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frontpage Posted by Pooperscooper • Yesterday
Jun 30, 2025 9:07 PM
512GB ASUS ROG Ally RC71L 7" Ryzen Z1 Extreme Handheld Gaming Console
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World went from regular problems to battery anxiety lol
It's really easy to do, and almost double your battery life. I've done it and love it. Did a few other mods too. Hands down, this is a killer deal especially with the current newegg gift card deal going on.
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Replace it with Bazzite or SteamOS. Dual boot for Game Pass / non-steam.
Depends on what kind of experience you want. If you want a more refined experience. Go with ROG ally. It you want a jack of all trades master of none with a little rough at the edge. Then go with legion go.
Did a 4TB NVME upgrade, 74Wh battery upgrade (it's a must!), Skull & Co grip case (outstanding case by the way), and I'm just ginning ear to ear when I play this thing on my trips / commuting. I've been gaming on this a lot more than I do on my 9800X3D + 5090 PC. At 15W power mode, on battery, if you tweak the settings just right, this thing is a monster of a gaming handheld and the battery can last several hours (the 74Wh one that is). Can't believe I haven't pulled the trigger earlier than now. It's that good, and so much fun. The 7 inch screen is amazing with VRR - 1080p games look fantastic, 900p resolution is a good compromise between frame rate and battery power, throw some FSR and Frame Gen and you're all set. Plays Gears of War 5 at 1080p just fine with very nice texture settings, Forza Horizon 5 900p is really good too, 93 fps on the benchmark. DBZ Sparking ZERO is a another great performing game in 900p. Ghosts of Tsushima too runs great 900p. Gaming at 720p looks a bit too blurry for my liking. Emulators are awesome too. This thing runs laps on the MSI Claw Ultra 7 I had gotten from Target a few weeks ago. What a terrible handheld that one. Retuned it a couple of weeks ago.
I really want to install whatever Microsoft is cooking for the new Xbox ROG Ally X on my ROG Ally. This is going to be a gamechanger for all Windows powered handhelds.
Ooh, yes, I forgot to mention that in my earlier post. If you get one of these, avoid using the SD card slot and instead just upgrade the SSD. There's even an adapter you can buy to use 2280-sized SSDs. I use that adapter and have a 4TB 2280 NVME SSD in my ROG Ally. The Ally's SD card slot seemingly fried two different SD cards I used in it. So don't even bother with it. It's a pretty well known point of failure on this system, unfortunately. But SSDs are faster at loading games anyway.
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