Asus Rog Ally

[Mirai]

I so want to pull the trigger on this or the steam deck, but **** me they are over priced here in SA. My friends in the UK have the privilege of owning both annnnd the PS5 and and and ....

I'm going to hold back and see what Nintendo bring out with their new Switch.

The Ally is priced at more or less what $700 USD gets you plus VAT and shipping. So I'd go with that. And with a 3 YEAR warranty you're getting a gaming console with enterprise level assurance of repair/swap out if things go wrong. I don't think this is even offered overseas via Best Buy.

 

[Mirai]

Received my ROG dock from Asus today. Going to see if it boosts the PD port on the jsaux dock or not. Might just end up using the Jdock as a prop for the ally, and use the official for everything else, although I like the amount of ports on there, comes in handy

100W PD from Ecoflow Delta 2 doesn't boost power via the CharJenPro Dock which claims 100W PD. That dock got very good ratings and reviews too. I contacted their support and Asus support as well. It may be that there is some compatibility issue and Asus needs to update the firmware. But a 65W power supply may not deliver the power to power the device if the dock takes 5W or so for itself and the Ally isn't happy with 60W. You may need a 100W charger and even then you may be out of luck because Asus are aholes.

 

[Lupus]

Guys for those who updated Windows to Pro, if you do have to reinstall Asus cloud recovery (which is only 1 year) will give you Windows Home again. Will that code work again on the hardware? Or will a new code be needed? I may just keep my original 512GB SSD as a backup for that reason.

Your code should still work, I've used my key a few times

 

[Lupus]

Ok so the CharJenPro dock does not pass enough juice to the Ally to allow for the 30W Turbo Mode. I tried with an Ecoflow Delta 2 PD 100W output as that's currently the only 100W USB C PD supply I have. It allows this when connected directly to the Ally but not through the 85W (100W) dock. I've ordered a 120W McDodo which will come in handy.
So no love.
Got the 2TB SSD though but waiting on Takealot for the caddy as I want to clone the thing and not do a clean reinstall. Apparently the SSD comes with a free copy of Acronis True Image.

The dock looks solid though and will come in handy with computer/iPad use. However, no success on PD on that. Asus are really d1cks here. Still I may not need 30W Turbo because lately that's become unstable for me.

My device has started to crash more lately. For example I find that on 30W Turbo mode the device crashes just a few seconds into DOA6 or Genshin Impact and has to be reset. Screen freezes but sound continues to play and a hard reset is needed. The device does not overheat, there's not enough time for that. Noticed that with the newest firmware.

First off you may need to replace your unit, second if you do image, ensure you get it to use all the space.
Where did you get the drive from?

 

[Lupus]

From my sure just did 2 hours of Mechwarrior 5, getting 45 to 60 fps at a little better pic quality then the series S

 

[Mirai]

First off you may need to replace your unit, second if you do image, ensure you get it to use all the space.
Where did you get the drive from?

It seems to be behaving again. It crashed twice on me this evening but after extended testing it's not crashing again.

I got the drive from Amazon, it's the 2TB Sabrent Q4 Rocket 2230.

 

[Mirai]

From my sure just did 2 hours of Mechwarrior 5, getting 45 to 60 fps at a little better pic quality then the series S

Well on Turbo 30W mode I'm getting 44-60 fps at 1080P on the Colosseum stage and 57-60 fps on the Gym/Sweat stage on DOA 6. I can turn the res down to 1600x900 and it's not really noticeable and then I get more FPS that way. This makes the Ally effectively a little above the PS4 base model, maybe on the level of the PS4 Pro.

On Genshin Impact if I turn SMAA on and run in 1080P and high quality backgrounds I get 50-60 FPS. As the PS4 could at best do 30 FPS in that game that's pretty good but not as good as Genshin Impact on iPad Pro which runs at 60 fps with all settings on their highest and PS5 which also runs it at 60FPS fixed although once it a blue moon it stutters.

The new SF6 can run at 1080P 60FPS but with almost all quality effects turned to low.

 

[Mirai]

SD card update:

For what it's worth I've noticed that the new stock fan behaviour on the 30W Docked Turbo mode seems to max the temp out at 70 degrees. In the past on the old firmware I'd get 90 degrees C easily.

 

[Lupus]

SD card update:

For what it's worth I've noticed that the new stock fan behaviour on the 30W Docked Turbo mode seems to max the temp out at 70 degrees. In the past on the old firmware I'd get 90 degrees C easily.

I've seen 80 but have noticed it not hitting 90 and the fans are a little more noisy

 

[PatchTuesday]

100W PD from Ecoflow Delta 2 doesn't boost power via the CharJenPro Dock which claims 100W PD. That dock got very good ratings and reviews too. I contacted their support and Asus support as well. It may be that there is some compatibility issue and Asus needs to update the firmware. But a 65W power supply may not deliver the power to power the device if the dock takes 5W or so for itself and the Ally isn't happy with 60W. You may need a 100W charger and even then you may be out of luck because Asus are aholes.

I experienced the same thing with the jsaux dock. Apparently redditors say it's a visual glitch but I'm not so sure about that. With the official ROG dock I get 30W Turbo, plugging the same power supply into the JSAUX dock it gets gimped. I'm thinking of getting some sort of adapter and using the jsaux cable into the ROG dock, then I can use my ethernet port and USB ports too.
That seems like an end of the month problem though

 

[Lupus]

Okay got the ugreen but the monitor won't go to 1920x1080 so can't even get the 1440p

 

[Lupus]

I can get my laptop on the higher res of my monitor, but not the Ally

 

[Lupus]

Laptops charger is 65w, but I can only do 25w when it's plugged into the Ally, though it does say it's charging and the light comes on, whereby my 40w doesn't. Hmm might need to get a 100w psu

 

[PatchTuesday]

Laptops charger is 65w, but I can only do 25w when it's plugged into the Ally, though it does say it's charging and the light comes on, whereby my 40w doesn't. Hmm might need to get a 100w psu

Do you have one of those ecoflows with the 100w PD ports?

 

[Lupus]

Do you have one of those ecoflows with the 100w PD ports?

I don't no :-(

 

[PatchTuesday]

I don't no :-(

Ah crap sorry bud. Okay so a 100w type c charger should work yeah. That one that was linked back a page or two from Takealot perhaps?

 

[Lupus]

Ah crap sorry bud. Okay so a 100w type c charger should work yeah. That one that was linked back a page or two from Takealot perhaps?

Yeah so it does sort of work from the laptops power suppy except cannot get the monitor output right.

 

[Lupus]

So with my monitor which is 40w, plus just the Ally in Windows it was 80w pulling from the wall.
When playing Mechwarrior 5 at 25w turbo mode, walking around it shot to 120w. So I think a 100w psu would be a good idea

 

[PatchTuesday]

Yeah so it does sort of work from the laptops power suppy except cannot get the monitor output right.

Do you want to test with mine perhaps? Since I have the jsaux and official dock, was looking at repurposing the ugreen dock. Could see if both behave the same before spending money on another PSU

 

[Mirai]

I contacted ASUS to ask them why a 100W PD charger through a 100W PD dock does not charge the Ally enough to provide 30Watt Turbo. This is their response:

I am sorry to hear that you are facing an issue with your Asus product RC71L. I inform you that Asus recommends the user to use only the charger with which his product came equipped or the dock charger dedicated to it, because the use of other charging equipment on your Asus product may lead to its hardware damage. To learn more about the ROG Gaming Charger Dock, please visit the link below:


https://rog.asus.com/power-protection-gadgets/chargers-and-adapters/rog-gaming-charger-dock/spec/

The dock manufacturer responded so:

Upon checking, the ROG ally can only charge upto 65W output.

If you're charging from the USB-C Power Delivery port alone, you can use the total 65W to charge your ASUS ROG Ally at max speed. However, when charging from the USB-C port and one of the USB-A ports, the USB-C port drops to a 45W charge rate.

I'm only charging the Ally through the USB-C port and not charging anything else at the same time, through any USB-A port, so I should have at least 65W for the Ally.