I was going to sell my two 16 GB DDR4 kits but then I thought “what if my current kit breaks”. Better safe than a few bucks richer.
That’s it, time to do some sketchy shit…
I’m gonna need some wire, a soldering kit, and all the DDR3 I can find.
Oh, so my audacious pessimism was correct, buying 32gb DDR5 now despite the cost was actually easier than doing it later.
Not thrilled. Not the worst thing I’ve ever been right about, though.
Please make it fucking stop!
The Stream Machine will launch in the worst possible year of gaming history.
It’s a huge gamble but Valve surely has enough liquid capital to be able to subsidise the price to get more gamers buying games on Steam instead of in the Playstation, Xbox and Nintendo Switch stores. It could be the best possible year in gaming history if they make it the most attractive option for gamers.
The risk for Valve is that people buy the machine simply to use as a general purpose PC, but the specs are surely low enough that it’s only a small segment of the PC market that would find it useful. It’s not an AI accelerator or a high performance workstation.
They aren’t going to do that for one very good reason: it’s a PC. And unlike the Steam Deck it’s actually in a PC form factor.
If they sold the Steam Machine at a loss, what’s to stop companies from buying a bunch of them to use as workstations? Those units wouldn’t be bringing any game sales to Valve, so they’d have no way to recoup costs.
It’s like you only read the first half of my comment.
Second worst after 1983.
ET phone home ?
Thank god I found this tool, saved me so much money on RAM - https://downloadmoreram.com/
they killed the .tk domain? the bastards
Holy shit, it really works!!!
So … I should buy a bunch more, sell it at the end of the year, and double my money?
Congratulations, you’ve just unlocked scalping!
