Valve's Steam Deck is undoubtedly the most powerful and popular portable console of 2022. Although Nintendo Switch has sold more for obvious reasons also related to the name, lovers of mobile devices Gaming they are inclined to a more "serious" solution. Well, and what's more serious than a modified console? Despite Valve having advised not to do hardware upgrades to the console, Linus Tech Tips he tried. And he succeeded.
Linus Tech Tips tweaked the Steam Deck despite Valve advising not to. The result? A frighteningly powerful console!
Linus has equipped the Steam Deck with one screen improved, a protective case, a more efficient cooling system and a new battery. The icing on the cake was the 2 TB SSD memory. The total on the console turned out to be 3TB of disk space. in addition, the blogger installed custom joysticks in the console. In short, a series of hardware changes that greatly enhance the Steam Deck also changing its appearance.
The blogger, one of the most famous online, has completely reassembled the device leaving only the iron spine intact. As a result, the device became practically indestructible (for the test, the blogger dropped it from a height of 70 cm) and very more thermally efficient. For example, in the DOOM Eternal game test, it warmed up to just 59 degrees on the graphics core and CPU.
True, the improvements did not affect ergonomics for the better - a huge radiator is attached to the back panel of the console, so now the device will definitely not fit in your pocket, and the weight has increased. On the other hand it is impossible not to notice a certain one similarity between Steam Deck and a normal gaming PC: It's hard to imagine that someone would modify the Nintendo Switch in this way… even if someone, from now on, could do it.
