Got mine done from slick as well, 2 week wait time. I play CoD mw3 mostly on the device. Had him update my bios to 336. I did use smokeless and increased the speed to 7500mhz, highly recommend doing the 32gb upgrade. Ditching my whole PC now as i have an "On the go" desktop. I did upgrade the battery myself as slick has a video on how to do it and it was pretty easy. I set my Video Ram to 8gb as 2ell. So Cod i went from 80 fps on a 3840x1080 Samsung external monitor to 115 close to 120 fps that is on low graphic settings as i always want high fps in Cod. Then i hooked up the xg mobile 6850xt and get around 180fps in cod. My screen is 144hz so i guess the extra fps wont mean much. The fps gain from the new ram can be anywhere from 10fps increase to 40fps increase. I now have enough ram though to do so much. Rog should have done 32gb models. Ill try tarkov and let you guys know what my fps is with and without the xg mobile. If people want to make a request on a game they play ill try and get it and show it to you. All i can say is 32gb is well worth it. I have 3 monitors hooked up to the rog ally with the xg mobile. Needed to use an adapter that converts the dp on the xg mobile and splits it into an hdmi and another dp. Thank you again Slick really appreciate the work
@@RorschDG-2 $315 and i paid shipping around $20 for extra insurance for the ram upgrade. I now use this device as my desktop. So the only games i had a hiccup on was tarkov and star citizen and thats with my eGPU connected. Every other game i played "Lethal company, Minecraft, World of warcraft, LoL, MW3, Halo, 7 days, etc are getting easily 100+fps with eGPU and an external 3840x1080 monitor. If i just did a lower res screen i probably be able to do tarkov no prob, star citizen is a beast of its own tho, i get around 24-30fps in lorville and 45-55fps in space. But it does stutter alot on star citizen, guessing due to low cache on cpu
@@narubi9 Does it have a screen/controller on it. Can i plop on the couch with it and play games? Ive done the mini ITX route. Its not the same. I can straight up unhook from my screen and go sit on the couch and game.
Slick upgraded my ROG Ally to the 32GB 7500Mhz ram and hoo boy what a performance improvement. You will have to use smokeless to set the speed to 7500Mhz but once you do... its like a whole other machine. in Doom Eternal I went from 68Fps to 91FPS on BIOS 335. Diablo IV I went from 56 on medium settings high textures in Kyovashad to 72FPS. Its a massive improvement. Also being able to just set it to 8GB on the Vram and never worry or touch it is fantastic. Highly recommend this mod and Slick is awesome! Turn around time was about 2 weeks so super fast as well.
@@SlickBuysModsandRepairs I have seen someone used a 90Whr battery but it required big modification and back side bump..... Ally have some empty space around and was wondering if a 50-60 will fit without the need to extend body shell space Anyway looking forward for how you gonna fit these and some numbers
Awesome work, man. However, we should not have to do this. I always said from day one they are screwing us and they know it. They wanted it to be barely good enough so that when they bring out their 32gb model people will buy it again. This is the goal for these kinds of companies - to have their customers buy their crap more than once. Nevertheless, great job.
@@kimalibennett9468 It's not about "a lot of people being _content_ ". It's about the device not being able to perform adequately without stutters, texture thrashing, or even being able to load the game in the first place without issues. Games that are coming out are going to require them, especially when more and more have raytracing on top of the super high quality textures. We're starting to see the problems already in games like Alan Wake 2, Starfield, etc...
@@corndog9482 I just feel like it IS about the majority. Games currently aren't developed with lower power devices/efficiency in mind but I just can't help but feel a sense of entitlement or ALWAYS looking towards the future instead of appreciating what we do have to choose from. Some of the testimonials of performance improvements are saying going from 50-60 fps to 80 or more and from my direct experience, while that is a WELCOME improvement, it wouldn't prompt me to feel played or duped currently
@@kimalibennett9468 "I just feel like it IS about the majority." "The majority" is not the same thing as "a lot of people" as you claimed in your previous comment, though. Also, your claim that "the majority" doesn't care about the 16gb is misleading, as the majority doesn't understand why this isn't good. This video proves how starved the system is. "Games currently aren't developed with lower power devices/efficiency in mind" It's not that. It's that games are moving forward and in doing so are driving up requirements. This makes moving away from 16gb of RAM in a shared environment a necessity. "I just can't help but feel a sense of entitlement or ALWAYS looking towards the future instead of appreciating what we do have to choose from." I'm not even talking about the future. I'm talking about now. We are *currently* already seeing that it's not enough for even a 1080p native display. Going into settings for every individual modern game to tweak it for maximum performance is not an ideal practice, but is required for many games, and increasingly so. I'd understand a little more for a system like the steam deck, where it feels and is treated more like a console, but on a full-fledged windows device with the increased overhead? Unacceptable. "Some of the testimonials of performance improvements are saying going from 50-60 fps to 80 or more and from my direct experience, while that is a WELCOME improvement, it wouldn't prompt me to feel played or duped currently" First of all, going from 50 fps - 60 fps to 80 fps or more is a _huge_ improvement in fluidity and massive improvement in the experience. Way more so than going from 80 to 100. Though having 32gb of shared memory would give the Ally meaningful gains in frames pretty much across the board, that's even more important is the hitching, stuttering, frame pacing, texture thrashing, and even being able to load the game in the first place without having to tinker with and adjust VRAM allocation settings just to get it to run the way it should. I feel like you don't fully comprehend the implications how negatively this is currently affecting our experience, and especially increasingly as we move forward. 32GB should really be the minimum standard on a windows gaming device like this, and companies like Ayaneo, GPD, and several others are doing it right. Not surprising that the large corporations are trying to pull these shenanigans.
Not easy at all man, great job, I really love it !!!! Congratulations. Please, I wish to have an idea what the differences in performances between 16/6400 MT/s vs 32/7500 MT/s. Do you have any comparison to do?
Hi ! I can see that a lot of people in the comments requested a gaming performance side by side if possible, there are a few guys that offer this service and charge big money ( as they should being that it is an extremely niche market and complex process) but at the same time for that expensive product we should see a difference in performance and since you are the only one that can do this and have access to the upgraded model i think it's a missed opportunity not to show us the difference
Oh my, your work is absolutely beautiful! Fantastic! Have you tried pushing the VRAM to the max and seeing how it performs with all that extra memory added?
Mind-blowing work dude, you really caught me off with the title of the video, and after watching, it's a true piece of art. I am really interested in this mod ngl. Just a question - Is there any downside of upgrading the RAM, like will I miss out on official BIOS updates and what not, please enlighten me. Thanks in advance ❤
Awesome work! But no new OEM bios updates kinda hurts. They can come with some optimizations and performance improvements. I wish OEMs would take ram upgrades into consideration in their bios so customers don't have to even worry about the bios. Very cool work
I agree. Though I’d say most performance gains, in terms of bios optimizations, are tapped out. It would be cool if Asus officially recognized 32GB memory modules without the need of having to reflash the bios.
for people ho havent bought this yet it would be much better if they just outright offer a new version of rog ally with installed 32gb ram and allocate up to 12vram.
I think it might be possible to get the ROG team to include it in their bios if you can make a big enough splash and get enough people to @ them about including it in their BIOS. A small chance I know but it is a possibility. @@SlickBuysModsandRepairs
@@metathanatos1 Static VRAM allocation on AMD iGPUs isn't beneficial, since the system can dynamically assign more RAM to the iGPU - it will also return that memory back to the OS, when it's not needed anymore. With an arbitrary amount of statically reserved memory, it can't be used by the OS for anything else, so the option in the UEFI functionally only sets a minimum amount of memory that should be exclusively available to the iGPU at all times.
Makes me hope they do an oled update with more ram at higher clocks and move the sd card slot that is literally all it needs for perfection maybe a battery bump but I don’t even care the ram at 16 gigs is a shame it illicits a ton of stuttering in most games just to starving the gpu and cpu of memory
The reader doesn't need to be moved since that wasn't the issue the controller to the reader is on the other side of the board that had weak solder joints and would break over time from thermal stress of hot and cold. Asus has since fixed that issue in later models but if someone with an older model has issues they're recommended to reach out to support to RMA it to get fixed.
There's alot of evidence supporting the idea that the SD card reader fails due to poor solder joints on its corresponding IC. Reflowing this IC can bring back the dead SD reader.
@@SlickBuysModsandRepairs That makes sense, people on Reddit with newer models reported their SD card still works. Despite having exactly the same hardware. This is a widespread issue for Ally owners, if you could make a video for the community on how to fix this, we would really appreciate that.
I have Micron memory on my ROG Ally. I ordered Samsung memory chips. What additional steps are needed to replace Micron memory with Samsung chips? I have read that a resistor needs to be moved...
hello. Do I absolutely have to remove the bios chip to flash the bios? Or is it possible to modify the HEX value in the bios update deployment program? Thank you very much for sharing your efforts for everyone.
Damn where do you go to learn something like this??? Shit like this is crazy! And I work in IT too and I consider myself pretty computer literate. I can build pc’s, repair them, and use them really well. I taught myself how to code in python and am learning C++ rn, but doing somethin like this is just 😱🤯. I learned the foundations of what I know from my dad who was a wiz at all this stuff but he died when I was like 12 and I never got to learn soldering from him.. and I kno there’s SO MUCH more to it than that too, it’s really the whole electrical side of things that has always baffled me. Like I can’t read a schematic to save my life and I have no clue how all those transistors, resistors, capacitors, and diodes come together and make what appears on my screen. How those millions of electrical signals traverse and send and receive data and everything. It’s rly mind blowing to me and it’s been one of the biggest frustrations throughout my life. I really hope I’m able to learn this someday!
Quick question. If i sent my unit over to have this done. How could i go about in the future to update the bios? Would it be done via a repackage of their bios updates on your end? That or could we do it etc...
Ideally you'd forego the BIOS updates, so as to not override the custom BIOS I make for the unit. You can always download a new BIOS and ship the unit back out to me to reflash if a BIOS with a feature you want ever releases.
I would get this in a heartbeat if it was easy to update the bios.. is there a socket that can be fitted on the allys motherboard, for easy removal into a programmer if needed?
I’ve been mentally thinking about how I could extend the bios chip to a easier to easy access spot, so you don’t have to totally disassemble the unit. Though if you’re able to dump, edit, and flash the bios then chances are taking apart the unit wouldn’t be an issue for you.
@@SlickBuysModsandRepairs taking it apart isn’t the issue, unfortunately I developed a bit of Parkinson’s in my hands and just can’t solder like I used to
Why remove the chip from the board to program the new ram support in? You have to desolder,solder/desolder/solder lol. Why not Either leave it off and do it with clamps or soldered wires, or desolder and use clamps. Really am curious
Damn i was like this seems simple enough, until you popped off that cpu... i was like nah fuck that. Can you imagine how awesome with would be with the 4090 xgmobile?
i think asus would do well making this an option, i mean 16gb of ram is ok for most computers with dedicated gfx , but when u are dedicating 6-8 gb of ram to the gpu in an apu, it really gimps the operating system . i have 6gb set to the gpu in mine, and it doesnt leave enough room for the os in alot of cases . im highly interested in this mod, tho i would hate to spend the coin to have it done, and 3 or 4 months later they release some bios update that allows some new features or better gpu performance, and not be able to use it. i am very interested tho, thank you for the upload, you have my attention hard buddy. are you doing this all by yourself? i cant imagine you having 500 of these units show up at your doorstep one morning lol, any rough idea on the turn around time for this service?
Cool mod I wish the bios supported this out of box. It's what stopped me on steam deck too. Might have to sell my steam deck and just buy an ayaneo kun since im paranoid about warranty and long term life.
@@SlickBuysModsandRepairs Thanks so much for the response! :) (I'm Sorry for replying late, TH-cam didn't notify me of your response, only your ❤️). During tax season, if I can find a Clear shell, buy a battery upgrade, and a 2TB SSD, plus whatever is needed for you to upgrade it's Ram, how much would you charge for everything? I'll pay overnight shipping for both ways, I'm just anxious to know about the price so that I can start some financial planning for everything including your services 😀. Edit: Almost forgot to mention, I'll be playing it on my 165Hz 1440p LG Ultragear monitor, would it still be capped at 120HZ? (I'm Sorry for the long comment and questions).
Thank you very much for your great teaching. I have another question, you wrote in the description that before we start everything we have to turn off Bitlocker and Secure Boot, I would like to know whether after everything, when Windows will boot up again with 32GB Ram, we can use Bitlocker and Secure boot again switch on, or they always have to stay off. Thanks so much
@@SlickBuysModsandRepairs Would this upgrade mean the bios updates would not work and it would have to be sent to someone to do a new flash of the bios every time there's a major bios update worth updating to? Also --- amazing work. Really fun to see it done so beautifully.
@@SlickBuysModsandRepairs Thanks! I was wondering because apparently MSI's new handheld will have 32gbs of RAM and I was wondering how much of a difference that would make. Right now with 16 GB it feels like we're juggling system RAM and vram around depending on what game is being played but if you have enough RAM for both I figured performance would improve.
I don't understand what you're saying. The boosted memory clocks have a marginal difference on overall battery life. The Ally uses PTM as it's cooling solution, thermal paste would be a downgrade.
I realy don't understand why Asus didn't just offer more ram. These days 16 is barely skating by in some rigs with dedicated graphics. Let alone on descrete like this.
HOWS THE BATTERY LIFE AFTER THIS UPGRADE SURELY BURN MORE THROUGH THE BATTERY my only gripe with this unit is the battery life i own one and two steam decks one lcd and oled oled steam deck massive upgrade especially the battery life mad MUSIC and skills by the way
Hi, I tried to flash the bios chip without desoldering. I did it in the bios and menu Ez Flash V3 with two different sufixes (bin and 337) but every time I get an error. select file is not a uefi bios. but when I do with original file there is no problem and these errors are not shown. My question: I absolutely have to de-solder the bios chip? or my file is not prepared properly. Can you please send me the bios file for version 337? I am very grateful and if necessary tell me how I can practically thank you.?
I wish I had 32GB haha nice work you did ♥ I don't know why they just put 16GB inside and then even shared... That is just too less the 16GB RAM in shared mode.
Hi, is whether the same code or path can also be used for new version Bios 337? And My next question is if the BIOS update happens by mistake in the future, there is a solution to update the BIOS modded code without removing the BIOS chip from the main board. Did you transfer it with a USB cable?
@@SlickBuysModsandRepairs this is all I needed to hear, I've already emailed this same question to you. I'm sure you'll be able to tell. We can discuss pricing further through email. Thanks!
hi please i need some help . please can you tell me if it's possible to change ram to 32 gb without removing the bios chip or if there is a way to do the bios part one the rog ally directly if you know what i mean
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Got mine done from slick as well, 2 week wait time. I play CoD mw3 mostly on the device. Had him update my bios to 336. I did use smokeless and increased the speed to 7500mhz, highly recommend doing the 32gb upgrade. Ditching my whole PC now as i have an "On the go" desktop. I did upgrade the battery myself as slick has a video on how to do it and it was pretty easy. I set my Video Ram to 8gb as 2ell. So Cod i went from 80 fps on a 3840x1080 Samsung external monitor to 115 close to 120 fps that is on low graphic settings as i always want high fps in Cod. Then i hooked up the xg mobile 6850xt and get around 180fps in cod. My screen is 144hz so i guess the extra fps wont mean much.
The fps gain from the new ram can be anywhere from 10fps increase to 40fps increase. I now have enough ram though to do so much. Rog should have done 32gb models. Ill try tarkov and let you guys know what my fps is with and without the xg mobile. If people want to make a request on a game they play ill try and get it and show it to you.
All i can say is 32gb is well worth it. I have 3 monitors hooked up to the rog ally with the xg mobile. Needed to use an adapter that converts the dp on the xg mobile and splits it into an hdmi and another dp.
Thank you again Slick really appreciate the work
How much was it all said and done? I'm waiting to get my machine back from Asus due to the SD Card failure and am curious about it.
@@RorschDG-2 $315 and i paid shipping around $20 for extra insurance for the ram upgrade. I now use this device as my desktop.
So the only games i had a hiccup on was tarkov and star citizen and thats with my eGPU connected. Every other game i played "Lethal company, Minecraft, World of warcraft, LoL, MW3, Halo, 7 days, etc are getting easily 100+fps with eGPU and an external 3840x1080 monitor. If i just did a lower res screen i probably be able to do tarkov no prob, star citizen is a beast of its own tho, i get around 24-30fps in lorville and 45-55fps in space. But it does stutter alot on star citizen, guessing due to low cache on cpu
Also bought a used Xg mobile 6850xt for $849 on ebay
Do you realize you could have just built a high-end gaming pc with a mini-itx case? Same price, small size, no fan noise, etc.
@@narubi9 Does it have a screen/controller on it. Can i plop on the couch with it and play games?
Ive done the mini ITX route. Its not the same.
I can straight up unhook from my screen and go sit on the couch and game.
Damn you're making EXTRA sure that surface is perfect
It’s a “measure twice, cut once” sort of situation 😅
Making nearly impossible for soldier points to bridge 😉 I'm tempted to get this done for mine.
Slick upgraded my ROG Ally to the 32GB 7500Mhz ram and hoo boy what a performance improvement. You will have to use smokeless to set the speed to 7500Mhz but once you do... its like a whole other machine. in Doom Eternal I went from 68Fps to 91FPS on BIOS 335. Diablo IV I went from 56 on medium settings high textures in Kyovashad to 72FPS. Its a massive improvement. Also being able to just set it to 8GB on the Vram and never worry or touch it is fantastic. Highly recommend this mod and Slick is awesome! Turn around time was about 2 weeks so super fast as well.
Can you please share the firmware? I have 32 ram and 7500
@@RickyTTT1looks like you called his bluff 😂
I need 🥲
Explain smokeless to me. I build PCs but I guess im still a Noob. Is a ram overclocking software?
the bios takes effect.
This is art at its peak level right there. Now one real good video for the Battery mod and ppl are set for everything. Thanks for this video.
That’ll be one of my next videos!
@@SlickBuysModsandRepairsyeah please make it at least 55 or 60 size, this will make it ultimate handheld
@@TRX25EX the battery used for the mod is a 90Whr battery.
@@SlickBuysModsandRepairs I have seen someone used a 90Whr battery but it required big modification and back side bump..... Ally have some empty space around and was wondering if a 50-60 will fit without the need to extend body shell space
Anyway looking forward for how you gonna fit these and some numbers
@@TRX25EXshoot me an email
Show us gaming performance
Agree
X3
That’ll be done soon
@@SlickBuysModsandRepairssweeet
There will be no performance gains. This is just an ignorant project. If he did a dual channel mod this might help a performance gains
Mad respect to your skills
As a Neanderthal. I could never. I barely have the patience to unscrew the back shell. I will always be jealous of you tech savvy people.
Awesome work, man. However, we should not have to do this. I always said from day one they are screwing us and they know it. They wanted it to be barely good enough so that when they bring out their 32gb model people will buy it again. This is the goal for these kinds of companies - to have their customers buy their crap more than once. Nevertheless, great job.
A lot of people are content without 32 gigs of ram playing games in 720-900-1080 lol
@@kimalibennett9468 It's not about "a lot of people being _content_ ".
It's about the device not being able to perform adequately without stutters, texture thrashing, or even being able to load the game in the first place without issues. Games that are coming out are going to require them, especially when more and more have raytracing on top of the super high quality textures. We're starting to see the problems already in games like Alan Wake 2, Starfield, etc...
@@corndog9482 I just feel like it IS about the majority. Games currently aren't developed with lower power devices/efficiency in mind but I just can't help but feel a sense of entitlement or ALWAYS looking towards the future instead of appreciating what we do have to choose from. Some of the testimonials of performance improvements are saying going from 50-60 fps to 80 or more and from my direct experience, while that is a WELCOME improvement, it wouldn't prompt me to feel played or duped currently
@@kimalibennett9468 "I just feel like it IS about the majority."
"The majority" is not the same thing as "a lot of people" as you claimed in your previous comment, though.
Also, your claim that "the majority" doesn't care about the 16gb is misleading, as the majority doesn't understand why this isn't good. This video proves how starved the system is.
"Games currently aren't developed with lower power devices/efficiency in mind"
It's not that. It's that games are moving forward and in doing so are driving up requirements. This makes moving away from 16gb of RAM in a shared environment a necessity.
"I just can't help but feel a sense of entitlement or ALWAYS looking towards the future instead of appreciating what we do have to choose from."
I'm not even talking about the future. I'm talking about now. We are *currently* already seeing that it's not enough for even a 1080p native display. Going into settings for every individual modern game to tweak it for maximum performance is not an ideal practice, but is required for many games, and increasingly so. I'd understand a little more for a system like the steam deck, where it feels and is treated more like a console, but on a full-fledged windows device with the increased overhead? Unacceptable.
"Some of the testimonials of performance improvements are saying going from 50-60 fps to 80 or more and from my direct experience, while that is a WELCOME improvement, it wouldn't prompt me to feel played or duped currently"
First of all, going from 50 fps - 60 fps to 80 fps or more is a _huge_ improvement in fluidity and massive improvement in the experience. Way more so than going from 80 to 100.
Though having 32gb of shared memory would give the Ally meaningful gains in frames pretty much across the board, that's even more important is the hitching, stuttering, frame pacing, texture thrashing, and even being able to load the game in the first place without having to tinker with and adjust VRAM allocation settings just to get it to run the way it should.
I feel like you don't fully comprehend the implications how negatively this is currently affecting our experience, and especially increasingly as we move forward. 32GB should really be the minimum standard on a windows gaming device like this, and companies like Ayaneo, GPD, and several others are doing it right. Not surprising that the large corporations are trying to pull these shenanigans.
Nice work. I hope you will show game performance tests
Not easy at all man, great job, I really love it !!!! Congratulations.
Please, I wish to have an idea what the differences in performances between 16/6400 MT/s vs 32/7500 MT/s. Do you have any comparison to do?
Not at the moment. The mod does improve 0.1%/1% lows and boosts FPS a bit (5-10 frames from my superficial testing).
RAM intensive games benefit the most, plus the option to increase texture sizes is a great benefit.
With an egpu you could conceivably play games that would need the extra memory.
Absolutely brilliant work!!!
Thanks!
this is fuckin beautiful
getting up with you now, got a used one of these z1x for $302 on ebay and this is what it needs!
@@freemaysin5088 thank you!
Hi ! I can see that a lot of people in the comments requested a gaming performance side by side if possible, there are a few guys that offer this service and charge big money ( as they should being that it is an extremely niche market and complex process) but at the same time for that expensive product we should see a difference in performance and since you are the only one that can do this and have access to the upgraded model i think it's a missed opportunity not to show us the difference
Oh my, your work is absolutely beautiful!
Fantastic!
Have you tried pushing the VRAM to the max and seeing how it performs with all that extra memory added?
Mind-blowing work dude, you really caught me off with the title of the video, and after watching, it's a true piece of art. I am really interested in this mod ngl.
Just a question -
Is there any downside of upgrading the RAM, like will I miss out on official BIOS updates and what not, please enlighten me. Thanks in advance ❤
Hi there, thank you. Yes any future bios updates will need to be avoided, otherwise it will override the changes I made to the bios.
@@SlickBuysModsandRepairs Oh ok got it ! Hey, great work man once again !
their bioses suck and handheld companion or other third party soft is much better than armorycrate
First time ever seeing someone upgrade a soldered on memory chip wow
This is amazing, you should do some of these and sell them.😊
Awesome work! But no new OEM bios updates kinda hurts. They can come with some optimizations and performance improvements. I wish OEMs would take ram upgrades into consideration in their bios so customers don't have to even worry about the bios. Very cool work
I agree. Though I’d say most performance gains, in terms of bios optimizations, are tapped out. It would be cool if Asus officially recognized 32GB memory modules without the need of having to reflash the bios.
for people ho havent bought this yet it would be much better if they just outright offer a new version of rog ally with installed 32gb ram and allocate up to 12vram.
I think it might be possible to get the ROG team to include it in their bios if you can make a big enough splash and get enough people to @ them about including it in their BIOS. A small chance I know but it is a possibility. @@SlickBuysModsandRepairs
@@metathanatos1 Static VRAM allocation on AMD iGPUs isn't beneficial, since the system can dynamically assign more RAM to the iGPU - it will also return that memory back to the OS, when it's not needed anymore.
With an arbitrary amount of statically reserved memory, it can't be used by the OS for anything else, so the option in the UEFI functionally only sets a minimum amount of memory that should be exclusively available to the iGPU at all times.
@@Psychx_vram+OS+the Game+Steam(etc)
Makes me hope they do an oled update with more ram at higher clocks and move the sd card slot that is literally all it needs for perfection maybe a battery bump but I don’t even care the ram at 16 gigs is a shame it illicits a ton of stuttering in most games just to starving the gpu and cpu of memory
The reader doesn't need to be moved since that wasn't the issue the controller to the reader is on the other side of the board that had weak solder joints and would break over time from thermal stress of hot and cold. Asus has since fixed that issue in later models but if someone with an older model has issues they're recommended to reach out to support to RMA it to get fixed.
Great video! I will follow it and try this tomorrow. I'll edit my comment if it goes well.
Good luck!
OMG your work is amazing!!! I have a question... If an ASUS BIOS update arrives, should you skip it or can you update without problems?
Thank you! I recommend to my customers that they skip Asus updates so as to avoid overriding the edits I make to the bios.
@@SlickBuysModsandRepairs what would we be missing out on by not doing bios updates after this?
It would revert back to only using 16 gb ram @@ZionRanch
I feel like I've just watched an organ transplantatiom surgery and got a PTSD from it
This is amazing, you gained a follow. Any way to fix the SD card issue?
There's alot of evidence supporting the idea that the SD card reader fails due to poor solder joints on its corresponding IC. Reflowing this IC can bring back the dead SD reader.
@@SlickBuysModsandRepairs That makes sense, people on Reddit with newer models reported their SD card still works. Despite having exactly the same hardware.
This is a widespread issue for Ally owners, if you could make a video for the community on how to fix this, we would really appreciate that.
Get an xgmobile. Comes with an SD card slot
Solid work dude
Thank you
Good job my friend, how much do you charge for this?
Thank you. I charge $315 + return shipping.
@@SlickBuysModsandRepairslmao
I have Micron memory on my ROG Ally. I ordered Samsung memory chips. What additional steps are needed to replace Micron memory with Samsung chips? I have read that a resistor needs to be moved...
Yes, you will need to swap the location of the strap resistor. You can email me and I’ll send you the location of said resistor.
hello. Do I absolutely have to remove the bios chip to flash the bios? Or is it possible to modify the HEX value in the bios update deployment program?
Thank you very much for sharing your efforts for everyone.
At the moment the bios has to be modified via hardware. A software method hasn’t been done yet.
oh thank you for your kindness.. i have to buy one thing 😢
Damn where do you go to learn something like this??? Shit like this is crazy! And I work in IT too and I consider myself pretty computer literate. I can build pc’s, repair them, and use them really well. I taught myself how to code in python and am learning C++ rn, but doing somethin like this is just 😱🤯.
I learned the foundations of what I know from my dad who was a wiz at all this stuff but he died when I was like 12 and I never got to learn soldering from him.. and I kno there’s SO MUCH more to it than that too, it’s really the whole electrical side of things that has always baffled me. Like I can’t read a schematic to save my life and I have no clue how all those transistors, resistors, capacitors, and diodes come together and make what appears on my screen. How those millions of electrical signals traverse and send and receive data and everything. It’s rly mind blowing to me and it’s been one of the biggest frustrations throughout my life. I really hope I’m able to learn this someday!
So freacken cool man !
Quick question. If i sent my unit over to have this done. How could i go about in the future to update the bios? Would it be done via a repackage of their bios updates on your end? That or could we do it etc...
Ideally you'd forego the BIOS updates, so as to not override the custom BIOS I make for the unit. You can always download a new BIOS and ship the unit back out to me to reflash if a BIOS with a feature you want ever releases.
Could you try 90wh battery mod?
That will be one of my next videos.
This is great! And, now i know i will not be doing this to mine 😅
I would get this in a heartbeat if it was easy to update the bios.. is there a socket that can be fitted on the allys motherboard, for easy removal into a programmer if needed?
I’ve been mentally thinking about how I could extend the bios chip to a easier to easy access spot, so you don’t have to totally disassemble the unit. Though if you’re able to dump, edit, and flash the bios then chances are taking apart the unit wouldn’t be an issue for you.
@@SlickBuysModsandRepairs taking it apart isn’t the issue, unfortunately I developed a bit of Parkinson’s in my hands and just can’t solder like I used to
Looks awesome! I can't wait to see performance videos. Is there any way to upgrade the battery?
Yes there is. There’s a 90Whr battery mod that I will make a video on soon.
@@SlickBuysModsandRepairs can't wait
This would actually help Avatar Frontiers of Pandora a lot
Hi, can you tell us about perfromance gains please.
But have you done before and after performance testing? That would be lovely
Not on video but I did do some quick comparisons. Games ran smoother and I saw a slight FPS increase (5-10).
Run star citizen. I get a thrashing issue because the ally doesn't have enough RAM.
Why remove the chip from the board to program the new ram support in? You have to desolder,solder/desolder/solder lol.
Why not Either leave it off and do it with clamps or soldered wires, or desolder and use clamps.
Really am curious
Because I don’t have a pogo cable.
Damn i was like this seems simple enough, until you popped off that cpu... i was like nah fuck that. Can you imagine how awesome with would be with the 4090 xgmobile?
i think asus would do well making this an option, i mean 16gb of ram is ok for most computers with dedicated gfx , but when u are dedicating 6-8 gb of ram to the gpu in an apu, it really gimps the operating system . i have 6gb set to the gpu in mine, and it doesnt leave enough room for the os in alot of cases . im highly interested in this mod, tho i would hate to spend the coin to have it done, and 3 or 4 months later they release some bios update that allows some new features or better gpu performance, and not be able to use it. i am very interested tho, thank you for the upload, you have my attention hard buddy. are you doing this all by yourself? i cant imagine you having 500 of these units show up at your doorstep one morning lol, any rough idea on the turn around time for this service?
I agree. Yep this is a one man show currently. My turn around time is 3-4 days right now.
What are you charging for this?
@@chrisdyers8017 $295
@SlickBuysModsandRepairs I realy like what you doing brother but I will stick to the regular ram until I need such an upgrade
would it be possible to upgrade the ram speed but not capacity to avoid having to remove the bios chip? or is it required regardless
And I'm too lazy when it's just a stick switch with 32gb in the drawer waiting on me to switch. This is crazy work for quicker ram!
Fantastic job
Thank you
Thank you
Cool mod I wish the bios supported this out of box. It's what stopped me on steam deck too. Might have to sell my steam deck and just buy an ayaneo kun since im paranoid about warranty and long term life.
wouldnt count too much on ayaneo customer service. If your device bricks you have basically a adamn expensive paperweight
It's says 6400mhz on the screen does the bios or windows bind the memory to a certain point?
No, I just didn’t overclock the memory prior to recording.
Now I'm more motivated to buy a RoG Ally.
I'll also be ordering a Custom Upgrade from you for Both the Ram AND Battery 👍🏽
It’s a fantastic handheld and the upgrades make it even better!
@@SlickBuysModsandRepairs
Thanks so much for the response! :) (I'm Sorry for replying late, TH-cam didn't notify me of your response, only your ❤️).
During tax season, if I can find a Clear shell, buy a battery upgrade, and a 2TB SSD, plus whatever is needed for you to upgrade it's Ram, how much would you charge for everything?
I'll pay overnight shipping for both ways, I'm just anxious to know about the price so that I can start some financial planning for everything including your services 😀.
Edit: Almost forgot to mention, I'll be playing it on my 165Hz 1440p LG Ultragear monitor, would it still be capped at 120HZ? (I'm Sorry for the long comment and questions).
Damn bro! Insane!!
Excelent video Friend, do u have workshop in Mexico?
Thank you very much for your great teaching. I have another question, you wrote in the description that before we start everything we have to turn off Bitlocker and Secure Boot, I would like to know whether after everything, when Windows will boot up again with 32GB Ram, we can use Bitlocker and Secure boot again switch on, or they always have to stay off.
Thanks so much
I don’t see any mention of disabling Bitlocker in the description?
Any chance this would also end up being possible on the Lenovo legion go? 👀. I'd gladly pay to upgrade mine to 32gb if that becomes a thing
Yes it’s possible. I’ll be opening up that service in 2-3 weeks from now. I’m just waiting for the ram chips to arrive.
@@SlickBuysModsandRepairs Oh nice. Is it necessary to change that Bios Chip too of the Lenovo legion go ?
@@SlickBuysModsandRepairs Would this upgrade mean the bios updates would not work and it would have to be sent to someone to do a new flash of the bios every time there's a major bios update worth updating to? Also --- amazing work. Really fun to see it done so beautifully.
😮😮....🤔🤔🤔 yah got me by the fence taking a peek with my curiosity.... I gotta see some gameplay performance and bench marks first.
Oh man the bios mod is the shiznit I wish I could learn to do this on my laptop. Do you do laptop repairs?
I do yes! If you’d like to get a quote on a repair you can contact me through my website: www.slickbuysmodsandrepairs.com
What's the performance like? Anything noticeable. A video would be cool.
Significantly improved 0.1/1% frame averages and a bit of an average frame boost. 5-10 frames from experience.
@@SlickBuysModsandRepairs Thanks! I was wondering because apparently MSI's new handheld will have 32gbs of RAM and I was wondering how much of a difference that would make. Right now with 16 GB it feels like we're juggling system RAM and vram around depending on what game is being played but if you have enough RAM for both I figured performance would improve.
I want That asus include a RAM slot DDR5 for the next model. Its a laptop Beyond everything
amazing job . but what i wish for is someone can covert the xg mobile connector to work on other egpu
Great video, I would love to do this to my ally but what about the updates ? There’s constantly new updates coming up.
Same would love a performance boost, but might miss out on important updates. I guess that's the risk
Can you upgrade the Legion Go as well?
You should try putting a Z1 Extreme in a steam deck
Not possible. The Steam Deck Vangogh APU and the Ally’s Z1 have different footprints on the PCB.
Outstanding
For complete improvement, there is not enough battery with increased WHrs and cpu boost ,and change the thermal paste
I don't understand what you're saying. The boosted memory clocks have a marginal difference on overall battery life. The Ally uses PTM as it's cooling solution, thermal paste would be a downgrade.
@@SlickBuysModsandRepairs stanks, I didn't know of this
Why are you calling it "7500MHz RAM Upgrade" if your RAM is working on 6400MHz at the end?
Because I didn’t set the RAM speed.
I realy don't understand why Asus didn't just offer more ram. These days 16 is barely skating by in some rigs with dedicated graphics. Let alone on descrete like this.
Can you upgrade the cpu? can’t imagine a powerful gaming handheld but possible
No
Risky but well done! MHz, not mhz. ;-)
HOWS THE BATTERY LIFE AFTER THIS UPGRADE SURELY BURN MORE THROUGH THE BATTERY
my only gripe with this unit is the battery life
i own one and two steam decks one lcd and oled
oled steam deck massive upgrade especially the battery life
mad MUSIC and skills by the way
Battery life is the same. Thanks!
So... I am ready to do this mod after seeing some bench marks. When is it goinna be tested?
How much would it be the total to get something like this done?
$315 + return shipping
@@SlickBuysModsandRepairs United States based?
Yep and I am sending them mine tonight! so excited to never had to move it from Auto to 6GB ever again! @@deairreoh
Damn i was hoping i could do this myself
So in terms of updates…you only give up the future OEM BIOS updates and not the windows/asus software updates correct?
Yes, unless Asus packages a BIOS update with a firmware update. Thought I'm pretty sure they don't.
Hi, What temperature and airflow did you use to solder the RAM? Did you use a preheater?
No preheater. 85% airflow and 500C.
@@SlickBuysModsandRepairs Thanks!
@@SlickBuysModsandRepairs How long did it take for the RAM to solder in?
@@marcinyt2591 about 45 minutes
what model of ram are u guys using? i cant find one that fots on newegg😊
Hi,
I tried to flash the bios chip without desoldering. I did it in the bios and menu Ez Flash V3 with two different sufixes (bin and 337) but every time I get an error. select file is not a uefi bios. but when I do with original file there is no problem and these errors are not shown.
My question: I absolutely have to de-solder the bios chip? or my file is not prepared properly. Can you please send me the bios file for version 337?
I am very grateful and if necessary tell me how I can practically thank you.?
So bios updates after this are not possible correct?
Correct, otherwise the unit will default back to 16GBs.
I'll just wait for their next model when they up the ram lol
I wish I had 32GB haha nice work you did ♥ I don't know why they just put 16GB inside and then even shared... That is just too less the 16GB RAM in shared mode.
This is definitely an impressive work but probably unnecessary. Any Asus update would override the bios rendering the memory invalid.
Hi,
is whether the same code or path can also be used for new version Bios 337? And My next question is if the BIOS update happens by mistake in the future, there is a solution to update the BIOS modded code without removing the BIOS chip from the main board. Did you transfer it with a USB cable?
Yes, it can be used. You don't need to desolder the chip from the board to reflash it with a USB programmer..
@@SlickBuysModsandRepairs Thanks so much
I wish it was a way to put the Ally gpu in the Deck OLed
piece of cake ... very easy to doit...
If a future BIOS update is released from Asus, will the boards need to be sent back to be flashed again?
If a future BIOS update is downloaded, yes
I definitely will be contacting you to do this to my ally, my only question is, can you do a Lenovo Legion Go too?
Yes
@@SlickBuysModsandRepairs this is all I needed to hear, I've already emailed this same question to you. I'm sure you'll be able to tell. We can discuss pricing further through email. Thanks!
Do mines 🥺
I have asus rog flow x13 2021 model it has got 16gb ram 4266 mhz can you upgrade it to 32gb
What I need to do to send mine in for an upgrade where I dm you for more info?
@@kingswithdreams www.slickbuysmodsandrepairs.com
Would love to upgrade the ram on my ally. From the uk though and definitely not talented enough to do it myself
ram speed 6400mhz
I didn’t overclock it prior to making the video
Cool mod maybe when my asus warrenty expires i will get this done with whatever other mods there are. Alreadt waiting my rma for a bad analog stick...
How much would having it modded cost?
$315 + return shipping
does the ram run at 7500 because it shows 6400 still in windows task manager?
Yes. I didn’t set the RAM to 7500Mhz prior to recording.
What did you just do 😂
So you don't have to reball the contacts after cleaning them?
No, the balls are on the chips
Where do you get the new chips from that you put on there
Aliexpress
Las memorias son de la misma marca?
hi please i need some help . please can you tell me if it's possible to change ram to 32 gb without removing the bios chip or if there is a way to do the bios part one the rog ally directly if you know what i mean
You can use a pogo adapter
@@SlickBuysModsandRepairs thank you so much and please one more thing can you give me a link from where can i buy it please
@@SlickBuysModsandRepairshey I would like to have this mod done to my ally also
Dedication
I would pay someone to do this if there was someone local.
@@chanceharvey3172 where’re you local to?
@@SlickBuysModsandRepairs good ole state of Georgia metro Atlanta.
Surely this upgrade cost as much as another console
why does the speed show 6400mhz in the windows setting at the end?
Didn’t overclock the memory prior to recording
woow amazing can u benchmark this new ROG Ally