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System Name | Space Heater MKIV |
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Processor | AMD Ryzen 7 5800X |
Motherboard | ASRock B550 Taichi |
Cooling | Noctua NH-U14S, 3x Noctua NF-A14s |
Memory | 2x32GB Teamgroup T-Force Vulcan Z DDR4-3600 C18 1.35V |
Video Card(s) | PowerColor RX 6800 XT Red Devil (2150MHz, 240W PL) |
Storage | 2TB WD SN850X, 4x1TB Crucial MX500 (striped array), LG WH16NS40 BD-RE |
Display(s) | Dell S3422DWG (34" 3440x1440 144Hz) |
Case | Phanteks Enthoo Pro M |
Audio Device(s) | Edifier R1700BT, Samson SR850 |
Power Supply | Corsair RM850x, CyberPower CST135XLU |
Mouse | Logitech MX Master 3 |
Keyboard | Glorious GMMK 2 96% |
Software | Windows 10 LTSC 2021, Linux Mint |
LTT posted a review of the Steam Deck.
...and an unboxing.
Gamers Nexus also released their review.
Review from a smaller YouTuber; The Phawx. Thanks, @Nordic
Teardown from GN
I want it.
...and an unboxing.
Gamers Nexus also released their review.
For those who don't want to watch a whole long video, here are some screencaps and rundowns from GN. I'll throw them in a spoiler tag so they wont fill up the whole page.
First look with the backplate on.
MEM4 does get warmer than the rest because of it's position.
BAT_19 is the charging IC which does get quite toasty over all, but it is within spec.
CPU/GPU temperatures are perfectly fine for the APU used.
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This time with the backplate cover off
The charging IC gets way too warm, so its not recommended to operate it with the backplate off, unless you love the smell of melting ICs in the morning.
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Fan hysterises is slightly annoying. The fan itself is not loud or obnoxious, but you can feel the fan ramping up and down. At idle it tends to do that quite often.
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Fan noise test is a bit bugged, they used DMC5 but it got stuck in a infinite loading screen which is why the first section looks strange. The dip is when they restart it.
Human interaction noise is filtered out of the graph, except the spike at the end which is when they plugged in the charger.
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Battery life is not really the same 2-8 hours Valve wrote about, but still pretty decent.
Their testing is not the same as Valve, and GN tested with user input for the duration (aka, rubber band on the sticks) while Valve tested without user input.
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The device can fast charge to 80% in 1 hour, but for a complete charge it takes up to 3 hours, which is common charging behavior.
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The charging brick provided is 45w which does max out during gameplay and charging simultaneously. You can however still game and charge at the same time, just slower.
Its a 5-15w TDP APU but they also note that TDP values in this case mean little.
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The rest are just some framerate and frametime stuff
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And the last part is a quick latency test, which is of course highly tied to framerate of whatever you are playing on it.
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Review from a smaller YouTuber; The Phawx. Thanks, @Nordic
Teardown from GN
I want it.
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