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This is a really good card that keeps on getting better.

After my steam deck battery puffed up and my RX580 became too old to play any modern games, I had two choices:

1. Upgrade to a new GPU - this was costing me $300 at the very least for a 3 year old card

2. Hope to get a steam machine - but the crazy queue and the $1000 price tag really soured me on this

3. Get a bc-250 for $150 and make do for a year or two before upgrading.

I'm so glad I went with this option. I just used my old atx power supply and old PC case. Everything almost just works. It consumes lot less power than my previous gaming PC. It's a lot more silent. Some times there's a crash or two. I'm waiting to upgrade the power connector before unlocking it's full potential (40 compute units, and the two extra cores). So far I've finished playing Spider-Man 2, Hogwarts legacy, now playing 007 first light.

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Why not just replace the battery in your Steam Deck?

Seriously, please don't throw away perfectly functioning hardware just to avoid unscrewing a few screws.

Cries in my ongoing Apple Watch Series 6 battery replacement

Seriously, how close can you even put a screen and a metal casing?! Incredibly tiny gap that is impossible to jimmy open. I'm on day 3 trying to get this bastard open now...

Yeah, it's a tragedy that we throw devices away because the battery has a short expiration date :/

At least I guess watches are on the more understandable end of the "hard to repair" continuum.

Truly does suck, imagine the waste... To be fair to the average person though, we're a far away from when you could just pop open the back casing of the phone and switch the battery with your bare hands, no wonder people are afraid of doing these things themselves.

I'm fearing the day my waterproof bone conduction headphones have poor battery health, changing the battery on that will be a whole 'nother challenge.

Yeah, anything waterproof is going to be a problem. I'm curious to see how the new EU laws on battery replacement deal with this.

The EU battery replacement laws do not apply to waterproof devices.

Looking at you Withings. My perfectly able and capable Steel HR needs to be binned and repurchased (quite hefty price too) after 8yrs of good use as now the battery lasts only 3 days. Tried to contact them to swap the battery (at a cost) they suggested the only option is the bin... 8yrs is definitely more than an Apple Watch probably, but way less than the Zenith my father wore for more than 30 years.

Incidentally, just replaced batteries in my Apple Watch S6, MBP M1 2020, and iPhone 12 Pro Max during a one-day visit to Shenzhen. A dude in Huaqiangbei did everything in two hours for a small fraction of what Apple would charge.

ECG stopped working reliably after the battery replacement, but otherwise the watch should be good for another few years (stuck on watchOS 26.x)

> A dude in Huaqiangbei did everything in two hours for a small fraction of what Apple would charge.

I much prefer my approach of ordering hundreds worth of new equipment first just to change the battery on my wife's watch, over the course of maybe one-two weeks in total (pending I actually manage to open it, new tool for opening just arrived today!), which may or may not end up with me breaking the screen. Well, or breaking ECG it sounds like, the cables inside seem brittle indeed.

I intend to.

They don't sell steam deck/it's parts where I live. So the next time people visit me from far away, they'd have to bring one along.

That being said, steam deck isn't as powerful to play some of the games like Spider-Man 2. The stuttering is quite high on that.

Nice, the bc-240 is around a GTX 1660 Ti GPU in performance, and some AAA RT eye candy games are less fun anyway... but many still work... so the VRAM requirements are not as big of an issue.

People are figuring out what is playable on the platform, and it is a growing list:

https://elektricm.github.io/amd-bc250-docs/gaming/compatibil...

I was impressed Cyberpunk 2077 is on the list. ymmv =3

I have a 1660 super and I believe it is only a little less powerful than the ti. It definitely is not as powerful as a ps5. Though the original post is saying the bc250 is. I'm not sure which is correct!

It is a silicon lottery if the hidden BC-240 cores are stable when unlocked.

Almost ps5 level, but not quite... still a lot cheaper than a GPU these days, and the discounted racks came with NVMe ssd on each BC-240 as well. =3

I see thanks :)

I am often impressed the potatoes Cyberpunk will run on. Even runs on my retro i3-4130 with GTX 1050 Ti box.

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