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I had 3 Seagates fail on me in quick succession about 8 years ago and haven't bought a Seagate since. Tbf that was their standard drives, not an Ironwolf or EXOS, but I swear by WDs for all my music, videos and comics nowadays. I just wouldn't chance Seagate with anything of value.
 
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d00d3n said:
I got tired of waiting for Steam Machine, so I am repurposing my old gaming PC as a SteamOs machine to connect to my TV. Specs are Intel Core i9-12900K, 32 GB DDR4 RAM, and a Prime OC 9070 XT that I bought today. Hopefully, this thing will work without too much hassle.

It feels good to utilize the old RAM and several old ssd drives without paying the current prices!
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This installation has hardly been a hassle free experience. The standard SteamOs repair image did not support the 9070 XT (but the latest version of the the actual operating system does), there were annoying network connectivity issues, even with ethernet, preventing me to do the initial login to Steam (solvable by forcing a reset of network settings by checking and unchecking the proxy server option), and I am currently working on adding all my storage (extra sata ssd now works, but not extra nvme ssd).
 
I did a test pc build to see what the market's like and I need like ~2-2.5k for what I want (between 7800X3D-9800X3D and 9060 XT - 9070 XT 16GB with 32GB DDR5 and new OS SSD - about 1TB cos apparently anything less has significantly reduced speeds even if same model, something about internal lanes), when last year it'd be about ~1.5k for similar stuff. Including decent case, cooler, motherboard and PSU of a certain minimum standard of course. Some prebuilts are almost equal value but tend to cheap out on the ram being less than 6000/30CL, the motherboard and other stuff like that. I'm gonna wait (agaaaaaaaaain), maybe with xbox helix and shit we're gonna see what next gen requirements will be like soon so I can avoid aiming for something less than the baseline for that.​
 
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Alextended said:
I did a test pc build to see what the market's like and I need like ~2-2.5k for what I want (between 7800X3D-9800X3D and 9060 XT - 9070 XT 16GB with 32GB DDR5 and new OS SSD - about 1TB cos apparently anything less has significantly reduced speeds even if same model, something about internal lanes), when last year it'd be about ~1.5k for similar stuff. Including decent case, cooler, motherboard and PSU of a certain minimum standard of course. Some prebuilts are almost equal value but tend to cheap out on the ram being less than 6000/30CL, the motherboard and other stuff like that. I'm gonna wait (agaaaaaaaaain), maybe with xbox helix and shit we're gonna see what next gen requirements will be like soon so I can avoid aiming for something less than the baseline for that.​
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Yeah, it fucking sucks right now. I did my build back in late November/early December and I felt sick paying what I did for 64gb of DDR5 RAM at 6400MT/s. But then I look at the prices now and it's even worse.

I think you're right that the safest bet is probably Helix, if it's open enough. I'm concerned it will technically play PC games, but it'll be some sort of sandboxed system that allows Microsoft to pump it full of AI and ads.
 
I bought a 8TD WD Red PLus HDD and its not even letting me get to the boot menu of my BIOS. I am trying to replace a NON-OS HDD that is dying.


It isn't from an external storage enclosure either.


Mobo beeps with green and red light steady on and that is it..no away to boot into my BIOS or windows.


AM I doing something wrong?
 
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MonthOLDpickle said:
I bought a 8TD WD Red PLus HDD and its not even letting me get to the boot menu of my BIOS. I am trying to replace a NON-OS HDD that is dying.


It isn't from an external storage enclosure either.


Mobo beeps with green and red light steady on and that is it..no away to boot into my BIOS or windows.


AM I doing something wrong?
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Hmmm... Have you unplugged the new drive to see if it boots without it?
 
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Yeah it boots, I think this drive is bad. It not shucked from a drive so don't think I need to cover pins.
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System should certainly POST and let you access bios without any storage so it would be wild if a new bad drive would somehow block that entirely.

Are you seeing any output on the monitor at all?
 
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