eXtremeRate Face Clicky Kit for Steam Deck OLED Handheld
eXtremeRate Face Clicky Kit for Steam Deck OLED Handheld Console, Custom Dpad View A B X Y Menu Keys Face Buttons Mouse Clicky Kit for Steam Deck OLED Console – WITHOUT Console
- The Extremerate Face Clicky Kit for Steam Deck OLED provides a customised and innovative solution to improve your console gaming performance.
- With this kit, your console’s face buttons will become highly responsive and accurate, giving you a significant advantage during gameplay.
Package Includes
- 1* FPC board for Dpad & View buttons
- 1* FPC board for ABXY & Menu buttons
- 2* Rubber pads set; 1* Screwdriver; 1* Prying tool
- 32* Screws; 4* Springs
- Note: Without the console, buttons and other parts!
Clicky Kit Comparison
Shorten the Distance | ||
Crisp Click Sound | ||
No soldering |
Shorten the Distance | ||
Crisp Click Sound | ||
No soldering |
- For Steam Deck LCD
- For Xbox Core
Let’s start off with WHY I got this kit: my Steam Deck OLED had a D-Pad that would not register down-left diagonals consistently and the face buttons felt squishy when pressing (the button would not bounce back as well as I liked).
Enter this kit. Doing the modification requires some teardown of the Steam Deck. I would strongly suggest to watch the guide that Extremerate has before attempting to see if this is in your skill set. It does not involve any soldering, but does involve some small ribbon cables and undoing the triggers. This mod took me about an hour with testing and some tinkering to make work well.
Be warned that this will not make the older PCB for your buttons usable any more, but you can order new kits on iFixit’s website.
When I initially installed the kit, the down direction on the D-Pad would only go down and to the right. I panicked initially, but this was fixed by loosening one screw by the shoulder button assembly (which does not affect the button but rather how tight the PCB is to the D-Pad). It now works like a champ.
The buttons and D-Pad now feel great. I wish the membranes were just a tad softer and the kit came with face buttons that were now just a tad shorter, but that’s nitpicking at this point. My buttons don’t stick and feel great, and the D-Pad is reliable and feels great.
Overall, if you like to do some tinkering and you don’t like the stock Steam Deck experience, I’d say go for this. It really is transformative!
I just spent about an hour installing (first time modding SD so a little slo) but it went off without a hitch. Following the video guide was a straightforward and and the outcome was a brilliant, clicky and tactile switch OLED :D. No harder than a pc component installation, if a little smaller and fiddly.
I really wanted a better D-pad experience and after trying a clicky controller buttons I knew I needed it in my steam deck.
Had a little scare when it wouldn’t turn on after plugging everything back in, but after plugging it into a charger cable it started fine.
Couple of points
1. The buttons are a little harder press than expected, would love a light click version, as for fighting games the fingers get fatigued easily and sometime even miss the input when sliding my fingers or clicking 2 buttons at a time (It feels about as tactile as the shoulder buttons).
2. The included screw is a little small for man hands and easy to slip out and hit adjacent components. A slightly better driver would make the installation easier.
In any case – Im gonna try lots of games and see how it feels long term!
Made the d-pad more responsive. I found the clicking sound a bit much for my taste so I dampened it by adding a piece of tape on top of the switches.
I personally wasn’t a huge fan of the mushy buttons on the stock steam deck but loved the feel of them once I swapped to these buttons!
Watching a youtube video guide on how to disassemble and install them was relatively easy and didn’t take a lot of brain power to do so.
If you’re in the market to get some feedback to your button presses and don’t mind having a bit more of muscle to click the buttons then this could potentially be a great pick for you!
Hope the insight helps,
cheers! :^)
Should be easy to fit, having inspected them on arrival they seem nice and tactile with a decent sound and return action.
Cheap improvement if you’re happy to have a go at fitting them, if not any phone repair place could do it.
With this kit i did the dpad upgrade but not the ABXY buttons because it was only the stock steamdeck dpad that i was unhappy with. This upgrade is excellent and the dpad is now very accurate, it’s a huge difference over the stock dpad. i would absolutely recommend buying this product and the installation was quite easy
just like the title said, all of hard ware is included in this kit that is required to install the button on the oled model.
I’m very happy with it.
Nachdem ich mit den eher schwammigen Gefhl beim Tastendruck nicht ganz zufrieden war, habe ich mir dieses Set zugelegt.
Umbau geht mit etwas bung relativ zgig.
In der Verpackung ist ein QR Code beigelegt, damit kommt man zum sehr guten Video Tutorial.
Ansonsten gibt es bei ifixit auch eine schne Anleitung.
Tasten klicken nun und fhlen sich besser an.
Bin sehr zufrieden!