You can pre-order the first official Steam Machines starting today

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Look, there's literally no shortage of things you can slot into your home theater system for a spot of streaming media or some melt-into-your-couch gaming. If you want to be able to recline in your living room and comfortably sneer at people who play games on consoles, though, you can pre-order an official Steam Machine -- and the accoutrements to make it shine -- starting today.

In case you haven't been closely following the Steam Machine saga, Valve first unveiled its vision of living room domination -- high-powered PCs running a special Steam-flavored version of Linux -- in September 2013. Anyone can shove a PC into a sleek box and proclaim its chops as a seriously console competitor (and we've seen a few already), but really, it's about time these things emerged from the vapor. Up for pre-release grabs right now are rigs from Alienware and CyberPower, which start at $449 and $499 respectively. That base model Alienware Steam Machine will pack a dual-core Intel Core i3-4130 chips, along with 4GB of DDR3 RAM, a 500GB hard drive and a (mostly unspecified) NVIDIA GeForce GTX graphics card with 2GB of GDDR5 memory. Meanwhile, you'll spot one of Intel's Core i3-4160 chips and a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 lurking away in CyberPower's poorly named Syber box, not to mention the same (relatively paltry) 4GB of RAM and 500GB hard drive.

Normally you'd have to wait until November 10 to pick all these goodies up, but some immediate pre-order action might mean you'll get your Steam Machine a full month ahead of everyone else.

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Source: http://www.engadget.com/2015/06/04/steam-machine-orders-start-today/

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JesusOnAGoatPosted:

nah, you can make a better one custom made.

MickersPosted:

If i could afford this, i probably would pre order it.

MajPosted:

There's no point in a 'steam machine' people already have irons that make steam *jk*

No but people could just build a custom PC

SagePosted:

Miss Very tempting to buy one of these, but it seems more logical to just build a PC, that probably runs a lot better for about the same price.

Maybe Steam lies about all it proclaimed users and is losing the competition. That could be the reason for this console.


And it will never compare to a PC since i can to a lot more on my PC than just play games and have a lot more precision with my mouse. So i will defiantly not be getting one of these and just be upgrading my current parts.

MissPosted:

Very tempting to buy one of these, but it seems more logical to just build a PC, that probably runs a lot better for about the same price.

Maybe Steam lies about all it proclaimed users and is losing the competition. That could be the reason for this console.

OwenPosted:

PJDUNN
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MushroomElm
Yoke So i dont quite get the concept. A console? or pc?


A console that is as powerful as a PC. This is to end the #PcMasterRace kind of thing.

Doubt it though, so long as people run 4 TitanX's and get about 200FPS constant on their PC's. Pc players will always claim MasterRace, which they really are in a sense of graphics. But not so much content.


Still a little confused too. Will it use console controls, can you play with people on PC? Not a huge PC gamer but I'm familiar with Steam and a lot of the games.


To start off I'm going to say that guy that replied first is a concole pleb. PC will always HAVE MORE CONTENT. Have you seen the mods we have? You know the mods that have kept skyrim and fallout 3-NV alive? Plus all the other games? Its not to stop pcmasterrace...its to bring console gamers ocer to PC...the Steam box simply is like a console but is a PC. It runs on the Steam OS or whatever you buy for it. Its basically a PC but more friendly to console users. Its to help get more people on to PC. My only problem is the specs aren't the best but you can always upgrade hardware. If you have questions reply or pm me




Also games on the pc are better than games on ps4

PJDUNNPosted:

Tricks
MushroomElm
Yoke So i dont quite get the concept. A console? or pc?


A console that is as powerful as a PC. This is to end the #PcMasterRace kind of thing.

Doubt it though, so long as people run 4 TitanX's and get about 200FPS constant on their PC's. Pc players will always claim MasterRace, which they really are in a sense of graphics. But not so much content.


Still a little confused too. Will it use console controls, can you play with people on PC? Not a huge PC gamer but I'm familiar with Steam and a lot of the games.


To start off I'm going to say that guy that replied first is a concole pleb. PC will always HAVE MORE CONTENT. Have you seen the mods we have? You know the mods that have kept skyrim and fallout 3-NV alive? Plus all the other games? Its not to stop pcmasterrace...its to bring console gamers ocer to PC...the Steam box simply is like a console but is a PC. It runs on the Steam OS or whatever you buy for it. Its basically a PC but more friendly to console users. Its to help get more people on to PC. My only problem is the specs aren't the best but you can always upgrade hardware. If you have questions reply or pm me

TricksPosted:

MushroomElm
Yoke So i dont quite get the concept. A console? or pc?


A console that is as powerful as a PC. This is to end the #PcMasterRace kind of thing.

Doubt it though, so long as people run 4 TitanX's and get about 200FPS constant on their PC's. Pc players will always claim MasterRace, which they really are in a sense of graphics. But not so much content.


Still a little confused too. Will it use console controls, can you play with people on PC? Not a huge PC gamer but I'm familiar with Steam and a lot of the games.

MushroomElmPosted:

Yoke So i dont quite get the concept. A console? or pc?


A console that is as powerful as a PC. This is to end the #PcMasterRace kind of thing.

Doubt it though, so long as people run 4 TitanX's and get about 200FPS constant on their PC's. Pc players will always claim MasterRace, which they really are in a sense of graphics. But not so much content.

YokePosted:

So i dont quite get the concept. A console? or pc?


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