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[–] 0 points 10 months ago (6 children)

I was looking at the 1tb 32gb ram Legion Go 2. $1300. I couldn’t believe the price. Does the 700$ steamdeck have 32gb ram?

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Why would you need 32gb of ram tho

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago
    1. Future proofing
    2. GenAI. Models take space, and what doesn't fit in your 16Gb VRAM works in your much slower regular RAM.
    3. Multitasking media generation, software builds, movie rips, serious number crunching, or anything else you can imagine, etc.
    4. One or more virtual machines running for various needs.
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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)
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    Worth noting that you can mod 32 GBs of RAM, and a few people did the mod, finding literally zero performance benefit.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Yeah, I know. If I remember correctly, the Steam Deck uses a pretty standard RAM type.

    But the system is well designed and doesn't have any real bottlenecks that aren't game-specific. So the Deck can't even run anything that would benefit from 32 GB of system RAM.

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