Nice! I actually tried something similar and to do it on a budget for around £400. It ended up being around £410ish with a couple of mistakes along the way using mostly used parts from CEX and Ebay.
OS: Bazzite
CPU: Ryzen 3600X - £52
GPU: 8GB RX 6600 - £154.26
RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2x8GB 16GB 2666MHz - £47.04
MOBO: ASRock B450M-HDV R4.0 mATX with Fan thrown in - £42.04
PSU: MSI MAG A550BN - £39.99
SSD: Lite-On SSSTC SSD 256GB M.2 + adapter = £24.99
Case: CiT Academy Mid-Tower Office PC Case with 500W PSU £39.99
Total: £411.31
So far this is running a fair few games of 1080p high. Games like Trails remake running on ultra at stable 60, and Hell is Us was stable 60 with most things high and stuff like shadows on medium (though I set this up by default because stuff like shadows and RT puddle reflections are really not important). The 256gb ssd is less than ideal, but I have a couple of 512gb sd cards and an adpater kicking around and an external ssd on the way (which inflates the price a bit)
The mistake as such as I was originally gonna build a min spec to test for game dev which was gonna use the motherboard, cpu, ssd and case with the built in psu and my old 1050ti, but looking at what the steam machine is likley to be, I went the full whack. I thought I would pick up the intel card you linked though for my indie dev machine to upgrade my aging 2060... but I checked the price on currys today and it is now £260 rather than £180. Only thing I would challenge DDR4 is it being entry level considering you can get PS5 performance out of it
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Nice! I actually tried something similar and to do it on a budget for around £400. It ended up being around £410ish with a couple of mistakes along the way using mostly used parts from CEX and Ebay.
OS: Bazzite
CPU: Ryzen 3600X - £52
GPU: 8GB RX 6600 - £154.26
RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2x8GB 16GB 2666MHz - £47.04
MOBO: ASRock B450M-HDV R4.0 mATX with Fan thrown in - £42.04
PSU: MSI MAG A550BN - £39.99
SSD: Lite-On SSSTC SSD 256GB M.2 + adapter = £24.99
Case: CiT Academy Mid-Tower Office PC Case with 500W PSU £39.99
Total: £411.31
So far this is running a fair few games of 1080p high. Games like Trails remake running on ultra at stable 60, and Hell is Us was stable 60 with most things high and stuff like shadows on medium (though I set this up by default because stuff like shadows and RT puddle reflections are really not important). The 256gb ssd is less than ideal, but I have a couple of 512gb sd cards and an adpater kicking around and an external ssd on the way (which inflates the price a bit)
The mistake as such as I was originally gonna build a min spec to test for game dev which was gonna use the motherboard, cpu, ssd and case with the built in psu and my old 1050ti, but looking at what the steam machine is likley to be, I went the full whack. I thought I would pick up the intel card you linked though for my indie dev machine to upgrade my aging 2060... but I checked the price on currys today and it is now £260 rather than £180. Only thing I would challenge DDR4 is it being entry level considering you can get PS5 performance out of it