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did they officially announce it or are these rumors/leaks?



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pezus said:
bananaking21 said:
did they officially announce it or are these rumors/leaks?

See the video above. This is probably not the official "Steambox" though (if there even is one official Steambox)

ok im really lost with whats going on lol. could you explain to me the situation of the "steam box" what it is and supposed to do?



Hobbyconsolas.com :

-''contará con una tecnología basada en la arquitectura de los modelos X7A de Xi3, es decir, microprocesador de cuatro núcleos a 3.2 GHz, tarjeta de memoria integrada (probablemente similar a la ATI HD 7660G) y de 4 a 8 GB DDR3, con infinidad de puertos USB 2.0 y 3.0, eSATAp, HDMI para dos monitores a la vez... en fin, todos los que podríamos encontrar en una placa base de un PC de sobremesa normal y corriente.''-

You understand the basics don't you? well, 4 cores 3.2Ghz, ATI HD 7660G (probably), 4 to 8 GB RAM, USB 2.0 and 3.0, eSATAp, HDMI, 2 monitors at the same time, around $700/$900 - Fully customizable with interchangeable parts like any PC. Or that's what they (respectable spanish website) claim... let's see. :)



Busted said:

Hobbyconsolas.com :

-''contará con una tecnología basada en la arquitectura de los modelos X7A de Xi3, es decir, microprocesador de cuatro núcleos a 3.2 GHz, tarjeta de memoria integrada (probablemente similar a la ATI HD 7660G) y de 4 a 8 GB DDR3, con infinidad de puertos USB 2.0 y 3.0, eSATAp, HDMI para dos monitores a la vez... en fin, todos los que podríamos encontrar en una placa base de un PC de sobremesa normal y corriente.''-

You understand the basics don't you? well, 4 cores 3.2Ghz, ATI HD 7660G (probably), 4 to 8 GB RAM, USB 2.0 and 3.0, eSATAp, HDMI, 2 monitors at the same time, around $700/$900 - Fully customizable with interchangeable parts like any PC. Or that's what they (respectable spanish website) claim... let's see. :)

sounds kinda expensive for those specs, doesnt it?



So this is for displaying Steam gameplay on the big screen? Or does it have another purpose. I guess its cool, since Steam has Dota 2 now, should make for some interesting tournaments.



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bananaking21 said:
Busted said:

Hobbyconsolas.com :

-''contará con una tecnología basada en la arquitectura de los modelos X7A de Xi3, es decir, microprocesador de cuatro núcleos a 3.2 GHz, tarjeta de memoria integrada (probablemente similar a la ATI HD 7660G) y de 4 a 8 GB DDR3, con infinidad de puertos USB 2.0 y 3.0, eSATAp, HDMI para dos monitores a la vez... en fin, todos los que podríamos encontrar en una placa base de un PC de sobremesa normal y corriente.''-

You understand the basics don't you? well, 4 cores 3.2Ghz, ATI HD 7660G (probably), 4 to 8 GB RAM, USB 2.0 and 3.0, eSATAp, HDMI, 2 monitors at the same time, around $700/$900 - Fully customizable with interchangeable parts like any PC. Or that's what they (respectable spanish website) claim... let's see. :)

sounds kinda expensive for those specs, doesnt it?

That's why the ''let's see.'' but from what i've heard Xi3 tends to be over expensive, still let's see...



Personally, I suspect the "Steam Box" is a certification/set of standards and there will be multiple systems produce by a variety of manufacturers with different capabilities and prices; and games would have to be able to run at adequate levels on that hardware to be sold through steam.

Hypothetically speaking, I think it would be a lot like "Android for game consoles" ... At the low end you could have an inexpensive system that could play games at low quality settings at 720p@30fps, and at the high end you could have a premium system that could play the same games at ultra-high quality settings in 3D at 1080p@60fps.

The market (at the moment) is small, but over-time it could be huge for a product like this. In the not too distant future, you could produce a sub $100 system to sell in the developing world that has $5 games; and these games would have once needed a $600 system sold in the developed world to run at the highest quality setting, and sold for $60.



From what I have read, it only uses integrated graphics, but costs over $1000.... Seems completely pointless to me, I just want wireless streaming of my desktop PC to my TV



Since it's running Linux It will be a lot more optimized than if it was running windows, I will be interested to see it's performance on higher end games but as it is the current linux library shouldn't be an issue.



"just throwing this out there: the xi3 runs at 20 watts of power consumption. the wii u is 50. durango and orbis are ~170-200"