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[–] 21 points 3 months ago (4 children)

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"

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (2 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 3 months ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    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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