Been wanting to get into PC gaming since I was a kid and was EXTREAMLY excited when I got my frist netbook, hoping to finally be able to play all the wonderful pc games. To my surprise, you needed more then just a computer to play games. (downloaded TF2, game comeplely glitched out). lol even tryed to "download" more ram for my computer XD ahhh.... so naive. Used that for a few years got gameboy adavance emulators running great, and enjoyed minecraft's beta at 8fps avg. fun times XD. fastward now, im still rockin' low speced hardware but im still a gamer at heart so of course I try to play games on my 1gb windows tablet. and to my surprise ive gotten a few games running (to my standards well) Street fighter ultra 30 fps, everything low. Counter strike GO, burnout and quite a few games.
To make a long story short, ive been following Steam boxes for a while and the alienware alpha is definitely the BEST priced . Im considering getting the i3 model. I have a friend willing to sell me his old one with 8gb of ram and 2 tb hhd. I was wondering you guys thoughts on this "steam box" and rather or not it would be a good buy for PC gaming. Getting it for $500, and thats my max budget so if you recommend a build keep that in mind. The Alpha uses a custom-built NVIDIA GPU! which is pretty sexy and compareable to the GTX 750 Ti with 2gb of GPU memory .
for thoes with the alpha what are your thoughts?
if not, what are your thoughts on steam boxes in general and (if you have any knowlege of the alpha) do you think it would be good buy?
EDIT: wasnt sure if this was clear but the alpha comes with Windows 8.1 so its pretty much a computer also, unlike some other steam boxes
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-Shigeru Miyamoto
