Steam Deck OLED 1TB

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Steam Deck OLED 1TB

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Based on 430 Reddit mentions

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Is it okay to keep it plugged/docked permanently ? (Soft limiting battery charge to 95% / second hand / battery health at 93%)

I’ll add on to this that Steam Deck uses power passthrough that bypasses the battery entirely. This means that you aren’t constantly wearing down the biggest fail point of these devices. If you are someone that charges to 80-100% and then unnecessarily unplugs it, you are essentially reducing the li

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AnotherSoftEng in r/SteamDeck

March 23, 2026 10:15 PM

516

If your Steam Deck Broke, Would You Buy Another One or a Different Handheld?

i plan on steam deck being the only thing i play outside of pc until they release another version of steam deck (currently on 1tb oled)

PopTrunkAction in r/SteamDeck

April 26, 2026 9:23 PM

391

Two amazing deals - which one do I keep?

I think from a repairability long-term outlook you'll probably be able to service the Steam Deck better if you want to get new thumbsticks, or need to replace bumpers or the SSD, or the battery, you can easily source those parts from iFixit down the line. Even if you crack the display you can buy on

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chrisz2012 in r/SteamDeck

April 21, 2026 9:11 PM

227

Cool story bro

Hehe bro, you know what? The Steam Deck OLED is still the best when it comes to price, screen quality, size, and overall optimization.

mat0109 in r/SteamDeck

November 29, 2025 1:09 PM

1k

Its fascinating to me that there still isn’t a clear SD dethroner

The only upgrade to your OG steam deck is the steam deck oled.

PaladinCloudring in r/SteamDeck

September 22, 2025 6:51 AM

663

How hard is the battery to replace?

Pretty simple, you can order the part and get a video tutorial from ifixit. I took mine apart for a shell swap and it was pretty simple and the battery iirc doesn’t require anywhere near the same level of disassembly https://www.ifixit.com/products/steam-deck-battery?variant=41550886568039 This one

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1isntprime in r/SteamDeck

March 20, 2026 6:56 AM

155

Silksong shows a Steam Deck in the controller menu!

For very early impressions, Silksong seems to draw very little power. If you have an OLED you could definitely get away with playing at 90 FPS without a big hit to battery life! The in-game frame limiter only has options for 30, 60 or 120 FPS though, so I just turned it off and set the Steam Deck's

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MisterMeister68 in r/SteamDeck

September 4, 2025 5:38 PM

633

Valve has developed kernel patches and user-space tools (like dmemcg-booster and plasma-foreground-booster) to prioritize VRAM for foreground games on low-VRAM Linux systems (e.g. 8GB cards), enabling smoother Vulkan/RADV gameplay such as Cyberpunk 2077

Just recently, the steam deck's custom scheduler was deployed by meta to their data center workloads. Valve really is improving linux for everyone.

LayotFctor in r/linux_gaming

April 9, 2026 3:10 PM

145

Is Decky bad or something?

It's not bad, it's just that it's outside software, so you have to expect it to sometimes conflict with what Valve updates. I've personally noticed that my Deck sometimes doesn't fully shut down when I tell it to, so I have to hold the power button, and it's more than likely Decky (or a Decky plug-i

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FireCrow1013 in r/SteamDeck

April 17, 2026 6:53 PM

142

Brad Lynch: "I’ve been told some Valve Internal pricing targets they had before AND after RAM crisis, Steam Machine is affected the most whilst Steam Frame not so much"

I own the original Steam controller, a Steam Deck and love Steam as a gaming platform but without a heavily subsidised price the Steam Machine is a complete waste. The moment they announced Steam Machine's specs but said it will "enable 4k @ 60fps" while showing demanding titles on screen I was scep

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AceDohDoh in r/GamingLeaksAndRumours

April 27, 2026 6:48 PM

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