Yakk
Supreme [H]ardness
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I ... emmm .. that will be expensive to try and sell that off as a console.
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I think thats mostly because of the crap PSU the average person has. Gotta overestimate a little. If you look at the actual power draw, 450 is fine.
Interesting that they are fronting Nvida GPUs. I guess AMD doesn't have everyone's dick in the bag.
I ... emmm .. that will be expensive to try and sell that off as a console.
I don't understand such beefy specs? Why on earth if you are going to run SteamOS, which is supposedly highly optimized for games would you need such high end parts? Who are they trying to target with this? So many questions...
Interesting that they are fronting Nvida GPUs. I guess AMD doesn't have everyone's dick in the bag.
Or maybe it even sounds like a fantasy!If they can get Steam/OS off the ground it is. Just imagine, a free OS optimized for gaming. Sounds magical to me.
Thats exactly what I've been think all alnong after hearing all the news about this.Yeah I don't really see the point of Steam machines. Are they going after the Alienware crowd or something?
I doubt they aren't going to be able to make them any cheaper than you can build one yourself. I don't think any of the hardware vendors would be willing to give them discounts because they'd be cannibalizing their own hardware sales.
Then they're too expensive compared to consoles to go after that crowd. The only market I see for this is the people who like to buy Alienware type systems.
I hope valve gets discounts for buying the hardware in bulk,if not then i cant see that thing being less than $1,000
AMD does not have many. They have the consoles because they had a cpu/gpu combo that nvidia could not do. They paid 8 million for battlefield 4 optimized. Origin pc just cut amd from machines due to issues.
seems like a steam machine could really take the console performance crown away from xbo and ps4 this generation. it will likely cater to people who have 100s of games already on a steam library, and $3k in a gaming laptop, but want a more comfortable playing environment as their upgrade.
Never fear, Easy answers:
"SteamBox" can be any off-the-shelf-built x86 PC that "SteamOS" (Ubuntu 12.03+ with a Valve-themed front end) has hardware drivers to support. Or you can buy one already built from an OEM and pay a premium. Valve will also be shipping i3 cpus and much weaker gpus, etc., in these temporarily loaned test units. You could also run an AMD box, of course--but Valve won't be sending these test units out with anything except either an i3, an i5, or an i7, apparently. Pot luck on who gets what. These are nothing but test boxes to help Valve shake out the bugs in its Valve-front end and OpenGL tweaks for Ubuntu 12.03+.
Apparently, there is no console and there is no new OS. In short, this is business as usual at Valve, with a couple of coats of new paint. Of course, the logical thing to do should one be so inclined as to run SteamOS in the "living room" or anywhere else, would be to simply make this new build a Windows PC and just dual-boot to SteamOS when desired. That way, you would not have to stream the ~3,000 Steam games or so that SteamOS does not support over a local network from a Windows box running in another room. Lol! Just run the Windows games right there on your Windows box, instead!... Much better solution.
At this point no one should have any further questions about all of this stuff. I surely don't. It's exactly what I thought it would be. A lot of noise about essentially nothing.
It is not Ubuntu 12.03.... it is Ubuntu 12.04 LTS...
My only problem is I once swore a "Mighty Oath..." to never buy an Fn' console! Now Valve comes along with an open linux gaming platform~! Damn you Gabe!!
For those who only want to bash linux gaming: Linux is open, thus if a full on gaming company decides to invest in optimising linux to play their own gaming stack, you can expect gaming to do quite well.
Valve seems to be serious about investing in the parts of linux that need help in gaming.
Gary
Ummmm so double the Ps3 price if not more then....funny i dont see the market for it if they are going to be that expensive.
I think the majority of the market for SteamBox would just build their own PC (for less money I'm sure) and install SteamOS instead. I love the idea of SteamOS (especially if Valve can convince more companies to do Linux releases), but selling a SteamBox just seems kinda pointless.
I think the majority of the market for SteamBox would just build their own PC (for less money I'm sure) and install SteamOS instead. I love the idea of SteamOS (especially if Valve can convince more companies to do Linux releases), but selling a SteamBox just seems kinda pointless.
So then speculation about the AMD Mantle API connection to Valve/Steambox/Steambox can be laid to rest.
for a titan , Nvidia itself says a min 600 W power supply ,,
http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-titan/specifications
I care because if you only need 450 W .. then I will have to apologize to dell for trying to get them to put in a 500 W silver power supply for their 8700 computer with a mid range video card. (min, 500 W it was)
...and are too stupid to have already built their own PC.
My question is this:
What is Valve planning on releasing that would require such power??
Halflife3confirmedomgomg
Or just so it will last a while before it needs to be upgraded, maybe? It would make no sense for them to spec it out with low end hardware when most PC gamers like to push the graphics to the max, when possible.Source engine 2... Half life 3
Or just so it will last a while before it needs to be upgraded, maybe? It would make no sense for them to spec it out with low end hardware when most PC gamers like to push the graphics to the max, when possible.