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MikeTrike

MikeTrike

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I came into some free RAM.

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I'm still buying a Steam Machine for my living room to compliment my sTeAm MaChInE in the office.
 
You might want to give us the actual price since you forgot to add the cost of the RAM to your total. The cost of your other items is also questionable.
 
usa all day said:
He said elsewhere that he bought some part used / eBAY
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Oh my bad, it's basically all used except the fans, to PSU, and case from Amazon. I figured the pricing you see with your eyes would make that apparent, so it didn't exactly cross my mind to say "hey this cheap old s*** is used, bruh."

The ram was free, but had I bought the RAM, it would have been 16 or 32 gigs. The only reason I'm running 64 is because they are two 32 gig sticks (and did I mention free) so I can't use less. I mean I guess I could use a single stick like the actual Steam Machine. But why would I do that when I have two 32 gig sticks...

That might be enough information for y'all to do the basic math with.
 
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Shoganai said:
You might want to give us the actual price since you forgot to add the cost of the RAM to your total. The cost of your other items is also questionable.
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Questionable like I bought it used from eBay or Mercari? Or questionable like hey where are you getting those brand old parts new at those prices?
 
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Shoganai said:
I just noticed he said "I came into some free RAM." Whatever that means. Even the crappiest 64 GB of RAM the world has to offer is still around 400 bucks. This thread is ridiculous.
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I only come into expensive things.

Everything else I go cheap AF.

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How do you like gaming on it? I recently installed SteamOS for my desktop and have really enjoyed the experience. I've used Bazzite before, and while I think it provides a better desktop experience - I found sleep/resume during gameplay hit or miss. So far SteamOS 3.8 has been steady in this regard, no visual corruption, and I've only had two issues with it that were easily remedied. That's been my favorite thing about it, and was the main reason I'd still choose a PS5 copy of a game over the PC version.

I'm not using it for desktop use, unless I need to go in to configure something or install a non-Steam game.
 
SeymourGore said:
How do you like gaming on it? I recently installed SteamOS for my desktop and have really enjoyed the experience. I've used Bazzite before, and while I think it provides a better desktop experience - I found sleep/resume during gameplay hit or miss. So far SteamOS 3.8 has been steady in this regard, no visual corruption, and I've only had two issues with it that were easily remedied. That's been my favorite thing about it, and was the main reason I'd still choose a PS5 copy of a game over the PC version.

I'm not using it for desktop use, unless I need to go in to configure something or install a non-Steam game.
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It works great, it's still Bazzite, that's mostly fine except for the sleep thing. Basically I disabled sleep entirely because it wouldn't always return to the UI and I'd have to smother it and force it to boot again.
 
Hash_Immutable_1337x said:
Could have went with a Ryzen 5500 combo for some savings. 5600x is overkill for this.
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Crossed my mind, I may do that for my daughter's rig. We're about $300 into that one. Also free RAM. The CPU is a much weaker 2700X.

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Although in terms of raw compute it probably doesn't matter for what she does...

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Edit: She's running 32 gigs of RAM and a W5700 Radeon, with a 250 gig Samsung SSD.
 
Another mediocre review.

* Expensive
* Leave marks
* Has short cord
* Doesn't really clean

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LukeTbk said:
The "free" 64GB of memory do a bit of work (and the old price for an SN850x) here ;)
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Hell to the yeah!

My comparison here is not trying to diminish or argue the value of the official steam machine in a positive or negative direction because I'm still going to buy one if I'm selected by their lottery.
 
MikeTrike said:
Hell to the yeah!

My comparison here is not trying to diminish or argue the value of the official steam machine in a positive or negative direction because I'm still going to buy one if I'm selected by their lottery.
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What was the point then? And the Steam Machine certainly doesn't need help with going in a negative direction. It's doing that fine all on its own.
 
What was the point then? And the Steam Machine certainly doesn't need help with going in a negative direction. It's doing that fine all on its own.
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I just wanted to share my build because I'm excited about it and I like it.

I haven't been excited for anything PC related in about a decade. The whole Steam OS and secondary Clone OS community got me excited again.
 
MikeTrike said:
I just wanted to share my build because I'm excited about it and I like it.

I haven't been excited for anything PC related in about a decade. The whole Steam OS and secondary Clone OS community got me excited again.
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Yar, agree with you there. Linux/SteamOS has really rekindled my love with PC DIY (and also PC handhelds). It helps that older/slower tech runs pretty good on these too (which makes it easier to weather the current component pricing crisis.)
 
MikeTrike said:
I just wanted to share my build because I'm excited about it and I like it.

I haven't been excited for anything PC related in about a decade. The whole Steam OS and secondary Clone OS community got me excited again.
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I really hope Steam can make waves with their Steam OS so that it can get more gamers away from the burning pile of garbage that is Windows. I'm glad you're excited about this. It has a lot of potential.
 
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