How much was it all said and done? I'm waiting to get my machine back from Asus due to the SD Card failure and am curious about it.

@@RorschDG-2 $315 and i paid shipping around $20 for extra insurance for the ram upgrade. I now use this device as my desktop. So the only games i had a hiccup on was tarkov and star citizen and thats with my eGPU connected. Every other game i played "Lethal company, Minecraft, World of warcraft, LoL, MW3, Halo, 7 days, etc are getting easily 100+fps with eGPU and an external 3840x1080 monitor. If i just did a lower res screen i probably be able to do tarkov no prob, star citizen is a beast of its own tho, i get around 24-30fps in lorville and 45-55fps in space. But it does stutter alot on star citizen, guessing due to low cache on cpu

Also bought a used Xg mobile 6850xt for $849 on ebay

Do you realize you could have just built a high-end gaming pc with a mini-itx case? Same price, small size, no fan noise, etc.

@@narubi9 Does it have a screen/controller on it. Can i plop on the couch with it and play games? Ive done the mini ITX route. Its not the same. I can straight up unhook from my screen and go sit on the couch and game.

It’s a “measure twice, cut once” sort of situation 😅

Making nearly impossible for soldier points to bridge 😉 I'm tempted to get this done for mine.

Can you please share the firmware? I have 32 ram and 7500

​@@RickyTTT1looks like you called his bluff 😂

I need 🥲

Explain smokeless to me. I build PCs but I guess im still a Noob. Is a ram overclocking software?

the bios takes effect.

That’ll be one of my next videos!

​@@SlickBuysModsandRepairsyeah please make it at least 55 or 60 size, this will make it ultimate handheld

@@TRX25EX the battery used for the mod is a 90Whr battery.

@@SlickBuysModsandRepairs I have seen someone used a 90Whr battery but it required big modification and back side bump..... Ally have some empty space around and was wondering if a 50-60 will fit without the need to extend body shell space Anyway looking forward for how you gonna fit these and some numbers

@@TRX25EXshoot me an email

Agree

X3

That’ll be done soon

​@@SlickBuysModsandRepairssweeet

There will be no performance gains. This is just an ignorant project. If he did a dual channel mod this might help a performance gains

Thanks!

A lot of people are content without 32 gigs of ram playing games in 720-900-1080 lol

@@kimalibennett9468 It's not about "a lot of people being _content_ ". It's about the device not being able to perform adequately without stutters, texture thrashing, or even being able to load the game in the first place without issues. Games that are coming out are going to require them, especially when more and more have raytracing on top of the super high quality textures. We're starting to see the problems already in games like Alan Wake 2, Starfield, etc...

@@corndog9482 I just feel like it IS about the majority. Games currently aren't developed with lower power devices/efficiency in mind but I just can't help but feel a sense of entitlement or ALWAYS looking towards the future instead of appreciating what we do have to choose from. Some of the testimonials of performance improvements are saying going from 50-60 fps to 80 or more and from my direct experience, while that is a WELCOME improvement, it wouldn't prompt me to feel played or duped currently

@@kimalibennett9468 "I just feel like it IS about the majority." "The majority" is not the same thing as "a lot of people" as you claimed in your previous comment, though. Also, your claim that "the majority" doesn't care about the 16gb is misleading, as the majority doesn't understand why this isn't good. This video proves how starved the system is. "Games currently aren't developed with lower power devices/efficiency in mind" It's not that. It's that games are moving forward and in doing so are driving up requirements. This makes moving away from 16gb of RAM in a shared environment a necessity. "I just can't help but feel a sense of entitlement or ALWAYS looking towards the future instead of appreciating what we do have to choose from." I'm not even talking about the future. I'm talking about now. We are *currently* already seeing that it's not enough for even a 1080p native display. Going into settings for every individual modern game to tweak it for maximum performance is not an ideal practice, but is required for many games, and increasingly so. I'd understand a little more for a system like the steam deck, where it feels and is treated more like a console, but on a full-fledged windows device with the increased overhead? Unacceptable. "Some of the testimonials of performance improvements are saying going from 50-60 fps to 80 or more and from my direct experience, while that is a WELCOME improvement, it wouldn't prompt me to feel played or duped currently" First of all, going from 50 fps - 60 fps to 80 fps or more is a _huge_ improvement in fluidity and massive improvement in the experience. Way more so than going from 80 to 100. Though having 32gb of shared memory would give the Ally meaningful gains in frames pretty much across the board, that's even more important is the hitching, stuttering, frame pacing, texture thrashing, and even being able to load the game in the first place without having to tinker with and adjust VRAM allocation settings just to get it to run the way it should. I feel like you don't fully comprehend the implications how negatively this is currently affecting our experience, and especially increasingly as we move forward. 32GB should really be the minimum standard on a windows gaming device like this, and companies like Ayaneo, GPD, and several others are doing it right. Not surprising that the large corporations are trying to pull these shenanigans.

@@freemaysin5088 thank you!

I agree. Though I’d say most performance gains, in terms of bios optimizations, are tapped out. It would be cool if Asus officially recognized 32GB memory modules without the need of having to reflash the bios.

for people ho havent bought this yet it would be much better if they just outright offer a new version of rog ally with installed 32gb ram and allocate up to 12vram.

I think it might be possible to get the ROG team to include it in their bios if you can make a big enough splash and get enough people to @ them about including it in their BIOS. A small chance I know but it is a possibility. @@SlickBuysModsandRepairs

@@metathanatos1 Static VRAM allocation on AMD iGPUs isn't beneficial, since the system can dynamically assign more RAM to the iGPU - it will also return that memory back to the OS, when it's not needed anymore. With an arbitrary amount of statically reserved memory, it can't be used by the OS for anything else, so the option in the UEFI functionally only sets a minimum amount of memory that should be exclusively available to the iGPU at all times.

​@@Psychx_vram+OS+the Game+Steam(etc)

Not at the moment. The mod does improve 0.1%/1% lows and boosts FPS a bit (5-10 frames from my superficial testing).

RAM intensive games benefit the most, plus the option to increase texture sizes is a great benefit.

The reader doesn't need to be moved since that wasn't the issue the controller to the reader is on the other side of the board that had weak solder joints and would break over time from thermal stress of hot and cold. Asus has since fixed that issue in later models but if someone with an older model has issues they're recommended to reach out to support to RMA it to get fixed.

Hi there, thank you. Yes any future bios updates will need to be avoided, otherwise it will override the changes I made to the bios.

@@SlickBuysModsandRepairs Oh ok got it ! Hey, great work man once again !

their bioses suck and handheld companion or other third party soft is much better than armorycrate

Good luck!

Yes, you will need to swap the location of the strap resistor. You can email me and I’ll send you the location of said resistor.

Thank you

Ideally you'd forego the BIOS updates, so as to not override the custom BIOS I make for the unit. You can always download a new BIOS and ship the unit back out to me to reflash if a BIOS with a feature you want ever releases.

It’s a fantastic handheld and the upgrades make it even better!

​@@SlickBuysModsandRepairs Thanks so much for the response! :) (I'm Sorry for replying late, KZfaq didn't notify me of your response, only your ❤️). During tax season, if I can find a Clear shell, buy a battery upgrade, and a 2TB SSD, plus whatever is needed for you to upgrade it's Ram, how much would you charge for everything? I'll pay overnight shipping for both ways, I'm just anxious to know about the price so that I can start some financial planning for everything including your services 😀. Edit: Almost forgot to mention, I'll be playing it on my 165Hz 1440p LG Ultragear monitor, would it still be capped at 120HZ? (I'm Sorry for the long comment and questions).

There's alot of evidence supporting the idea that the SD card reader fails due to poor solder joints on its corresponding IC. Reflowing this IC can bring back the dead SD reader.

@@SlickBuysModsandRepairs That makes sense, people on Reddit with newer models reported their SD card still works. Despite having exactly the same hardware. This is a widespread issue for Ally owners, if you could make a video for the community on how to fix this, we would really appreciate that.

Get an xgmobile. Comes with an SD card slot

Thank you! I recommend to my customers that they skip Asus updates so as to avoid overriding the edits I make to the bios.

​@@SlickBuysModsandRepairs what would we be missing out on by not doing bios updates after this?

​It would revert back to only using 16 gb ram ​@@ZionRanch

At the moment the bios has to be modified via hardware. A software method hasn’t been done yet.

oh thank you for your kindness.. i have to buy one thing 😢

I’ve been mentally thinking about how I could extend the bios chip to a easier to easy access spot, so you don’t have to totally disassemble the unit. Though if you’re able to dump, edit, and flash the bios then chances are taking apart the unit wouldn’t be an issue for you.

@@SlickBuysModsandRepairs taking it apart isn’t the issue, unfortunately I developed a bit of Parkinson’s in my hands and just can’t solder like I used to

Thank you. I charge $315 + return shipping.

@@SlickBuysModsandRepairslmao

No, I just didn’t overclock the memory prior to recording.

Because I don’t have a pogo cable.

That will be one of my next videos.

Not on video but I did do some quick comparisons. Games ran smoother and I saw a slight FPS increase (5-10).

Run star citizen. I get a thrashing issue because the ally doesn't have enough RAM.

wouldnt count too much on ayaneo customer service. If your device bricks you have basically a adamn expensive paperweight

Yes it’s possible. I’ll be opening up that service in 2-3 weeks from now. I’m just waiting for the ram chips to arrive.

@@SlickBuysModsandRepairs Oh nice. Is it necessary to change that Bios Chip too of the Lenovo legion go ?

@@SlickBuysModsandRepairs Would this upgrade mean the bios updates would not work and it would have to be sent to someone to do a new flash of the bios every time there's a major bios update worth updating to? Also --- amazing work. Really fun to see it done so beautifully.

Thank you

Thank you

Yes there is. There’s a 90Whr battery mod that I will make a video on soon.

@@SlickBuysModsandRepairs can't wait

I don't understand what you're saying. The boosted memory clocks have a marginal difference on overall battery life. The Ally uses PTM as it's cooling solution, thermal paste would be a downgrade.

@@SlickBuysModsandRepairs stanks, I didn't know of this

Same would love a performance boost, but might miss out on important updates. I guess that's the risk

Correct, otherwise the unit will default back to 16GBs.

I agree. Yep this is a one man show currently. My turn around time is 3-4 days right now.

What are you charging for this?

@@chrisdyers8017 $295

​@SlickBuysModsandRepairs I realy like what you doing brother but I will stick to the regular ram until I need such an upgrade

I don’t see any mention of disabling Bitlocker in the description?

$315 + return shipping

@@SlickBuysModsandRepairs United States based?

Yep and I am sending them mine tonight! so excited to never had to move it from Auto to 6GB ever again! @@deairreoh

Significantly improved 0.1/1% frame averages and a bit of an average frame boost. 5-10 frames from experience.

@@SlickBuysModsandRepairs Thanks! I was wondering because apparently MSI's new handheld will have 32gbs of RAM and I was wondering how much of a difference that would make. Right now with 16 GB it feels like we're juggling system RAM and vram around depending on what game is being played but if you have enough RAM for both I figured performance would improve.

No

No preheater. 85% airflow and 500C.

@@SlickBuysModsandRepairs Thanks!

@@SlickBuysModsandRepairs How long did it take for the RAM to solder in?

@@marcinyt2591 about 45 minutes

Aliexpress

@@kingswithdreams www.slickbuysmodsandrepairs.com

Yes, unless Asus packages a BIOS update with a firmware update. Thought I'm pretty sure they don't.

Not possible. The Steam Deck Vangogh APU and the Ally’s Z1 have different footprints on the PCB.

I do yes! If you’d like to get a quote on a repair you can contact me through my website: www.slickbuysmodsandrepairs.com

Yes. I didn’t set the RAM to 7500Mhz prior to recording.

It never gets bricked - worst case, is it only shows 16GB again

Because I didn’t set the RAM speed.

You can use a pogo adapter

@@SlickBuysModsandRepairs thank you so much and please one more thing can you give me a link from where can i buy it please

@@SlickBuysModsandRepairshey I would like to have this mod done to my ally also

If a future BIOS update is downloaded, yes

Battery life is the same. Thanks!

Yes, it can be used. You don't need to desolder the chip from the board to reflash it with a USB programmer..

@@SlickBuysModsandRepairs Thanks so much

$315 + return shipping

Didn’t overclock the memory prior to recording

Only if got upgraded chips installed.

Yes i have them installed, did it in october with 331 bios. But I lost the 7500 and also i want to have latest 335

No, the balls are on the chips

Correct, with this mod you should avoid updating the BIOS (if you don’t know how to flash the BIOS chip).