Valve released the Steam Deck teardown video

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Since the launch of Valve’s Steam Deck, everyone has been very interested in its internal structure, because it is packed with high-specification hardware in a very small size, and its SSD is replaceable, there should be many people interested in how to replace the SSD. Today, Valve has released a “Take a look inside Steam Deck” video, mainly showing how to replace the joystick and SSD.

The disassembly diagram of the Steam Deck is shown in the figure above. The left and right PCBs are mainly buttons and joysticks. The rocker is an independent module, which can be replaced separately. The battery and radiator occupy a lot of space in the middle of the machine. The I/O on the upper side of the machine is located on a separate small PCB, while the CPU, memory, and SSD are located on the left side of the radiator. The CPU has a heat pipe to transfer heat to the radiator

The calculation module of the Steam Deck is enclosed in an electromagnetic shielding case, including the M.2 2230 SSD, to disassemble this electromagnetic shielding case, you need to loosen four screws, two of which are under the fragile label, so Valve does not recommend players to replace the SSD by themselves, and because the SSD is very close to the wireless module, they have tested the machine for electromagnetic interference before leaving the factory, and replacing the SSD privately may cause some unknown consequences.

The Steam Deck is equipped with a 7-inch 1280*800 IPS screen, 16GB LPDDR5 memory, and storage space in three versions: 64GB, 256GB, and 512GB, AMD Van Gogh APU is used, which is a core display of Zen 2 architecture CPU core plus RDNA2. It comes with SteamOS based on Arch Linux, allowing users to change to Windows systems by themselves. At present, the machine will be shipped to users with pre-orders from December, and new orders will not be shipped until at least the second quarter of 2022.

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