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Things like this is why I decided, I don’t want to be an early adopter.
The click-rate on this thing has to be through the roof when a single machine failing is news.
A single machine failing represents probably 10% of the entire population tho
There will always be a few hardware failures, we will have to wait to see if larger tends develop.
1 failure should be a quick replacement by Valve. Rma it.
Only if they have parts.
BSOD RROD YLOD and now RLOD
lolOD
ROTFLOD
LMAODO
ROFLCOPTERLOD
ROTFLMAOWTFOMGOD
Rolling On The Floor Literally OverDosing?
I like the idea of a floor of death.
Typical Tuesday night for us cool folk.
Just need green and we can have RGB of death. Stick blue and yellow next to each other perhaps?
I believe Apple had the rainbow beachball of death ages ago
ouch, wondering if its overheating or they were sold a bad card
There's a lot of power limitations that Valve put on the Steam Machine to prevent it from getting warm or needing to speed up the fans (making it louder). It's part of why the Steam Machine doesn't perform well compared to similarly priced computers
Heat is definitely not the issue
The airflow in the case is pretty great for something with a solid front - thermally there isn't much to criticize about the steam machine. that it ran for 20 minutes and then died with an GPU post error would make me think less about a direct chip failure and more about a resistor or capacitor having a contact issue, prompted by vibrations from the fan and the previous transport, maybe even outright transport damage escalating after a short runtime.
Gamers Nexus tests don't show overheating to be an issue, it could just be a defect but only time will tell.
wtf. I thought they were still in reservation mode. I got my reservation in but not a buy option. Is this a review unit?
If you got in the queue, you were sent an email confirming it so. Then you just wait for your window to purchase. If you didnt get an email, then you didnt make it in this time around.
you didnt get picked for the raffle then.
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