Steam Machine prototype from iBuyPower for revealed, runs at
1080p and 60fps.
The white prototype consoles from desktop manufacturer
iBuyPower run an early build of Steam OS and are aptly named Gordan and
Freeman.
UPDATE: The prototype from iBuyPower will reportedly only
cost $499 and comes with a multicore AMD CPU and a discrete AMD Radeon R9 270
graphics card.
The additional details come from a report on the Verge, and
reiterates that "existing Steam for Linux games should run quite well, at
full 1080p resolution and 60 frames per second." As reported previously,
Steam Machines will not run the entire Steam library, only those games which
have been optimized specifically for the Linux-based Steam OS.
The article also claims
the box above is "bigger than a
PlayStation 4 but smaller than a Microsoft's Xbox One." The $500 price tag
includes the Steam controller, wi-fi, Bluetooth, and a 500GB hard drive.
The original story appears below:
Bucking the trend of black boxes, PC developer iBuyPower
revealed the first images of their prototype Steam Machine: a white box.
Engadget reports that the system is set to launch in 2014
and "the hardware will run all Steam titles in 1080p resolution at
60fps." No other details were revealed about the hardware, but iBuyPower
did show off two variations of their white box. When not illuminated, the light
bar in the middle is clear on one machine and black on the other. One has been
codenamed Gordan and the other Freeman.
The machine runs an early version of Steam OS, but
"it's not quite a finished product," writes Engadget. Valve has
previously revealed the general specs for the Steam Machines, but with CES just
around the corner, we'll have even more info (and hands-on with the systems)
then.
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