Gaming on a Failed Steam Machine

guy actually, trully downloaded more RAM

Never thought I'd see CS2 on a VHS tape

When I was doing IT ~10 years ago in a school, these were our "computer lab" machines. Just Vesa mount em to the back of the monitor, and they were pretty slick installs. Also, fun fact! The chassis isn't grounded -at all-. I'm a static-y person, and I killed probably a dozen of these things by pressing the power button and zapping them with static.

My dumbass thought is was a literal steam machine, like water vapor

Hey! I'm the one that put that archive up! I'm glad I had the foresight to do that. Most of these devices got sold to hospitals and healthcare centers in Colorado and other major cities. The sandforce SSDs die when you submit them to the usual DOD wipe resellers are forced to do to be legit. Back when I made that archive, Steam was just getting ready a month prior to kill XP support, and I was sitting there, with an Xi3 X5A, complete with 2GB of RAM, an Athlon64 X2 3400e, and mobility HD3650 graphics... and a 16GB Sandisk SSD because I was broke. it was AMAZING that they even had XP drivers to begin with, but even to this day I always wanted one of the higher end boxes to play with. I even thought about using the box as a makeshift home server with the eSATA port hooked to an external enclosure that never materialized. A little bit of background, the CEO was retired military turned business tycoon and I have no doubt in my mind that the end game was to make ruggedized small modular PCs for the military as well as "upgradeable" PCs for the consumer market-- why else would the sides be removable after all? especially the port end... wouldn't have been hard to make one whole board with all the inputs and outputs a military application needed to survive, after all. He had ambitions set too high for maximum bank. And that's not to even note that if memory serves, one of the other ventures run by him was a military contracting company of some flavor. In the end I'm glad the files I painstakingly downloaded and archived helped someone with a model much newer than mine.

I'd love to see this machine with OG SteamOS compared to one of the newer SteamOS flavors.

Bro starts typing in "X" in the search bar so confidently. I could never 💀

Whoa! The Xi3 out in the wild! My dad actually worked on these twelve years ago, I think. I thought the concept was really cool. It was supposed to be a modular system that could be upgraded with additional storage and compute units later on by just plugging the units together. The model you have doesn't have the ePCIe port (literally "external PCI Express", like a thunderbolt port before thunderbolt was more than just Apple), and that port was supposed to be the new extensibility, rather than needing to open up the unit to add components.

“The more stains we add to the table, the more rich the lore is.” That quote reminded me of DankPod and how many scuff marks he’s put onto his iPad cases.

Here's a good way to... Either stress test, or explode your devices: 1) GMOD 2) get a dupe with at least 50 ragdolls with thrusters 3) press any key to continue. or just, spam explosives. Physics in gmod generally thrashes those old cpus.

“64 bit is coming soon” The prophet

That DP/HDMI port is actually revolutionary. You can actually plug either an hdmi OR a displayport into that one port.

I love how bringus’s biggest challenge by far isn’t getting a game to run on a literal pregnancy test, but installing any os onto an actual honest to god computer.

Using a glue gun to hot glue it's own wires is a bold move.

I knew those steam machines we're gonna flop when it got announced lol. But its super nice to see someone rediscover it and explore it without the fake enthusiasm for it.

So I had one of these, an earlier model - it had a fully socketed AM3 socket in it. You could, theoretically, upgrade it to some crazy CPUs for its time,

This thing took “GameCube” to the next level

Seeing TF2 chug like that really brought me back to when I used to play on my super cheap 2010 laptop that my parents bought me

When i found this channel, i just started just non stopingly watch all of Bringus videos, and today after 2.5 days i watched every Bringus video on this channel. Cant wait to see more Bringus videos!

Yo I randomly got recommended the short for this video, and I just wanna say, I appreciate the subtle SFXs that aren't in-your-face but still noticeable & funny 😆