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For the LAN center you should also put IR lights up to help with Quest 3 and other Inside Out tracking VR headsets. You could also get some of those Omni Directional VR Treadmills for the workout area. Could get some Quest 3 and extra removable silicon facial interfaces. Busch Gardens Williamsburg had this really cool thing for the Vive headsets (for the now defunct Battle for Eire) that users put on a plastic helmet/face shell and then the headset had magnets and the VR headset magnetically attached to the plastic helmet/face shell. https://cavudw.com/battle-for-eire/

Because my warranty expired 2 months ago.

Update - Wondering if Steam/Valve already knew about this issue because 1 day after recieving my unit via RMA they already shipped out a replacement unit. Or it could be they dont care anymore with the release of the OLED version.

I really think Linus messed up with his room cooling situation by not placing the rads as close to the server as possible. There is no way he is close to the saturation point of the radiators by placing them in the room and now the servers have a much larger volume to heat up and the rads are going to be less efficient. Losing a lot of cooling potential by putting them that much further away from the primary heat source. It would have been much better to just but another server rack door and then mounting everything to that rack door. Also the power supply is really not good. Would be much better to use something like the meanwell powersupply to convert to 24V and then setup a couple dc-dc buck converts to step down the voltage and power a bank of fans off each buck converter. Then could run something like a RPI or Arduino with a temp probe to control the fans (no reason to run them 100% all the time). Using the RPI or Arduino would also allow RGB control off the GPIO headers. One possible problem with that is the spacing of the fans on the radiator. It looks like the 120mm fans almost perfectly fit in the dimensions of the radiator. Would probably be even better to just use pressure reduction/flow reduction fittings and ensure equal pressure/flow out of all ports. I feel like the purpose of this project was to eliminate waste heat as much as possible. Using a heat pump still produces waste heat, it just moves it somewhere else. If you are trying to maintain as close to 0 waste as possible, the pool setup is pretty ingenious. All that said.. I think one of my biggest fears watching all the videos on this is the whole "friction fitting" the wood that holds the manifolds into the ceiling. Please tell me they used something like a toggle to atleast prevent those boards from fall out between the rafters

This is actually the only important part about any of Billet's responses. From what they said their biggest fear out of all of this was that their IP was in the hands of a rival, which could cost everything to them. That said I am still a little surprised they didn't want it back anyway, because there is no guarantee that private individual wont sell it to a rival company who can learn from it and make their own version. I have a little bit of experience in manufacturing, and the vast majority of the cost is the engineering the solution, the actual fabrication isn't nearly as much but more than likely they wrapped all costs of R&D into the cost they quoted Linus. If that is the case, it would be foolish for them not to take the money vs the product back. Not saying they were being greedy or anything, but in some context it makes sense why they would opt for the money vs the product back Here are two questions that are kind of easy to answer: what value does the prototype have if it is the final build? The value is in the manufacturing process at that point... What value does the prototype have if it isn't the final build? They probably learned everything they needed to in order to already make another one. Maybe they would save a couple bucks vs fabing or procuring some of the parts, but they already have them sourced or have the ability to fab more. Literally the only value the prototype probably has is in the IP (especially if they havent filed any patents yet). End of the day: Techincally LTT did the wrong thing.. They sold something they didnt have the right apperently to sell. There was a process breakdown SOMEWHERE (not placing blame on any specific person) but atleast somehow they came around to the right conclusion to make Billet Labs whole again. What that agreement is doesnt even matter, all that matters is it apperently has been done. What they really need to do is have a policy in place, because NO PROTOTYPE SHOULD EVER BE SOLD AT AUCTION ... unless specifically allowed by the owner.

Yup the only way I knew about it is because I was looking at parts on ifixit to see how much a motherboard would cost (they don't sell them) and that is when I saw an "original heatsync" and a "refreshed heatsync"

Mine has a Huyang fan, but that wasn't the reengineer. https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-deck-hardware-revision-in-the-wild-with-pictures/

So a few weeks ago I was having this issue where the Gamma was serious low. It randomly started working again but wonder if this would be a sign something is up with the screen or unit. This is what I had most recently opened a ticket with Steam for and they basically said "ya we have no idea"

That's my plan. I will say steam support is kind of a PITA. They only offer support through trouble ticket and insist on going through each step by step troubleshooting, which is fine except it takes them about an hour or longer per message to respond with the next step.

To be fair, there are a lot of complaints on reddit and other sites about their steamdeck just "dying", and Valve did totally reengineer the motherboard and heatsync mounting and fan for some reason... I am wondering if it really is a "one off" or if other people had the same issues, but since they were within the 12 month warranty period they just turned them in for another unit without every opening it up and looking at the motherboard, and me being outside the 12 month I decided to actually look to see if I can figure out the issue.

... Yup and now realizing that is kind of stupid and IFixIt's own joystick replacement specifically tells you to disconnect the battery. Honestly tho if I had tried to clean this unit I would openly say so. I am 100% honest this is how I received it from Valve over 14 months ago and the only things I have done are replace the NVMe and the joysticks. I am waiting on Valve customer service to see what they will charge to fix it, but if it is over 100 I am just going to buy a ROG Ally... I know it has MicroSD card reader issues, but that screen and higher end processor will hopefully handle New World, because I am pretty sure that is what finally did my steamdeck in.

Nope I have not cleaned it nor touched anything except replacing the NVMe... I also replaced the sticks with Gulikit but that isn't under the EMI shield so not relevant. I have always had issues with the steamdeck (and have have some tickets with Valve) but they always say it is software related and will be fixed in the next update (mostly to do with heating issues). Recently I was having issues with the wifi randomly cutting off and not reconnecting (all of this started when I started playing New World on the steamdeck). Before New World the only things I really played on the Steam Deck were games like Oxygen Not Included and some emulation. My guess is New World is the first game that actually stressed the unit.

I am starting to feel like mine was a rejected unit that they then "fixed" and sold it as brand new. This was around the time that the queues were half a year or longer out, so I would imagine that they were rushing as many units out as possible

I have had my 256 gb steam deck since August of 2022 and recently started to play a lot of New World on it... and... it died. In the middle of playing the game I started to get GPU artifacting and then the system crashed, never to turn on again. Tried everything (booting to bios, boot to recovery, using a USB dock to see if it outputs display). The system will make the beep like it is turning on and then the fan will start to run but absolutely no video (screen backlight doesnt even light up) and no video output to the dock. It isn't booting into SteamOS because my desktop would notify me the steamdeck is avaliable for streaming if so. After realizing I am 2 months outside my 12 month warranty I decided to open it up and take a look to see if it was something simple, and what I found... Holy hell... The pictures below are what my motherboard looks like... all that gray stuff I am assuming is Thermal Paste... All over the place. Also the toolmarks on the heatsink and pipe look... rough... what the hell did Valve do to this steamdeck when being manufactured? Before anyone asks, this unit has never been exposed to water, or even outside during rain or other humid events. I was able to remove some of the gray stuff and removed the heatsync and they are both the same exact consistency. \ Hell even IFixIt's photo shows the absolute trainwreck of a thermal paste job off their steamdeck I know I am probably out my steamdeck and valve wont do anything for me except quote me a new mainboard... anyone have suggestions?

I currently live in Virginia (United States) and really want to switch from my Currently Asus AX86S Router with a AC86U wireless secondary AP to a OPNSense router with the AX86S and AC86U functioning as wireless AP. I also have some more hardware like a Lenovo M715Q Ryzen 5 2400GE Plex/Channels DVR server, Qnap 453Be NAS and HDHomeRun Prime tuner. I also have Verizon Fios. I want to relocate all of these to a central location (and add the OPNSense router). Would these components survive in my garage?