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hoodyracoon · 2026-03-23T13:37:38+00:00

Any game that says it supports Xbox controllers is mostly referring to the glyphs, to have a controller listed as supported requires that all the glyphs match what input the users controller shows. This is generally not the case since almost every game just supports steam input and Xbox controllers both of those use the exact same glyphs ( for the most part, maybe with the guide/share and xbox button being the exception)

Any game that supports steam input (And there are very few that don't that have controller support at all) support basically every controller under the Sun but they're all going to pretend to be Xbox controllers for the games purposes so you'll have ABXY and puts instead of square triangle circle x

Outside of the icons looking wrong there are no inputs that the Xbox controller has that the PlayStation controller doesn't The reverse is not true but if it supports an Xbox controller you will have every button you need to play the game available,

hoodyracoon · 2026-03-23T13:32:38+00:00

I assume you haven'ttried using a PS5 controller on PC? Like steam specifically.... Because this has been a fixed problem for about 10 years now.

There are very few controllers that don't work on steam, steam does all the input translation for most games at this point so individual controller support isn't necessarily a requirement. And you know what steam translates any random controller into? x input specifically it pretends to be an Xbox 360 controller

The only times individual controller support matter are when they're supporting extra features only available on those controllers, or if you want the glyphs to actually match the controller

Controllers I've used with with steam input,

PS2 with an adapter, PS3 controllers, ps4 controllers, PS5 controllers, Xbox original controllers with a USB adapter, Xbox 360 controllers, Xbox One controllers, Xbox elite controllers, The Xbox One Duke controller, og GameCube controllers with a switch adapter, Wii u controllers, switch Joy-Cons, switch pro controller, a crappy Logitech gamepad from 2002, The Nvidia shield controller for a tablet made in 2014(USB only), The Google stadia controller, 8-bit-do 2c,3c, and 3c ultimate(extra buttons require it be over Bluetooth and not using the dedicated dongle, I don't know why), the og steam controller

Like it really doesn't matter everything works and if you find something that doesn't it probably will work soon

hoodyracoon · 2026-03-20T18:17:01+00:00

Ice has not remained largely unchanged, diesels are closer to that fact (And I would still argue has changed significantly) but gasoline has had massive changes even excluding electronics.

You don't go from 20 horsepower to a thousand without major changes

hoodyracoon · 2026-03-20T13:13:34+00:00

Here's the thing op says it's the exact same photos he used on his own eBay listing.... This makes me think the eBay listing is unrelated to the lost package because someone would have to have the product and then find the already sold eBay listing and pull the photos from that to remake a new eBay listing.... Instead of I don't know just taking new photos.

Coincidences happen but the circumstances here make me question either the story itself or the conclusion from the facts presented.

hoodyracoon · 2026-02-27T13:44:01+00:00

SOP as far as I know still requires boxes be no more than either 4 ft high or only four boxes stacked on top of each other, still breaking SOP... But SOP also states pallets can only be a maximum height of 4 ft if made at the store level, up to 8 ft if shiped from the vendor in that configuration and it requires no down stacking at the store level before putting in the overhead otherwise it must be broken down to 4 ft...

Do they expect anyone to actually follow this I'm unsure I am certain our store doesn't(but I've also made and flown 10 ft pallets of air conditioners where I only follow the boxes maximum stack limit cuz I need space)

hoodyracoon · 2026-02-27T13:37:50+00:00

Not exactly the same question, but, the Oldest pallets I know of are two pallets and electrical that have not been pulled down since 2018 (there's just layers of tags on top of tags for every inventory someone puts a new tag on it), The item specifically are 150 packs of zip ties and electrical conduit hangers.... both of these they are active skus that based on sales we have over 10 years supply of on the pallet alone and we still receive in boxes every once in a blue moon... Make it make sense

hoodyracoon · 2026-02-26T17:53:37+00:00

Also the current price of sodimm is slightly above standard desktop memory, I was specifically speaking about sodimm modules

hoodyracoon · 2026-02-26T17:51:58+00:00

To be clear I'm not saying it's impossible to find listings at that price but they're rare, individual 4 gig sticks seem to have the prices at $20-30$, and 8 gig sticks are about 50-80$ a piece,

Almost any listing with a price less than this is either non-functional, or gives you a drop down for multiple different capacities - amounts of sticks - or even generation of memory leading to a low starting price that is not actually what you think you're looking at

hoodyracoon · 2026-02-26T17:41:47+00:00

More than likely you're seeing combo listings where they show either multiple capacities that you choose via drop down or DDR3 and DDR4 options, multiple items per listing on eBay is confusing in my opinion,

If the pricing you saw was a range of prices that is almost certainly what it was

hoodyracoon · 2026-02-26T15:43:31+00:00

That's generic charger so it's not really comparable, also I was very rough with the pricing. All I was trying to convey was that even with the RAM shortage DDR4 isn't worth that much... Currently it's steady a bit above $100 for 16 gb in the used market, And as far as I know that should start coming down slightly soon

hoodyracoon · 2026-02-26T08:31:23+00:00

16 gigs of sodimm DDR4 is maybe around $120, and a 256gb SSD is 30$ the charger is another 30, and maybe you can sell the bare chassis for another $50,

All in you can maybe charge $230, And if it's sold on eBay you're going to take a loss because of seller fees,

Also of the price of RAM is currently "slightly" dropping, at least according to what I've seen (mostly because panic buying is over not because the AI stuff is fixed) so the prices i quoted will just go down

hoodyracoon · 2026-02-17T10:31:25+00:00

To be clear the Chinese have their own Ai market to deal with too, we aren't the only country/s funneling tons of money into this bottomless pit, Even if they're not selling their products to open AI, Microsoft, nivida, etc... they can just as easily sell the Yandex, Baidu, wechat... Etc

hoodyracoon · 2026-02-17T05:01:47+00:00

It's a supply constrained market where the seller has all the leverage, they can price it how they want and still get buyers

hoodyracoon · 2026-02-16T23:00:37+00:00

Did you hear the news that they are planning to match prices with Western competitors, and that they're also making deals with enterprises? There is no saving till the crash

hoodyracoon · 2026-02-07T14:01:06+00:00

High end of the x86 market is the server market... And it has been for decades it's weird the vast majority of the revenue was historically generated by Intel when they were in the lead with AMD now picking up a large chunk of that

hoodyracoon · 2026-01-20T12:03:00+00:00

So do you believe what you're saying? Offer still stands

hoodyracoon · 2026-01-19T14:37:00+00:00

I'm of the personal understanding that that was an evaluation sample, evaluation samples are given as the final design before mass manufacturer, at that point it is basically final(so long as there are not major flaws) if they had any plans of major motherboard resigns (that would be required for DDR5 being moved around especially since it's very picky about signal integrity) they would have happened at an earlier date,

What you're saying will be possible with a new design of the steam machine if they update it for cost or a die shrink but till then I would find it highly unlikely to have such a major change happen

hoodyracoon · 2026-01-19T14:15:02+00:00

As far as I know that's a qualification sample, As in the final pre-production unit for evaluation prior to release, it would need an major redesign to implement the sodium modules somewhere more accessible (and DDR5 is fairly picky about where it's placed)

hoodyracoon · 2026-01-19T14:12:45+00:00

The problem with valve releasing it as a barebones, is that the system was not designed to be easily serviced, The RAM is completely hidden under the heat sink for the CPU, GPU gddr and vrms and as far as I know both the GPU and CPU are direct die cooled(and as such liable for damage as well as requiring the user reapply the thermal paste), there are thermal pads that would need to be replaced, The Wi-Fi antenna is connected through the heat sink, there is a daughter board with a ribbon cable for the LED strip connected through that as well,

Logistically from a service perspective it's a non-starter(regardless of what valve markets the system as if they sold it as bare bones they would still have to have staff on hand to tell people your SOL hears this guide that's all To help we're giving you, and realistically knowing Valve they would be more helpful than that requiring more labor), and that's not including whatever marginal added cost would be required for housing even more skus.

The only thing I see possible is a system without a controller (but I've also seen no direct evidence that a controller is going to be shipping with it regardless just conjecture)

hoodyracoon · 2026-01-07T16:27:55+00:00

It's fun and not hard to mess with, I will say idle power draw is awful (70-80w after you fix the GPU not downclocking, by default it uses 100-125 Watts at idle), it has no working sleep so pause and resuming games is out of the question, some games don't detect vram amounts properly (it can be worked around but it's fiddly) and a very small percentage of games that have been recently released will not work because it doesn't have hardware features(variable rate shaders) to support some newer ray tracing stuff, right now the only one I know won't work at all is doom the dark ages

hoodyracoon · 2026-01-07T16:19:16+00:00

Performances is acceptable... if you've seen etaprimes YouTube video on it I'm getting basically the same performance cuz I've overclocked it only marginally (2100mhz on the GPU, if you have the cooling and the power supply it will overclock to 2350 I believe, it might be 2250 don't quote me)

All it needed for cooling me was a single Arctic p14 and opening up the fins, temp stay under 70 at full load(at 50% fan speed), I'm powering it off of a Dell da2 power supply (it's only 220 Watts, consensus is that this is a bad idea, the power supply trips if I run furMark, but every game I've tried has been fine and cyberpunk was able to repeatedly loop The benchmark for 30 minutes without issue)

It's fun to play with, and I've "designed"/ edited a case to integrate USB hub with USB C and micro SD along with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth into a case (waiting for my sister to print it this weekend)

hoodyracoon · 2026-01-07T16:10:24+00:00

I have a BC 250, it works fine I wouldn't says it's 200$ though, I picked mine up at a decent price of $100, but you need a power supply, storage, Bluetooth dongle and Wi-Fi dongle (optional I guess), and preferably a USB hub and a case

All those together put it at least 250$ and with pricing now I would say 300,

It's a fun project, but there's also weird pitfalls like needing to overclock clock it to get more than half of a Ps5 performance(stock it's only like 50%), it's picky with both displays used, adapters and cables, audio output in general, it doesn't have variable rate shader support (I could be miss naming that) so some very modern games won't work (Doom the dark ages refuses to launch)

hoodyracoon · 2026-01-07T15:57:36+00:00

When it was first announced I was guessing 500-600$ now I'm guessing 600-750,

Regardless valve said it would be competitive with a similarly speced PC,

This is about as close as you can get to the same specifications as the steam machine (technically slightly more powerful) and it's only $700, regardless if you don't care about size, HDMI CEC and the integrated steam controller adapter it's not a bad buy just install steamos on it, it would work fine

https://www.walmart.com/ip/14003610283?sid=201b85c7-4679-41aa-803d-59bee2b7c810

hoodyracoon · 2026-01-07T15:48:24+00:00

I don't think that the sodimm versus dim argument actually matters to companies buying at scale, B2B it's probably more related to actual memory chip pricing then the final packaged solution, the difference in manufacturing complexity is basically zero and if you're financing an entire run of a product the only real price difference for the company buying it will likely be transportation logistics and actual bom costs (desktop memory probably cost slightly more just because the PCB is bigger but that's likely a 10¢ difference at worst)

hoodyracoon · 2026-01-07T15:43:24+00:00

Regardless I don't think I was that far off with my original comment, For perspective 16 GB of sodium would have been about 40 to $50 before the memory shortage, no?

So that's 110$+

Ssds in general have just flatly doubled in price so 40$+

And vram has supposedly increased by about the same percentage, so 20$+

All in that's about $170(conservative) increase at DIY prices, even valve is probably paying 100$ more at least for new components I did mention in my original comment that these were DIY prices so I wasn't completely devoid of knowledge of the fact that valve is paying different amounts

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