Will you be upgrading to ROG ally x?

[Painkilleruk]

I am not completely sold on the idea since its a price hike for little benefit and since Ive spent over 1.4k on one of them ( console day 1 @ 699, 2tb 2230, case, hard case, 5x 512gb msd ) and my other ally is stock. there is not enough detail yet I think, if you could just upgrade the ally v1 battery would be enough.

[Painkilleruk]

Originally posted by Omega:

Originally posted by Painkiller:

The problems with deck is the limited compatibility, sure you can install epic etc after alot of faffing around and the limitations are major sometimes, whereas the ally, claw, legion go can easily be manipulated to get more juice from it not to mention messing around with windows has its advantage.
To start with on resident evil 2 remake I was getting 17 fps which sucked, put it to all low and got 56-59 but still sucked to me. Custom firmware and now im playing it at medium settings stable 110-120 fps. I love the deck dont get me wrong but in terms of battery the ally x will dominate bat time.

Compatibility is fine. The only games which consistently have issues are those with intrusive DRM and anti-cheat, pretty much everything else just works.

For Epic and GoG there are third party clients such as MinGalaxy and Heroic which make installing and playing games very easy.

alot of the games that can not be played on deck can on the ally. the deck is great but to someone like me who has ea,epic,ubi,cog, nvidia experience, xbox, steam, battle.net etc the ally is by far the best.

[morrisseyshair]

I like gadgets and gizmos as much as the next guy but $200 is my limit for toys. If I’m spending $800+ on something I better be using it every damn day and I wouldn’t use a gaming handheld enough to justify its cost.

[Painkilleruk]

I think I kind of regret pre ordering the X. If you think about it is the ally really a upgrade?.
Yes the ram is better and faster but nothing else significant has changed bar the battery but same can be done with a pack. No cpu or Gpu upgrades so will it really make a difference to quality or FPS.

[andreasaspenberg575]

if the ram pool is higher, then view distance could possibly improve in games that supports that.

[Painkilleruk]

But overall do you think the £1000+ cost would be worth the minor improvements? 800 for the x and 200+ for a 2tb 2280 with the little upgrades it has?

[andreasaspenberg575]

as i do not know the specs, i can not answer that.

[A&A]

When you want to run games on an iGPU, it's good to have more than 16GB of RAM, even if you're running a modified Windows. There will always be games that will take advantage of this. I'm a bit skeptical about the RAM speed because if it uses jedec timings it shouldn't make any difference.

SSD can improve the battery life at least by a little and increase your storage space. I don't see any other benefits from it.