Sunday, October 6, 2013

Amazing Breakthrough with Xi3's Piston (changing the game of how we play games)

Every one knows that in the world of gaming you have PC, or console, but the day of them being on different sides of the fence may be coming to an end. The differentiation of the two markets, as well as products, is taking a large step closer to it's disappearance.


Current, and next gen systems are capable of many tasks that you would normally only expect from a PC, and innovations of companies like Valve, Steam, and Xi3 are finally bringing PC games to the living room. I was lucky enough to get a first hand look at the ground breaking Xi3 Piston console, and can honestly say I was more than amazed. The Piston's sleek design is enticing enough, but this little package packs a powerful punch. It was able to run higher spec, and higher benchmark PC games such as Crysis 2, while using the same amount of electricity that it takes to operate an older style light bulb.



 Running Valves new operating system titled SteamOS, the Xi3 Piston brings all the Steam features you're familiar with on your desktop to where ever you want. Taking up little more room than a standard desktop power supply, and a wireless Windows, sans controller included the Piston would be great on the go.
As if all that wasn't enough, The Xi3's modular design allows buyers the ability to upgrade the individual components as technology requires. This is something not offered by the big console names like Sony, Microsoft, or Nintendo. 

It is Xi3's belief that gaming supremacy starts with a powerful system, so they equipped the Piston console with a powerful 3.2 GHz AMD Trinity Processor, Radeon 7000 series GPU, 8 GB of DDR3 Gaming RAM, and a 128 GB SSD. The unit sports a hefty $1000us price tag, and will be available for purchase, November 29, 2013 (black Friday).


As always, thanks for reading-
Zachary Sellen

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