At CES 2013 this week, Xi3 and Valve have unveiled a new mini PC that supports Steam and has been created using investment from Valve, possibly hinting that this small factor high-powered mini ...

The Xi3 Piston, not backed by Valve, apparently. Yesterday Valve said it wasn't involved with the Xi3 Piston, dubbed the unofficial Steambox, in any way. Now, amid growing confusion, the people behind ...

The instance of piston striking valve is right up at the top of the list of things that will ruin your day. It's fundamental tothe four-stroke cycle that valves and pistons come close to one another, ...

The Steam Box (or Steam Boxes, more likely) has been a long time coming, and today, the Xi3’s Piston is leading the charge. While the details about Piston specifically are few and far between, we got ...

The "Steam Box" modular computer announced by hardware maker Xi3 and Valve at CES is codenamed "Piston" and is modeled after the PC maker's X7A line of pint-sized computers, Xi3 reps tell Polygon. Xi3 ...

Hardware maker Xi3 is pushing back against Valve’s attempts to distance itself from Xi3’s $1,000 Piston PC-in-a-console, setting off a debate about what, precisely, is meant by the heavily ...

Since its reveal at CES, the story has been that Xi3's Piston is, if not the Steambox we've all been waiting for, then certainly a Steambox - the first of several third-party PCs designed for Steam ...

It is incomplete to even talk about degreeing a camshaft without discussing piston-to-valve clearance. It's like learning how to drive but never being taught how to use the brakes. Learning how to ...

Following on from the launch of Xi3’s Piston mini PC for $999 last week, Valve has now confirmed that the Xi3 Piston is not a Valve Steam Box, after all. Valve’s Doug Lombardi explained and confirmed ...

Lots of displacement, more compression, and a ton of valve lift used to be the recipe for a typical professional-level drag-race motor. Today, this same description could just as easily be a serious ...