STEAM MACHINE build your own .
My first build

What Hard ware do you need..? Advise before we start . dont go off base and then complain. ATI and AMD I can not recomend for making a machine. Reasons. are not personal or one sided. Its just a fact that Steam OS Is a intel nvidia base writen from the beginning. and works better. Plus I will guide you to installing Staem OS Stand alone verson

HA HA I felt like starting this. Then SteamMachines out there are a joke. and sometimes well most of the time PC dudes like our self have good spare parts and dont reall need to go out and buy one BUIlD IT!

The only thing I have noticed about the Store bought 3rd party Steam Boxes are that some of them have really nice cases. I will point out some good cases you may want to use. I like the mini itx cases with a pcie riser to angle your video card 90 degrees to fit a full sized graphics card and some of them even come with a low profile cpu fan.
I got a nice Case on amazon for 50 bucks.
Then a itx motherboard w/intel chipset z77 3rd gen 1155 cpu socket,.100 bucks
Sense your building a steam machine you dont need over clocking we want smooth good loking graphics that always work and do not glitch. so overclocking your items I dont recommend. With that in mind you can find a 1155 cpu that will do good.

You can find a i3 or i5 3rd gen for great price now days.
I got a intel 3222 for 105 bucks new.
8 GB stick of ddr3 ram 60 bucks.
and then I got a 600watt atx power supply for 52 bucks.
very important is the microsoft pc xbox 360 controller kit 49.bucks

357 bucks so far. That is fantastic price. up to this point.
For me that was all I needed I had Graphicsa card not being used..

I found that a NVidia GTX560 2GB works great also a 760 660 780 and 960 are all great to use.
any thing that GTX 560-*60 and above with at the very least 2GB of DDR5 VRAM will be great.
I dont recommend The 750 or 650 and any gtx *50 or lower. They just cant do it good enough to make a satified user.

So to make you smile and very happy I recommend getting a Nvidia GTX 760 or 960 2GB-4GB that will keep your budgit just around 650 bucks. see this next example layout i did last night.
Notice :This is the case i used. By the way its the same as 2 of the Steam Machines in the steam ad.I feel spyed on lol.
Silverstone Tek Mini-ITX DTX Computer Case with PCI-E Riser ML07B


Nearlu all the cases are by Silverstone Tek and easily found online.

SteamOS Free
no windows needed or any other software.

This link will give you your SteamOS download and hot to install instrauctions.
http://store.steampowered.com/steamos/buildyourown

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