Need an Extremely Small and Portable Gaming System
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Well, with an APU, you're not going to be playing anything newer than 2008 on an Oculus Rift or a 1080p display... You're going to want a dedicated GPU for gaming, but even up to the 970 can be had in a micro form factor, like so http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125706&cm_re=Gigabyte_GTX_970--14-125-706--Product
What would your budget be, for said machine? That's always the easiest starting point.
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@Mike-Ralston said:
Well, with an APU, you're not going to be playing anything newer than 2008 on an Oculus Rift or a 1080p display...
The APU was based on your recommendations of it being so powerful for gaming in the other thread.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Mike-Ralston said:
Well, with an APU, you're not going to be playing anything newer than 2008 on an Oculus Rift or a 1080p display...
The APU was based on your recommendations of it being so powerful for gaming in the other thread.
The A10 has some iffy performance on modern games. It works well for most things but you may have to tune back the graphics options to get many games above 30fps.
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Not sure what your budget is or how performant/future proof you'd like it to be, but according to one review this mini gaming PC can play GTA V on max settings. You would just need to grab some RAM and an SSD. The video card has 3gb RAM which isn't ideal, but the form factor is hard to beat on packability.
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Why not just get a gaming laptop?
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@Nic said:
Why not just get a gaming laptop?
Cost, fragility, performance and don't want another screen to deal with.
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@WingCreative said:
Not sure what your budget is or how performant/future proof you'd like it to be, but according to one review this mini gaming PC can play GTA V on max settings. You would just need to grab some RAM and an SSD. The video card has 3gb RAM which isn't ideal, but the form factor is hard to beat on packability.
Oh, that looks pretty interesting. Not cheap but not expensive either.
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Have you looked at these guys? https://www.xi3.com/
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@Nic said:
Have you looked at these guys? https://www.xi3.com/
That's the company I was looking for thanks.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Nic said:
Have you looked at these guys? https://www.xi3.com/
Those look really sweet!!
It may take a very long time... but have you looked at any of the Steam Machines that have been announced?
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Has anyone used any of their machines? How is the build quality? Looks gorgeous from the pictures.
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@coliver said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@Nic said:
Have you looked at these guys? https://www.xi3.com/
Those look really sweet!!
It may take a very long time... but have you looked at any of the Steam Machines that have been announced?
Can't use a Linux machine. Need a Windows machine.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@Nic said:
Have you looked at these guys? https://www.xi3.com/
Those look really sweet!!
It may take a very long time... but have you looked at any of the Steam Machines that have been announced?
Can't use a Linux machine. Need a Windows machine.
Oh, right GoG forgot about that requirement.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Has anyone used any of their machines? How is the build quality? Looks gorgeous from the pictures.
http://www.engadget.com/2013/11/13/xi3-pistons-modular-pc-custom-UI-hands-on/
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I've seen them in person and they are tinier than they look in online pictures. Not sure about anything else in terms of build quality or power, but they look to be the smallest gaming machines out there, and they claim to be modular so you can swap in a new graphics card when you need to upgrade.
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Tiny does matter a lot in this case.
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It looks like they are using the A10 APU (just cleverly marketed differently). I think it is the 7600G graphics core.
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@coliver said:
It looks like they are using the A10 APU (just cleverly marketed differently). I think it is the 7600G graphics core.
Oh that's a fail. That makes them seem pretty dishonest.
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That takes away the modular factor too.
