Steam Machine partners revealed – CyberPower specs and pricing announced

Cyber Power Steam Machine

Update: All pricing, designs and specs have now been posted for third-party Steam Machines.

With CES taking place this week there’s plenty of hardware news to get stuck into and the long awaited reveal of who will be making third-party Steam Machines  has been revealed.

Twelve manufacturers have shown their backing of the Steam Machine concept and these are:

• Alienware
• Falcon Northwest
• CyberPowerPC
• Origin PC
• Gigabyte
• Scan Computers
• Materiel.net
• Webhallen
• Alternate
• Zotac

CyberPower also revealed their specs and pricing of their Steam Machines and they come in two flavours.

CyberPowers Machine A

• Price: $499.00
• Case: CyberPower Steam Machine Chassis
• Graphics Card: AMD Radeon R9 2GB GDDR5 Video Card
• Processor: AMD A6-64000K 3.90 Ghz
• Storage: 500 GB SATA-III 7200 RPM HDD
• Chipset: mITX motherboard w/802.11 WiFi+ Bluetooth
• Acccessory: Steam Controller
• OS: Steam OS

CyberPowers Machine B

• Price: $699.00
• Case: CyberPower Steam Machine Chassis
• Graphics Card: Nvidia GeForce GTX 760 2GB GDDR5 Video Vard
• Processor: Intel Core i3-4330 3.50 GHz
• Storage: 500 GB SATA-III 7200 RPM HDD
• Chipset: mITX motherboard w/802.11 AC WiFi+ Bluetooth
• Acccessory: Steam Controller
• OS: Steam OS

These are the first manufacturers to show hands and no doubt as the year rolls on we’ll see more companies coming on board.

I am still not convinced of the hardware specs and pricing, they are not exactly cheap for a gaming machine that’s going to sit in your living room. We’ll have to wait and see if the new Steam Machines will be embraced by gamers but with a large choice of manufacturers it’s not going to make it easy.

Thanks Engadget