Ever since I got it I just set it on a dock and never looked back wondering how many are doing the same

Bought an Xbox Ally X off someone from FB marketplace ( I know, I know, but I have successful business most of the time. I’m 9-2, this being my 2nd lost- kinda🤷🏾‍♂️). Anyway, I purchased this Ally X that the seller said has 4TB of storage. He showed me the video of the specs & everything, device is a legit Ally X z2e. My issue is when I got home, I tried to login and the Windows Wi-Fi Driver) was missing, so I couldn’t log into the windows startup page. So I tried to do a cloud recovery boot up, but the recovery system just kept looping from beginning to end. That was weird. So I thought to myself 🤔🤔🤔 maybe it’s the SSD. When I opened up the device, I found this weird NVME drive…. has anyone ever seen this before? When I check the bios, it’s only reading the MIN ISSD part, which is only 64 GB.

I picked the 1Tb open box from Bestbuy for $860, is this a good deal or do I return and find one on FB marketplace?

I just got my Ally and I love it. I never knew I could play my fave games at high settings with decent fps. But I am concerned with the temperature, it reaches 95°c. I don't experience stuttering or lagging while gaming after replacing the thermal paste.

The only way I can lower it is by putting the Operating Mode on Performance which is 15W, but it messes the game, like for example on GTAV, the shadow is glitching.

So if it's normal, can it affect the hardware of Ally?

I just installed steam os after literally a whole day of trying. Had to go buy a USB 3.2 drive for it to work cause any of drives took for ever to load and still when it loaded they failed. Now the controller doesn't work and it's too buggy. It also thinks it's a legion go s. But my problem now is it won't boot into the bios or the boot manager so I can reinstall the bazzite OS or Windows. Anybody got any ideas?

Just bought this off facebook marketplace for $150. I don’t really care for anti cheat games and stuff like that just want a smoother experience.

I just bought my Ally X yesterday and have been having a lot of fun doing stuff on it and testing things. I had some issues with Steam that lead me to just turn off the Xbox Mode, I wanted to see how I feel about SteamOs. I'm assuming Microsoft stuff links Win key to the hardware.

How tricky is to go back to Win11 if I decide not sticking with SteamOS?

Why they cant Add these LIGHTS? WHY??

As the title suugests - I'm curious as to how many of you still use your Ally as your daily driver. I imagine for most, you use it everyday. But for those who have a Desktop and a Laptop, how often do you use it?

I've recently started wanting to do some game dev because I have some "brilliant" narrative game ideas, and I'm struggling (which is so obvious) to use it for dev. As such, I'm looking to build a gaming PC to do this, but I'm worried that I won't use my Ally once I get it, at least nowhere near as much as I do now. A friend gave me their old laptop which had a Quadro P2000 card in it - not exactly powerful, but enough to play games at decent enough quality and to do some game dev. It actually ended up dying on me, but I had it for a solid couple of months and I never once picked my Ally up to play on it. I just used that laptop.

It is something I'm hoping would just wear off because I love the Ally, especially when I'm travelling for work. I'm just trying to weigh out the pros and cons of having it once I have my setup, and whether I'd be better of buying a gaming laptop and using that to do everything on.

I'd love to know what everyone's thoughts are on this!

Edit: Woah...I really wasn't expecting this to get as much friction as it did! I can't reply to all these comments, but wow. Most of you who have kids, travel and whatnot, it makes sense (not in a bad way!). I don't have these opportunities in front of me. I think the only time I would use my Ally is when both my gf and I are in the living room and are wanting to just enjoy eachothers company.

You've all been a great help and I couldn't thank you enough! :)

So I really like this (so far, I havent really done much) and i have a few questions.

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Is that a SATA port on the top next to the USBC port??? What the fuck?? This question has been BURNING in my mind for the past hour.

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Secondly: is SteamOS good on this? I kinda don't want to use michaelsoft binbows, but SteamOS and Linux can be a bit headache-inducing at times (I daily drive Cachy) and basically wanted to know if SteamOS itself is a huge benefit to the Ally specifically.

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Third: is there a way to upgrade the SSD (not now, but in the future)

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Using another fan full blast has dropped my temps by 20-25°c but will it cause any damage? tommorow am going out to buy compressed air as when I look into the fans on the xg mobile there is alot of dust

I recently bought the ROG Cetra Speednova as it allows me to connect to the ally and my iPhone at the same time. I was wondering what audio devices would be better.

Got a Z1 Extreme ROG Ally for 275$ and I really like it. I think I will install Bazzite asap.

Any recommendations for a new owner?

I made a previous post to see if this issue is others were having the same issue. A couple of people answer. I made now a video that maybe illustrates a bit better.

The XAX squeaks on the right side. It's like the front and back panels are loose. I tried and tightened the screws in the back but the issue remains and actually got worse with time. (I didn't opened the device)

My question is do yours do this? I'm waiting for the a replacement device and would like to know if the next one will do the same :(

UPDATE: This has become a bit of an #squeakgate situation right here literally 4 out of comments are experiencing this issue.

People have been asking what I’m going to do with my unit — well, I was planning to keep it.

The store where I bought it has a 15-day DOA policy, and this is already my second unit. The first one squeaked a lot, and while this one wasn’t as bad, it still made some noise. I was disappointed, but I figured, “Okay, fine.” It was literally the last one they had in stock, so I decided to live with it.

After about five hours of use, though, the squeaking got noticeably worse. So I started thinking about replacing it again. I ordered a new XAX on my own on the store's website and saw they’ll be restocked around Nov 1–3. I’m going on vacation this Saturday, so I thought, “Screw it, I’ll keep this one for now and RMA it later.No direct replacement no worries..”

But then today I installed Forza — runs great, by the way — and had my first experience with the rumble triggers. Guess what? More noise. The right trigger is making weird sounds too. People been complaining about this too on other posts.

At this point, it’s just too much. I’m returning it tomorrow.

So today I disassembled my rog ally to clean all the dust inside, but i accidentaly destroyed one of the fan, do you think i could play with one fan only ?

Hi everyone,

Very new to the pc gaming side of things. Long time PS guy but with the latest news of no physical discs I am wanting to boycott Sony.

I want to get one of these but I don’t want to drop over $1k on the ally x. I’m thinking that games that have pc ports on steam I will buy and then some other games I’ll have to get emu deck and emulate them. My question is, will it run all the way up to the latest releases such as hogwarts legacy?

For emulating or high powered older games e.g. GTA4, uncharted and god of war 3? Would these play well on the one I’m looking at? (Image attached)

EDIT: this is Australian dollars

I accidentally bought a Rog Ally X without knowing the difference between a Rog Ally X and Rog Xbox Ally X.

I paid 700$ off Facebook Marketplace. Should I keep it or try to resell it again?

Any advice? Should I just go straight to Bazzite or play around wit Windows for a bit??

Quick question, for those with a OG Rog Ally Z1E how is the performance in 2026? How many more years of use do you think it has?

I just received my Ally X and I am psyched.

Unfortunately, the first game I tried to play was Crimson Desert, which ended up completely freezing the few times it didn’t crash/not launch.

To cheer myself up, I’d like to download some new games to play. I already have a Steam Deck so am hoping to play some games on my Ally that I wasn’t previously able to on my SD.

What games have you found that are unplayable on a Steam Deck but run well on the Ally?

**also, I’ll happily take any tips/info for an Ally beginner, because I haven’t really found my footing yet, as you can see from my generic background image :)

Thank you!

What game has you absolutely glued to your ROGAlly? Since owning mine I haven’t really even played it much but I want to, and I want a game I can completely get lost in.