Valve Software: Xi3 Piston Is Just One Game System, More Incoming.

Xbitlabs ^ | 01/09/2013 06:54 AM | Anton Shilov

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

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lcy says:

An Xbox? It’s personal – no doubt. It’s a computer, again, no problem.

It’s not ‘yours’ though. It will only ever compute what someone other than you (in this case, Microsoft) has allowed it to compute. Just like an iPad.

Admittedly, if you don’t care, that might seem a pointless distinction, but to those of us who use computers as tools in this way, it makes all the difference in the world. The ability to type in a unique program and then just run the damn thing, in the full knowledge that it will do whatever you tell it to, really is quite amazing.

[RandallFlagg]

The nice thing about Steam is that if you have a catastrophic crash and have to get a new hard drive or PC, ALL of your games can be re-downloaded for free, with the latest patches and DLC, and all of your personal settings are restored to your new unit.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

So we have “Gaming via the Cloud”?

[Bikkuri]

I have the Linux Steam Beta... but only 1 choice for Free to Play so far, and I’m not interested in “Portal 2” ... :p

I am hoping that this does ‘pick up steam’, pun intended ;)

(BTW, I have been able to get World of Warcraft to work almost flawlessly.. the only setback is the water.. have to set it on fair or lower to be able to see it (lack of Shader 3 tech)). After ‘fixing’ the wow.exe, it is fully utilizing all 6 cores (AMD) and 16 gig of ram, plus my 2 gig of vid ram)... getting a nice FPS of 100 ;)

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

http://thessdreview.com/tag/msatamax/

Browsing all articles tagged with mSATAmax - The SSD Review.

[RandallFlagg]

Not exactly.
It just saves all gaming data so you won’t have to re-buy what you lost.
I have so many Steam games that after I built this massive gaming PC, it took about three days to re-acquire all of my games back from Steam. But I did get them all back for free.
Also, no CDs to get all scratched up.
You also are limited to (I think -unless they’ve changed it) using two PCs for the same account. Security reasons.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

More from link at #25:

Xi3 Introduces mSATAmax 12Gb/s SSD With 1TB/s Performance Into Xi3 Modular Systems

Friday, January 11, 2013

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An interesting find at CES was a new SSD created by Xi3 for use in their modular computer systems, these systems being just over 4″ x 3″ 3″ in size.

 Their new SSD contains the designation of mSATAmax and, considering that it will be available in capacities up to 1TB and have performance of 1TB/s read and write, this just may be the most powerful SSD we see in such a small computer package.

The Xi3 mSATAmax SSD product sheet lists it as having a 12Gb/s transfer rate, however, we believe its 1TB/s transfer speeds are achieved much as we recently saw with the Acer S7 Ultrabook where 2 x SATA 3 SSDs are present on one PCB and RAIDED to reach the listed perfomance.

Specifications list 1TB/s read and write with up to 160,000 IOPS at low 4k random aligned write disk access.  Capacities range from 120GB to 1TB 128-bit AES compliant data encryption. The physical size of this SSD is 46mmx85mmx5mm and it is ONLY compatible with systems that contain a Xi3 mSATAmax interface.  Release dates and pricing have not been set.

[rollo tomasi]

“So we have “Gaming via the Cloud”?”

Depends on the specific game. Skyrim and Farcry 3 have cloud saves which come in handy when switching between desktop and laptop coupled with Steam of course.

[crazydad]

I love my steam, I am a game dork so it is awesome.

[Marine_Uncle]

RE: "If this takes off,....what happens to the Game console makers like, ...M$,Sony, ninento, nvidia......???"

They go under, or perhaps move into drug running enterprises, that seems to always be a current need in this country.

[SunkenCiv]

The only bus anything needs now is USB 3.0 and eSATA, so, kudos to ‘em. Small computing is just getting started in, uh, earnest.

[LifeComesFirst]

I’m a physics/cs student and I have to basically stop gaming during the semester or I’ll fail.
Team Fortress 2 is one of my most fave games and I haven’t played it in 2 years.