Reviews ASUS ROG Ally (AMD Z1 Extreme)
Reviews ASUS ROG Ally (AMD Z1 Extreme)
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Alena, Dobšice
Rated 14/05/2024, variant ASUS ROG Ally (AMD Z1 Extreme)
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The choice was between the Steam deck and this one. I was tempted by the higher performance, but I do not like the position of the left stick, which has too much rosah, for example, the Xbox controller is stiffer and more sensitive. In contrast, A, B, C, Y are too stiff and of poor quality. The levers wiggle and crunch right from the factory. Only one USB-C, so you have to buy a hub if you want it to connect to a monitor. The disk is really small, so you keep choosing what game to install and more than 3-4 of today's games won't fit. Urita would need at least 1TB. The Windows 11 you get has a lot of useless stuff in it like Office or Onedrive. The worst part is that you get it in all the tongues and it takes a long time to unstick it. With that comes the fact that it takes a long time to actualize after the first power up, from Asus it downloads slowly and takes forever, the drive even though SSD is not very fast. The battery doesn't last much and if you want to play 30 FPS then it's fine, but otherwise an hour or two and that's it. If you play often, the battery probably runs out in six months. Asus app, sometimes it works and sometimes it crashes, if you turn it off through the administrator, it starts to reinstall, under power on. The FPS limit doesn't work at all, AMD fluid motion won't add it, you have to turn it on via the drivers. Windows has the only advantage that you can turn on games that don't work on Steam deck, and the aforementioned AMD fluid motion is a great thing. Like RSR, which will convert 720 to 1080p. The dispey can't do any other resolution, you can only choose from 720 and 1080p, when connected to a monitor you get 4:3 or 21:9 support in games that can do it. It's a device to which you eventually buy a better SSD and to do the hub and you find that it's priced at 20 thousand and for that you already have a Lenovo that has 1TB, 2x USB-C etc. Maybe someone more challenging like Kingdom come goes weird in some games even after locking FPS are flying back and forth. I have everything on low and it still has a problem with it. I think it's bad drivers and wanting to adjust a lot. In the settings you have for example Custom TDP and for that I have it says that it will break and Asus is not responsible for it, so what is it there for? For example, you have a power mode and it sets it to 15- 20w, with a couple of seconds to pick it up, overall within 2 minutes it drops and rises and creates unstable FPS, so you have to turn on custom anyway. Although I don't understand why, when it's 58 degrees. In turbo mode it's impossible to hold, it's 70+ and burns your palms after a while. In silent mode, I get like 46 degrees, which is good, but the performance is not great. It's possible that my difficulty is too high and just not enough for me, for someone who plays 1 or 2 games probably good or if you never played anything and you are discovering old games, but again there you have a better steam deck thanks to the Oled image that looks 100x better than on the ROG ally. Watching movies or YT doesn't appeal to me much, I can watch it on my mobile phone, which lasts for 6+ hours.
Quiet furnishings
Playing virtually everything
Nice picture
Great for older games
Sound
Playing games that aren't on Xbox
Xbox games pass free
Asus apps
Battery
Eternal Actualizations
Lever layout
Not much buttons A, B, C, Y
Windows 11 optimization
Only one USB-C
Only 512GB of storage
Non-attachable controls, so if a lever or something breaks, the whole setup is unusable.
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Jakub, Praha Kolovraty
Rated 01/05/2024, variant ASUS ROG Ally (AMD Z1 Extreme)
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Total satisfaction. I was very surprised by the performance and I expected a weak battery, so I didn't buy this hardware for many years. Windows as an OS is somewhere between an advantage (after all, it's the standard for gaming and it's good to have at least one windows PC at home) and a disadvantage (it's still Windows, which is simply the worst OS on the market). The only thing that limits me is the disk capacity with the size of modern AAA games; Without an SD card, it's simply a necessity to have only a few games installed and change them as the mood takes you.
Awesome display
Great performance, rich enough for demanding games like Cyberpunk, Fallout 4, .
Good sound
Quality controller
Low battery life
Weak disc size
Only one USB-C port, which is also for power, resulting in 0 USB ports
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Petr, Praha 6 - Břevnov
Rated 01/04/2024, variant ASUS ROG Ally (AMD Z1 Extreme)
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I have to say I was very surprised by the ROG Ally. Whether it's playing less demanding games, where if you set your own TDP well so it lasts long on battery and performance does not suffer. For the more challenging games, I was surprised at how well it handled them. Although I don't like the preset performance mods that unnecessarily heat up the ROG Ally too much, but fortunately you can set your own and the temperatures are around 70~75°C so far I haven't come across any game that is unplayable. I have to say that Asus did it well I don't take the battery as a negative, because if I want the console to last on battery nonsense so I can't have that kind of power and I can choose for example Steam Deck although if you play Baldurs Gate III on Steam Deck it will also last 2 hours.
120Hz Display
Power
Manual TDP
Windows
Excellent for emulating PS2, PSP and PS3 games
Windows
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Radim, Hluk
Rated 29/03/2024, variant ASUS ROG Ally (AMD Z1)
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When you put the console to sleep so the joysticks start flashing can it be set to not flash In direct sunlight illegible When the game starts so it roars as the game goes so it's quiet setting in the game all on full
It is dependent on wifi can not even connect to pubs, I tried to connect it to the iPhone 15 pro max and iPad and it wrote me to this network can not connect to this network Microphones are useless the other side complains that there is audible interference It gives older games the newer ones you "do not play" on it depends on the support I tried the crew 1 ATS, ETS2, wrc, factorio, forza 5 Zirat na mali display to neni promě
Display resolution
When you put the console to sleep, the joysticks start to blink, can you set it to not blink In direct sunlight, it is unreadable
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Jiří, Plzeň
Rated 27/11/2023, variant ASUS ROG Ally (AMD Z1 Extreme)
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Beautiful 120hz display
Decent ergonomics
I use as a handheld and desktop
Very quiet fan even at 53w boost
Great armory crete software for editing everything
Small charger
In eco mode a few hours of battery life, for example with geforce now
Worse joysticks. Apparently they were saving money, they are comparable to the nintendo switch
Battery, but it's obvious given the performance
A larger display would fit, or at least a taller 16:10
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Patrik, Žďár nad Sázavou
Rated 26/11/2023, variant ASUS ROG Ally (AMD Z1 Extreme)
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"Pocket" computer
By running on Windows, as many features as on a classic pc
Connection via hdmi to monitor or TV
Battery lasts long outside of gaming
Controlling games even on windows via joysticks is great
Option to connect additional peripherals
Touch screen display
When playing, the battery is down to two hours
Sometimes problem with auto switching joystick/keyboard control
some accessories would be useful, perhaps a simple stand
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Dominik, Chodov
Rated 19/11/2023, variant ASUS ROG Ally (AMD Z1 Extreme)
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It's been sent in for a complaint, hopefully they'll fix it. Unfortunately, I caught the wrong piece.
Speakers
display
processor
cooling
Windows 11 cannot be updated
right lever not working, still active on the left
Triggers not working
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Anonymous customer
Rated 18/11/2023, variant ASUS ROG Ally (AMD Z1)
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The idea is good, the games are also great. It feels good in the hand. The user interface could use some fine tuning.
It's a great option to make Hera run pretty smoothly (FarCry 5, F1 23)
Option to use gamepass for PC
Order some updates and reboot
Games often crash
Games sometimes run at the wrong resolution, two sides of the image move maybe a centimeter (2x is ok and 1x is not... completely random)
Occasionally the keyboard doesn't come up, buttons stop working in windows
Short battery life
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Ivan, Plzeň
Rated 16/11/2023, variant ASUS ROG Ally (AMD Z1 Extreme)
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kvalitní produkt
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Customer, Praha
Rated 25/10/2023, variant ASUS ROG Ally (AMD Z1 Extreme)
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For someone who travels a lot, it's a blast. if you buy a docking station, you can make a decent PC for work. Updates of BIOS and all applications are very frequent and for me so far everything is fine.
sufficient performance to play even AAA titles in decent quality
super display
when you play so a pretty decent battery life
fast charging
great for travel
possibility to upgrade ssd for faster and bigger
someone takes it as a negative that the sd card reader is going away. I have used this one a couple of times and so far everything works but even so, it is enough to upgrade the ssd and some unnecessary cards are not needed
for me absolutely the only downside is that you can't upgrade the RAM to be even more powerful but maybe in the next version
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