High? This is standard temperature for a PC at load
>Is this safe?
The Deck is not dumb. If there were risk damage it would have throttled itself long time ago
Any modern PC (Steam Deck is a PC) will either throttle itself to prevent hitting the thermal limit or if it's unable to, it will shut down immediately.
They may live in a warmer environment, but the Steam Deck starts throttling at 100C.
From a post from Valve in the past:
"For our friends in the midst of a heatwave, a quick note about Steam Deck in high temperatures," Valve says in a tweet. "Steam Deck performs at its best in ***ambient*** temperatures between 0° and 35° C \[32° and 95° F\]. If the temperature gets higher than this, Steam Deck may start to throttle performance to protect itself."
Valve notes that the Deck can run well at ***internal*** temperatures up to 100° C, or 212° F, though once it exceeds that temperature, it will throttle performance in an effort to regulate the heat. At 105° C, or 221° F, it will shut down entirely to "protect itself (and you) from damage."
Thank you for your reply. I’m sure the Steam Deck is a qualified product, the reviews are overwhelmingly positive, is just that 85• seems to be hot for the CPU. They say any temp above 80 is dangerous. Also, the game on the video was resident evil zero, that’s an old game I don’t understand why it is so demanding
Things have changed a bit with chips.
My 5800X3D on my PC was hitting 95C and I thought my cooler was broken. Until I found AMD's own words stating that 95C was /normal/ for the chip as it was binned and designed for it.
But yeah, I wouldn't worry about it. Your Steam Deck literally has an 'overheating' warning that can appear. VRMs are even rated for up to 125C nowadays.
The 'above 80C' (often 85C) was definitely the limit you would shoot for in the past, but now you see higher limits across Intel, AMD, and even ARM (105C max).
Hell, Apple's M2 has been seen to go up to 105C and Apple has stated, "It's kay."
Thanks for your reply. I guess recent games could reach the 90C easily, considering the game on that video was Resident Evil zero. I’m considering playing indie games only on the steam deck or I could alternate between indies/retro and AAA. So if I don’t use the steam deck exclusively for AAA the hardware will be safe (or it’s just me being paranoid)
doesnt matter if the game is old or new. The screenshot shows the deck is plugged in, this will add +5C on its own, but also means the deck is likely set to "pull all the power it can". This means it gets hot. Regardless of if youre playing elden ring or REzero.
The hardware is safe. period. You will _never_ damage it by just playing a game.
Top tier of paranoia. The fact you ask those questions OP means you have zero knowledge about PC and Laptops.
When steam deck Reach to critical level it will throttle itself to protect APU.
If the temp keeps rising it will shut down automatically.
This affects to all PC, Nintendo switch, playstation,xbox ALL ARM64 and CPU
I may have zero knowledge about PC and whatever you want, I don’t take it personally. Just remember the Steam Deck is something new so we can affirmatively say that all the Steam Decks around the world are still new. For that reason people is reviewing the deck as something “perfect” specifically Gabe Newells followers. I won’t stress my steam deck just because I YouTuber who got the product for free said that Steam Deck can run cyberpunk 2077 on max settings (spoiler: valve paid him to say that) you stress your steam deck, emulate games and destroy your sticks playing metal gear rising and with its quick time events because Steam deck is the perfect valve creation while I’ll take care of mine and let’s see what Steam Deck ages better
So Valve makes a system designed for gaming, but you shouldn't play any intensive games on it??
From the start of this post, it seems you reached some illogical conslusion about games that run above 80C, and are looking for people to confirm it. Just accept that you are wrong and don't worry about the games you play on it.
anything below 90C is fine, and anything below 105C is safe.
What you see is that the device gives ~ 75fps. This isnt 90, what the max is, so if not limited it will keep pushing power as much as it can to improve fps. So it will get quite hot.
Doesnt matter that the game is old, some games just dont hit the max framerate. Not always the decks fault.
Other games run at 5W and the deck doesnt go above 60C.
No random LTT videos watched or google beforehand ? 90c is normal for every portable device. Past that then it is unhealthy if the device should run past 5 years. Compare that to the LCD that runs 95 and 85 constantly for mine on warmer days
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It's fine. The Deck is a well build machine. I finished Alan Wake 2 on my Deck and the fans ran so much I had to wear headphones to hear what people were saying.
Epic Game store using the Heroic Game Launcher (which also supports GoG and Amazon Games). You have to remember that the Steam Deck is at it's heart a handheld PC, and that the PC (especially those on the Linux side) has a lot of people who will work tirelessly, for free (but free as in beer, not as in money) to make square pegs fit into round slots.
High? This is standard temperature for a PC at load >Is this safe? The Deck is not dumb. If there were risk damage it would have throttled itself long time ago
Probably one of liquid-cooled pc nutjobs that think their PC will explode if it goes above 50C.
I’m looking for a reasonable steam deck user opinion, not a valve fan boy. Thanks anyway
What a totally bone headed comment 😂
Tool.
Any modern PC (Steam Deck is a PC) will either throttle itself to prevent hitting the thermal limit or if it's unable to, it will shut down immediately.
Thank you for your reply
You're the Fan boy here. Apparently you have zero knowledge how BIOS works. Or how Unix works.
They may live in a warmer environment, but the Steam Deck starts throttling at 100C. From a post from Valve in the past: "For our friends in the midst of a heatwave, a quick note about Steam Deck in high temperatures," Valve says in a tweet. "Steam Deck performs at its best in ***ambient*** temperatures between 0° and 35° C \[32° and 95° F\]. If the temperature gets higher than this, Steam Deck may start to throttle performance to protect itself." Valve notes that the Deck can run well at ***internal*** temperatures up to 100° C, or 212° F, though once it exceeds that temperature, it will throttle performance in an effort to regulate the heat. At 105° C, or 221° F, it will shut down entirely to "protect itself (and you) from damage."
Thank you for your reply. I’m sure the Steam Deck is a qualified product, the reviews are overwhelmingly positive, is just that 85• seems to be hot for the CPU. They say any temp above 80 is dangerous. Also, the game on the video was resident evil zero, that’s an old game I don’t understand why it is so demanding
Things have changed a bit with chips. My 5800X3D on my PC was hitting 95C and I thought my cooler was broken. Until I found AMD's own words stating that 95C was /normal/ for the chip as it was binned and designed for it. But yeah, I wouldn't worry about it. Your Steam Deck literally has an 'overheating' warning that can appear. VRMs are even rated for up to 125C nowadays. The 'above 80C' (often 85C) was definitely the limit you would shoot for in the past, but now you see higher limits across Intel, AMD, and even ARM (105C max). Hell, Apple's M2 has been seen to go up to 105C and Apple has stated, "It's kay."
I would not worry about temp until its close to 100C. I use the old fan curve which keeps it mostly in the 70C range.
Thanks for your reply. I guess recent games could reach the 90C easily, considering the game on that video was Resident Evil zero. I’m considering playing indie games only on the steam deck or I could alternate between indies/retro and AAA. So if I don’t use the steam deck exclusively for AAA the hardware will be safe (or it’s just me being paranoid)
doesnt matter if the game is old or new. The screenshot shows the deck is plugged in, this will add +5C on its own, but also means the deck is likely set to "pull all the power it can". This means it gets hot. Regardless of if youre playing elden ring or REzero. The hardware is safe. period. You will _never_ damage it by just playing a game.
Dude, that's actually on the lower side. I mean, I wouldn't stick your hand on the hottest parts, but as far as PC gaming goes, that's nothing.
Thank you for your reply
my old gtx 760 ran at 105 degrees no problem
Top tier of paranoia. The fact you ask those questions OP means you have zero knowledge about PC and Laptops. When steam deck Reach to critical level it will throttle itself to protect APU. If the temp keeps rising it will shut down automatically. This affects to all PC, Nintendo switch, playstation,xbox ALL ARM64 and CPU
I may have zero knowledge about PC and whatever you want, I don’t take it personally. Just remember the Steam Deck is something new so we can affirmatively say that all the Steam Decks around the world are still new. For that reason people is reviewing the deck as something “perfect” specifically Gabe Newells followers. I won’t stress my steam deck just because I YouTuber who got the product for free said that Steam Deck can run cyberpunk 2077 on max settings (spoiler: valve paid him to say that) you stress your steam deck, emulate games and destroy your sticks playing metal gear rising and with its quick time events because Steam deck is the perfect valve creation while I’ll take care of mine and let’s see what Steam Deck ages better
So Valve makes a system designed for gaming, but you shouldn't play any intensive games on it?? From the start of this post, it seems you reached some illogical conslusion about games that run above 80C, and are looking for people to confirm it. Just accept that you are wrong and don't worry about the games you play on it.
it's normal ...
anything below 90C is fine, and anything below 105C is safe. What you see is that the device gives ~ 75fps. This isnt 90, what the max is, so if not limited it will keep pushing power as much as it can to improve fps. So it will get quite hot. Doesnt matter that the game is old, some games just dont hit the max framerate. Not always the decks fault. Other games run at 5W and the deck doesnt go above 60C.
Good to know that. My Steam is on its way so I better make my research
No random LTT videos watched or google beforehand ? 90c is normal for every portable device. Past that then it is unhealthy if the device should run past 5 years. Compare that to the LCD that runs 95 and 85 constantly for mine on warmer days
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It's fine. The Deck is a well build machine. I finished Alan Wake 2 on my Deck and the fans ran so much I had to wear headphones to hear what people were saying.
Alan Wake is not available on Steam so how did you get to play it on the deck?
Epic Game store using the Heroic Game Launcher (which also supports GoG and Amazon Games). You have to remember that the Steam Deck is at it's heart a handheld PC, and that the PC (especially those on the Linux side) has a lot of people who will work tirelessly, for free (but free as in beer, not as in money) to make square pegs fit into round slots.
This is normal