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Steam Machines have returned: all the news about Valve’s new hardware universe

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Sean Hollister
Wait, wait... HDMI and DisplayPort could’ve been a single port THIS WHOLE TIME?

Every desktop GPU should ship with four of these unholy things.

(Backstory: In 2013, Valve disavowed its involvement in the Xi3 Piston, a small gaming PC that was supposedly going to be a Steam Machine but shipped with Windows 7 instead. From the beginning, it had “DP/HDMI” stamped on its I/O shield — how did we miss it?!?)

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