{"video_id":"2psXxetNpoo","title":"I Couldn't Wait! I Made My Own DREAM Steam Machine","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2026-02-03T14:53:29Z","duration_s":1518,"segments":[{"start_s":0.0,"end_s":7.04,"text":"Over the years, huge players like Microsoft, Intel, and even Valve","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":4.799,"end_s":14.24,"text":"themselves have tried to [music] create the ultimate living room PC. Tried and","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":11.28,"end_s":18.72,"text":"failed. But this time, this time is going to be different, guys. I am so","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":16.24,"end_s":25.68,"text":"excited for the new Steam Machine. And hey, look, there he is now. Hey, come on","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":22.16,"end_s":29.119,"text":"in here, little guy. What? Oh, you know","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":25.68,"end_s":31.84,"text":"what? I don't think he's ready just yet.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":29.119,"end_s":37.52,"text":"But I want a game in my living room now. What am I supposed to do? Wait. No,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":34.64,"end_s":42.239,"text":"forget this. I'm going to do it myself. And I'm going to do it upright. I got my","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":39.76,"end_s":48.48,"text":"hands on one of the OG Steam Machine prototypes that Valve seeded out to","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":44.32,"end_s":50.64,"text":"lucky testers way back in 2013. Only 300","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":48.48,"end_s":56.239,"text":"of these were created. And this is number 228. You can tell by the pixels.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":54.079,"end_s":59.52,"text":"I mean, this hole right here. 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Not","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":1},{"start_s":88.4,"end_s":96.84,"text":"all can wield this power, but you may","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":1},{"start_s":93.439,"end_s":96.84,"text":"with boot.dev.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":1},{"start_s":100.871,"end_s":102.891,"text":"[music]","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":104.64,"end_s":112.079,"text":"According to Valve, their upcoming steam machine has more performance than 70% of","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":109.6,"end_s":116.399,"text":"existing steam clients. To our enthusiast audience, that might kind of","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":114.159,"end_s":120.479,"text":"sound like BS, but hanging out with the folks at Whale Land, it would be pretty","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":118.32,"end_s":124.24,"text":"easy to get a warped image of the typical PC gamer and the kind of","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":122.079,"end_s":128.72,"text":"hardware they're using. 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Things","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":340.8,"end_s":346.8,"text":"fall apart when they're old.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":344.08,"end_s":351.919,"text":"Okay, it seems that either as part of the process for installing this cooler,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":348.479,"end_s":354.4,"text":"which I'm not familiar with, or as part","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":351.919,"end_s":358.8,"text":"of their own idea, Valve removed the ILM, that is the little arm and hold","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":357.039,"end_s":365.36,"text":"down mechanism that goes over the CPU, meaning that it just it just comes out.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":361.919,"end_s":368.8,"text":"Um, a 4570","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":365.36,"end_s":371.199,"text":"Core i5. All right, that was a nice","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":368.8,"end_s":374.664,"text":"little chip back in the day. If only the recipient of this system had realized","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":372.72,"end_s":381.199,"text":"what an investment these were. [laughter] 16 gigs of RAM. DDR3 though. DDR3 is","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":379.36,"end_s":385.52,"text":"still not really worth very much. The last piece is our power supply. Now, if","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":383.759,"end_s":390.56,"text":"we were doing a more modest build, I could probably get away with using this","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":386.96,"end_s":392.639,"text":"one, but we're not. Interesting. Wait,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":390.56,"end_s":395.44,"text":"before we go any further, come check this out. You can see what they were","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":394.0,"end_s":399.759,"text":"doing here. Even though there's no ventilation holes for this to draw air","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":397.68,"end_s":405.44,"text":"directly in front of it, they've got it set up so that it's meant to draw air","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":402.72,"end_s":410.0,"text":"from the vents on the side, then exhausted out the back of the case,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":407.199,"end_s":413.919,"text":"never to be reused. Yeah, NVIDIA doesn't really do these designs anymore because","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":412.319,"end_s":418.8,"text":"they're worried that people will install GeForce cards in servers and AI","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":417.28,"end_s":423.68,"text":"machines. That's the actual reason.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":421.84,"end_s":426.319,"text":">> Another injection molded part. Those absolute mad lads.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":424.88,"end_s":428.479,"text":">> I think it might have been a Silverstone case design. I couldn't find an exact","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":427.919,"end_s":433.039,"text":"match. >> They almost certainly partnered with them cuz Silverstone does all kinds of","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":431.28,"end_s":436.56,"text":"weird stuff. Anywh who, we can get the power supply out now. Pretty normal","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":434.639,"end_s":440.4,"text":"looking power supply. Just Silverstone must have done up some custom cables for","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":438.16,"end_s":447.039,"text":"them. And that pretty much gets us down to the bottom. This is a fun one.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":443.199,"end_s":450.56,"text":"The AC power plug is just held in by","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":447.039,"end_s":452.72,"text":"clamping down this piece on top of it.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":450.56,"end_s":457.28,"text":"No screws. Then the last piece that needs to come out is the combination","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":454.4,"end_s":464.4,"text":"power button and power indicator ring LED. This Okay, not necessary, but I","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":461.84,"end_s":469.12,"text":"would love for us to modernize a little bit. Maybe put some RGB on it. How cool","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":466.56,"end_s":473.68,"text":"would that be? Oh, interesting. 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Tried and failed. But this time, this time is going to be different, guys. I am so excited for the new Steam Machine. And hey, look, there he is now. Hey, come on in here, little guy. What? Oh, you know what? I don't think he's ready just yet. But I want a game in my living room now. What am I supposed to do? Wait. No, forget this. I'm going to do it myself. And I'm going to do it upright. I got my hands on one of the OG Steam Machine prototypes that Valve seeded out to lucky testers way back in 2013. Only 300 of these were created. And this is number 228. You can tell by the pixels. I mean, this hole right here. This incredible little piece of history was rescued from the recyclers a couple of years ago. And ever since then, I've been waiting for just the right moment to modernize its hardware and turn it into the ultimate sleeper steam machine gaming box for my living room. Gabe Cube, please. It's time for the Gabe Tangular Prism. Really rolls off the tongue, doesn't it? Like this segue to our sponsor, >> the forging of code. the strength and will to bend a silicon to a purpose. Not all can wield this power, but you may with boot.dev. [music] According to Valve, their upcoming steam machine has more performance than 70% of existing steam clients. To our enthusiast audience, that might kind of sound like BS, but hanging out with the folks at Whale Land, it would be pretty easy to get a warped image of the typical PC gamer and the kind of hardware they're using. Both independent studies and Valve's own hardware survey seem to back up their conclusion. The Steam Machine is a nice little box, but it's also not a total powerhouse either. The six core CPU is using AMD's proven but now 3 years old Zen 4 architecture. The GPU is based on the similarly vintage RDNA3 architecture. And they've opted for just 8 GB of VRAM, which is kind of a tough pill to swallow in 2026, especially if the leaked pricing ends up being accurate. I want something a little more, you know, and I think I can do that without deviating from Valve's original philosophy for the Steam Machine all those years ago. I'm talking fully upgradeable commodity hardware and housed in Valve's own custom case from 2013. Of course, the first thing we're going to need to do is gut this thing and immediately find some odd choices like the clipless power connectors for the GPU, this screw that doesn't seem to be actually threaded into anything, a non-locking PCIe slot, and a fascinating method for securing the card into the case. They just took the PCIe cover top and just bent it. Now, these initial prototypes were sent out in a variety of configurations, but according to the all- knowing internets, all were powered by some version of a fourth gen Intel Core CPU on an ITX board with ironically an NVIDIA GPU, 16 gigs of DDR3, a terabyte of mechanical storage, and an 8 gig SSD cache. All powered by a 450W SFX power supply. Right out of the gate, either the internet's got something wrong or whoever had this system made some choice upgrades to it because this right here is a 512 gig SSD. Oh, yeah. This SSD was added later. It was manufactured 2 years after they sent these out. >> Interesting. SATA power for the dual. >> Yeah, I've seen this before in NAS cases, for instance. Uh, installing these ones onto a cable is simply done by spreading out the wires and just putting it on and putting a thing on the back. So you can put them at any spacing you want. This is super convenient for putting a couple of drives really close together. There's a bunch of little kind of custom touches in here. This shrouding, for instance, is really cool. Basically, it ensures that even with an undersized cooler, right, you're bringing brand new fresh air directly to the CPU here. And back then, cooling the CPU was a much bigger concern than getting fresh air to your GPU, which didn't even have vent holes above it. That may need to be addressed. Man, cramming all modern stuff in here is not going to be trivial. All right. Is this an injection molded part? Injection molding for just 300 prototype units. It's also a non-trivial part to design the mold flow pattern for. Anyway, here's our board. Here's a PCIe riser. It would be pretty good luck if we could reuse this. But, uh, this would have been what, Gen 3 rated. Oh, look at how cute it is. Ah, it's so cute. I don't think I've ever seen such a short SATA cable. I mean, perfectly average length SATA cable. It's also definitely the correct shape. Our cooler fell apart. That was not what I expected to happen just now. In fairness, it's pretty old. Things fall apart when they're old. Okay, it seems that either as part of the process for installing this cooler, which I'm not familiar with, or as part of their own idea, Valve removed the ILM, that is the little arm and hold down mechanism that goes over the CPU, meaning that it just it just comes out. Um, a 4570 Core i5. All right, that was a nice little chip back in the day. If only the recipient of this system had realized what an investment these were. [laughter] 16 gigs of RAM. DDR3 though. DDR3 is still not really worth very much. The last piece is our power supply. Now, if we were doing a more modest build, I could probably get away with using this one, but we're not. Interesting. Wait, before we go any further, come check this out. You can see what they were doing here. Even though there's no ventilation holes for this to draw air directly in front of it, they've got it set up so that it's meant to draw air from the vents on the side, then exhausted out the back of the case, never to be reused. Yeah, NVIDIA doesn't really do these designs anymore because they're worried that people will install GeForce cards in servers and AI machines. That's the actual reason. >> Another injection molded part. Those absolute mad lads. >> I think it might have been a Silverstone case design. I couldn't find an exact match. >> They almost certainly partnered with them cuz Silverstone does all kinds of weird stuff. Anywh who, we can get the power supply out now. Pretty normal looking power supply. Just Silverstone must have done up some custom cables for them. And that pretty much gets us down to the bottom. This is a fun one. The AC power plug is just held in by clamping down this piece on top of it. No screws. Then the last piece that needs to come out is the combination power button and power indicator ring LED. This Okay, not necessary, but I would love for us to modernize a little bit. Maybe put some RGB on it. How cool would that be? Oh, interesting. It has a reset switch on the board, but there was no access to that from the outside. >> I believe that's a reset for the LEDs, not for the computer itself. >> Interesting hypothesis. But then why would they have pins for a reset switch on here? >> Then I couldn't tell you. >> Yeah, I guess it doesn't really matter cuz we're not going to use this, right? We're going to do something cooler. >> Yeah. >> Oh, sick. And this is far from the only thing we're going to have to change. As much as it pains me to say it, there's no outcome where we're going to be able to build a modern system into this case exactly the way it is. So, when it comes to modifying it, there were two main camps internally. There were the preservationists and the terrorists. One side felt that such an important piece of computing history should remain untouched by the teeth of the Dremel, while the other side wanted to just hack it up for ventilation and who knows, maybe even give it a sick looking paint job. We settled for somewhere in the middle, recognizing that we are going to need more cooling for modern hardware, but also wanting to do so while changing the appearance of it as little as possible from the outside. So, the front as well as the sides and the top piece here are going to stay pretty much as is. As for the bottom, it's going to need some speed holes. >> All done. >> Wow, that was quick. >> Movie magic. I worked at the spacing of the holes on top. Tas in the lab did a 3D scan of the bottom so we could figure out where all these standoffs were that we wanted to avoid. And then Justin just printed off a little jig to hold it in the tormok and started drilling like an Albertan. Like I said, movie magic. >> You guys did a great job of this. The spacing's the same from the outside. The aesthetics are like the same. Oh, dude. >> Even did the hole. >> They did the hole. That's so cool. We've even got a black mesh to put in, so it has kind of the same look. Dude, this is so cool. Okay, down to business. A Yeah. Not that it really matters. I'm just wondering if it looks any better. Does look a little better. >> All right. All right, here's your Floatplane exclusive, kids. If Lin is coloring in every freaking hole, LMG.gg/flat plane. >> No one's going to want to watch that. >> You'd [music] be surprised. >> Oh, yeah. >> Oh, yeah. It is better. >> It does look so much cleaner, though. >> So, this goes in the front. >> Uh-huh. >> Then the power button goes into there. Oh. Oh. Oh. Okay. This pops on [music] here. Sounds clicky. >> That sounds clicky to me. Sick. I just have to find somewhere to stash this Pico. Do we have any Capton tape here? >> I'll check upstairs. >> While we wait, let's talk about the specs that we're going to be putting in here. For our CPU, we've got a Ryzen 7 9800 X3D. Why? Well, fastest gaming CPU on the market, but we uh may end up swapping that out. And [music] the reason is that as you can see, even though we've got a more modern cooler in here, there [music] just plain isn't a lot of space. So that thermal rate AXP90X47 cooler is going to have to turn the RPMs up pretty high on this fan in order to keep this CPU cool. So a 7800 X3D might actually [music] be a better choice in the longer term. For our memory, we've got 32 gigs of GSkill, 6,000 mega transfer per second RAM because we got it before the shortage. Lucky. And for storage, a one terbte Crucial P5 Plus because this is the rubbing it in. We still have this hardware before it went unavailable build. Apparently, it's all mounted on an ASRock B650E PG ITX Wi-Fi with actually really nice ample IO. Lots of USB, 2 and 1/2 gig LAN, and Wi-Fi 6E. Oh, wait. This is the one that has that cool connector. What does this do again? I forget. >> I thought it might have been a display thing or something, but I didn't actually look it up. Yes, it does. It has embedded DisplayPort out. >> Huh. >> So, it's great for like um like commercial solutions or something like not that I need any of that, but that's very cool. Yeah. And then it has another M.2 on the back if I ever wanted to have more storage. Let's go ahead and get this installed. >> Is the back plate on this cooler a lot thicker than the old one? >> Oh, yeah. She's beefy. >> She's boowing. >> Just don't do that. [laughter] Okay, we're just going to bow out the bottom of the case, apparently. >> I mean, it was in such good shape to begin with, too. >> Well, that's fair. I'm having a heck of a time lining up the IO shield. >> It's a [music] little crooked. >> Oh, wow. >> Came from a recycler. It wasn't in amazing shape to begin with. >> All right, capton tape is here. And now it won't short out on anything. There. >> Beautiful. >> Oh, dude. This is so exciting. I've wanted to build in this thing for so long. We've got an RGB connector here as well. RGB you can find. >> We can go ahead and plug in our front USB 3 now. And now this >> shroud for our cooling here. Try to give us a little bit of direction. >> Genius. I love it. This way we're going to be recycling less of the CPU heat than we otherwise would. Let's see if we can make some small modifications here. Here. Check this out. Oh yeah, that's better. Yeah. Uh there is one thing that I felt was a little questionable. We have this shroud covering um the fins here. I don't know if I agree. >> We're trying to pull the air down and out. >> Uh but anything over here is not going out anyway. It's just going to get kind of stuck. I think we should allow it to come out the side. >> Further modifications. >> All right. I mean, I have been known to press my luck from time to time. >> No, you'd never do that. That 3D printer slaved away to make that for you. >> If it wanted to be paid, it should have thought of that before becoming a 3D printer. Okay, so that leaves these fins open. >> Here's a nice part. >> Uh oh. For power. There we go. Oh. Oh, that's so cool. I love it. And then I assume there's a top piece. [music] >> It's called a video card. >> No. >> Yeah. >> Okay. So, power supply next. I see. We reinvented the wheel, creating our own shroud. >> The bigger issue was that the power connector was flipped the other way around. So, our 90° was the wrong 90. >> It's a left angle now. >> We wanted a 270. >> Understood. Okay. Oh, for our power supply, we've gone with this 850 W SF850 from Corsair. Why? >> Plenty of power. >> Cool. Yep. Good chat. Oh, this is pretty clever. [music] Check this out. There's a little spot for it. Ah, so cute. Beautiful. Look at all the space in here. >> Not how I would describe it, but yeah, sure. Time for our PCIe riser. Now, Jordan, I couldn't help noticing we have a PCIe Gen 5 GPU. Are we worried about losing any performance from this thing? >> No. Panker said it's good. >> No way. >> Yep. >> It just worked with Gen 5. >> Yeah. >> A much finer job of bending this than Valve did. How did we do this? >> With a vice. >> Nice. We chose this because this is the biggest card that would physically fit in here. >> Got it. Oh, I guess we never mentioned the specs. It's a 9070 XT. So, the fastest current generation card that [music] is out of the box compatible with Steam OS, which obviously I'm going to want to use if I'm running a Steam machine. It is worth noting though that we had to use the beta branch of Steam OS in order to get such a new card to work. Now, the last bit that I got to figure out is [sighs] how to get these power connectors to the GPU. Wow, that's actually a fair bit of space for that to dry air from. >> Yeah. >> And right, we've got this ventilation that we put in here. This might just work. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh, dude. Dude, this is so going to work. >> How many minutes before he gives up and does it the right way? >> Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. It's going to work. It's going to work. You just wait. Hold on. I need a couple more cable ties. That's [music] the problem. >> Here, I'll hold that. >> Thank you. We have a USB connector that's just kind of hanging out in here. That's for this. It's the closest analog to um integrated controller receiver support that uh we could come up with. Oh, wow. That's a big stretch. [screaming] All right. She all packs in there. This is flipping awesome. Eight 3D vcache Ryzen Zen 5 cores, 9070 XT, 32 gigs RAM. Freaking wow, she's dense. And she's got absolutely no way to get fresh air to that GPU. >> There you go. >> Thank you for that. Unless feet. See, this is not a modification. I don't count this. This is not permanent. These were holes that were already there, I think. Boom. She's done. >> But does she work? >> Yeah. Hard to say with after all she's been through. Let's give it a shot. >> All right. >> Big moment. >> There's a light. >> Okay, that's cool. I saw a thing. >> All right. Sick. And that's it. >> It works. >> We're booted in Steam OS. Now, we did need the beta branch in order to get our GPU to work, but is there downside? Like, obviously, this isn't a Steam controller. This is an 8bit do Ultimate 2C, so I don't have like a dedicated [music] Steam menu button or whatever, but I can use shortcuts so I can access all the usual cool stuff that I would. We've got HDR enabled because Valve [music] and the open source community are incredible and got that implemented on Steam OS. Now, riddle me this. Does it [music] support waking from sleep with the controller? >> Not exactly. >> What about turning on automatically via CEC? >> No. We'll get to those later. Very cool. So, right away, we can try out the Proton compatibility layer by playing a game. Not a demanding game, but we'll get to that in a moment. All right. Heck yeah. Casual 400 FPS. Freaking awesome. Dang it. I warned us about the rattly great. >> I'm not sure you did. >> There we go. That's Let That's Let's fix that for now. So, our GPU is at 100% usage, right? >> 100% 70 Celsius. >> Okay. Wow. That's pretty good for how quiet it is. >> It's not bad. >> It's the CPU that I was honestly more worried about, though. And that we're going to hit a little bit harder when we get into Cyberpunk in a minute. >> Yeah, that's at like 10% here with 65 Celsius. >> Oh, wow. The skin temperatures of this thing are nuts. You know what? For the most part though, the airflow path that we designed is working. >> Yep. >> Like we're getting all the heat from the CPU out this side [music] and then the GPU is mostly kicking out here over on this side. The back of the GPU where it's pulling in from the bottom and then just like blowing against the top here though. A little spicy. [music] I think the maximum performance version of this setup would actually have another grill here to allow that pass through GPU to just blow up the top of the case. And you think we can do 4K with a little bit of upscaling? Give it a try. I mean, they claim the Steam Machine will. So, okay. So, GPU 0 is at 300 W, which is about what a 970 XT is rated for, if I recall correctly. Our CPU, meanwhile, 74 degrees C. >> It's like 20% use. It was not crazy. This looks really good. >> This blows away the image quality and performance of the Steam Machine. Not even close. The cooler is a major challenge. [music] >> It's not even that loud. >> It's a lot louder than a steam machine. [music] I can tell you that much. >> Fair, >> dude. Is this this easy? Let's go middle of the road. Clearly, there's a little bit more finetuning to do here, but we've got temperatures on the CPU well under control. We're at just over 70° now, and it is [music] way quieter and still way faster than the Steam Machine. Like, this level of quality that it's running at right now is head and shoulders above what it was doing on the Steam Machine. It's not even close. >> Like, I got RA tracing on, dude. Like if I turn RA tracing off, all [music] of a sudden, forget [snorts] about it, dude. >> Bumps me up 30 frames easily. >> Well over 60 FPS, 4K. Still looks great. It's a good-look game with or without ray tracing. And that's [music] way quieter. >> Yeah. >> But there is one more thing that an official Steam machine does that this one won't. See, I would love it if my controller could wake the system and if I could have seamless operation with my TV just like a real game console. [music] And the way that works is with CEC. It stands for consumer electronics control. And it's a really cool feature of HDMI that lets devices use a single wire in the HDMI connector to exchange commands like, \"Hey, turn on or switch your input.\" So that I can work right away just automatically. And it's really cool when it works, but it doesn't work, does it? >> It's complicated. >> Okay. Not a yes. >> It's not a no. >> Okay. >> It's not a no. It's just that as Valve found in their own development of Steam Machine, consumer GPUs don't support CC. >> There are solutions that people pointed out to us. In fact, a wonderful member of our community brought this to our attention. It's a dongle from Pulsate. It has an HDMI input and then a pass through and it plugs into the system via USB allowing you to inject CEC commands. So why isn't it hooked up to the system? It doesn't just work. Unfortunately, I had to I ended up having to install dev tools, compile their libraries, compile the the actual program in order to get a debug program working. So I can actually like see CC commands going and I can issue them. But every TV is different. You know how everyone rebrands the CC their own little special thing? Well, they all implement them differently as well. >> Cool. So, what does that look like in the real world? >> So, in the real world on this TV, I can get it to change inputs if we want it to. >> I can turn off the TV. >> Oh, cool. >> I can't turn it on, >> right? >> No matter what you do, it will not turn on. >> We did some more digging and we found a DP to HDMI adapter that also claims to support CC. So, we ordered that. Um, >> same story. >> So, basically, you're telling me that it is just not reliable enough to build it into the startup and shutdown sequences of the operating system and have it do what it's supposed to. >> You couldn't rely on it. And then I also found that Valve built in a special [music] circuit into the controller to do the power on, power off thing. >> Oh, so it's not just using like wake on USB. No, apparently not. >> Okay, >> other than that, if you can deal with pressing like two buttons, I think we got it in a pretty good state. >> I think for the extra performance that's on tap and the upgradeability, I can do that >> and it looks pretty cool. >> And you know what else is pretty cool? Our spirit quick. >> Previously on the coding chronicles. I am Boots. I shall aid you in your quest to >> make learning to code feel like a game using boot.dev. >> Come with me. The coding chronicles. >> What? Where am I? >> In the realm of boot dev, [screaming] >> please. >> Ah, sorry. Have you thought about just walking in like a normal magic lion? >> Bear wizard. >> Bear wizard. Obviously that that's obvious. So whose house is this? >> It belongs to a dear friend, a web developer. He named it back end. >> Is that like innuendo or >> for he used boot.dev, the best way to learn the ancient power of web development. >> Ooh, that's a skill that's going to land me a highpaying job. Right. >> Indeed. Let us begin with Python. >> Wait, what? >> Python. >> Good. >> And don't forget to use the code LTT to get 25% off your first month or year with Boot. Dare. [laughter] [yawns] If you guys enjoyed this video, why not check out our last steam machine video where we built something that is much closer [music] to the performance profile of the real valve machine and took a shot at what we think the pricing might be. Although the uh RAM Apocalypse might [music] have. That probably made things go up a little"}