Are you planning to upgrade to two sticks?
To find matching sticks we should organize an exchange, for everyone getting two new sticks, they have one (probably) matching stick for someone who keeps the original one.
“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
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.
The performance difference likely isn’t that much
Surprisingly, in the video they see noticeable improvements in performance with 2 sticks due to it unlocking dual-channel memory. Ut was an up to 15% improvement in CPU bound games.
I recommend actually watching the video for more detail
An important thing to consider with ddr5 that their method of testing didn’t consider is that a number of 8gb sticks are made in a way that gives a lot lower performance. So the 8gb sticks valve could source may not have had that big of a difference from a single 16gb stick.
I think generally you aren’t supposed to use different kinds of memory together, so a lot of people would replace it entirely.
I think this may have been an issue eons ago, now everything just agrees on what speed to run based on the slowest stick. Haven’t heard of it being a problem for a while.
Watch the video.
Different person here. I did watch, and it sounded like a bit of FUD. “It could be unstable. You could get a random crash some month into the future and you don’t know if you need to blame it on the RAM or something else.” that’s basically all he said.
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.
Look up gamehub (don’t use it though it’s made by game sir I think)
There is GameHub Lite, which is a community fork of GameHub with all telemetry removed.
There is also GameNative, which has been working a lot better than GameHub on my Xiaomi Pad 6. It’s an older tablet, so maybe GameHub works better on newer hardware.
And there is Winlator too. Haven’t tried this one yet, so can’t comment on its features or compatibility.
So much of the world is going to arm and x86 is on its way out.
Thank God. The world will be a better place without Intel, AMD, and their x86 disaster.
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.
Watch the video
What’s your point? The video shows a 19% increase in making zip files. And almost nothing in any of the games.
An up to 15% increase in some games isn’t nothing
If you really want up to 15% better performance, just buy or build a different system. Paying $200+ extra on top of an already insane price tag makes less than zero sense.
Also ddr5 is supposed to be less impacted running single chanaled
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. 😔
Well then, can I have it?
I already cancelled it yesterday, I’m sure someone else took the slot. 😂
But realistically, it IS a bad deal financially, the only reason I kept mine at all was the aesthetic. But then I lost the wood faceplate and then the Companion Cube. 😔
Wait you actually planned to pay the asking price for one of these?
As opposed to the scalper price?
I have the money. 😉
wait, they cancelled the Companion Cube shroud?
Dbrand didn’t have permission and just yolo’d it without speaking to Valve.
Typical Dbrand.
The D always stood for douche. Which was a fun gimmick at first, but they’ve been freeballing a lot of their big releases recently, without any care in the world. It was ought to happen.
They weem to do that all tge time.
Dbrand didn’t have a license for it.
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I honestly expected the differences to be a lot larger. For some chill gaming, it’s almost irrelevant if there’s one or two sticks.
Just imagine it’s dual channel DDR4
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.
DDR5 runs two 32 bit channels per stick instead of one 64 bit channel like ddr4 but overall it is still 64 bit total per stick and needs two for 128 bit.
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.
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