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Sean Hollister
A look inside the Steam Machine.

What’s inside Valve’s six-inch cube? We got a dozen photos of the console’s guts, including all six sides.

Gallery: Peek inside Valve’s new Steam Machine with our photos.
It looks like a full quarter of the Steam Machine’s volume is just the fan.
A metal sandwich of cooling, motherboard, and power supply, with antennas for ears and ports for feet.
A view from the top down. It’s a Delta fan.
Left side.
Another dedicated antenna in the corner.
Hands for size comparison.
Tiny daughterboards on the bottom, screw holes for M.2 2280 and 2230 SSDs, and the label for Valve’s 300W power supply from Chicony.
The USB and Ethernet ports are on their own tiny board, too.
Now with the shroud on.
Back together again, with the front panel off.
A cherry red wooden panel, swappable with the Steam Deck’s included plain black one.
A small black cube with USB ports on the bottom of the front panel, a thin glowing light bar above that, and the remaining seven-eighths of the front panel red with a Team Fortress character in silhouette.
The e-paper display that Valve internally built for this Steam Machine displays system stats like CPU and GPU temperature and fan speed.
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Gallery: Peek inside Valve’s new Steam Machine with our photos.
Photo by Everything Time Studio / The Verge
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