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The RG Alli X is better than my original Ally in a few key ways. It has much

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longer battery life, compatibility with full-size M.2 SSDs, and slightly tuned

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performance. Only problem is it costs like $250

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more. What if there was a way that I could upgrade my original Ally to get

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most of the benefit of the Ally X? That is where the J SAW JSOX battery and

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thermal upgrade kit with back plate for ROG Ally comes in along with this random

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little adapter I found on AliExpress.

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Okay, well that's disappointing. Now, there's nothing I can do about the

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additional memory speed or capacity in the LAX, so it will perform a little bit

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better than my machine, but the goal is for less than $100 to get most of the

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benefit of ASUS's upgraded machine on my

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original hardware. Scan QR code before installation. Check accessories and

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tools. Watch video tutorial. Read instruction tutorial. Don't mind if I

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do. Hey, there we go. Installation tutorial. And woo, whole page of

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precautions. You are not going to have a warranty anymore. Cool. Wow. It comes

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with all the tools you need. Screwdriver. This manages to feel both

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cheap and expensive at the same time.

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Oh. Oh, I thought the the bearing for the top was just loose, but it's

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actually another bit. I'll probably use

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the precision screwdriver set from ltstore.com. What else we got in here? A

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little pair of generic side cutters. Look at this. Clear labels with exactly

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where every one of these screws goes with little highlighted red dots. Love

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to see it. Ooh, new battery. It's not

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quite the 80 W hours of the LiX, but 65

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W hours is a lot more than the 40 W hours in the original Ally. I can't

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necessarily speak to the quality of the battery. Maybe it's good, maybe it's

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not. I guess I get to find out. Finally,

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there's a replacement back plate. And there's even more. We got gloves and

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ooh, nice little heat sink here with

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pre-applied thermal pads. Okay, I feel

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ready.

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Well, first things first, let's get this battery disconnected. There we go. Do

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not disassemble. Sorry. They mean the battery itself,

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though. We're going to reuse the original rear paddle buttons from the

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back plate that the Ally shipped with, as well as our original triggers. Since

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we're looking at the original, there are a couple key differences. The fan filter

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mesh appears to be a little bit looser on the replacement. We no longer have

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the cool little like holographic accent here, and instead of an ROG logo, we've

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got a regular old fan intake fan, which honestly is probably better for cooling.

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Is this thicker? Could you Can you tell? It appears that it's not. They've just

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removed this stuff that would get in the way of having a larger battery here. Ah,

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this can come off. See you later, buddy.

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There we go. And now, four screws later, we can pull out the original battery.

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There's my warranty void sticker. See you later, buddy. I have no idea how

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this would impact, say, for example, if I ran into the SD card slot problem on

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mine. Mine's an original launch unit, so it wouldn't have any mitigations or

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fixes. And whoop, there she is. The

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instructions so far have been excellent. And this is a really nice bit here. They

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tell you to inspect the battery and make sure that there's no punctures or

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bulging before you put it in your device. You never know what's going to

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happen in shipping. And I really appreciate them taking user safety

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seriously like that. Everything looks pretty good to me. Let's put our buttons

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back on here. Nice. I've wanted to do this upgrade for

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a while. I've been using my Ally a lot lately to play tape to tape and I found

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myself extremely limited by its battery life. You know, it was actually Sam from

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editing who kind of got this on my radar. Just like all the upgrades you

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can make to the original Ally. >> You're modifying it. >> Oh no. Hey, look at that. I wouldn't

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even know the Oh, they don't have as nice uh finish on the back of the

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plastic. Okay, I think it's time for us to put the battery in. Oo, no it isn't.

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First, we're going to have to trim some protruding supports. This is the first

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minor deficiency I've seen in the instructions. They show you kind of

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where to clip at it, but they don't show you what the finished good job looks

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like. So, I'm not 100% sure how much of this I need to remove.

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Let's see if the new battery goes in. Hey, there we go. Okay, this glove does

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fit. You cannot acquit. Secure the four

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screws for the battery. Now we plug the

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battery in. I'm really impressed so far. The instructions and pictures have been

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very clear, easy to follow along with, and dude, we're only 20 minutes into

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this. Apply the included photosensitive adhesive strip to the photosensitive

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sensor. Dude, we're almost there. Now I just got to put on my little additional

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heat sink. I got to be honest with you guys, I don't know how much more this is

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going to do to cool the ally, but it certainly can Ooh, interesting. It said

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that it was Ally compatible, but this is clearly not one of those right angle

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things. I didn't stop and look at it that closely. Uh, this is useless. I am

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stuck with the original 2230 Ally SSD.

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Okay, we're going to have to throw something on screen to show you guys.

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Was it also supposed to cut So, you can see it reverses the direction. It makes

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it come this way. Was it also supposed to come with a right angle and then I

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just didn't get it or lost it? Guess I'm not upgrading my SSD today. And besides,

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it seems like you have to kind of choose between upgrading the cooling of your

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SSD and also getting a little bit more heat away from this heat pipe and

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probably some incidental air flow from these fans over these fins here and

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upgrading your SSD. I'm a little surprised that this is just held on with

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thermal pad and then the one screw that goes through here, but I guess that's

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enough. Okay, back cover on. I can't

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believe we didn't make the console thicker. I was really expecting it to be

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thicker. I figured out what these are. They're little plugs for the XD mobile

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port. There we go. Okay, that's something. Here's a couple

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adhesivebacked um like grippy things for the rear buttons. I never really use

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them, so I'm not going to bother with that. But I might put on these joystick grip enhancers. Oh, they are not great.

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Not very grippy. They're actually less grippy, but larger. I'm probably going

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to hold off on those personally. Okay, time to find out if this worked. And

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LAX? Let's start with weight. How did we add over 100 g to Okay, that's really

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heavy. The heat it didn't feel that heavy, you know. Feel this. Seriously,

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it's brick-like in nature. I wonder if part of it is that the density of it is

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higher now because it's still, as you can see, it's still skinnier. Wonder

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what kind of charge this battery has out of the box. Probably should have made sure it powered on before I closed it

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up. Uh-oh. Prototype of our upcoming LT cables. Cater. Well, hey, that's a good

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sign. Oh, yeah. I forgot to mention the LAX has Thunderbolt, but that to me is

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not a major benefit because I actually have an XG Mobile eGPU. So, the XG

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Mobile connector is higher performance. So, I would actually prefer that over

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Thunderbolt. >> Is the SM better?

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>> Yes, but it almost seems like a byproduct of them having to make it

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thicker to fit that bigger battery. So, these bulges come out a little bit more

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compared to the original Ally. Um, the triggers are also larger and stuff.

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Personally, I have not found that it makes a meaningful difference in my

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limited time with the Liix, though for me. Let's set these up the same. Am I

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not able to I can't move it down. Are you serious right now? Okay. Well, I

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guess it just kind of is what it is on the fan curves, and then we'll just have

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to account for that they're slightly different. Okay. Both of them are in a

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manual performance profile that puts us at about 25 watts with spikes up to 30

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watts. Okay, 60% screen brightness. CPU

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is turboing a little bit higher on the OG Alli. GPU's clocks are locked, but

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that's what we expect. Temps are identical and at least part of it

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probably just comes down to the fan curves, but the Ally is quite a bit

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louder. As I recall, ASUS also upgraded the fan geometry on the Alli X to make

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it quieter. So, um,

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given equal temps, we're going to have to give this to the Alli X's fans.

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Battery draw is near identical. That means our power profiles are behaving

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the same way. And I figure we'll just use the like the Steam Deck performance

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profile here. Already, I'm learning some pretty interesting stuff. My frame rate

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is slightly higher on the Liix, which we would expect because it does have

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slightly faster memory, which when you're using onboard graphics is very,

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very important. So, we're getting about 35 36 FPS ripping around. And over here,

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we're getting more like 34 35. What's

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interesting though is that my CPU and GPU clock speeds are both higher on my

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original Ally, even though the APU wattage is identical at 25 watts. And my

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temperatures are also identical at 67 degrees. Performance is just plain

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better on the Alli X. And it's noticeably quieter with a nicer tonality

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before it's too late. And no, I'm not doing that again. Of course, AAA games

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aren't really my jam, so why don't we try something a little lighter? And once

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again, the Alli X runs measurably faster in spite of its CPU running at a lower

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frequency. And it even manages to be a degree cooler. But again, I don't even

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play DA games. I pretty much just play this game. And I usually play it in the

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silent or 15 watt profile. So all that really matters to me is how much longer

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I can run away from the wall. I guess I also wouldn't mind knowing what the

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performance is. Oh man, the performance really is a lot better on the X, isn't

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it? 113 versus about 95 FPS.

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Realistically, it doesn't matter. Either of them is running fine, but like dang.

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really didn't realize it was that big of a deal. Thermals are identical now that

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I have both of them in a more reasonable power profile. So, 17 watts on the Alli

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X and 15 watts on the Alli. The noise on

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both is acceptable. It really doesn't make that much of a difference till you ramp up the fans. And as for battery

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life, well, after the Labs had a look at

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it, depending on how power- hungry the game is, you can get anywhere from a

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massive improvement to a very

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significant, albeit more modest one. In conclusion,

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makes it quite a bit heavier, limits you from upgrading your SSD if you use the

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thermal upgrade module, and doesn't have the texture on the back that I guess I

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don't miss that much, but I definitely do miss a little. I could probably put

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the old battery back in there if I really needed to, or I could upgrade to the X, but for how much I paid, 80

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bucks, man. I'm getting a lot of the benefit of the $250 X upgrade. Plus, I

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don't have to deal with the hassle of like selling my old ally and then probably taking a loss on that as well.

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You know what? Overall, pretty happy.

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