My closest buddy upgraded to a 5090 and bought a new Ally X. So he decided in my hands would be a great place for his Asus Tuf 4090 OC and Ally Z1 Extreme to go.
I'm coming from a 7900xtx so I wasn't expected the leap to be that major but wow was it. With the 4090, dlss and frame gen on nvidia cards is seriously nice with this being my very first nvidia gpu. The addition of raytracing/pathtracing in games like cyberpunk 2077, Doom TDA, Diablo 4 and more has been a really nice new coat of paint and the 4090 just eats it up in 4k without breaking stride. So greatful for my friends generosity.
The Ally Z1 Extreme has been a dream come true for me. I got Emudeck going and got all my roms ripped and playing so many fun old games on a handheld has been such a blast. I also got Sunshine + Moonlight running and it's been amazing streaming my desktop rig to the handheld seemlessly anywhere in my house. The 1080p 120hz screen aided by amd super resolution gives me all the fidelity and performance of my rig but on the handheld and that has blown me away completely. I never imagined I could stream over wifi with such low latency it just feels instant like I'm using a controller directly to my desktop, all while on the lowest power setting (10w silent profile) for the Ally.
I did the 74wh battery upgrade and a transparent backplate+ heatsink upgrade for the Ally Z1 Extreme, so at that 10w silent profile I get 3-5 hours of use out of it depending on the screen brightness and the temps on the apu, ssd and battery are all well under 60c at all times (at least on that 10w silent profile).
Don't really have many people in my life to get excited about this with so I wanted to share with all of you how happy I am to get to enjoy this stuff 😄. Any questions feel free to ask.
I hope something wonderful happens to you today, thanks for reading!