over the last couple of days i’ve been working on a project to make a custom living room steam machine build using an old PC that i no longer use. Its an HP Prebuilt PC called the “HP Elitedesk”.

inside its running a GT1030 (so i can’t currently install holoiso/chimeraOS, but windows booting into big picture mode has been working great so far), an Intel i7-4770 3.40GHz with 16gb of ram.

if i wanted to upgrade this thing to play a few more demanding games (RDR2, Elden ring, Horizon zero dawn) how should i go about it, and how much would it cost (canadian prices)?

I’ve been looking at getting an RX6400, as it’ll fit in my case and run those games decently well, (40-60fps from what i’ve seen, could be wrong)

I’ve never really done too much with the hardware side of computers besides just taking parts out and reseating and stuff like that. I’ve never actually built anything.

If any of you here have a similar build i would LOVE to know what you’ve done and how you think i can upgrade mine.

Thanks for reading all this haha.

  • 8bitcerberusBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Wait, it does? I thought it was AMD only. My old prototype Steam Machine has been sitting unused for a while now because I don’t want to put Windows on it, but Chimera and Holo don’t support the GTX 780 in it, and I could have sworn I looked at Bazzite before and had the same issue.

    Well, out of the box they didn’t support it, of course could manually make it work but that could be more hassle than it’s worth with updates likely undoing it.