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Wow, I got waitlisted and thought because the price wasn’t so hot, that I’d get an opportunity to buy relatively soon. Maybe not. Good for steam, not so much for me :)
I wanted one, but between the price and the single-channel RAM, I decided against it. None of that is Valve’s fault, but I’m still pretty disappointed.
I think it has an open a lot to add another dimm. Swear I saw a video on exactly that. 16gb dimm is expensive at $230 right now but that price would be the same for any system. But then you'd be dual channel
According to the Gamers Nexus (I think) video I saw, they're sourcing whatever RAM they can find, so some units ship with 1x16GB and others ship with 2X8GB and it's just random luck which you'll get.
He stated that in one video, then issued a correction from Valve in a later video saying all current units use 1 DIMM for now
"It's possible that this could change in the future, but the units that customers are signing up for will all come with one 16GB stick of RAM"
That’s not horrible it means I can source another 16gb RAM and double it.
I found a Crucial stick (16GB 5600 SODIMM) for like $180 on eBay. Ordered it a few days ago because I just wanted to have it by the time I did get my Steam Machine purchase email and then I ended up getting the purchase email yesterday, so hopefully it will all come next week. I also ordered a 2TB NVMe on eBay for $190.
Apparently the memory can be very unstable unless you have 2 identical sticks
I got my Steam Machine on Thursday and after running initial updates, I tore it apart and installed my Crucial RAM and 2TB SSD. So far it's running great, 32GB and no apparent memory instability issues. On the fresh SSD I installed SteamOS, then repartitioned it to shrink SteamOS to 1TB and made two 512GB partitions, then installed Arch and Windows on them. Triple boot with rEFInd is working well.
1: Why tf would you put Windows on a PC built for Linux?
2: The next Windows update is going to nuke your bootloader because M$ can't play nice with other OS's
Mainly for development purposes. I plan to use the Steam Machine as my new travel PC and for my work on OpenRGB I want both Linux and Windows for testing. I use Windows to reverse engineer the official software and protocols for devices so I can reimplement them in a cross platform way to work across all OSes. Also maybe for Fortnite, the only game I still need Windows for, though my friend group hasn't been playing lately, I know how to fix the bootloader, spent time getting a customized rEFInd config going.
In a later statement from VALVE they cleared up that this i not what they meant to say. All Steam Machines come with 1x16gb at the moment. But it might change in the future and then they cannot or don't want to guarantee either setups. There are no Steam Machines with 2x8gb from VALVE at this moment.
Oh for sure. It’s just that I’m too frugal to want to do that for something I don’t absolutely need.
As a compromise, I bought an AsRock BC-250 bitcoin miner that I am in the process of building into a pseudo-PS5.
Apparently there's updates can can potentiall locl more compute units based on how lucky tou are in the silicon lottery. Some people have unlocked all 40, more than a PS5 gets
I was on the reservation queue but hadn't received my email. I ended up in the queue for the 512GB and not the 2TB I really wanted, but luckily I found good deals on eBay for a 2TB SSD and a 16GB DDR5 5600 SODIMM for around $400 combined. Ended up ordering those just to have them when I finally did get my email, and luckily just last night I got my purchase email for the Steam Machine. Hopefully the RAM and SSD get here before the Machine does so I can upgrade it right away. That way I can have 32GB and dual-channel and enough space to triple boot SteamOS (for gaming), Arch Linux (for development, tinkering), and Windows (for Fortnite and development/testing as well).
I'm excited to reverse engineer its RGB and get it integrated into OpenRGB, one reason why I want all the OSes on it.
Very nice! I was really interested in that LED bar too. I appreciate your interest in improving OpenRGB too!
Good for the future of Steam hardware.