Syber, a new division of CyberPowerPC, announced plans to launch a slew of Steam OS-powered living room PCs this fall. There are six Steam Machines planned in all, with prototypes being shown off at the Games Developer Conference (GDC) this week.
So far, CyberPowerPC has revealed the Syber Steam Machine-E, Syber Steam Machine-P, and Syber Steam Machine-K. At the low end sits the Steam Machine-E with an unspecified quad core AMD processor and NVIDIA GTX graphics card starting at $449. For $100 more, you can step up to the Steam Machine-P with a dual core Intel Pentium G3258 CPU clocked at 3.2GHz and an AMD Radeon R9 270X. Finally, the Steam Machine-K sits at the high end with an Intel Core i5-4690K processor and a NVIDIA Geforce GTX 970.
Syber also hinted at an exclusive orange clad Steam Machine through CyberPowerPC for $1,399.
Of course, these are merely starting prices and users will be able to further customize them when ordering. This is CyberPowerPC’s second stab at breaking into the living room with the SteamOS partnership. Interestingly, they have managed to shave a bit off the cost of the lowest end model and added several more tiers compared to the initial series launched at last year’s CES.
I said it when Steam Machines
I said it when Steam Machines were first announced, and I’ll say it again. When SteamOS is released (out of beta) I am going to buy a Steam Machine, just to show the industry that PC gaming is not dead, and that PC gaming in the living room is possible.
I’ve been selling micro atx
I’ve been selling micro atx custom modded silent “steam machines” for the past year, maybe around 2-5 a month depending on how poor my city is that month for anywhere around 650-850 dollars. I usually pocket anywhere from 50-200 bucks depending on who when and why, heh. I assure you the market exists. The cool factor of mini-itx captures people. Pretty soon though I can see Cherry-trail replacing the need for AVERAGE uses that just want a stable low end pc gaming solution. They won’t even need to stream games, even on my lowest end bay-trail for 100 bucks I am able to play 40% of my steam library games at WHATEVER leel at detail at 45-60fps (unlike these shotty android ports, please don’t say it ran crysis. It did so in a very controller and limited situation at like 15fps, with no AI running about or noooothig.) With DX11 and Cherry Trail.. I think it’ll be time for you guys to do some benchmarking and head scratching.
Now I’m looking into the idea of designing my own custom tablets.
But I literally have no idea where to begin.
Will it be possible to just buy the cherry trail boards itself from Intel?
I’m more impressed with the
I’m more impressed with the specs/price ratio than I expected to be!
I really would like to see efforts like Steam Machines driving some of the laptop parts into a DIY arena – tiny video cards, and other add-on items, rather than how it is today having just a block of un-upgradable soldered together parts, or a gigantic box (relatively speaking) of full sized parts.