As if the gaming industry got hit with DOOMSCROLL-happy news like
SONY's refusal to back off their DIGITAL PUSH for PLAYSTATION GAMES
or MICROSOFT laying off several AMERICAN STAFF....
is enough to make people quote "BAD NEWS NOBODY" in FARNSWORTH's voice
The less than stellar Sales Performance of the 2nd Gen STEAM MACHINE now has people who've bought the machine dealing with something that is reigniting some bad memories circa 2006-2008:
Because it seems to remind people of the infamous RED RING OF DEATH issues that plagued the XBOX 360 back in the mid-2000s.
But the red LED of....... DOOM?.....
Is not really that farfetched due to the..... COMPUTER..... itself being based on x64 based components from AMD, both on the CPU and the GPU side of things.
The red LED strip appearing on the MACHINE is just a sign of the Computer performing it's MEMORY TRAINING.
Memory Training is when a motherboard has to train itself, the CPU, and the MEMORY CONTROLLER whenever they 'res new RAM MODULES installed.....
Or whenever the computer needs to access that RAM no matter what.
You look at your motherboard and see the DRAM LEDS or a DISPLAY CODE to determine the RAM.
That's what MEMORY TRAINING is all about.
So no need to worry.
It's not an issue with the GPU since unlike the 360, it's not a ball-soldered problem due to the STEAM MACHINE using an APU these days.
Also on a much lighter and somewhat humorous note,
I've also read that it's possible to install WINDOWS 11 into the STEAM MACHINE
NO....DUDE..... SERIOUSLY!!!!
I'm not making this up!
Because of the X64 nature of the hardware, the STEAM MACHINE is perfectly capable of running WINDOWS 11 on it..... with the right drivers that is.
VALVE has announced official Driver support for the STEAM MACHINE about a couple of days since making this blog post....
But the CAVEAT is that if you do install WIN11,
(or even TINY11 which is a lightweight version of regular WIN11)
The install will completely wipe the STEAMOS install....
So I guess that means no DUAL-BOOTING huh.....
And even VALVE is not recommending it despite distributing the drivers themselves.
Doesn't matter though since many people aren't impressed with the Specs of the STEAM MACHINE anyway...
What they are more impressed with is the fact that the official DRIVER SUPPORT for AMD RADEON & INTEL ARC make it so that it's now possible to build your own STEAM MACHINE and install STEAMOS on said build with NO STRINGS ATTACHED.
As a matter of fact, here's a surprise:
So the WARHAWK still has it's old parts which include my MSI motherboard, the AMD Ryzen 9 5900x CPU, Corsair 850W power supply, DEEPCOOL Air Cooler, all that jazz....
Only problem is that It's got no GPU due to having long since donated my old ZOTAC 3060 to my Church and a lot of the AM4 Ryzen CPUs don't have integrated graphics and that includes the 5900x in there.
So the plan is to buy an AMD RADEON GPU for this system...
But I'll have to limit it to 315MM due to the how horizontally short of a case this old BITFENIX is.
As you can see, the greater goal would be to convert my old MAVERICK WARHAWK into my very own STEAM MACHINE that I can use to run steam games running STEAMOS.
And yes, I'll be using RADEON because....
01. STEAMOS at the moment mostly supports AMD RADEON & INTEL ARC drivers out of the box with no problems
02. I can't bring myself to get an ARC card even with the best BATTLEMAGE cards out there.
03. RADEON is CANADIAN as The tech originally was made by ATI of MARKHAM, ONTARIO before the AMERICAN AMD bought them in 2006.... so buying a RADEON card is somewhat supporting my country.
APOLOGIES for this off the cuff update that looks like it's in the same vein as my old MAVERICK QUICKIES but I've gotten sick of them QUICKIES as of late so doing these updates in a more TOPIC SPECIFIC format is a nice break for me.
There are stuff I really want to point out that interest me whether
GOOD, BAD or UGLY.
(Totally not a reference to SERGIO LEONES' DOLLARS TRILOGY here)
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