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Valve’s living room play is back. Track the new Steam Machine’s 4K performance goals, VRAM specs, and early hardware reviews.
In the past few weeks since the Steam Machine has reached early users, relatively few outright issues have emerged - beyond a mistaken case of flipped error codes causing a user to understandably…
How much is it? How powerful is it? Are you better off building your own PC? We've been hands-on with Steam Machine for just under a couple of weeks now…
The Steam Machine is a cute box around the size of a 140mm PC case fan, which means that its motherboard is necessarily tiny. In fact, it's noticeably smaller than a…
When I first spoke to Valve engineers about the upcoming Steam Machine in November last year, they told me that they were expecting to ship four separate versions of the device: one…
…After all, that pleasant cube shape allows for maximum fan size (140mm in the case of the Steam Machine) in a minimal footprint. I've wanted to see the two units side…
The Steam Machine looks like an incredible bit of kit - but it's also expensive, understandably so given the price of RAM and SSDs these days. Creators Valve have been keen to…
With the Steam Machine being a neat box that's nearly impossible to purchase, last month we put together a collection of DIY alternatives that offer superior performance while maintaining good compatibility…
"Steam Machine expensive". That was the takeaway for most users when the Steam Machine announcement went live, with a $1049 price point that takes the Valve "console" well beyond the realms of…
We reported that Valve had released open source CAD files and firmware for the e-ink Steam Machine faceplate that the company first showed off alongside the machine in November, but it…
Over the past nine months, the Steam Machine has metamorphosed from a promising living room PC with a certain charm and a "console-equivalent" price to one that is even more capable…
