What is the best way to go about this? Does it have to be a complete mITX system or are there any other things capable of doing this.

 

That's what a "Steam machine" is.

 

There is nothing magical about them, they are just just small form factor PC with Linux installed.

 

Steam machine and Steam OS is just a bunch of marketing bullshit with a stupid markup like Alienware.

 

The whole Steam machine/OS is a scheme to take money from people who don't know any better.

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If you have a Kepler based nvidia card you could actually use a raspberry pi.

https://github.com/irtimmer/limelight-pi

There's a youtube video showing this off that's very impressive.

wow, thats awesome!

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Next time post this in the computer hardware section not the video game one.

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