Valve’s Steam Deck has been a breath of fresh air for handheld gamers, giving fans a more powerful system that runs games the Nintendo Switch often struggles with. However, as the generation continues, Valve’s handheld is reaching its limits, but a new fan-made mod for the console has shown a big performance boost despite some caveats. Fans have been looking for ways to play more powerful games on the Steam Deck, with GeForce Now proving to be a good streaming option.
While fans would love to hear that a new Steam Deck 2 is coming soon Valve has already said it will take years to make this successor. Steam Deck performance improves with Aluminum backplate On the Steam Deck Modded subreddit , one fan boasted about their handheld getting a decent performance boost from an Aluminum backplate. Moderators ended up taking down the original post but tech site Notebookcheck was able to write down how much more powerful this mod was.
Fan usage was 35% less GPU boost clock +38 MHz (+2.6%) GPU temps 12 °C lower CPU temps 13 °C lower FPS: +11% It’s a seemingly easy process as well since fans have to unscrew the old backplate and screw in the Aluminum one. Average gamers might not be able to do this, while those used to tinkering with their systems can screw in the new backplate with ease.
The mod is a bit costly, but it will give a performance boost for some of these AAA PC games. While fans can comfortably play most AAA games on Valve’s handheld, recent releases like Warhammer.
