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ASRock BC-250: Building the Budget Steam Machine

ASRock BC-250: Building the Budget Steam Machine

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Comments (14)

  • saidinesh5
    This is a really good card that keeps on getting better.After my steam deck battery puffed up and my RX580 became too old to play any modern games, I had two choices:1. Upgrade to a new GPU - this was costing me $300 at the very least for a 3 year old card2. Hope to get a steam machine - but the crazy queue and the $1000 price tag really soured me on this3. Get a bc-250 for $150 and make do for a year or two before upgrading.I'm so glad I went with this option. I just used my old atx power supply and old PC case. Everything almost just works. It consumes lot less power than my previous gaming PC. It's a lot more silent. Some times there's a crash or two. I'm waiting to upgrade the power connector before unlocking it's full potential (40 compute units, and the two extra cores). So far I've finished playing Spider-Man 2, Hogwarts legacy, now playing 007 first light.
  • ThatPlayer
    Recent development has 2 / 8 of the CPU cores able to be unlocked too. Originally shipped with 6 CPU cores enabled.
  • anon
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  • jimmydoe
    wondering how is idle power after optimization
  • doctorpangloss
    From the article:> MESSA_SHADER_CACHE_MAX_SIZEMESSA indeed.
  • nsxwolf
    How well does HDMI CEC work on this?