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Valve engineer says Steam Machine performance beats 70% of PCs, and can play all games
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I'm one of them, my Cpu and motherboard are both almost 10 years old. I updated most other parts but don't want to mess around with those core parts in fear of damaging something.
At the moment I'm either considering finally making the jump to a new case, motherboard and Cpu with the parts I replaced over the years or I will buy a steam machine.
Same. I'm beating a 1080 within an inch of its life at this point. Some times, the system needs a hard reboot and BIOS just "forgets" that bootable devices are installed. It's time, and that Steam Machine is looking really nice.
Hum, isn't that the motherboard battery running out?
Now that you mention it, possibly. Thanks for the tip.
Back when you could get a great card for not insane money, and they never break.
Change your motherboard battery.
Cpu could be dangerous if you are not careful but video card is easy. Open case, 1-3 screws depending on old and new card, pull out, push in new card.
That said I am running a 970 so...
Yeah, that's why I replaced the video card already. From what I've seen, the CPU is also doable if you're careful but definitely a lot more fragile.
980 Ti. And dual Xeon 5355s.