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[–] 14 points 11 months ago (14 children)

Interesting, I thought there wasn’t connectors for the front panel

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  • [–] 14 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Could be wireless. That would also explain the "battery" mentioned in the poll on shitter.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 11 months ago (7 children)

    There aren't, to my knowledge, but I'm sure you could grab it and data from somewhere on the board.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (6 children)

    It won’t look as clean as shown in the pictures then

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    It's not hard to hide wires behind that big screen, even if you have to drill a little hole, no big deal.

    Are you picturing a big USB or HDMI cable sticking out the side?

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago*

    As long as there's some kind of power available inside the machine (e.g. an extra SATA power connector) it can just use that and wifi.

    I suspect that the Valve engineers weren't so short sighted though and probably have all the usual headers/connectors inside the thing that a normal PC would have. For example, a USB 3 header (the kind usually used for front-panel USB ports).

    If anything, the device probably has at least one extra M.2 connector and a 1x or 4x PCI express connector. With those, anything is possible.

    Even if the only power available is the CPU fan header you can always just use a splitter and pull power out of that.

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