I am surprised that you get the full warranty like a new unit. That is pretty awesome.
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.
I’m surprised they only offer 1 year warranty where they can.
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.
Decent reduction - well done Valve!
I think it’s right around how much they were selling brand new Decks for during the summer sale, so it would make me want to wait for a future sale probably. Or rather I think it was 10, 15, and 20 percent reduction for the low, mid, and high end options respectively. I wonder if they’ll reduce the costs of the refurbs during future sales.
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.
Probably fixed RMA units. I had to RMA my original June 2022 Deck because it got stuck in some permanent low TDP mode. Otherwise the hardware was still in great condition. If they were able to somehow reflash the firmware to fix this issue it would be like new. I’m sure there were others RMA’d for this issue or minor internal hardware issues that could be fixed. If there were fan issues hopefully they put new fans in as part of the refurbishing process.
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.
Hey you might get the first steam deck I had RMAd
I can just put a big SD card in it, right? Or do I need to replace the SSD?
I’ve got a bunch of games running off a big old SD card with no problems.
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’ve never really noticed a slowdown with games on the sd card compared to the ssd
In most it doesn’t matter, but in some newer games like Ratchet and Clank Rift Apart, the difference is massive.
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.
Yep microSDHC card works great
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.
I look forward to tronicsfix tearing one down and seeing just how “refurbished” they really are. I expect great things from Valve but I still remain skeptical
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.
