My new LE OLED Deck has a few red sub-pixels that are dead, and I’ve seen reports around this sub of others with similar issues. It almost seems like it is being mentioned more for specific models. So, I’m curious…. If you got a new Steam Deck OLED what model did you get and how is your screen?
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Why does this only happen on Le lol
Dat BOE panel. Lol @ everyone trying to say it didn’t matter if you get a Samsung or BOE screen, yet here we are. Every dead pixel issue I’ve seen is the LE edition with a BOE screen.
Not the same provider?
Nope. 100% perfect.
Don’t see any dead pixels on my regular 1TB OLED thankfully, but I do have a crappy left trackpad haptic that’s really noisy compared to the right, waiting for Valve to get back to me on that one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBc7_mQNG68Just checked my LE and I don’t have any dead pixel.
Got one right in the middle of my LE. I could probably handle it if it was in a corner or something but it’s shockingly distracting.
I’m curious if this is with the samsung or the other brand screens?
Errrrrr I want the OLED but damn I have an absolutely PERFECT LCD with zero issues since I’ve had it earlier this summer. No issues with the screen, firmware, nothing. Damn, sometimes I read this shit and I’m just like…do I REALLY want to sell my perfectly working baby and risk something like this?
Just fired up my LE Deck for the first time
Ran the pixel test - seems ok
It seems much lighter and cheaper feeling than my 512GB LCD version.
Screen looks great though.
Will install a few games see how it goes
OLED LE here, no dead pixels.
Yep, two dead subpixels on my LE OLED. A dead green and dead blue. I just initiated a refund process and placed an order for a 512 GB model. I want to try out that glossy screen anyways even though this etched glass looks perfectly fine. But if the main selling point is the screen and the resolution is this low, a dead pixel is annoying. If my 512 GB Deck also has a dead pixel, then idk what I’m going to do.
Question for those of you with dead pixels, do you plan on keeping them or returning them? It seems so common that I definitely do not want to play the lottery on the LE model. I like the transparent body but maybe not enough to put up with dead pixels.
If mine comes in Im gonna check. If its one or two pixels on the side or whatever, I might just say fk it and keep it.
If its noticable ill return it. Really liked the idea of a LE and the color scheme but this just seems like Valve wanted to get rid of its stock of BOE panels by selling them in the “LE”
Not impressed with this.
I don’t think they wanted to get rid of stock per se, but I do have a feeling the “Limited Edition” model was also a limited test run of BOE’s viability as a supplier for future iterations of the Steam Deck so Valve can see how their mass production compared to Samsung.
This is similar to how Apple tests new suppliers like how they had Samsung supply a portion of the A9 chips that TSMC usually supplies. It was discovered that the Samsung chips had worse battery life so Apple dropped them as a supplier. If BOE can’t refine their manufacturing process and get better panel yields, I’m sure Valve would consider not buying from them in the future.
This is all speculation of course and we’ll have to wait to see what is actually going on. There is a lot more dead pixel reports with the OLED than I remember with the LCD launch. I have handled four LCD Steam Decks and none of them had dead pixels amazingly, but the first OLED I get has two. So statistically it seems like the OLEDs are more prone to dead pixels.
So are the 1 TB reg oled etched safe? its just the limited edition orange ones with this issue?
Damn reading this thread a handful of folks with dead pixels it seems. When I get around to getting my OLED I hope that doesn’t happen .
my 512gb OLED is fine
No dead pixels LE
Seems like the LE in general has had the most issues, or maybe it is just the most popular?