Quoteup to 32 GB of RAM

But one can later upgrade to 2x24 or 2x32 GB?

32 GB RAM is hardly enough for the SOTA LLM Qwen3.6-35B-A3B at a Q4_K_XL quant (22.9 GB). 32 GB - 8 GB for the OS = 24 GB and 22.9 GB just barely fits and there's pretty much no room for any context at all.

jojoba, well, here's another one: The Steam Machine has 8 GB VRAM and even big reviewers on YouTube complain about it.

QuoteThe Steam Machine is not a traditional gaming PC, and its value should not be judged solely by how many FPS it can deliver in Cyberpunk 2077 or other graphically demanding games.

I'm not sure I agree with that, because it's not like one can't simply but a desktop gaming PC or a mini-ITX 4-5 Liter one.

I like how it looks and its cooling solution looks good. But being stuck with 8 GB of VRAM is something else. Imagine VALVE went with a GDDR7 PHY and used 3 GB memory chips (4 chips * 3 GB = 12 GB of VRAM) (ok, fair, they may not be available at a good price?). The big reviewers I saw on YouTube, complained righteously so about its only 8 GB of VRAM.

You may be partially right, to be fair, this laptop isn't exactly an average one + the RAMageddon. That being said, its 128 GB RAM don't offset running a 27B dense LLM model vs a 122-10A MoE LLM model:

Quote from: yee on Yesterday at 12:50:12[..] And now the major Strix Halo limitation: Only up to 128 GB RAM/unified memory. This does not offset the switch from a dense LLM to a MoE LLM: Qwen3.5-27B (27 GB at q8 quant) performs slightly better than Qwen3.5-122B-A10B (122 GB at q8 quant). The 122B runs 27B/10B = 2.7 times faster, fine, but it performs slightly worse than the 27B dense AND the RAM prices have since increased by like 4 times. So, Strix Halo's 128 GB RAM, at 256 GB/s, are neither here, not there. What is really needed is at least a 192 GB Strix Halo, then it could run a quant of the better than 27B dense performing MoE models (at least according to AA), like DeepSeek V4 Flash, MiMo-V2.5 and Minimax-M2.7 and a 256 GB RAM (yes, RAM prices..) config would fit Minimax-M3 and probably some others that are not in this: [..]