Steam Deck Teardown: Everything Valve Said Not to Do!

The hottest new device right now is the Steam Deck, a handheld gaming PC from Valve—the same company that brought us the Steam Machine, the Steam Controller, and … Steam.

Gamers are excited to have access to their library of Steam games on the go, but this thing also connects to a TV or monitor, kind of like a Nintendo Switch. It’s a really interesting device … to take apart.

Full disclosure: iFixit works with Valve to offer official replacement parts for Valve products. Valve also supplied us with a Steam Deck for the purpose of this teardown. They had no input on the editorial content or score in our video.

Our blog post for this teardown—including a hi-res X-ray image of the entire Steam Deck
https://www.ifixit.com/News/57101/steam-deck-teardown

Thanks again to our buddies at Creative Electron for the X-ray wizardry! Check them out at
https://www.creativeelectron.com

For a deep dive on what causes thumb-stick drift, check out our DualSense Drift video!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qPNyio3VDk

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0:00 Introduction
1:03 X-Rays from Creative Electron
1:30 Opening the Steam Deck
1:59 Retail vs. Pre-Release Hardware Comparison
2:22 Disconnecting the Battery
2:34 Thumb Sticks
3:22 Capacitive Touch Thumb Stick Hardware
3:44 SSD
4:28 Trigger Buttons
4:39 Button Input Boards
4:51 Touch Pad Hardware
5:21 Heat Sink and Fan
5:31 Motherboard
6:06 Battery
7:14 Display
7:40 Steam Deck Repairability

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