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Building your own "Steam Machine" is now trendy. By chance I did this exactly one year ago when the Steam Machine was not announced yet and the prices of SSDs and RAM were still normal. My machine cost me the same price as the base model from Valve, with more power and double the memory.

Christophe B.

@bladecoder.bsky.social

I did my best to make it as compact and quiet as possible. I used a Sugo SG13 case with a SFX-L power supply, Noctua CPU and case fans, an underclocked AMD 7500F CPU and an underclocked AMD 9060 XT GPU. It has 2GB SSD, 32GB RAM and 16GB video memory.

6/8/26, 9:32 am0 reposts0 likes

Christophe B.

@bladecoder.bsky.social

6 Aug

The underclocking is the most interesting aspect, as both the CPU and GPU provide better performance per watt at lower power levels than their stock settings. This also allows to keep the temperatures under control with the fans running at low speed.