Five Steam Deck Upgrades under $100

Between Steam sales and Certified Refurbished units, it’s easier than ever to save money on a Steam Deck. But what could you do with those savings?

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MUSIC CREDIT
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Intro: Laszlo - Supernova

Outro: Approaching Nirvana - Sugar High

CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
1:14 Certified Refurbished
2:39 P3R Monoblock
6:18 DeckHD
9:30 eXtremeRate Shell
10:41 So much room for activities!
14:09 Sabrent m.2 Dock
17:05 Why is it always bats?
20:55 Outro

[gRocketOne]

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)

[Deckbuttons]

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!

[Meadguard]

Sticks - fucked up
Cooling interface - fucked up
Screen - decrease performance
BIOS - fucked up

Cool upgrade.

[TheJoker-bzuz]

This video should be called, "Things you don't want to install on your Steam Deck"

[skudnu]

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

[gaboversta.]

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.

[balakehb]

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

[amn]

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

[Daremachina]

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.

[ExtremeRate]

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!

[--Zook--]

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

[hikingsimulator]

I love how good the first 1.5 minutes of the videos have been getting. Each time they get better and more creative, and the punchline of "our sponsor" makes me laugh every time. Keep it up LTT!

[bodivanbodivan]

The title should be “Destroy your steam deck for $100''

[karelbohacek]

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

[meric]

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

[tumpelo]

14:38 I like how you call 49.99 "around 40", the trick really works!

[tigrankhachaturian]

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

[Jytra]

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.

[michael]

“Joystick doesn’t feel as good down to the right” just gets stuck in position 😂 11:40

[Voltaic_Fire]

It may have cost a pretty penny but I think it is worth it to add all that optional customisation and performance to the Deck, the right to repair (and upgrade) is a wonderful thing.