As promised, at CES today Valve announced details about the upcoming Steam Machines. These bad boys are gaming systems meant for the living room, and will run the new SteamOS operating system that Steam recently released for download. While you can make your very own Steam Machine yourself, no one knew exactly what kind of specs and prices the third party machines would show off. It turns out that they run the gamut, from relatively cheap and in competition with the current next-gen consoles ($499) to the absurd and only for the super-rich ($6000!)
Here's the list, as provided by Polygon.
Alternate - $1339
CPU - Intel Core i5 4570
Graphics - Gigabyte GTX 760
RAM - 16GB
Storage - 1TB SSHD
CyberPowerPC - $499 and up
CPU - AMD/Intel Core i5 CPU
Graphics - AMD Radeon R9 270/Nvidia GTX 760
RAM - 8GB
Storage - 500GB
Digital Storm Bolt II - $2,584
CPU - Intel Core i7 4770K
Graphics - GTX 780 Ti
RAM - 16GB
Storage - 1TB HDD + 120 GB SSD
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Gigabyte Brix Pro - TBD
CPU - Intel Core i7-4770R
Graphics - Intel Iris Pro 5200
RAM - 2 x 4GB
Storage - 1TB SATA 6Gb/sata
Falcon Northwest - $1,799 to $6000
CPU - customizable
Graphics - Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan
RAM - 8 to 16 GB
Storage - up to 6 TB
iBuyPower - $499 and up
CPU - Quad core AMD or Intel
Graphics - Radeon GCN Graphics
RAM - 8GB
Storage - 500GB+
Materiel.net - $1,098
CPU - Intel Core i5 4440
Graphics - MSI GeForce GTX 760 OC
RAM - 8GB
Storage - 8 GB + 1 TB SSHD
Next SPA - price TBD
CPU - Intel Core i5
Graphics - Nvidia GT 760
RAM - 8GB
Storage - 1TB
Origin PC Chronos - price TBD
CPU - Intel Core i7 4770K (3.9 to 4.6 GHz)
Graphics - 2 x 6GB Nvidia GeForce GTX Titans
Scan NC 10 - $1,090
CPU - Intel Core i3 4000M
Graphics - Nvidia GeForce GTX 765M
RAM - 8GB
Storage - 500GB
Webhallen - $1,499
CPU - Intel Core i7
Graphics - Nvidia GT 780
RAM - 16GB
Storage - 1TB SSHD
Zotac - $599
CPU - Intel Core (TBD)
Graphics - Nvidia GeForce GTX
RAM - TBD
Storage - TBD
Computer manufacturer Alienware is also offering a gaming pc (pictured above) which is expected to be priced competitively, but no details have emerged on it just yet. Like the other Machines it's going to be designed to be tiny, a powerful little box that won't take up any space in your living room. There's still no word on which, if any, of these Machines will come bundled with Valve's Steam Controller, which looks amazing. Valve also currently hasn't decided if they're going to make their very own Steam Machine, although there are currently over 300 prototypes for such an occurance. Over 250 games are running on SteamOS with more on the way every day.
More as we hear it!