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Disassembling the Steam Machine suggests Valve are protecting its precious RAM by burying it under a dozen other parts

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Disassembling the Steam Machine suggests Valve are protecting its precious RAM by burying it under a dozen other parts

I, uh, completely took apart a Steam Machine by accident. What began as merely wanting a closer look at its RAM setup ended up as a more-or-less full teardown, the heavily layered, almost Russian Doll-like structure of Valve’s teeny-tiny PC demanding a component be removed for a component to be removed for a component to be removed. Before I’d even noticed my screwdrivin’ arm getting tired, the Machine’s guts lay strewn across my desk – not too gorily to put…

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