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Valve May Start Selling Refurbished Steam Decks Soon - Steam Deck HQ (steamdeckhq.com)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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TL;DR: Steam briefly showed options to buy refurbished Steam Decks for the following prices:

64gb - $319
256gb - $419
512gb - $519

The steam page has since been taken down, but will hopefully go live officially soon.

Edit: That was quick, refurbished units available now.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (7 children)

Hmm, I may actually pull the trigger on one of these, then. Is there any benefit to the higher capacity units if I can just pop in an SD card? I assume they can store games on the cards?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I have a 64gb with a large sd card. My recommendation is to get a 256gb. You will feel space starved with installing different versions of Proton, the shader cache(?), and the emulated Window's user folders.

If you get the 64gb you basically have to get an sd card. If you get bigger then you might not ever have to if you play relatively small games and you don't mind managing installed games.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, that would be the plan. I did the same thing with my Switch and it just automatically uses it as additional storage without any fuss. Does the Steam Deck do the same thing?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yes, but shader caches always go to the internal memory, so that will fill up even if the games themselves are installed to the SD card.

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