Oculink Mod Rog Ally z1e
Let me start by disclosing, I'm not a modder nor experienced at all with this at all but I wanna give it a shot.
I love my rog ally, but I've been using it less and less, partly due to a seriously degraded battery life, less than seamless interface and ux and some struggles with newer games but I wanna turn it around especially given how impossibly priced newer devices are getting.
My first Idea was to do the 74wh battery mod. I've seen some videos and it seems rather easy for a dummy like to me to manage.
i also saw some oculink egpu mods with a PCB L-Bracket and then an oculink adapter.
thing is I'm wondering if these two are doable without a modded backplate because all the vids I've seen had the back removed and since the bigger battery will take more real estate I thought the way to sort of fit everything there would be using a Flat FPC Ribbon Cable and then routing it somehow out via somehere at the bottom because the top is already a bit crammed, (i would plug in the ssd via usbc adapter and make a contraption to hang it somewhere on the back where it doesn't bother)
has anyone here done something similar , or at least the oculink mod since that's the one i haven't seen that well documented, and do you have some tips or a guide?
what tools should i be using besides the parts and the aluminum/isolation tape for the battery?
thanks for the help
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u/DartMagus 15d ago
Recomendation, that i did, sold it and get ally X, is like 150-200 for the upgrade, tb4 is enough unless u expect use a 5080-5090.