Zotac Steam Machine SN970, the first Steam Machine

Zotac Steam Machine SN970, the first Steam Machine

 

 Enjoy the best of PC gaming with the ease of a console! 

The complete living room entertainment system now roars with a 6th generation Intel CPU and GeForce GTX960 to give you a smooth big screen experience. The Zotac Steam Machine is bundled with a Steam Controller giving you access to the entire Steam library in your living room. With Steam’s huge library of games, the power of Nvidia graphics and an all new fresh design, your new living room upgrade is coming soon (November)!

 

 

 

Customization

The ZOTAC Steam Machine offers both form and flexibility. This stylish and sleek-formed PC gaming console is up-gradable as well. Upgrade the memory or expand your storage for more gaming options. Customize your station for the battles ahead!

Power gaming with Nvidia

The ZOTAC Steam Machine comes equipped with a GeForce GTX960. With 3 GB of memory and a vast array of Maxwell exclusive technology, the full PC experience in ultra high settings will be delivered to you. Realistic light through VXGI and real life texture quality through MFAA.

SteamOS optimizes your experience

Valve’s much anticipated SteamOS brings you the full Steam platform experience and more. Pre-loaded with the ZOTAC Steam Machine, you will enjoy the unboxing and gaming experience, but the fun doesn’t stop there. SteamOS comes with in-home streaming, multimedia playback and library sharing capabilities making the living room fun for everyone.

Full Steam Social Experience

Download. Game. Talk. The full Steam experience is on the table. Access your friends list or connect with other players online. Turn on the Steam Machine anytime and you will find players ready to game.

  

Inside this PC is a powerful 6th generation Skylake i5 6400T, a GTX 960 (which we think is a GTX 960m judging by the VRAM) and a total of 4 HDMI 2.0 outputs, making this PC 4x4K ready, if you were more than a little bit mad.

With these kind of specs we can see that this PC is not just suitable for gaming, but also could be suitable is a multi-monitor office PC with just the addition of a more “office appropriate OS” like Windows 7-10 or Linux. 

 

  

This PC will have a wide range of options for the user, from WIFI and bluetooth compatibility and offers with it a new Steam Controller, which I personally have found to be a great controller from my time playing games like Metal Gear Solid V and Batman Arkham Knight. 

 

Conquer the Achilles heel of action games on PC with the bundled revolutionary Steam Controller and experience a heightened level of precision control. Dual Trackpads, HD haptic feedback, dual-stage triggers, back grip buttons, and full control scheme customization. Share your control mappings or find your favorite online in the Steam Community.

 

Personally I am really looking forward to seeing proper Steam machines hit the market, delivering console like PCs to the masses and giving people just one more reason to try Linux. 

Currently Steam lists this units price at $999.99, but this is a place-holder price that is likely to change over the coming weeks. 

 

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