First the hardware can survive at over 90 degrees without any issues and it can save itself if it gets dangerous, second I don’t think you’d want better cooling, not like this at least - there are other parts that need to be cooled that don’t have temperature sensors on them, and making the fan run at lower speeds might be a bad idea. However, third, cooling fans like this (which this apparently isnt?) are worthless, cooling off the plastic cover is hard enough for them which doesn’t do much for the hardware itself.
Respecting the designed airflow (which imo is important) I think you’d have better results for your money if you play the Deck in front of a fan lol, that way lower temp air will be pushed on the intakes and you’d be kept cool as well.
Speaking of high temperature, the other day I tested my M2 Mac Mini in an unrealistic stress test: Handbrake doing software conversion plus AI image generation so I would use all the cpu cores, the gpu ones and the ML ones too. Apple is clearly a fan of silence, because it just kept the fan at minimum speed until one of the cores hit 100 degrees: that was worth half speed.
On the Deck… lately it’s so hot that I feel more comfortable with enabling the old fan curve. Aside from that I don’t worry :)
First the hardware can survive at over 90 degrees without any issues and it can save itself if it gets dangerous, second I don’t think you’d want better cooling, not like this at least - there are other parts that need to be cooled that don’t have temperature sensors on them, and making the fan run at lower speeds might be a bad idea. However, third, cooling fans like this (which this apparently isnt?) are worthless, cooling off the plastic cover is hard enough for them which doesn’t do much for the hardware itself.
Respecting the designed airflow (which imo is important) I think you’d have better results for your money if you play the Deck in front of a fan lol, that way lower temp air will be pushed on the intakes and you’d be kept cool as well.
Speaking of high temperature, the other day I tested my M2 Mac Mini in an unrealistic stress test: Handbrake doing software conversion plus AI image generation so I would use all the cpu cores, the gpu ones and the ML ones too. Apple is clearly a fan of silence, because it just kept the fan at minimum speed until one of the cores hit 100 degrees: that was worth half speed.
On the Deck… lately it’s so hot that I feel more comfortable with enabling the old fan curve. Aside from that I don’t worry :)
Thanks for the input. What do you think of something like this?
My wife got one like this. Thing is I don’t think we have attached it once as I tend to undock and go without bothering to attach it.