Valve’s Steam Box is Now Piston a modular mini-PC.
And finally the mystery was unveiled at CES 2013 . It was expected that Valve would wait until E3 or GDC 2013 , but rumors of an imminent presentation finally were true. Those of Gabe Newell have shown their ‘PC prefabricated’, formerly known as Steam Box , but this is something different than we thought, in fact you could almost say that Valve is not as such, but let us explain.
Valve is working with Xi3 Corporation (a developer of hardware) Piston , a tiny modular PC that fits in the palm of your hand and has a specification, as it has been hinted that the statements of both companies, noteworthy.
Piston will feature a technology based on the architecture of Xi3 X7a models, ie four microprocessor cores at 3.2 GHz , integrated memory card (probably similar to ATI HD 7660G) and from 4 to 8 GB DDR3 , with many USB 2.0 ports and 3.0, eSATAp, HDMI for two monitors at once … in short, all we could find on a motherboard of a desktop ordinary.
Where more limp may be on your graphics card, but more interesting is that, being a modular PC, we can change the components when you want. Moreover, this small computer consumes only 40W, a tiny amount. Finally, Piston will appear this year , but has not been given an estimated date or price has been said (although the model by comparing costs A7X in its full version, $ 999).
What do you think this little box? What would you do with it?