One other YouTube channel has been beating on the Steam Deck OLED and, no shock, has discovered that the system’s OLED panel will burn after 1,500 hours of displaying a static picture.
A month in the past or so, The Phawx discovered that fairly a little bit of burn in was doable in simply 750 hours displaying a static picture at max 1,000 nits HDR brightness. Now Wulff Den has performed its personal testing at 600 nits SDR brightness and located burn in after 1,500 hours.
He additionally stories a couple of further attention-grabbing particulars. Blue and pink colors burn in quickest. What’s extra, Wulff Den did not assume the Deck had any of the standard burn-in mitigation options, resembling pixel shift or brilliant zone or brand detection and dimming. Placing the query to Valve, it was duly confirmed that the Deck OLED certainly doesn’t have such measures.
“Steam Deck does not use any of these strategies. That mentioned, we aren’t conscious of customers having situation underneath regular use. Our {hardware} guarantee covers points with all Steam Deck elements, together with the show,” Valve mentioned.
In fact, that guarantee solely covers the Deck for a yr. After which, you are by yourself.
So, is that this simply trigger for Steam Deck OLED to dash up and down workplace corridors emitting blood-curdling screams of pure panic? In any case, what we have now here’s a Steam Deck OLED with no burn-in mitigation options that duly burns in. So, a difficulty? In all probability not.
For starters, as Wulff Den himself says the check is not terribly sensible. What Steam Deck person has a static picture displaying at max SDR or HDR brightness for tons of and even 1000’s of hours, continuous?
Additionally, the brighter you run your Deck, the quicker it would burn in. And who must run the factor at 600 or 1,000 nits on a regular basis? Should you play at evening and even inside within the day, we would argue you in all probability do not, and possibly will not.
Burn in can also be not a lot—if any—fear until you might be planning on enjoying the identical sport on a regular basis that additionally occurs to have brilliant static UI parts.
In any case, you are not going to be sitting on the Linux or Home windows desktop with its static UI parts for tons of of hours on a Deck such as you would possibly with a desktop PC. What’s extra, the burn in Wulff Den achieved was very, very gentle. You’d actually should go in search of it.
So, in case your Deck has a tiny little bit of burn in after two or three years, the form of burn in you’ll be able to solely see should you go in search of it and would barely trouble you if in any respect in observe, is that basically the tip of the world?
Plus, the Steam Deck is extra modular and repairable than most gadgets. You might exchange the display if the burn in obtained to the purpose the place it was truly bothering you. Sure, that will value cash. However you would not have a completely trashed system, whilst you would have the choice of rectifying the issue.
All of which implies we will file Steam Deck OLED burn in underneath “not a significant fear” and get again to having fun with what stays our favorite handheld gaming PC.
