Take a Look Inside The Steam Machine

[thiosk]

One reason it is cheaper is that you don't need to buy Windows to run it, yes? Load up the SteamOS beta and start downloading games?

Get SteamOS native games, sell an office productivity suite through steam, and you start wondering whether you ever need windows again. Currently I need it for games and microsoft office, and thats about it.

While the case seems a bit tight, I've not truly seen heat issues in a machine not clogged with dust or targeted for overclocking. It looks to me like the CPU/PSU vent right out the top/side for a quick-circuit pass over of air, which is a pretty clever design concept, all things considered. No need to run air through the whole thing, just in the side and out the top is sufficient.

I couldn't see from the video how the air flow management for the GPU was handled. It appeared to be separate from the other sections.

The first comment note that one needs high temperature plastic because "omgheat" sounds quite hyperbolic. I've had fans die and not notice, and seen no degradation in performance. Given, the heat sink was not stock.

 

[romxxii]

Being that the "console" is really just a PC disguised as a console...

Correction: all the "next gen consoles" are just PCs disguised as consoles. The difference is, SteamOS is a Linux distro, while the Xbox One and PS4 are running very limited, custom operating systems.

 

[Strazdas]

I am really interested in the GTX760 version performance as this is similar to what i plan to build next year.

Might be cool for some but I personally have zero use for one of these.

No, it wont be cool, it will be hot with overheat issues.

That looks like it's going to have heat dissipation issues off the bat, and I hope they've got high temperature plastics, otherwise it's going to warp horribly.

We cant tell, this is beta or even alpha machines, not going to look anything close to what the end product will look. this is like devkit, not made to look good or have "strong" plastics, only to work.

And I gotta say, I like those specs. The top model looks pretty similar to my desktop PC, although my video card and processor are just slightly better.

Top model has a Titan. HOW do you have a better graphic card?

Usually all premade PCs in stores around are ridiculously overpriced when you look at their components, but if this somehow ends up cheaper than the sum of its parts I might end up buying a high end model.

Funny thing to say. If you look at the name ones - sure. Not sure about your location, but here pretty much every show builds their own PCs and sell them prebuilt. Result? pretty much same price as getting parts yourself, they earn their profit by ordering in bulk and prebuilding them by 10s and 20s, and people buy those. you look at that and you look at same parts in a "dell PC" and you see that the local prebuilt is 50% cheaper.
So its very doable.