Following warnings from Valve regarding the maximum (and minimum) temperatures your Steam Deck is happy to operate at, the little handheld gaming PC will now warn you when it's running outside it
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Following warnings from Valve (opens in new tab) regarding the maximum (and minimum) temperatures your Steam Deck (opens in new tab) is happy to operate at, the little handheld gaming PC will now warn you when it’s running outside its safe operating temperature range.
As part of a major update to the Steam Deck’s OS (opens in new tab), version 3.3, Valve has added a warning to tell users when their device is at risk of running slowly, or not running at all from excessive heat or cold.
For the record, the Steam Deck’s safe operating range is between 0–35°C. If you exceed those temperatures, the system may throttle performance or even shutdown.
At high temperatures that’s understandable, as the CPU and GPU, in this case an all-in-one AMD APU chip, will exceed temperatures its silicon is designed to run at.
