Modder Boosts Steam Deck to a Bountiful 32GB RAM

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• autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is the best summary I could come up with:

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  Intrepid Steam Deck modder Balázs Triszka has shared news of an impressive feat of handheld device enhancement.

  In a recent Tweet/X by Triszka (h/t Overclock3D), we see that they managed to boost the Valve-made x86 PC gaming portable to 32 GB of RAM.

  Unlike your desktop, and many laptops, the RAM in these devices is soldered directly to the system PCB, like on a graphics card.

  Very often hardware needs a firmware modification to enable this kind of upgrade, and this is true of the Steam Deck memory doubling mod.

  The Steam Deck is one of the most popular of the new wave of PC gaming handhelds, which is understandable given that it invigorated the segment with a uniquely compelling software / hardware combo in 2022.

  But be warned, RAM upgrades like Triszka are far from trivial, with soldering equipment and skills required in abundance.

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• LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  We need c/MadLads

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• lagomorphlecture@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Wow I bet you could play cities skylines on that baby >.<

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  • Pazuzu@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Not sure if satire or not but I’ve been playing CS on my deck for a year.

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    • lagomorphlecture@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Wow really? The game unfailingly crashes on mine.

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    • someguy3@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Do you use a keyboard and mouse?

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  • balance_sheet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Bold of you to assume that it only uses 32gigs…

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• graphito@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Chrome be like:

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• Stampela@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  32… that’s a sweet split of 16 for the vram and 16 for the ram. Supposing it works well it can completely fix any memory issues with any current games!

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• DavidGarcia@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m having homebrew psp flashbacks

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• guyrocket@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I think a lot of people would have wet dreams about opening this hardware further by not soldering the memory to the mainboard, etc.

  Already looks pretty easy to upgrade the ssd, which is great. Now create a PC-like standard for this handheld size.

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