Maingear Drift: A Steam Machine for 4K
On the day of the official launch of the Steam Hardware devices, the manufacturer of gaming systems Maingear announces its Steam Machine.
SteamOS, Controller Steam, Steam Machine and Steam Link debuted officially on the market, bringing new hardware manufacturers to announce their declination of Steam Machine. Steam Hardware devices are now sold in the United States, Canada and Europe.
Valve provides hardware manufacturers an ecosystem that allows them to not only challenge Windows, thanks to SteamOS based on Linux, but also the console. Among these manufacturers are now also Maingear, a company based in Kenilworth, New Jersey, which has just announced Drift, a Steam Machine equipped with the necessary hardware to allow you to play at 4K resolution.
Users can also overclock and customize hardware, which basically provides an Intel Extreme Edition Haswell-E or Skylake, video card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti or Titan X, and up to 16 GB of memory DDR4 Kingston. Inside the chassis are three bay where you can install up to two SSD Samsung 850 Pro and a HDD 6TB.
” Drift packs the power and performance of larger systems in a chassis with sleek and compact design that fits anywhere, ” said Wallace Santos, CEO and Founder of Maingear, in a statement. ” SteamOS is finally here and we are happy to partner with Valve to make Drift the perfect system for the horse-drawn Steam.”
Maingear Drift is also equipped with cooling liquid Epic 120, which requires no maintenance. Inside the box there is also the Steam Controller, a gamepad with dual trackpad, haptic technology HD, two-phase triggers, buttons on the back and control configurations customizable. Prices of Maingear Drift start at $ 1,099.
