I'm shocked how well this worked - Steam Deck Cooler Upgrade
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Published 2022-06-20
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I love the Steam Deck, but unfortunately it can be a bit loud and runs kinda hot.. well today we change that.
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MUSIC CREDIT
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Intro: Laszlo - Supernova
Video Link: • [Electro] - Laszlo - Supernova [Monst...
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Outro: Approaching Nirvana - Sugar High
Video Link: • Sugar High - Approaching Nirvana
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Intro animation by MBarek Abdelwassaa www.instagram.com/mbarek_abdel/
Monitor And Keyboard by vadimmihalkevich / CC BY 4.0 geni.us/PgGWp
Mechanical RGB Keyboard by BigBrotherECE / CC BY 4.0 geni.us/mj6pHk4
Mouse Gamer free Model By Oscar Creativo / CC BY 4.0 geni.us/Ps3XfE
CHAPTERS
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0:00 - Our crazy idea...
0:55 - PDQ!
1:20 - Why Linus wants this
4:25 - The Plan
8:19 - It... might actually work?
9:40 - Manufacturing
13:44 - Assembly, thermal pads
16:50 - Firing it up
19:30 - This looks awesome
20:50 - Fan?
22:40 - Manscaped!
23:15 - Outro
All Comments (21)
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The fact that they did this entire operation without turning off the Steam Deck feels distinctly like “Whoops, we forgot to anaesthetise the patient before surgery”
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This feels like the unofficial Sketchy Heatsinks episode 4, where alex finally has all of the equipment he wanted 5 years ago.
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“What’s the repeatability of your scissor cutting? Mine laser’s under a thou.” This is quite possibly the single nerdiest line Alex has ever said and I love it.
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Alex is an engineer after my own heart. Involves the boss just enough in projects to get him excited enough to dump large amounts of cash into supplying him with equipment and tooling. Excellent work.
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I can not overstate how much I love these engineering type episodes.
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"What about a big heat sync?" "It's still kinda hot...What if we also added a fan?" I love that as the video goes on, they're just slowly building it back up into a gaming PC
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22:40 I love the proud dad look linus gets anytime someone other than him nails a segue into a sponsor spot.
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One of my favourite episodes ever, this is exactly the kind of enthusiast madness I come to this channel for
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The look of sheer happiness on linuses face when Alex said the line for the sponsor
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Linus' smiles at 22:39 like "I'm so proud, he grew up so fast" love the sponsor segues
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The delight on Linus’s face when Alex went to the sponsor 😆
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The best part about all of this is that steam released CAD files for the deck. So instead of cutting a hole in the rear case they could have modeled a hole in the cad file and 3D printed an entire new case.
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Genius, easy to remove when it's cold, stays on during use due to thermal expansion. 10/10 "It's not a bug, it's a feature"
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I love how proud Linus looked when Alex made that absolutely buttery smooth transition to the sponsor.
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22:38 I laughed my ass off and had to watch that a few times. The smile on Linus' face is priceless.
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5:25 For any prospective modders, note that this trick only works because the holes are the same size. If you want to make something that bridges two holes of unequal size, you just measure both holes and the maximum distance, and the center to center distance = maximum distance - (hole 1 diameter + hole 2 diameter)/2
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Ooh, a shop episode. This is the kind of stuff that makes me happy to be an engineer, so I love seeing it here.
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Alex: What’s the repeatability of your scissors? Also Alex: just cut a hole in the back of a Steam deck by hand, yolo lol
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I love how you guys explain everything you are doing and figuring out and don't just gloss over what you're doing for these types and all types of videos.
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Getting rid of the fans by adding a fan was a genious idea.
