Alienware steam machine ?

[brubru1998]

Hello guys what do you thing about this steam machine for price ?

 

For playing csgo,league of legend, wow, overwatch and more.

 

thanks !

[Guest]

Not too bad but I don't know what gpu it is. See if you can build one or get one with an i5 instead

[brubru1998]

3 minutes ago, dexxterlab97 said:

Not too bad but I don't know what gpu it is. See if you can build one or get one with an i5 instead

me too i have no idea what is the GPU  

[Guest]

Just now, brubru1998 said:

me too i have no idea what is the GPU  

why not build one? I am pretty sure there are pre builts with an i5 out there

[brubru1998]

Just now, dexxterlab97 said:

why not build one? I am pretty sure there are pre builts with an i5 out there

Make me a pc part picker in CAD $

[Guest]

3 minutes ago, brubru1998 said:

Make me a pc part picker in CAD $

is that 500 cad on a steam machine? I don't believe it

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-6100 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor  ($149.98 @ DirectCanada) 
Motherboard: ASRock H110M-DGS Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($39.98 @ NCIX) 
Memory: Crucial 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  ($46.75 @ Vuugo) 
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($62.95 @ Vuugo) 
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon RX 460 2GB Video Card  ($139.99 @ Newegg Canada) 
Case: BitFenix Nova ATX Mid Tower Case  ($32.13 @ DirectCanada) 
Power Supply: Corsair CXM 450W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($59.98 @ DirectCanada) 
Total: $531.76
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-10-26 20:35 EDT-0400

[brubru1998]

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[Vuurdraak]

I'm going to repost my Youtube post here on the forum as it contains a request towards linustechtips,

 

I have now so many games in Linux, I have virtually completely stopped using Windows, all game genres are natively covered now, from Grid Autosport, to Civilization V, Portal 2, Counter Strike or Serious Sam 3, Tomb Raider, Alien Isolation, War Thunder, Cities Skylines, Tropico 5, Eurotruck Sim 2, X3, Kerbal Space Program, Dota 2, and the list of great games goes on and on.

Some games also run perfectly fine with Wine.

 

It has now become such a pain in the ass to patch and update all the programs in Windows, when used one time in 3 or 4 months, that after one day of patching and repairing Windows and running patches for (a) game(s), you have become so tired, that you just boot back in to Linux and forget about Windows all together again.

I will not reinstall Windows when it either breaks or gets obsolete, it will be purged, as it's simply no longer worth the effort to maintain it.

 

The remark that native games would run slower in Linux then Windows is curious, I have not experienced that my self, all though I have not really done side by side benchmarks, my Windows is loaded with much more bloatware like an active virus scanner and HIPS, while Linux is not, only AppArmor is running for a limited set of programs, and not for the games.

I would like to see LinusTechTips do a head to head Linux versus Windows gaming benching with a realistic Windows environment, as a normal user would use it, in other words with active protection.

 

I'm currently upgrading from a Geforce GTX 660 to a Geforce GTX 1060 3GB. The 370.28 binary Nvidia driver is available in Ubuntu for the 1060, I don't think it will under perform versus Windows.

Windows has the 375.70 driver available, I'm pretty sure that if there is any performance difference between a game in Windows and Linux, that it's more of a performance difference between OpenGL and DirectX, where it would not surprise me if the same game, running in OpenGL in both OS's, would make Linux just get ahead of the Windows game on the same hardware, bar the Radeons whose OpenGL performance under Linux is terrible, all though they do use proper open source drivers, versus Nvidia's binary blobs. Sadly I can not afford the luxury of supporting open-source driver GPU's, I want to get the most out of my gaming rig, and make it last as long as possible.

 

Would I buy the Alienware Steam console ?

No not really as my PC has better specs, even though I'm still using my 5 year old €89 Phenom II 965, but all that saved money on a CPU has gone in to buying better GPU's.

 

As a standalone box that will never be intended to play games with Wine it might be sufficient, but a duo core CPU is a very bad choice for a Linux system in general, as the Core i3 bites heavily in to the dust when it comes to Wine gaming with CSMT enabled.

My Phenom can muster 2x or more higher frame rates in CSMT enabled Wine games like for instance EVE online or World of Tanks versus a duo core, even if it is the latest and greatest i3.

When reading the WoT forums a core i3 can only reach something like 25 FPS where my Phenom is capable of reaching 70 FPS, at this point it becomes very clear what a lame product the core i3 really is.

It is (as a Linux gamer) therefor very shocking to see that many PC websites advise the core i3 over the AMD FX CPU, but they are all Windows people who have such a high salary that they forgot what "bang for the buck" means on a tide budget, specially with many new multi-core game engines rolling out on the horizon.