The major gaming platforms are divided into two groups: personal computers and consoles.
Valve is working on devices called Steam Machines, which were presented last week along with a unique game controller and its own operating system. The initiative, which was conceived Valve, should allow players to remain loyal to the PC, but at the same time to move to the living room to a comfortable chair and big-screen TVs. And it will distract the public from thinking about Half-Life 3 ...
Valve plans to test different configurations Steam Machines among the few users of the service. Valve even published specifications of computers that will be distributed to approved applicants. Thus, prototypes Steam Machines has the following:
- Graphics Card NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan, GeForce GTX 780, GeForce GTX 760 or GeForce GTX 660;
- Processor Core i7-4770, Core i7-4570 or a model Core i3;
- 16 GB of RAM DDR3-1600;
- hybrid drive that combines 8GB of solid state memory and hard drive capacity of 1 TB;
- Power supply of 450 watts;
- body with dimensions of 305 x 315 x 74 mm.
Curiously, Valve did not use solutions AMD.
Apply to participate in the testing of prototypes Steam Machines can be up to 25 October.