SteamOS, Vulkan, Steam Machines, Oh My

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the-pi-guy said:

Teeqoz said:
Steambox prices are way too high. Why would you buy a Steambox instead of building your own PC?(Hell, you could buy a pre-built PC and it would have way better price to performance.)

Step 1.) Build your own computer. 

Step 2.) Build a cheap secondary computer. 

Step 3.)  Get super fast home network.

Step 4.) Use  cheap secondary computer as steam box while first computer does rendering.

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Save 100s of dollars and still get all benefits of a steam machine. 

...Or just get a super cheap PC. The cheapest I've seen recently are like 200€, which should in practice translate to about $200. If you're going to stream games to it anyway, there's no point in investing more than you have to.