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Grumpy Wolf Jan 3, 2019 @ 5:32pm

Affordable steam link alternative?

Now that valve has stopped selling the steam link (I missed the last sale over the holiday) are there any alternatives out there? I would like to do 4k output to my front room tv, but am not sure on a few things. First off now that steam link is on android does that mean the google chromecast ultra 4k will work? I have also read andoid tv boxes will work, but not sure how well. I have also seen that steam link is on rasperry pie now, but not really too interested in messing with linux. Any other alternatives out there besides just building a dummy pc?

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_I_ Jan 3, 2019 @ 7:20pm

android box, but not may do 4k
even a pi3 cant do 4k good enough to stream it
only real hope is a htpc

it will take alot of a host pc to stream 4k anyway

Grumpy Wolf Jan 3, 2019 @ 8:08pm

Originally posted by _I_:
android box, but not may do 4k
even a pi3 cant do 4k good enough to stream it
only real hope is a htpc

it will take alot of a host pc to stream 4k anyway

I have done it with cheap laptops, it really doesn't take that much if you have a solid network. I used to do it on my i5 surface pro 4 with 4gb of ram. I am tempted to use a rasperry pi, but uggg, i hate linux :(

Grumpy Wolf Jan 4, 2019 @ 12:36am

Originally posted by Xenophobe:
the raspberry pi 3b+ does not have an hdmi 2.0 port, it's hdmi 1.4, so 4k will max at 30 fps IF you can even get it to accept the stream.

yea, I bought one and realize that when I couldn't go beyond 1080p, and of course on top of that it didn't even want to work with my logitech k400 plus. Guess I need to look more.