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The Best Chassis for Steambox/HTPC Style Gaming Systems

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The Best Chassis for Steambox/HTPC Style Gaming Systems

 

Steambox is certainly grabbing a lot of headlines throughout 2014,

with system integrators (such as CyberPower) creating their own custom

Steambox style systems, and chassis manufacturers creating new cases

that are suitable for the job. Of course, there is a lot of smoke and

mirrors surrounding Steambox, but we're going to blow away any doubt

and get you up to speed on what a Steambox is and how you can do it.

 

First thing is first, Steambox is a PC, nothing less and nothing

more. What we're really looking at here is a clever rebranding by

Valve to make HTPC gaming sound cool. Of course, it really is cool and

credit goes to Valve for creating something that is appealing to both

mainstream console gamers, as much as it is PC gamers. The major

difference for Steambox is the introduction of SteamOS, which is still

in beta, but once again all that really is a Linux distro designed to

launch Steam as the native desktop. This may sound a little

complicated for some, but don't worry as I'll be revisiting this

subject over the next couple of weeks to bring you up to speed on how

it all works, how you can build your own, set everything up and more.

 

While much of the fun stuff is certainly contained within the games

you'll be playing, let's start things off nice and easy and find out

about the chassis you'll be using. There are lots of great PC chassis'

on the market, but I've picked up a bunch that I thought would be

ideal for the job and today I'm going to put them to the test. I'll be

looking for several key factors from each chassis, their price, form

factor, hardware/component compatibility, built quality, acoustic

performance and thermal performance.

 

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http://www.eteknix.com/best-chassis-steamboxhtpc-style-gaming-systems/

 

 

 

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