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2013-12-14, 01:12 AM
Polantaris Wrote:No, I think it's because NVIDIA is more supportive of Linux than AMD is and has public drivers. At least, that's how it was last I checked. They did specifically state that AMD and Intel chips will be supported in the near future but not right now. This is the only reason I can think of for it.


Its because Nvidia was a partner with Steam when coming out with the SteamOS. Albeit Nvidia drivers are better as of the moment(AMD APU's supposedly had a performance boost on the last few unbuntu(?) update) it was Nvidia who worked with Valve for the most part. Tis why all the valve prototypes are Nvidia based, (but other companies steamboxes such as IBuyPower's steam box will be launching as well at 500$ I think, and it was already confirmed that it was launching with a AMD CPU(price wise, its probably a FX-4300) along with a R9-270(HD 7870 with only 1 6 pin PCI-E power)
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SteamOS - by Corn - 2013-09-23, 02:16 PM
SteamOS - by Takebacker - 2013-09-23, 02:21 PM
SteamOS - by Zelkova - 2013-09-23, 02:22 PM
SteamOS - by Malthe - 2013-09-23, 02:30 PM
SteamOS - by Untradeable - 2013-09-23, 02:52 PM
SteamOS - by Polantaris - 2013-09-23, 03:02 PM
SteamOS - by Takebacker - 2013-09-23, 03:36 PM
SteamOS - by MuscleWizard - 2013-09-23, 04:29 PM
SteamOS - by Lozmaster - 2013-09-23, 05:19 PM
SteamOS - by HumpMyHeal - 2013-09-23, 05:22 PM
SteamOS - by Kirov - 2013-09-23, 05:27 PM
SteamOS - by Lozmaster - 2013-09-23, 05:28 PM
SteamOS - by Sega - 2013-09-23, 06:08 PM
SteamOS - by MuscleWizard - 2013-09-23, 06:36 PM
SteamOS - by Lozmaster - 2013-09-23, 07:31 PM
SteamOS - by Chew - 2013-09-23, 07:37 PM
SteamOS - by Polantaris - 2013-09-23, 09:27 PM
SteamOS - by HumpMyHeal - 2013-09-24, 01:18 AM
SteamOS - by Dudewitbow - 2013-09-24, 03:03 AM
SteamOS - by Dark Link - 2013-09-25, 04:10 PM
SteamOS - by Takebacker - 2013-09-25, 04:17 PM
SteamOS - by Dusk - 2013-09-25, 04:37 PM
SteamOS - by Takebacker - 2013-09-25, 04:48 PM
SteamOS - by Corn - 2013-09-25, 04:58 PM
SteamOS - by Dudewitbow - 2013-09-25, 07:18 PM
SteamOS - by Kirov - 2013-09-25, 07:51 PM
SteamOS - by SuperNerd - 2013-09-27, 01:30 PM
SteamOS - by Jedward - 2013-09-27, 01:36 PM
SteamOS - by Zelkova - 2013-09-27, 01:49 PM
SteamOS - by Declaimed - 2013-09-27, 01:50 PM
SteamOS - by Alloy - 2013-09-27, 02:21 PM
SteamOS - by Dusk - 2013-09-27, 02:26 PM
SteamOS - by Takebacker - 2013-09-27, 03:19 PM
SteamOS - by Zelkova - 2013-09-27, 03:19 PM
SteamOS - by Kirov - 2013-09-27, 03:33 PM
SteamOS - by Eyon - 2013-09-27, 03:58 PM
SteamOS - by Polantaris - 2013-09-27, 04:51 PM
SteamOS - by Lozmaster - 2013-09-27, 05:04 PM
SteamOS - by Jedward - 2013-09-27, 08:04 PM
SteamOS - by Five Second Pose - 2013-12-13, 08:58 PM
SteamOS - by Polantaris - 2013-12-13, 09:06 PM
SteamOS - by Jedward - 2013-12-13, 09:15 PM
SteamOS - by Polantaris - 2013-12-13, 09:25 PM
SteamOS - by Kirov - 2013-12-13, 10:25 PM
SteamOS - by Dudewitbow - 2013-12-14, 01:12 AM

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