Five Steam Deck Upgrades under $100

FYI -- SteamOS 3.5 automatically mounts external drives and can format drives in Settings->Storage, so the issue with setting up the dock's drive mentioned at 15:48 should be resolved once Valve fully releases 3.5 (or if you install the OS preview)

Thank you for featuring my buttons!! As a long time LTT fan this is almost incomprehensible to me. They are all resin cast by hand by one person (me) and everything is from scratch (not directly molded off of the OEM steam deck buttons) That's what allows for the raised "steam" and "..." buttons, and other tweaks and themes that are coming in the near future. Absolutely in awe that this happened, about to go live to chat to everybody stopping by the site!

Wow, thank you for using our replacement shell! The result looks absolutely fantastic. By the way, this could be the hardest replacement kit in our product ranking, so GOOD JOB LLT! Through your video, we hope more and more people learn about the possibility of personalizing gaming devices on their own, and that's what we are doing to provide the best modding kits ever for all of you!

I just wanted to say that I did the same shell mod with JSAUX and installed the Guilikit V2 thumbsticks and had the same issue you had at 11:40 where they were sticking. It turns out that this has something to do with the way the thumbstick cap is sitting on the post. If you wiggle the thumbstick cap off of the post a little bit and then use a decent amount of force to press it back on, it'll sit at a lower height and clear the deck's front shell (and no longer get stuck). I found this out from Retro Handheld's video (Timestamped): https://youtu.be/FnIqILz6YjQ?t=350

They aren't mocking your height, they are mocking your lack of height.

The fact that basically all of those upgrades are very much possible but often times come with great conceptual downsides just goes to show how much valve hit the nail on the head with the Deck.

Rip to all the 7 people who bought the full hd screen for steam deck only for valve to drop steam deck oled

Small correction: the extreme rate cases don’t use the same threading as the steam deck because the steam deck doesn’t have threads. Valve explained that the back screws cut into the plastic posts. This is why they don’t recommend opening your steam deck and state it severely weakens the deck. If you plan on tinkering with the internals I highly recommend the full case replacement (but the screen removal is a huge difficulty spike) Also, the thumbstick daughter board is screwed into the front case so you can flip it over and test the friction before installing the controller board. No need for full assembly before testing them.

the Aftermarket scene for the Steam Deck is incredible, Valve captured lightning in a bottle with this and I REALLY hope their refresh has Oculink or Thunderbolt 4 support to really push it ahead even further

The products themselves might not be the greatest, but it's great that the steamdeck is getting this kind of support

I honestly have to say, ever since you guys dropped the amount of videos, the quality has improved immensity and it's a lot more enjoyable to watch long videos like this

I love these recommendations but, boy, did some of the recommendations age like fresh milk now the Steam Deck OLED is out.

As a retro gamer, best soft addition to the Steam Deck for me was actually mounting my NAS for Emu Deck. Given everything either has to load in RAM or expects physical media'esque access speeds, it's a surprisingly great solution to something that would be disproportionately more expensive trying to address with alternative storage solutions, especially if you want a more complete Linux ISO collection!

So one simple mod I did for my Steam Deck -- which I hope the team at P3R might consider as part of their install process -- is replacing the stock TIM on the APU with Honeywell PTM 7590. Since the Deck already runs quite hot the PTM works amazingly well, and I've noticed that my deck not only runs quieter since install, but I've also seen some performance improvements. Sadly I didn't measure it before doing the upgrade, so my experience is very subjective, but I'd say it's worth doing just for the reduction in fan noise.

you know, the fact that the mono block manufacture warned you about the issues, and had a option they were working on makes me trust them more than 90% of the aftermarket companies out there

The most tech tippy video I've seen in a while. Thanks for getting into the details and not treating it like short circuit.

I'm glad that linus is doing videos on the deck again 😁 it's been a long time

I just got my Steam deck less than a month ago and man, although many of these products aren’t perfect, I LOVE the idea that there’s such a wild market out there creating things for the Steam deck

I love how honest you guys are about everything rather than pretending everything went great. I wanted to swap the shell of my deck but I'm not good with this type of thing, it seems pretty invasive and the quality sounds bad.

the timing on this is gold.