I mean, this honestly seems rather nice of Valve? The performance difference likely isn't that much, and if you are the kind of person where it does matter you'll probably want to upgrade to 32GB anyway. In which case you can just buy a single 16GB stick rather than having to buy a full kit.

"Valve doesn't have a take it or go fuck yourself agreement" with memory vendors. They have a "Get fucked and go fuck yourself anyway agreement." - Gamers Nexus

That's what I was thinking... secondary market for replaced Steam Machine memory... but TBH, after I got downgraded from the 2TB reservation to the 512, and saw the removal of the 4K60 stat, and the problems with single channel memory, and the cancelation of the Companion Cube, I don't even want one anymore. 😔

Cost to performance ratio of “upgrading” to dual-channel doesn’t really make sense.

Seems like the actual difference in gaming performance is negligible in all but a few edge cases.

Kind of lost excitement after the price tag. If Xbox and Sony raised their prices first I feel like maybe the public would of received the steam machines price better. Its still too much for me regardless, I don't need one just wanted one as a fan boy.

Also its the steam frame that is the more important one in my mind.

Look up gamehub (don't use it though it's made by game sir I think) they are already using fex and you can play games like red dead 2 at 60fps 720p on a pocco phone.

Like a year or two down the line the verification system for the steam frame will be super matured and you will just be able to play the games on your phone. Fex could potentially even help inspire someone to make a arch based operating system for phones so we have something other than Ubuntu touch and postmarket os. And it would be able to run pretty much any application. A lot of native Linux apps are already ported to arm like blender, being able to run exes and video games helps a lot.

I wish I could express to you guys how much proton matured sense the release of the steam deck and the constant work with the verification program which helps them further fix proton. It was like maybe half my library that worked, and not super well when I got my q1 steam deck. Now I don't even check proton db before buying a game, besides few multiplayer games everything just works. So much of the world is going to arm and x86 is on its way out.

If I were to get one, and I'm not rich to throw away money at this, I'd be wary of upgrading them myself. The teardowns showed there are some particularly fragile ribbons cables glued that would be really easy to damage.

Ive heard that a single stick of ddr5 can run some kind of dual channel. So it doesnt effect speed much.

Source: i feel like I heard it somewhere.

TL;DW?

Gamers Nexus is great but I don't always have an hour+ for their videos 😐

I wonder how much for another 16gb stick...

TBF I'd rather it shipped with a single 16gb stick so you can upgrade to 32 than two 8gb that you could only upgrade by replacing both