Steam Hardware
A place to discuss and support all Steam Hardware, including Steam Deck, Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and SteamOS in general.
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I’m going to try this out on an AsRock BC-250 this weekend!
Haven't installed official steamos yet, but bazzite runs great! With the 40cu unlock (well 38/40 for me), I get close to the performance of my giant 3700x/rtx 2080 combo. For AAA games, you might want to set the UMA to 6G rather than the 512Mr ecommended for general use. But maybe the official steam is handles the unified memory better. I've held myself back from buying more of them to leave them available to other folks short on $.
Hey can you share how you determined which/how many CUs to unlock? When I ran the health check script from the "40 CU unlock" repository it just gives me errors for missing files.
I used another script to just unlock them all and brief testing showed no obvious errors but I'd rather be thorough...
Ha! I almost bought more than one as well, but likewise decided to leave some for others (especially as they’re getting expensive).
I booted it for the first time last night to verify it worked. I will likely update the bios next and set the memory allocation to dynamic to see how SteamOS does with that.
FYI I don't think you need to flash the BIOS for dynamic memory anymore, someone has figured out how to do it from inside Linux.
I used the links in the "Not always required" section of this page:
https://elektricm.github.io/amd-bc250-docs/bios/flashing/
You’re a gem! Thanks for that!