Linus and the team cobble together a DIY Steam Machine—packing an AMD Ryzen 5 8400F Zen 4 CPU, RDNA3-based RX 6600 GPU, DDR5-5600 RAM, NVMe SSD and more—to reverse-engineer Valve’s upcoming Linux living-room PC. They pit its performance against a PS5 and midrange gaming PCs, break down supply, margin and console-competition factors, and land on a surprisingly reasonable price guess.
Along the way they theorize how many Steam Machines Valve might sell, discuss mitigating costs (like custom parts and software), and put those specs through real-world gaming tests to see if the hype holds up.
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