Another great video brother! Came for ROG Ally reviews and stayed for the vibe. You really are hitting a niche with laidback tech videos that no one else does. I’ll keep watching your videos for education and comfort 🙏
I was actually planning on getting an Ally X, stripping my PC for the GPU (3070ti) and the power supply and making my own eGPU. That was before I knew this unit existed. That's a way cleaner setup and has swayed me to just take the GPU and run with it. Great video man. ✌
Dude, I’m SOO glad you mentioned the driver issues with AMD EGPUs. I’ve had so many issues with my Ally X and GPD G1 (rx7600m). It’s a nightmare. Great video man
This dude has the best laid back vibe who just caters to passionate gamers instead of explaining the technical stuff like 3d marks etc which are dry and boring.
You have your own relaxed, cool and approachable style. You don't need to be ETA Prime or anybody else. Stick to what you do, it's very watchable and it has its own identity. Thanks also for recommending hardware that I actually want to buy.
Pretty smooth. I myself ordered the OnexGPU 2. Dock, M.2, and graphics all in one. I havent seen the driver issues with it from anyone.... yet... Solid video my man.
with the new m4 pro mac mini that just came out with thunderbolt 5 up to 120Gb/s, maybe we'll see an eGPU dock with thunderbolt 5 in the near future along with handhelds that support it too like the Ally 2. plus it'll be nice that it's a universal usb-c connector that should be backwards compatible with thunderbolt 4
Looks like a pretty clean setup, great option for a big performance boost for the ally x or legion Go. Having an egpu has been my best add on toy handhelds. Usb 4 should be plug and play after initial setup, oculink is definitely more particular. You have to power everything down, then plug in oculink cords, then power on egpu, then finally power on device. When you shut down the handheld, you have to unplug the egpu once the handheld is off. If you dont the egpu will overheat on its own (its a pain).
I am all about portability these days . I want everything to fit in a backpack when I go somewhere . I luckily have a Rog Ally X, a Steam Deck OLED, a g14 4070 OLED laptop, quest pro and my mobile phone and thats all I need . Gaming at home and on the go .
I can see the huge amount of work that goes into these videos and love your chilled out narration (I watch a lot of SkillUP for the same reason). Too many channels try to fire information an you as fast as possible to keep your attention and it gets tiring. Keep it up buddy. Look forward to the next one!
I’m thinking whenever I make the switch from my current 3080 to whatever I upgrade my desktop to, I’ll definitely end up buying this dock and using my 3080 on my AllyX. I love this type of versatility and the options it leaves for modifying and improving performance
All credit to you for doing this video👌🏻🙏🏻 This definitely helped me out to decide what kind of setup to spend my money on. Keep up with the good work 👊🏻 //P
Hey mate just wanted to thank you for recommendation on ROG ALLy X bought it second hand 2 weeks ago and it is amazing how it performs. Maybe one day i will also be able to get this egpu setup ❤
Giving you a heads up. If you wanna get a slight bump in performance move your display port cable from the dock to the EGPU. Since the GPU has to back feed data into the handheld it looses some of the 40gbs goodness.
compared to TB3 eGPU docks, USB4 eGPU docks doesn't support hotplug but you can disable the gpu first in device manager then unplug the usb cable and it will not bsod
Awesome video and the EGPU Dock just looked and it not that much right now 159.95 not a bad deal do you recommend me getting the Z1 extreme or just the Z1 I mean cause any news on a Z2 release date at all
Dude I really enjoy your videos , great time watching Also how the heck is a 4070, 500$? Where I live it’s like 750$ , I guess that’s VAT taxes for ya. 😢
Thx for the video mate. I’m on the same jurney. How to improve the performance of the Ally X while docked. This solution is one way for me aswell. The other is the SGWZONE dock. It is more portable than this one and has a 4060 inside. I think it’s a laptop variant but several parts of the dock is modular. Like the GPU, the GaN power supply and the TB4/usb4 modul. The TB5 modul is under development. So I’m not surr wich one to choose.
Surprised to see you use the display running to a dock( bottom usb) instead of the egpu. I did something similar when testing the onexgpu I got for my legion go. I ran egpu to game on the handheld display and in both scenarios it should cut down on bandwidth cause the signal goes back and forth. In your testing it should have ran with display going to the ports on the graphics card. In my testing onexgpu might give a usb c cable that doesn't handle the signal going back and forth. It got really hot and thermal throttled after a bit of handheld gaming. External monitor gaming from the egpu ports and I had no issues. They also give a stupid heavy power brick that's fixed to the plug off the outlet. During my first use thinking it could share a wall outlet and it fell out on its own. Mid game I didnt blue screen though but game crashed and I restarted the pc to recognize it again.
Surprised you picked the aoostar one versus something Ike the something like the osmeto ego1 or there is another one I forget the name where it has a built 8n battery. I believe for those you can power your device directly through the unit and you don’t need to plug in your handheld separately. I would look into those for a slightly better setup/user experience. Either way it is a cool thing to be able to unplug and take your handheld on the go.
Hey man, great video. If you connect display port directly from the graphics card to your monitor you should unlock some extra performance! Looks like on your video you rely on the usb hub for the video output so you’re taking up some bandwidth there.😊 Won’t look as clean on your desk though! Keep it up, awesome content!
@ yeah, definitely try it out and see if you get an improvement. Make sure you’re not using the Ally/LeGo screen and just your monitor as well. With your setup you’re sending a huge amount of data through the usb cable over to the graphics card and then having to return data from the card through the usb cable to your device and usb hub which will bottleneck it more.
Nice video sir. I'm very hesitant on that EGPU built-in power supply may cause heat inside on the extensive games with very high settings. Also the knob seem not secured, I saw ETA prime video and it moved. Looking forward for them to improve this EGPU. BTW, my setup is also 4070 EGPU via oculink. it is around 20% to 30% difference betseen USB4 vs oculink.
This is the setup I want. I currently run a msi claw, razer core x, and 3060ti. Honestly it's not great I play at 1440p and getting like 40-50fps. Planning on copying your setup and using a 4070 super instead of the 4070.
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So the comment on conflicting drivers is wrong. Amd's drivers Run pretty universal. Meaning it will install the drivers that are needed and run perfectly fine because the extreme Z1 Is nothing but an AMD 780m and it uses those drivers so if you did plug in an AMD graphics card for your egpu it would not conflict or have any issues. Coming from someone who currently uses a 7600 MXT on multiple AMD handhelds. If you want to talk about conflicting drivers, look at Intel And how they are with Nvidia egpus. And other Intel devices while trying to connect to AMD eGpus. Just FYI.
I think the disconnect may be using the most recent drivers for the card. If you accept the driver version released for the Z1 extreme, then yes it is probably fine. I think he was saying if you download the latest drivers for the card, those wouldn't recognize the Z1 extreme.
It’s sold out already, but i’ll keep an eye out on it. It looks neat! My legion go hasn’t been getting any use lately and this might change that. Does VRR work via HDMI with this setup? I would connect it to an LG CX via an HDMI 2.1 cable.
I’m all about portability as i’m mainly going to be using my ally x away from home - I think the oneexgpu 2 is perfect for me. What’s your opinion on the oneexgpu 2?
Looks like when you were playing the finals your APU is drawing only 17w and you're CPU bottlenecked. I'm pretty sure the legion go and ally can draw way more power if you increase the TDP through their performance profiles or whatever. you may be able to increase your performance a bit unless I'm misunderstanding
I wanna know what your suggestion about my comments II sent you by knowing connecting two points one board or conducting external graphic card and other board connecting docking station by knowing connecting both them at the same time if it will work fine like do you think it will work fine if I can use it if I don't need to spend too much money on A EGPU that uses everything it has if I just use my own ways to save money Because if I connect mouse and a keyboard while everything is connected to my external graphic card well because I have two parts will it work
@@CyberDopamine I mean performance wise, how would this setup compare to the ps5 pro specs. Sony selling it for 700 dollars has kind of turned me away to potential pc gaming. I have the ally x and was wanting a setup at least equal to the ps5 pro.
but really whats the point? like i love the video, but i mean i guess you could easily get a case for it, but why not build an mini itx pc for the price and in general
Does two USB four port can I use it to connect to my external graphic card while I can connect it to my duck station mouse in a keyboard while everything is connected with two ports, which is USB 4 port
I had an egpu for a long time and i used it with my legion go but that enclosure got destroyed transporting it to another country there was no card in it thankfully but i used several gpus ok my legion go and i never had issues with nvidia or amd tbh i personally like the rx6600 and the 3060 but i also tested a 4070ti and a rx 7900xt and a 3070/80ti and the issues with stronger cards is youll be cpu bound for the usual part but i had no issue with any
@@maosachez27 No reason it shouldn't. If I've done my tech math right, technically any GPU around the range of 2060 or higher should see a performance boost when paired like this.
🤐 I've been saying for way too long that the best option for the Asus Rog Ally X is Windows, no matter if they sponsor the videos or not. The Linux support for eGPUs is basically non-existent when it comes to gaming, and you lose AMF2 support among other things. If you're looking for a lightweight OS, there's always W11 LTSC.
