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.
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.
CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
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 $190.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Apparently the memory can be very unstable unless you have 2 identical sticks
CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
I got my Steam Machine on Thursday and after running initial updates, I tore it apart and installed my Crucial RAM and 2TB SSD. So far it’s running great, 32GB and no apparent memory instability issues. On the fresh SSD I installed SteamOS, then repartitioned it to shrink SteamOS to 1TB and made two 512GB partitions, then installed Arch and Windows on them. Triple boot with rEFInd is working well.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
1: Why tf fuck you put Windows on a PC built for Linux?
2: The next Windows update is going to nuke your bootloader because M$ can’t play nice with other OS’s