Shouldn’t any dock that works via USB PD work for this as long as the lighter USB adapter is rated for enough juice?

For simple reference, cheap SD cards will have speeds around 75-100MB/s a gen 3 NVME SSD(What’s in the deck) Will have speeds around 2500-3500MB/s. (I should mention here that there are very substantial diminishing returns for many many games once you get beyond around 600MB/s speeds and you will not likely see a 3-5x faster load time in most games.)

High end SD cards can reach around 170-180+MB/s Which is about as fast as a pretty fast Spinning Hard drive, but with lower latency(Which is the biggest killer of HDDs, seeking to get the needed data).

Game load times will definitely be worse off of an SD card(Especially cheaper slow ones)

I picked a Samsung Pro 512GB SD card for my deck with claimed 180MB/s speeds. I’ve installed games onto it and even played Nioh 2 off of it. Load times weren’t terrrible, but could be faster. An inconvienence, but a cheap and easy way to double my decks storage and put lesser used games on the SD card.

You can also migrate a game from card to SSD or back easily.

Was extra dark for me as well, I was pretty sure I was seeing some pretty extensive compression effects as well,

Overall a far worse experience than playing native with lower settings/framerate. Also much worse than using something like Parsec on Desktop.

I have rather large hands compared to most people, and the only the part I find not great are the buttons on the back, I have to curl my fingers fairly aggressively to use them and they’re designed to be pushed straight in to the back of the Deck, so they don’t actuate very smoothly when pushing the sides of them.

For reference I have about an 9" span from thumb tip to pinky tip when hand is splayed.

Smells exactly like the Index.

Yes, I run it that way all the time.

I never touch my brightness and only ever turn HDR off if I’m remoting into the desktop as the HDR image gets blown out.

I put everything that I can into dark mode, and even use Dark Reader to dark mode everything I can in browser.

Once in a while ABL can be annoying on very large white apps/websites, but it’s pretty rare for me.

Over 4500 hours now here, absolutely no burn in and I’ve run it in HDR 1000 high brightness the whole time.

Can confirm, it’s absolutely perfect for gaming/general use.

I’m over 4500 hours of use in HDR 1000 80%+ brightness. Lots of browsing/reading/gaming.

Not even a hint of burn in

It should prompt you for it automatically every 1500hours use unless you disabled it the first time it asks you to.

Otherwise it does the shorter 5-15min cycle after 6hours of continuous use or whenever it goes to standby/powered off after being used for a few hours.

The short one is called Pixel Refresh, the longer one is called Panel Refresh and takes about an hour.

Oh I’m not interested in personally seeing Arctic LFII benchmarks (I’m already running the LFII 420mm myself)

I just meant this person should have included one of the most well regarded coolers available. Having more people cover it is good, but you can’t really compare results between two different reviews very effectively with the number of variables that can change.

• CPU Bin/efficiency
• Ambient temps
• Case setup
• Mounting consistency/installation
• BIOS/Firmware differences
• Possible Software differences

and more I’m sure I didn’t think of.

Yeah, the “Year Roundup” only having 8 products…I’m guessing that’s not even 1/3rd of the number of AIOs that launched this year, let alone the best options from previous years.

Obviously a very useful “It runs fine on my PC” but I just had to pull my GPU to check an SSD and am glad to see both sides of my connector are completely fine over a year later, even while technically using it “out of spec” the whole time.

Odd that they don’t test Arctic, regularly regarded as the best and best price/perf.