Monday, November 2nd 2015

ZOTAC Unveils the NEN Steam Machine

ZOTAC International, a global innovator and manufacturer of graphics card and ZBOX Mini PCs, makes the case for small form factor gaming with NEN, the most powerful small form Steam Machine. ZOTAC taps into NEN to draw out a truly powerful Steam Machine with minimalism, portability, and an all new design for a new way to game.

ZOTAC, the original Mini PC manufacturer, has been producing Mini PCs since 2008 and are continuing to innovate with more power, higher efficiency and smaller size. With the recent release of the MAGNUS, the most powerful small form barebones Gaming Mini PC, ZOTAC is pushing their momentum forward to unleash an even more potent machine.
NEN is the ability to tap into your innate aura, hone it, and utilize it to further yourself. ZOTAC has laid the groundwork for the NEN Steam Machine with the power, dormant and waiting. NEN is not simply a PC turned Steam Machine. It is engineered from the ground up to game with the mechanics of the PC fused with the genetics of console to be the most powerful small form Steam Machine. Game with pure brute of PC with a 6th gen Intel quad-core Skylake processor and NVIDIA GeForce GTX graphics hardware, and play with the precision of a console with the all new bundled Steam Controller. Hardware of the future, here today in the form of NEN.

Size, sound, acoustics, and lighting are all very important for a system that will anchor as the home entertainment center. ZOTAC engineers shrank all the functionalities and power to a mere height of two inches to ensure it fits neatly into the entertainment center while maintaining whisper quiet levels at maximum cooling performance utilizing dual radial coolers. It also features the ability to disable the power on LED so it will be just you and the game; an almost impossible feat of engineering just a few years ago.

SteamOS
Power on to a whole new way to play with SteamOS. Pre-installed and ready to go, log into your existing Steam account or create one to access thousands of games and connect with millions of gamers. SteamOS will only display compatible games to ensure an optimal Steam experience. With a 1TB hard drive pre-installed, you can ensure you'll be able to load all your favorite games with room to expand with an available M.2 SATA SSD slot. It's the same Steam experience millions of gamers enjoy every day, now optimized and at your fingertips.

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.
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10 Comments on ZOTAC Unveils the NEN Steam Machine

#1
Marecki_CLF
There's something dodgy about the GPU description in this system. AFAIK, the GTX960 GPU has 128-bit memory bus, not 192-bit. The only NVidia GPU with 192-bit memory bus in the Maxwell family is GTX970M. Correct me if I'm wrong though.
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MxPhenom 216
ASIC Engineer
Marecki_CLFThere's something dodgy about the GPU description in this system. AFAIK, the GTX960 GPU has 128-bit memory bus, not 192-bit. The only NVidia GPU with 192-bit memory bus in the Maxwell family is GTX970M. Correct me if I'm wrong though.
Yeah 960s are 128-bit.
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#5
john_
This is the GTX 960 Nvidia should have offered in the first place. Instead they took a 950Ti and called it 960. We might see it as a 960Ti when 380X comes out officially.
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#6
Constantine Yevseyev
So, basically, it's a high-end laptop (LV-tier CPU, GTX 970M), put in a nettop chassis, with Linux installed on it, so that you can't play any games other than Indie titles and a few older multiplayer games? I don't get it?..

Love the squished Steam logo though, kinda creates an eerie symbolism of how it's now flooded with poor quality "games" instead of proper AAA titles, yet people would still buy anything and thank the "developers" for the opportunity.
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#8
wotevajjjj
So they build a steam machine, but the receiver for the controller is not built in?
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#9
nickbaldwin86
I want one... would make a perfect Mortal Kombat X console! depending on cost of course I might just this.
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