Dreaming of an Nvidia Steam Deck? This modder converted an RTX 4090 laptop GPU into 4K 'portable' handheld gaming PC
If you can't buy it, DIY it.
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Portable handheld gaming PCs are one of my favourite recent offshoots of PC gaming. It's been a delight to watch all these Switch-styled devices crop up with their cute plastic shells hiding often beastly gamer interiors. The downside is while we are seeing more of these Steam Deck competitors around, we're also seeing relatively limited options with new Nvidia powered machines nowhere to be seen. That is until one ingenious modder decided to build one of their own.
VideoCardz spotted Qingchen DIY's Nvidia powered creation over on the Chinese forums Bilibili. The astonishing lime green device resembles something between a Steam Deck and a tablet with controllers built into the sides. At the centre is the 12.5 inch IPS 4K panel, which gives the impression that you're basically holding a laptop screen, because that's actually pretty true.
To achieve this high-end portable green machine, it looks like Qingchen DIY took an Nvidia gaming laptop and crammed it into a tablet form. The conversion means the laptop's mainboard and cooling are likely still in place, allowing the Core i9 14900HX CPU and GeForce RTX 4090 laptop GPU to run some gaming magic inside what looks like a Tongfang chassis. It's also rocking 64 GB of upgradable DDR5 RAM and a 2 TB hard drive.
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