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Valve explains the price of the Steam Machine in our interview and talks about VRAM, Windows, anti-cheat, FSR4 and the target audience.

The Steam Machine is meant to bring SteamOS into the living room. In testing, however, Valve’s cube-shaped PC shows some clear weaknesses, especially when it comes to price.

Valve’s Steam Machine leaves little room for maneuver. The company defends the high price with aggressive pricing.

Valve explains why the Steam Machine uses only 8 GiB of VRAM, where 4K reaches its limit and how SteamOS is meant to cushion memory problems in games.

Valve has confirmed FSR 4 for the Steam Machine. AMD’s technology is intended to improve upscaling and image quality.

The Steam Machine remains dependent on publishers when it comes to anti-cheat. Valve points to progress, but players may still face gaps in multiplayer titles.

Noctua’s first AIO cooler delivers class-leading performance and a very quiet pump, but the NL-LC1 comes with a clear premium price.

PCGH pushes Intel's top graphics card to its limits, demonstrating what an “Arc B780” might be capable of. Will it outperform the RTX 5070 and RX 9070?

Games only use 6 cores!? We're testing scaling across different graphics engines using the 12-core Core 9 273PQE.

Gothic 1 Remake Tech Review: The RTX 2070 and RX 6700 XT reveal where performance, VRAM, and RAM become limiting factors.

An insider claims to have learned that AMD's upcoming Ryzen CPUs based on Zen 6 will “100 percent” operate at speeds exceeding 6.5 GHz.

GPU rumors examined: RDNA 5 not until 2027, RTX 50 Super between 2026 and CES 2027, Intel still without a gaming GPU. Our analysis sums up the situation.

Linux gaming benchmark with Gothic Remake: AMD gains under CachyOS, while Nvidia GPUs show weaker and less predictable results.

PCGH tests Gothic Remake with over 500 benchmarks: 62 CPUs, 40 GPUs at six resolutions, Linux, VRAM demand and recommended settings at a glance.

CachyOS has climbed to second place among Linux distributions on Steam, reaching 13.36 percent in the May 2026 survey and closing in on SteamOS.

KDE developer David Edmundson has removed the X11 session from Plasma: Starting with Plasma 6.8 in October 2026, the login screen will only offer Wayland.

AMD is not enabling FSR 4.1 on RDNA 3.5: Strix Point, Krackan Point and Strix Halo, with their Radeon 890M to 840M graphics units, remain unsupported.

In the May 2026 report, the graphics team reports significant optimizations to Global Illumination, Parallax Mapping and the Genesis planetary technology.

A little over nine years ago, the Geforce GTX 1080 Ti caused a stir, and now Jensen Huang has fondly looked back on the high-end graphics card.

Noctua is bringing its first AIO to market with the NL-LC1 series. Three sizes, an Asetek base, pump dampening, and prices starting at 220 euros.