Steam Hardware pre-order

Re:Steam Hardware pre-order by TillE on Thursday June 04, 2015 @11:14PM (#9663686)

Syber's "Steam Machine X" is the only one which meets (or rather, exceeds) the Oculus Rift recommended specs. The critical component is the GPU, and Oculus recommends a GTX 970. This one has a 980.

At $1419 it's quite fairly priced for the components it includes (just check logicalincrements.com), but I wouldn't really call that cheap.

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Re:Steam Hardware pre-order by eeho on Thursday June 04, 2015 @11:27PM (#9663742)

yeah that's pretty pricy. I didn't look very closely at the prices. The low end ones are basically laptops!

I still wish there was a generic off-the-shelf computer that everyone agreed was best for VR. I'm not a gamer and don't have the time or interest to build something just for Oculus. I'd be willing to pay a little bit extra to have the comfort of knowing other people will be troubleshooting the same problems I'm having on the same hardware.

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Re:Steam Hardware pre-order by robin_reala on Friday June 05, 2015 @03:54AM (#9664374)

PS4 and Morpheus (when it comes out).

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Re:Steam Hardware pre-order by mkozlows on Thursday June 04, 2015 @11:22PM (#9663726)

The Syber machines are configurable, though, so you can grab the midrange one and upgrade it to a 970 for a few hundred dollars.

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Re:Steam Hardware pre-order by cwyers on Thursday June 04, 2015 @11:27PM (#9663741)

They look like they only take half-height cards - apparently they do sell half-height 970s but you'll have a better selection of cards with a larger case.

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