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Valve Steam Machine roundup -- prices, images, and full specs revealed

All the details we have so far on the newly announced 13 Steam Machines, including pictures, prices, and hardware.

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Valve announced 12 of the companies they are partnering with to create Steam Machines earlier today, but they provided even more details at a CES press conference earlier this evening. Here's a rundown of the available specs and prices for 13 of the currently announced Steam Machines.

Alternate

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  • Price: $1,339
  • CPU: Intel Core i5 4570
  • Graphics: Gigabyte GTX 760
  • RAM: 16GB
  • Storage: 1TB SSHD

AlienWare

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  • Price: TBD
  • CPU: Intel unspecified
  • Graphics: nVidia unspecified
  • RAM: TBD
  • Storage: TBD

While Alienware is releasing few details about their console, a company representative said their machine will be "more powerful than the Xbox One and PlayStation 4" and "competitively priced."

CyberPowerPC

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  • Price: $499 (and up)
  • CPU: AMD/Intel Core i5
  • Graphics: AMD Radeon R9 270 / Nvidia GTX 760
  • RAM: 8GB
  • Storage: 500GB

Digital Storm -- Bolt II

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  • Price: $2,584
  • CPU: Intel Core i7 4770K
  • Graphics: GTX 780 Ti
  • RAM: 16GB
  • Storage: 1TB HDD + 120GB SSD

Gigabyte -- Brix Pro

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  • Price: TBD
  • CPU: Intel Core i7 4770R
  • Graphics: Intel Iris Pro 5200
  • RAM: 8 GB
  • Storage: 1 TB SATA 6Gb/s

Falcon Northwest -- Tiki

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  • Price: $1,799 to $6,000
  • CPU: Customizable
  • Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan
  • RAM: 8 to 16GB
  • Storage: up to 6TB

iBuyPower

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  • Price: $499 and up
  • CPU: Quad Core AMD or Intel
  • Graphics: Radeon GCN Graphics
  • RAM: 8GB
  • Storage: 500GB+

Materiel.Net

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  • Price: $1,098
  • CPU: Intel Core i5 4440
  • Graphics: MSI GeForce GTX 760 OC
  • RAM: 8GB
  • Storage: 8GB + 1TB SSHD

Origin PC -- Chronos

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Next Spa

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  • Price: TBD
  • CPU: Intel Core i5
  • Graphics: Nvidia GT 760
  • RAM: 8GB
  • Storage: 1TB

Scan -- NC10

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  • Price: $1,090
  • CPU: Intel Core i3 4000M
  • Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 765M
  • RAM: 8GB
  • Storage: 500GB

Webhallen

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  • Price: $1,499
  • CPU: Intel Core i7 4771
  • Graphics: Nvidia GTX 780
  • RAM: 16GB
  • Storage: 1TB SSHD

Zotac

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  • Price: $599
  • CPU: Intel Core (TBD)
  • Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX (TBD)
  • RAM: TBD
  • Storage: TBD

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hmm now some of these are terrible they're weak and over priced for its cost and some are just ridiculous 6k for it what do they expect us to be playing on them 40 games at once? you can make the ultimate gaming pc for 5k and that includes 3 monitors screens and be future proof for 6 to 8 years. some of these are just crazy but im interested in


alienware (if its cheap enough)

Zotac if its a 8 core

all the others that are just quad cores wouldn be worth it and the more exspensive ones are just crazy priced, when comparing them with a ps4 or a xbone only 3 of them seems to be in the price range with better power then then and thats kinda the point of the steam machine.
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<< LINK REMOVED >> Yeah, most of these miss the mark by a wide margin. I'm wondering if they forgot that these are media machines that will be operating on a single television. Most TVs can't even keep up with the faster GPUs and have lower native resolutions, so they require far less oomph. My SteamBox/HTPC cost me $600.

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I finally get it now. This isn't for the current long-time existing Steam Users nor the casual/hardcore console gamers.

This is for the newcomers - people from mid teens and on who are thinking of getting into PC gaming but don't know how to build a PC.


This is about the long term PC mainstreaming, not the short term.

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Why wold anyone buy a overpriced Pc with linux on it?...


This is bound to fail.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> well some of these may actually be worth the cost and be better then a ps4 and xbone just about

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >>just withouth the ability to run games that people care about. But hey, who cares about game support on a machine what is made for playing games? Not me, that's for certain.

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Some of these Machines are already obsolete. Prices make me laugh.

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Are they cheaper than their PC equivalent?

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Question makes zero sense. They are PCs. Made by existing PC shops from off the shelf PC parts. Several of them in off the shelf cases that have been on the market for years. Ironic user name?

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<< LINK REMOVED >> No, of course not.

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Ok if you get one of these things, can you go to Best Buy (or where ever) and get a PC game to run on it? Or is it exclusively for games that are on Steam? Windows isn't the OS on this thing.

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<< LINK REMOVED >>You can also connect an external DVD drive.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> It comes with the SteamOS but you can install Windows, hook up mouse and keyboard and play normal Windows Steam games on it if you want.


Its literally just a pre-built PC. You can do whatever you want with it.

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The only decently priced one i see is cyberpower i'll gladly get it just for the case /drool


jk (dont report me)


6k gaming rig? too rich for my blood >.<

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So, they're just gaming PC's with modded cases.

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<< LINK REMOVED >>Some of the cases are custom, most are not. And this is exactly what steam machines where announced as from the very start. Only reason people are confused are clickbait articles on blogs about a new from valve (literally no part of that sentence is true)

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I think it's great - the more options for more types of gamers that are out there on the market, great! I will stick with my XBox One, because it - and it's peripherals - are in my price range.


Have fun!

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<< LINK REMOVED >> If the Xbox One is in your price range then so are many of those Steamboxes, which are just as powerful as the Xbox One and you'll end up saving a ton of money on software because of Steam sales, humbe bundles and things like that.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >>You will especially save money since almost no games are available for steam os and none of the ones you really want.

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I honestly don't get these steam machines. Wouldn't it be easier and more practical to buy or build a gaming pc for games, work, internet, social media, etc. and connect it to your tv? All you would have to do is dual boot with windows and steam os.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> why dual boot? It'll be a decade before linux game support will be even close to comparable to windows support. And the back catalog will NEVER come over. Just pull hdmi from your gaming PC to your tv, use a wireless 360 controller and steam big picture mode in windows. Works much better than steam os and that will be the case for many years to come.

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Why is that router $599?

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<< LINK REMOVED >>LOL! Well played. My first thought as well.

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<< LINK REMOVED >>HAHAHA ty brought a tear to my eye :P

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The Cyber Power, ibuy Power and Zotac Steam Machines are impressive mid range builds that can be compared to a PS4 in terms of hardware.Rest of them are as they say targeted towards Steam Users rather than console gamers willing to try PC gaming.But my best bet is that the Alienware version is over priced.

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Any Pc gamer here see this as the evolution of the desktop? I do.

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<< LINK REMOVED >>Not exactly evolution but mostly a smaller and more TV "compatible" PC.But in the not so far future it might replace desktops completely.

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<< LINK REMOVED >>PC build and brands? Far from it. OS? Maybe only time will tell.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Can't say i do.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> My bad, forgot to mention from a commercial point of view. If anything this is good news for us Pc gamers. The more mainstream our hardware goes the more advancements we will see as well as more games.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> From a commercial point of view, it MIGHT be good for Valve and PROBABLY WILL be good for hardware manufacturers (actually PC builders, all they manufacture is the case). For already established PC gamers such as myself, I think Steam machines will not bring anything good.


The Xbox and PS represent a strong competition to PC as a gaming platform and therefore we have all the goodies such as sales and Humble Bundles and stuff. Now imagine Xbox and PC slowly die out, lose the market share and PC (including Steam machines) takes the dominance - would you still be getting your discounts? I think not so much.


The main point is: PC gamers will probably not benefit too much except for some Xbox/PS exclusives switching to Steam in the future. Which does not justify the loss of perks we get by gaming on PCs.

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I'd go for the Digital Storm - Bolt II. But I already have a Steam Machine. It's called my PC, that's plugged into my TV through HDMI, that I play with a 360 controller.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Sweet, sounds similar to the model I picked up.

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Steam machine? Console? Well to me these seem to be pre-built PCs in different shapes.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Yup, THIS. Unfortunately some of these machines are not upgradable.

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In other news, China just temporarily removed the ban on buying consoles from outside the country. Looks like a new market with a couple of billion buyers opened up to the video game industry!


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How big is that Webhallen one? If it is as big as it looks in that image I don't think they grasp what the point is.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> It's quite small. Don't have the exact measurements but it's more or less like a 360 but fatter ^^

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