[dagmx]

I just checked and I have the newer fan. My deck is only a few months old as well.

It’s not that it’s making an unpleasant whining sound like what the older fan was meant to be, it’s that it’s trying to push out so much heat all the time that it’s perceptibly loud.

It’s the difference between tone and volume.

All my other devices in the house are relatively quiet compared to it. My switch, my Macs, even my PS5. None of them are fanless but they’re pushing out much less air at any point.

The steamdeck is fine for some games, but once it hits the thermal ceiling it gets so loud.