In the lead-up to its press event at CES, Valve had said that Steam Machines of all shapes, sizes, costs, and performance levels were in the works — some would be small and cheap, others would be high-end graphics powerhouses. Origin PC's Chronos Steam Machine falls into the latter category.
Based upon the company's existing line of small form factor PCs, the Chronos Steam Machine will offer support for up to dual Nvidia SLE GeForce GTX Titan GPUs, 14TBs of storage, and a liquid CPU cooling system. The system will be built-to-order and customizable from top to bottom, ranging from chassis color to component specifications and pre-configured overclocking. Optional dual-boot upgrades will allow users to swap between Valve's Linux-based Steam OS and Windows 7 or Windows 8 on the fly. Like all Steam Machines, the Chronos will come with Valve's wireless Steam controller.
Pricing and availability remains unknown, but the Origin PC says that the Chronos will be offered sometime "soon" this year.

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During Valve's CES 2014 event this evening, the company released a brochure featuring images, prices, and specificiations for 13 third-party Steam Machines. Let's take a look-see!
Aside from Alienware, the party pooper, each of the 13 machines at the very least comes with some basic specs, giving us an idea of what to expect from these Valve-approved gaming PCs. Some we've seen earlier today. Others we'll be getting to know more about later this evening. According to Valve's Gabe Newell, Maingear's system was too late to make the brochure, but I'm sure there will be more about that down the line.
So, what do you guys think? That certainly a bunch of PC gaming machines, right?






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