{"video_id":"tO48dzIjMMw","title":"Can Your Steam Deck Do THIS? - AYANEO 3","channel":"ShortCircuit","show":"ShortCircuit","published_at":"2025-05-04T14:58:16Z","duration_s":947,"segments":[{"start_s":0.16,"end_s":7.44,"text":"IO has been making cool but expensive handhelds for the last few years now and","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":4.24,"end_s":12.32,"text":"the 3 is no exception. However, it's got","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":7.44,"end_s":14.639,"text":"one cool trick. Magic freaking modules,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":12.32,"end_s":18.64,"text":"baby. These things are so cool. You've got two little things here and you just","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":16.8,"end_s":21.68,"text":"pop them out and you put new ones in. You don't want the thumb stick, you want","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":20.08,"end_s":25.519,"text":"something else, boom, slap it on. You want a trackpad? Boom. Slap it on. 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That's got to be the absolute coolest thing I've ever","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":936.24,"end_s":941.839,"text":"seen on a handheld device. But what do you guys think? Like, comment, subscribe","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":939.92,"end_s":945.68,"text":"on the video. Uh, tell us in the comments and check out the next one that","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":1},{"start_s":943.68,"end_s":948.56,"text":"I do. I don't know when it'll be yet because I don't know the future.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":1}],"full_text":"IO has been making cool but expensive handhelds for the last few years now and the 3 is no exception. However, it's got one cool trick. Magic freaking modules, baby. These things are so cool. You've got two little things here and you just pop them out and you put new ones in. You don't want the thumb stick, you want something else, boom, slap it on. You want a trackpad? Boom. Slap it on. You want different AY buttons? Boom. Slap them on. Boom. It's modular and it's pretty sweet. And this is the first time I'm actually going to look at it. So, I'm super excited because I am a handheld owner. I have an ROG Ally and I love it. But this might replace it because it looks freaking really cool actually. And I haven't even like taken it out of the box. At the very top, we've got a nice handheld. It does usually come with a protective film screen, but we've of course taken it off before doing our testing. Is there anything else in here? It's a pretty big box. We got a little Io card. We've just got a bunch of instructions and probably a warranty card in here. We got to take a look at what else is in the box. Under our warranty card, we've got three smaller boxes. I love smaller boxes. It's like one of those Russian nesting dolls. Uh it comes with a 65 watt charger. However, during our testing, we did notice that on the charge session, it was only pulling about 42 watts. Not sure if it's just because of early production models or some weird bypass mode was enabled, but something to be aware of. What else is in the box? We've got adapter. More adapters. All right. So, you're good to go no matter what plug you've got at home. And then this final box is I'm guessing a cable. This a nice USBC cable. C to shining C. I might say it's uh probably about 5 ft. This thing looks super sick. It comes in three different colorways. We've got the black one. Kind of wish we had retro, but that's all right. Analog Hall effect triggers, Hall effect joysticks. Buttons feel actually pretty good. And I mean, I can swap these apparently. I haven't done it yet. I'm really excited to like pop these in and out. See how easy it is to actually change one on the fly. We've got an Oculink port at the top here. We've got USB 4 on the top and bottom. So, no matter how you want to charge, easy enough. Uh, and then it looks like we've also got a micro SD card slot on the bottom here. So, you want to add some extra storage. Boom. Easy. and you're probably going to want to because it can come with up to four terabytes on board, but uh it costs a lot of money. We'll talk about that later. As for just fit and finish, it's otherwise pretty cool. This whole top appears to be glass, which looks really good until I touch it with my fingers, which like it's a handheld, so you're going to be kind of doing that all the time. It's already super smudged up here, but if you keep it in pristine condition, then I mean, hey, it looks sexy. And then last but not least, we've got a 3 and 12 mm headphone jack here if you don't want to use Bluetooth like me. Uh, and then actually what's cool is the two speaker grills are like kind of in integrated into the glass, I guess. Overall, it's pretty cool. It honestly feels like regular comfortable. I wouldn't say it's the most comfy handheld I've ever had. Um, but it doesn't dig into my palms or anything. These are like super rounded and soft edges on the bottom here. And I actually might use the buttons on the back for once. I don't normally I typically just ignore everything on the back except for the four shoulder buttons, but uh these are kind of nicely placed so they're really accessible to your kind of like ring fingers. The weight's not too bad. It's only got a 49wh hour battery, which compared to like an Alli X with 80 W hours, it's a lot less, but it's a little more than a regular Ally at 40. So that's not awful. Um and then what are these? What are these switches? What do those do? Oh, that's super cool. So you can actually change how much the trigger depth is by just kind of toggling these. Whether you want to go full force or you want to pop them up and just go, you know, little micro presses. If you buy it out of the box, it's going to come like this with these two guys here installed. But if you want more modules, you can buy some. And you know what? I love the Steam Deck trackpad. And the one thing I don't like about my Ally is it doesn't have trackpads on it. So let's let's try that. Let's try them out. Whoa, these are cool. And then if you want to just take him out, you go to space and you click the one-click pop-up. What the That's some of the coolest I've ever seen. What the They've just got like little pogo pins on the bottom here to interface with uh these pins here. That makes sense. What do I want to use? These are two D-pads. So, I don't want a D-pad. Let me go with this D-pad here. I just pop it in. Okay, that was easy. And then I want a fighting stick six button layout. Okay, I can see in the software here that it's changed to hall sensing joystick membrane switch 8-way button, which yeah, looks correct. Oh, let me go back in the software. Hold on. There we go. And then it changed to membrane micro switchight buttons, which is like that was easy. It I literally pressed a button, popped them out, popped the new ones in, it detected right away. Um, super simple. I'm actually really impressed. But I don't really want to use these. So, let's uh try some other ones. After a word from our sponsor. Thanks to Le and Lee for sponsoring this video. Their Galahad 2 Light AIO cooler comes in 360 and 240 mm variants, making it a great companion for just about any build. Equipped with a high performance pump that reaches up to speeds of 3,800 RPM, it'll keep your systems running cool even under heavy loads. Plus, it's available with nonRGB fans for folks who prefer a performance with a stealth look, or RGB for those who want their fans a little bit more bling bling. But don't worry, both have fans that spin it up to 2500 RPM. Check it out using our llink today. But I really want to try the nice D-pad they got here and uh the trackpad I was talking about earlier. And it's done. Wow, that's so quick. It's actually really cool. And I actually really like this case. Like this is, you know, if I put all these back, um, nothing's going to get damaged. This is like a hard plastic case. You'd have to like really step on this thing to mess it up. And if you don't like the black case, they got a white one for you. There's nothing in here, but they include the case. So, sure, I'll take some extra plastic. Another super cool trick, all these face buttons, you can reorganize them. You don't like be being over there, you want it on the bottom, take it out and swap it. Okay, let's play a game and actually try out the touchpad. I got to say, one thing I'm not a huge fan of is some of the button placement. Um, I don't like going down here onto the bottom for my start and select kind of options, hamburger button stuff. This just feels weird. Like, oh, I want to pause the game. Boom. Let me just like completely change how I'm holding the console to hit that button. I don't like it. I space. You're not going to use it as frequently, so I don't really mind that it's down at the bottom, but to each their own. Just playing Returnal here. 1080p low, and it's actually handling it pretty well. This thing's got a Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 in it, which is too many characters for a CPU, but you know what? It's pretty solid. Um, we actually tested better performance at lower wattage than the Alli X with the Z1 Extreme. The other option, because you can get this with a different CPU, you can get it with an 8840U, which is pretty on par with the Z1 Extreme. So, you're going to get what you pay for in terms of performance. You will be paying more for the HX 370, but at just about every wattage, it actually seems to do pretty well. So, maybe you want that. There's no real other options in the handheld space for something better than an 8840U or a Ryzen Z1 Extreme. Another big skew that you can choose from with this device is OLED versus LCD. The LCD is going to have variable refresh rate, but it's pretty much worse in every other way. OLED just has incredible motion pixel response time. So, I'd probably stick with this, which is the OLED. I got to say, the force feedback, it's a little loud. It feels good in my hands. It's like it's kind of a nice like gentle rumble, but it doesn't sound very gentle uh out loud. The trackpad works. I don't like it for shooters, but I can confirm it's looking around. Is my camera well hitched a little bit, but like honestly, the performance is pretty rock solid and it looks good. And as for display testing for brightness, this thing did do over the claimed 800 nits of around 1,000 in both SDR and HDR. And then on top of that, it reached about 750 nits in full screen. So that's it's a small screen, but that's still pretty impressive, especially for OLED. Man, this thing does look really good. I've been told it sounds really good. So I want to find out for myself. I space is usually pretty good. Um, but this is one of those instances where it's being kind of annoying. And I don't know what's be if it's because of the modular controllers or whatever. But I mean, you can see me like I can turn it down no problem, but then up it's just not registering. So I'm going to use the touchcreen and just crank this slider. I mean, I say that and then I can't slide it. There we go. There's some kinks to work out. And I'm not saying that every other handheld is perfect, but Windows on a handheld does typically work a little bit better than that. Is space is okay. Um, but yeah, now I've got audio turn on. Oh, there's RGB mode. Where's the RGB? Show me the RGB. Oh, it's on the thumb stick. That is good. Yo, these have no these speakers have no right to be this good. Let me turn down a little bit. Let me turn down a little bit. So, this is 44% volume. This sounds great. Honestly, the only time I'd ever use my headphones for this is if I'm like on the go, on the train, playing in the living room while someone's watching TV, you know, something like that. Cuz these are this probably the best speakers on a handheld I've ever heard. I typically have an RG Ally, so I'm using Armory Crate, which has its own problems, but for the most part, it does just kind of work. I haven't had any issues where like buttons aren't controlling different sliders and stuff. The navigation also seems typically pretty easy. Oh, now it's working. There we go. Okay. But it's going in like bursts. You see that? Like that's just weird. This is a pre-production model. The software's probably not quite done. There might be some updates to fix these things, but uh I wish it would just kind of work on its own out of the box. Otherwise, you know, settings are pretty typical. You got like airplane mode, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi on, off. One thing to note is that this does have three different power modes. Uh, and one big difference actually from previous IEOS is that you can't adjust how much RAM gets allocated to VRAM. You can only stick with the 4 gigs, which probably explains why our ROG Ally actually beat this thing when testing Grid Legends. Previous IO you could map up to, I think, 8 gigs. And that was pretty sweet, especially at 1080p when you're not playing 720 and you want to like actually take advantage of the really nice 144 hertz OLED display. I will say the controller stuff with the magic modules that just worked. It did seem to autodetect it without any issues at all. I like the little visual indication to show which modules you have on there. So, frankly, as long as they just keep kind of like patching it a little bit. One thing that's actually really nice that I just noticed while scrolling through the menu is it's got these Windows options down here like device manager, task manager, control panel. Those are actually really handy to have at your fingertips, especially stuff like display settings. It might get mad at me now because I'm in a game. Okay, but you know, when that happens, you know, you're on a handheld, just swipe up, close window. It's not that complicated. I get that everyone loves Steam OS and it is pretty good. Uh, but I personally find Windows on a handheld to be totally usable and hopefully it gets a little better. The only thing that really bugs me with my allies is that sometimes it like doesn't go to sleep properly, then the battery is gone. Uh, which is kind of a bit of a downside of this guy, the battery being only 49 watt hours. I get it. They don't want to pack more battery in to make it heavier or to make it thicker or to make it uncomfortable in any way. But like when a lot of the competition is up into 80 W hours, which is quite a while, that's really good. When this thing is pushed to the limit at the highest power setting, uh, brightness turned up, you're going to get about an hour of gaming done. We only got 40 minutes of stress test. We only got 41 minutes in our stress test when everything's cranked. Like, that's pretty rough. I get that you're going to turn the sound down. You're going to turn the screen brightness down. Maybe you'll turn the wattage down a couple notches, but uh yikes. Especially when you compare to an RG Alli X, which doesn't cost as much as one of these guys, that's got almost 2 hours worth of gaming off of the wall. You're not getting that here. And it's uh it's a bit of a shame. And if you want to push it a bit more, maybe you're on a long car trip and you need the battery to last all day, it's not going to. It'll do about 6 hours with everything set to low. And the Alli X measures almost 13. I'm not sitting here trying to say, \"Oh, go buy an LAX.\" They've got their own problems. I'm not getting into that. And I will say it's super freaking cool to have this incredible, beautiful OLED display and these super modular controllers. But let's talk about the price because it's really, really cool, but it's really, really expensive. Retail price for the base model 8840U starry black, 16 gigs of RAM, 512 gigs of storage, $8.99. And then that goes all the way up to $13.99 with the 64 gigs of RAM and two terabytes of storage. And then if you want the HX370, you're starting at $1,500 for the 32 gig 1 TB going all the way up to $2,100 bucks for 64 gigs of RAM, 4 TB of storage. To be fair, those top-end models on both the 8840U and the HX370 do come with the module kit. However, if you want to buy them separately, it's going to be about 140 bucks. So, it's a really tough pill to swallow. That pill gets a little easier to swallow if you want to pre-order this thing. On Indiegogo, there's early bird pricing and regular pricing, and that knocks 200 bucks off if you get the early bird, maybe only a hundred if you're just earlyish on Indiegogo. But the Alli X with 1 TB of storage costs 800 bucks, and a Steam Deck is like way cheaper than that. Even the Steam Deck OLED. That being said, this thing is absolutely mind-blowingly sick when you take into account the modular controllers and like if you want this exact layout like I've got with the trackpad here and you want to change it the next day, this is your only option. And so for you, it actually might be worth spending a few hundred more to get something like this. And if you want to spend a bit more money and get the HX 370, that's going to be the best chip in handhelds, at least right now. It's going to get an upgrade in a couple years. you know what chips do, but right now this is the best. The best of the best. As for myself, I didn't upgrade from the Ally to an Ally X. I just the battery, it's nice, but it was kind of the only major upgrade aside from some uh slightly faster memory. But I'll be frank, especially if I can sell my Ally for a bit and then buy like the base model of this thing and then do some upgrading. I don't know how easy it is to open and upgrade any of the internals. Uh the SSD is probably doable at least. I'm tempted. I gotta say this controller thing is so freaking cool. Like if you like, who's ever seen this? Nobody. It's a world's first. Look at this. Look at this. I can do it again. That's That's great. Like, who doesn't? And you can like trick your friends. You can be like, \"Oh my god, you broke my handheld. What the I just don't think it ever gets old.\" I don't think it's going to ever get old. Um, I do worry a little bit about like, you know, you do this a 100 times, maybe these start to wear out a little bit, but uh, I think overall this is probably one of the coolest things I've ever seen. Oh, I turned I put it in upside down and it detected it. What? Yo, you can flip them upside down. Man, this thing is so sick. That's got to be the absolute coolest thing I've ever seen on a handheld device. But what do you guys think? Like, comment, subscribe on the video. Uh, tell us in the comments and check out the next one that I do. I don't know when it'll be yet because I don't know the future."}