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No need to release the files for the beta Steamboxes. What they did undoubtedly was inspired by or inspired Silverstone's RVZ01 (and follow-ons) and MSI's Vortex and Nightblade among others. Valve just needed to show it could be done and then get out of the way of OEMs, custom creators (KI, NCase, Dondan, etc.) and boutiques and let the market do the rest.I will say that Valve could have helped the adoption of powerful SFF systems a bit by pushing the industry harder to adopt improved (more space-efficient, less costly) componentry and physical interfaces (a la Apple's Mac Pro and the MSI Vortex), but I think that these will come as the GPU power/performance ratio improves and the Red and Green teams introduce better interfaces (initially for HPC and supercomputing, likely). In any case, Valve did push the use of PCIe risers and SFF into - a not insignificant step.
No need to release the files for the beta Steamboxes. What they did undoubtedly was inspired by or inspired Silverstone's RVZ01 (and follow-ons) and MSI's Vortex and Nightblade among others. Valve just needed to show it could be done and then get out of the way of OEMs, custom creators (KI, NCase, Dondan, etc.) and boutiques and let the market do the rest.
I will say that Valve could have helped the adoption of powerful SFF systems a bit by pushing the industry harder to adopt improved (more space-efficient, less costly) componentry and physical interfaces (a la Apple's Mac Pro and the MSI Vortex), but I think that these will come as the GPU power/performance ratio improves and the Red and Green teams introduce better interfaces (initially for HPC and supercomputing, likely). In any case, Valve did push the use of PCIe risers and SFF into - a not insignificant step.
