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Steam Controller drops touchscreen, adds physical buttons (update: new controller image)

It turns out that Valve's hardware beta was an actual beta: the Steam Controller is dropping its touchscreen and adding some physical buttons before

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steamos-installer - Ye Olde SteamOSe - a modified SteamOS installer, with support for older and virtualized computers

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We Didn't Get One of Valve's Steam Machines, So We Built One Ourselves

With a little bit of patience, research, and help from the Linux community at large, we built one of the first homemade Steam Machines.

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iBuyPower's Steam Machine offers PC specs for the price of a new Xbox

Valve's official Steam Machine prototype isn't cheap, but it won't be the only Steam-powered video-game console available come 2014. This morning, iBuyPower revealed a prototype of its own upcoming...

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Valve joins the Linux Foundation as it prepares its Linux-powered Steam OS and Steam Machines

Valve, creator of the Steam gaming platform and a video game studio and publisher in its own right, is the latest company to join the Linux Foundation – a nonprofit organization tasked ...

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Here's the first non-Valve Steam Machine prototype, care of iBuyPower (update: specs)

That game console headlining this text? It isn't a white PS4: it's a commercial Steam Machines box, or at least a prototype of one. iBuyPower tells us

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Valve Confirms Official AMD-Powered Steam Machines For 2014

In a statement to Forbes, a Valve representative has confirmed that AMD graphics hardware will be included in commercially available Steam Machines next year.

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Building a DIY Steam Machine: Full cost breakdown of a Steam Machine | Chips | Geek.com

You don't have to wait for OEMs to start selling ready-made Steam Machines -- you can roll your own right now using Valve's beta specs as a handy guide.

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Here are the specifications for Valve's 300 prototypes. 

The 300 prototype units will ship with the following components: 

GPU: some units with NVidia Titan, some GTX780, some GTX760, and some GTX660 

CPU: some boxes with Intel i7-4770, some i5-4570, and some i3 

RAM: 16GB DDR3-1600 (CPU), 3GB GDDR5 (GPU) 

Storage: 1TB/8GB Hybrid SSHD 

Power Supply: Internal 450w 80Plus Gold 

Dimensions: approx. 12 x 12.4 x 2.9 in high 

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Valve presents Steam Controller