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Valve Nerfed the Steam Machine's Performance | Single vs. Dual-Channel Memory Benchmark - Gamers Nexus (www.youtube.com)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
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Well that's really a big ol' WTF there and another fuck you BS AI.

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[–] 49 points 4 months ago (10 children)

Valve is shipping the steam machine with a single stick of 16gb of RAM, what they were able to procure. This hampers performance. Parts of the video make it sound like gn thinks valve is doing this maliciously, despite gn also saying this is what valve was able to get all they could ship more machines.

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  • [–] 17 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    There's an interview with two Valve employees (maybe by Tested? I forget) where they were very clear that this is what RAM they were able to purchase. Otherwise they would simply have to produce far fewer Steam Machines overall. Not very good choices to have when releasing a product...

    EDIT: Nope I guess it was n fact Steve from GN doing that interview, clips are in this video, and Valve corrected the statement to say that all machines are shipping with a single 16 GB RAM stick. Damn.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago* (5 children)

    Edit: I was going off the previous interview and had not yet watched video in OP. There's been a correction to state all machines have one stick. My bad!

    Original comment below

    The malicious part, imho, is that some machines have two sticks and some machines have one. Which will you get? Who knows! So you could pay the same amount as another customer, but get a worse machine.

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

    Feel like you'd be lucky to get single stick because the performance difference is marginal and you have the opportunity to upgrade it to 32GB by buying just 1 16GB stick.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    My understanding is that DDR5 is very sensitive to matched pairs of modules. I don't think you can rely on individually purchased sticks working together. Not to say that it can't work, but it might be a crapshoot.

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

    You can if you buy the same spec. People often don't read the notes on what they buy, I think that's the problem.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    Even modules sold under the same model number may use chips from a different manufacturer, or have a different PCB layout. These differences can make some modules incompatible with otherwise seemingly identical modules.

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

    Parts of the video make it sound like gn thinks valve is doing this maliciously

    At no point in the video does Steve suggest it was malicious

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