We Built a PC for the Price of a Steam Deck!

I'm amazed at Linus' ability to make Linux crash whenever he's in the same room as a computer with it.

Linus have my children

To be fair, you can use any docking method, not just the official one. You can just get a cheap dongle and it'd work.

wow $110 for a 1070 is a great deal. glad to see they finally came down. i was considering selling my 1070 ages ago when they were selling for 500ish as i paid 300 canadian for mine a few months after the cards were released. I dont play games as much anymore but i would have been stuck on my old 680 for who knows how long

With how good it is for a first gen product, I'm really excited to see what the next iteration of the steam deck will be.

I always like looking at the date on the windows desktop during their videos. Gives me an idea for their turnaround time and insight into the current events during filming.

You should make a build that matches the steam deck on performance and see what price you get.

Lets just say you are starting from scratch. Like actual scratch. No monitor or desk setup at all. Ypu buy a steam deck oled for $530. You are good to go. Thats all you need to buy. You build a tower for the same price. Hmmmmmm where is your monitor/controller/keyboard/mouse/mouse pad/desk/chair/audio? A lot of these expenses add up to a computer setup that people tend to not include in a budget, and its not really an accurate statement to say that a pc tower build costs the same with better performance.

I bought the $399 version and put an SSD in there for $30 myself. WINNING!

The Steam Deck really is an impressive piece of engineering

I know this video is 5 months old, but I was able to use the steam deck for my full workstation. I used VSCode, Git, all the other tools. Also, I output to 2x 49” 5120x1440 monitors, performance was still good. Valve released updates to both the steam deck and the dock all the time and within the past 5 months, other than the bug that I reported on the HDMI output has an overlay issue at 3840 line when DP is plugged in, many issues were fixed and even ran so much better than before.

to be honest, the best part of the steam deck is its little bonuses that come with gaming mode. the fact that you can just put it on sleep mode and then turn it on and be right where you left off is incredible. you can also play multiple games at the same time. you can access anything while on gaming mode. and its got plug in loaders like steam decky to further upgrade your experience on the deck.

When my GPU died, i went excusively on my steam deck for my daily computer processes. It's been a journey. From buying the 64GB model to upgrading it to 512GB for $50. Reflashing the OS. To daily driving linux and tinkering with the OS to making it my liking. I will admit, I've missed some windows processes, but with Wine and Proton, I've hardly missed a beat. The Steam Deck w/ a dock is hands down one of the best experiences I've had. Its cheap, works, (There are some work arounds), and I'm learning Linux along the way. Anyone into learning new experiences and have a small budget, and some tech knowledge. I recommend using a steam deck as your daily driver. Whether you buy the 64GB and upgrade like I did for $450 total or buy the 512GB for $700. Its worth every penny.

My favorite videos are when you target prices and objectives and give us sound buying tips. Truth is that tech adoption and tips are going to be more closely tied to what we can afford than “what can this thing do”.

I essentially do the same with my Thinkpad X1 Carbon gen 8, and an Aorus Gaming Box with a Gtx 1660s, works really well for all my games.

The deck is one of the best purchases I ever made. It's been a year and I can't get over how awesome it feels and how well it plays... well... everything. From desktop, to console games. I even use it more often than my switch to play switch games. I also tripple boot with ubuntu and windows included just for shits and giggles. With 1TB storage there are no limits.

It is nice seeing both of my daily drivers (Steam Deck and GTX 1070) go head to head against each other here.

the 1070 is such a fantastic little card. It will be one of those immortal cards that just keeps giving.Really the 1070 and 1080 are just superb

I just bought a deck+dock, and it's astonishing how much it's improved since these early days. Genuinely a downright hassle free experience now. And it emulates like a beast.

I’ve had my deck for almost a week now and love it so far. Honestly have not done much modern day gaming but I’ve been doing a lot of portable GameCube and some 360 emulation and been great