I am surprised that you get the full warranty like a new unit. That is pretty awesome.
I’m surprised they only offer 1 year warranty where they can.
Honestly the way it should be, if they’re certifying it, the warranty should match that.
Should but far too often does not.
Valve prints money and is a private company. They don’t seem to have any incentive to go public but if that day ever comes I’ll commit sudoku, because that’s definitely something a publicly traded company would do.
Valve just absolutely killed it with the Deck, and this seems like a great way to jump in for people who want to save a bit of cash.
They’re doing this now because I just bought one. Figures.
Thank you for your service!
I wonder if these refurbished ones are fixed production 1 recalls
I still have mine and it has a really bad fan issue (overheats easily) since a firmware change that reduced the fan speeds or something.
I’d guess they’d just replace whatever part made the original fans mess up.
You can enable the old fan curve. It is somewhere in the settings. Sorry I can’t remember exactly where.
I should look into that then, thanks!
edit: based on what I could find, I think it’s disabling “updated fan controls” under system settings. Must have missed the patch where they added the option.
That is it. Just got to my deck and was about to edit my previous post.
It’s also worth trying to limit power draw and seeing how far you can go before it impacts performance. This game I’ve been playing went from about 18 watts to 7 watts with very little performance change and the fans run way quieter.
I can just put a big SD card in it, right? Or do I need to replace the SSD?
It would be better to replace the SSD, read write speeds and all that y’know. I’m not saying you shouldn’t get a big ol sd card, I mean, dankpods got doom eternal running off an iPod’s hard drive, but it’s not something you’d wanna deal with every day
I’d say it depends on the types of games you probably play? Maybe?
Have the 64Gb one with a 256Gb SDcard, and been perfect for the games I play (hades, stardew valley, emudeck also quite good), I know it’d probably be faster with an SSD but not looking to invest the time or money to upgrade just yet. Really happy with it
The only game so far I’ve definitely noticed slow load times was star wars jedi fallen order, that was the most resource demanding game I’ve played on the deck. Sometimes took like 30secs to load the game or respawn, but after that the whole game was quite normal.
I’ve got a bunch of games running off a big old SD card with no problems.
Yep microSDHC card works great
Hey you might get the first steam deck I had RMAd
I guess I know what I’m buying my fiancé for xmas…
Maybe better wait for Steam Winter Sale, deck will definitely be on sale
How cheap were Decks on sale? They aren’t likely to have refurbs on sale, are they?
They were ~10% off in the winter & summer sales. These refurbs at full price are ~20% off compared to the regular ones. I wouldn’t expect to see them discounted further unless Valve has difficulty selling them.
weird, the page refuses to load for me, i just get redirected to the front page… Even though the link to the refurbs is shown on the front page.
And base model still unavailable in the UK.
If I was just buying for myself I could live with the mid range price point. But for four kids that’s a lot of money to shell out.
I’ve got a better chance of buying buying crocodile tears or hens teeth.
Decent reduction - well done Valve!
