{"id":407291,"date":"2025-11-27T01:52:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T01:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/407291\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T01:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T01:52:10","slug":"this-1400-steam-machine-alternative-houses-a-tiny-desktop-gpu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/407291\/","title":{"rendered":"This $1,400 Steam Machine alternative houses a tiny desktop GPU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">What if <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/818111\/valve-steam-machine-hands-on-preview-specs-announcement\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Valve\u2019s Steam Machine<\/a> were a 3.8-liter tower instead of a 3.8-liter cube, with a desktop-grade Nvidia RTX 5060 GPU instead of an AMD RX 7600 \u2014 plus a more powerful CPU and many faster ports? Well, it\u2019d cost you nearly $1,500 and be called <a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=1025X1701640&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fstore.minisforum.com%2Fproducts%2Fminisforum-g1-pro%3Fvariant%3D47325699408117\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Minisforum AtomMan G1 Pro<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Minisforum is one of the only companies shipping such powerful discrete GPUs in mini-PCs, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/hardware\/gaming-pcs\/minisforum-atomman-g7-pt-mini-pc-review\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">its earlier AtomMan G7 PT<\/a> is the closest thing anyone\u2019s sold to Valve\u2019s own spec. But the new G1 Pro might be a better competitor now it\u2019s got an integrated power supply (like Valve) and even beefier components.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The most surprising feature is a full but lilliputian desktop graphics card \u2014 look how cute it is in the render below! \u2014 that fits into the top of the chassis. (Minisforum doesn\u2019t claim it\u2019s upgradable, just FYI, but does boast that it offers the full 145W of power you\u2019d get in other desktop 5060 cards.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">And, in \u201cBeast Mode,\u201d Minisforum says it can drive the AMD Ryzen 9 8945HX CPU at 100W while that GPU stays at 145W. You also get not one but two M.2 2280 slots for NVMe SSD storage, two SO-DIMM slots for up to 96GB of DDR5 RAM, and five display outputs (2x DP2.1, 1x DP 1.4, and 2x HDMI 2.1) for up to four displays at once.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">It\u2019s on sale now with 32GB and 1TB for $1,440, shipping mid January \u2014 which is honestly starting to look like a decent deal now that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/828337\/ram-memory-shortage-crunch-market-prices-central-micro-center\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RAM prices are out of control.<\/a> There\u2019s also a bring-your-own-RAM-and-storage barebones version for $1,040, though it\u2019s not available to order yet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Valve still isn\u2019t talking price yet, but I\u2019d hope it\u2019s more affordable than this one. Even so, Valve says it put a lot of work into cooling, noise, and wireless connectivity, and Linux drivers are still more mature on the AMD GPU side of things if you\u2019re <a href=\"http:\/\/Tempted to try installing Bazzite on this thing!\" rel=\"nofollow\">considering a Bazzite<\/a> or SteamOS install. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/828620\/linux-benchmarks-bazzite-gamersnexus\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GamersNexus\u2019 new video<\/a> does include Linux benchmarks for desktop RTX 5060, maybe check those out?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What if Valve\u2019s Steam Machine were a 3.8-liter tower instead of a 3.8-liter cube, with a desktop-grade Nvidia&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":407292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[393,50,9597,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-407291","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-gaming","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-pc-gaming","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115619164669876898","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}