*** Valve Steam Machine ***

Vestas said:
Mine is waiting for Parcelforce to collect it from the GLS UK warehouse & enter it into their system.

I'd forgotten Valve do it this way, ISTR the Steam Deck took about a week to turn up & most of that was waiting for the package to be handed over. Actual transit is pretty quick.

Could be worse, they could have used UPS.
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That’s exciting!

GLS are the international handling bit for Parcelforce, forgot about their extra input into the process but they end up being the customs sorting tick box bunch and have gotten quicker since the deck deliveries
 
pingwing said:
have gotten quicker since the deck deliveries
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Not from what I can see - ordered Tuesday, packaged Wednesday, sat around until Friday waiting for GLS to pickup, arrived in UK 9 hours after they picked up and will now sit there waiting for another 2 days as its the weekend.

Pretty much identical to the deck....
 
Ah fair enough, last couple of things I've imported with GLS have been only a day or two delay with them when my deck was a week or so
 
It'll turn up when it does. I'm not in any rush, too hot for that.

I can see why Valve couldn't fit 2x8GB SODIMMs (5600MT). They don't appear to exist now - well not in terms of anywhere I'd trust claiming its in stock.

At some point in Winter when I'm bored I'll take the SM apart and transplant the lappie 2x8GB into it.
 
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TheVoice said:
How much for the shrink ray though? :p
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You're not wrong :cry:

I've had all sorts of mini-PC stuff in the living room over the decades and this is quiet and low-power (the two often don't go together!) while not requiring me to "maintain" it in any meaningful way.

Its small enough to fit in and not induce wife aggro. SteamOS on the deck was pretty much flawless for me so I'd expect the same on the SM. I value the fact that if I don't touch the deck for 2 months then I don't have to screw around with multiple updates/reboots like Windows. Press a button, come back in 5 minutes, input code and done.

I have a 9900X3D/9700XT upstairs along with a Strix Halo box so I'm pretty much covered for compute elsewhere.

tl;dr I know what I'm doing boys
 
Quartz said:
One of the YT channels - I forget which one - did something similar and found that going dual channel made little difference.
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Not Gamers Nexus as they tested it and found some games had a significant performance increase.


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Quartz said:
going dual channel made little difference.
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I have a similar Hawk Point cpu (although 8 core) in a laptop with a 4060 & it makes a fair bit of difference at 1440p. Of course if the game isn't cpu-bound then it won't.

Looks like a pita to dismantle the SM so its unlikely to happen unless I'm very bored or something specific annoys me.
 
Arrived today. Hardest thing about setup was working out how to open the packing boxes without ripping them - there's a brown on brown tear strip with a small arrow...:rolleyes:

Then there's QR codes for setup if you're enough of a numpty to need it.

Plug in a controller, connect a wired network if you have it, connect HDMI & power. Press power button. Follow prompts. Wait for OS and firmware updates to be downloaded. Done.

Being able to plug HDMI into the audio/video amp and have CEC just work is another reason for not having a PC in the living room.

The SM itself does what I expected it to and is pretty much silent if you give it enough space.

Also installing lots of games from the LAN (2.5Gbps) certainly suggests dual-channel RAM would be good for cpu workloads. Bottleneck looks like decompression etc rather than NIC/SSD.
 
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Vestas said:
Arrived today. Hardest thing about setup was working out how to open the packing boxes without ripping them - there's a brown on brown tear strip with a small arrow...:rolleyes:
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I hate those. Fine on small packaging that will end up in the bin 2 minutes later, but I wish companies would stop putting them on boxes for expensive stuff you might want to resell in the box in future.
 
Bit out the blue but parcelforce are going to have a stab at delivering today! It’s a roll of the dice if they leave with my neighbour or I have to rearrange when I’m not at the office.
 
TheVoice said:
I hate those. Fine on small packaging that will end up in the bin 2 minutes later, but I wish companies would stop putting them on boxes for expensive stuff you might want to resell in the box in future.
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Its not like those. Its a very thin tear strip (1cm or less) on the actual tape which prevents you unfolding the Steam Machine box. Doesn't affect the packaging at all but is pretty hard to spot given the way the SM packaging opens.
 
Raymond Lin said:
Ah, I was on holiday and wasn't online much that time.
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It could be several months until your chance comes along if the rumours about low production / high demand are true. Some are saying next year for those who didn't place a pre-order immediately. I placed an order just over 12 hrs after launch and haven't heard anything yet.
 
xaldub said:
It could be several months until your chance comes along if the rumours about low production / high demand are true. Some are saying next year for those who didn't place a pre-order immediately. I placed an order just over 12 hrs after launch and haven't heard anything yet.
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Then I am due a LONG wait ! lol

I joined on 14th May at 23:29 ! 10 days after lol
 
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