BSOD
RROD
YLOD
and now RLOD

lolOD

ROTFLOD

ouch, wondering if its overheating or they were sold a bad card

Gamers Nexus tests don't show overheating to be an issue, it could just be a defect but only time will tell.

LMAODO

The airflow in the case is pretty great for something with a solid front - thermally there isn't much to criticize about the steam machine. that it ran for 20 minutes and then died with an GPU post error would make me think less about a direct chip failure and more about a resistor or capacitor having a contact issue, prompted by vibrations from the fan and the previous transport, maybe even outright transport damage escalating after a short runtime.

The click-rate on this thing has to be through the roof when a single machine failing is news.

Rolling On The Floor Literally OverDosing?

Just need green and we can have RGB of death. Stick blue and yellow next to each other perhaps?

1 failure should be a quick replacement by Valve. Rma it.

wtf. I thought they were still in reservation mode. I got my reservation in but not a buy option. Is this a review unit?

you didnt get picked for the raffle then.

But all the scalpers did. Nice. I hate the reservation system. Should just have sold it outright like the controller.

I hope they don’t do this shit for the frame. I rather just buy it outright than be in a stupid ass lottery.

If you got in the queue, you were sent an email confirming it so. Then you just wait for your window to purchase. If you didnt get an email, then you didnt make it in this time around.

There will always be a few hardware failures, we will have to wait to see if larger tends develop.

I believe Apple had the rainbow beachball of death ages ago

Only if they have parts.

Without the system you'd have zero chance to buy one, all would be gone the millisecond it's up. All bought by bots watching the page constantly.

ROFLCOPTERLOD

A single machine failing represents probably 10% of the entire population tho

Typical Tuesday night for us cool folk.

Things like this is why I decided, I don’t want to be an early adopter.

That’s not true at all. I have purchased every valve hardware product on day 1 without problem.

I got the original controller and the new one, as well as the index.

The reservation system sucks. Just give me a buy option. I can beat the bots. I even got a 3090 and 3070 during covid problems.

I like the idea of a floor of death.

There's a lot of power limitations that Valve put on the Steam Machine to prevent it from getting warm or needing to speed up the fans (making it louder). It's part of why the Steam Machine doesn't perform well compared to similarly priced computers

Heat is definitely not the issue

ROTFLMAOWTFOMGOD

I know I've been working a lot, but please tell me it's not Tuesday

Any rollout like this has a few percent of units assigned for RMA purposes. It's absolutely normal to have some hardware failures and replacing them is expected beforehand.

How exactly did you come to that conclusion?

Anecdotal evidence has led me to estimate that the entirety of Valve's stock of Steam Machines was ten units.

The controller didn't even have a fraction of the hype that the steam machine has.
The index at that time was extremely pricey when alternatives existed for a third of the price.
The steam machine is hyped up as fuck, comparably cheap for a pre-built, and is one of the first systems coming with steam os out of the box.
Your comparison sucks, and you sure as hell cannot beat bots when there is a serious scalping operation going on.

It's one single failure. Statistically it would be amazing if there wasn't a single DOA unit.

Happy cake day!

lol, people down voting someone wishing someone else a nice day. Imagine that.

Car RAMROD

LOLCANOLOD

I can beat the bots

lol. lmao, even

Thanks :p