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Steam Machine User Faces First Case of Red Line of Death “RLOD” On His Unit Just 20 Minutes In, Indicating a GPU Failure (wccftech.com)
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[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

There's a lot of power limitations that Valve put on the Steam Machine to prevent it from getting warm or needing to speed up the fans (making it louder). It's part of why the Steam Machine doesn't perform well compared to similarly priced computers

Heat is definitely not the issue