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Steam Deck

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How would you rate the OLED deck? Did you keep your LCD deck? Have you noticed any of the smaller improvements like a more responsive touch screen? Has the battery life improvement been noticable?

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[โ€“] beastlykings@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not that it does you much good now, but you might've had a bad fan. My unit is a preorder one, and the fan wasn't broken, but it was just... Noticable, when it was on. It wasn't enough for me to say it was broken or anything, but I could just tell when it was running, especially at full speed.

It didn't bother me, because I was like wow this game is really pushing the Deck hard, I can really hear the fan. Etc etc.

Well after a few months of hard use the fan developed a click, it was a bad bearing or something. You could make it go away by tapping it.

Anywho to make a long story short, after getting a replacement that was DOA, and then getting a second replacement. The new fan was noticeably quiet. So quiet that I thought I had another DOA. But no, it was working perfectly. I just didn't realize how bad the original fan was.

So now I have a very quiet Deck, and I'm quite happy about it ๐Ÿ˜

[โ€“] Poopfeast420@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Maybe, back then I read that there are two fan models going around and one is better than the other, so who knows. Or how putting a bit of pressure on a certain spot could help, or things like that. I was toying with the idea of ordering a replacement, when the iFixit stuff was announced, but never did it and forgot about it.

So far my friend is mostly emulating older handhelds, so it doesn't get too hot in the first place, and even if it gets louder it doesn't seem to bother him for now.

[โ€“] beastlykings@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

That's fair, if it ain't broke don't fix it lol