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submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey folks, I wanna gift a steam deck to myself. The main games I’ll (infrequently) play on there are CS:Go and age of empires 2 HD, both of which I own and never get a chance to play on a regular PC.

I suppose I want the OLED one. Is it ok to go for the 64 GB version or should I go for the higher storage tier? It has expandable storage yeah? Or is that not reliable or fast enough?

Also, what’s going on with the pricing? It’s just obviously better to buy direct. Why are people trying to sell it on Amazon? I get people trying to sell on eBay and Craigslist but Amazon? What’s the deal there?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

As someone else said, the 64GB model is LCD only, if you want an OLED model you will have to spend at least $550 for the 512GB version.

The main differencea between the OLED and the LCD is the screen and battery life. The OLED gets 30-50+% longer battery which is really nice. More demanding games can go from 1.5hrs on the LCD deck to 2.5hrs on the OLED deck. This is less of an issue on lower battery use games unless you have really long play sessions. The screen looks fantastic, especially on games like Persona 5 that have real vibrant colors. There are also a lot of smaller upgrades

If you do go with the 64GB LCD, understand that the internal space is very limited. You will definitely need more storage. MicroSD cards are easy, but make games very slow to install and make load screens take longer. Many indie games run perfectly fine on microSD cards, but some newer AAA games will have significant performance issues due to the bottleneck in read speeds.

You can also upgrade the internal storage, it's not too difficult. The biggest issue people run into is stripping the screws, but that's not an issue unless you overtighten them or don't use a properly sized and seated screwdriver.