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[–] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

That’s not horrible it means I can source another 16gb RAM and double it.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Apparently the memory can be very unstable unless you have 2 identical sticks

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago* (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    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.

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