$1024 Would Have At Least Been Funnier

The wait is over … well not really as the price has been revealed but all you can do is sign up to try to get one eventually.  There are four types, and Steam even suggests you could order one of each for some bizarre reason.  The base $1049 model gets you a ‘semi-custom’ Zen 4 chip with 6 cores and 12 threads peaking at 4.8 GHz and a 2.45GHz GPU with 28 RDNA3 CUs and 8GB VRAM which is likely a close relative of the 7600M.  The system also has 16GB DDR5 of some frequency and a generous 512GB NVMe SSD.

The connectivity on all models includes a microSD slot, Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.3, Gigabit ethernet, DP 1.4. HDMI 2.0, four USB-A and a single USB-C, with an integrated Steam Controller wireless adapter.  The USB-C and two of the USB-A ports are USB 3.2 Gen 2.

If you want to be able to install more than three modern games, upgrading to a 2TB SSD will bump the price up by $300 to $1349 and Valve will toss in a Steam Controller with either version for a small $79 contribution.

The bill of parts, if you are curious, is currently $280 for an RX 7600, a Ryzen 5 7400 is priced ridiculously but the 8400 is $150 and a random 512GB SSD you wouldn’t be embarrassed to own averages around $120.  So $650 not including the motherboard, which is going to be somewhere between $120 to $200.  Add in the custom 6″ square case and some cooling and you might get close to the $1049 price tag.

It isn’t overly impressive but also not ridiculously overpriced.  

Also, in what must be totally unrelated, AMD today announced that their FSR 4.1 will now be available for Radeon RX 7000 series GPUs.