My Ally X just arrive. Bought during 15 jan shopee sale. Just finished debloat windows and installing game.

Currently playing wuthering waves 2.0. Check it out much improve than 1.x version before.

Now i have 2 handheld msi claw and now ally x.

My first impression after half a day with ally x.

Claw is pretty much a 1st gen product. Msi Centre M is barebones and the interface is not 'gamerlike' eventhough its a gaming device.
Claw is squeky on the bottom half of the device if you grip it thightly whereas ally x feels sturdy.
Claw is larger and feels a bit heavier compare to ally x eventhough not that much weight differences because of ally x compact size.

In terms of FPS i only test one games that is wuthering waves. Yes that game took over my life. Haha.
WUWA is not optimise for AMD because you can only toggle FSR on and off.
Whereas on intel you can toggle settings for XeSS intel version of DLSS ai upscalling.
The performance is on par between intel and amd but the TDP for claw is almost 40W most of the time and on the ally x is generally lower. I can barely play 1 hour on the claw.
On ally x more than 2 hours is not a problem.

I also bought skull n co case. I like take off the case to clean it and jsaux case is bit hard to take of at the trigger part.

You can try lossless scalling on steam just rm19.90. If dont like it can get refund.
They update the frame gen to version 3.0 couple weeks ago.
Use rivatuner to lock the frame rate so u dont get frame spike that can cause lag.

That's just windows. Unless microsoft going to do something about it power consumption is going to be high.
More CPU & GPU cores & faster ram compared to steamdeck.
For ex. My msi claw also use more power to run games compare to ally x at the same settings.
I play hoyoverse and other gacha games so steamdeck is no go for me.

The only OEM can do is to switch to more power efficient chipset like msi did with claw 8 that use lunar lake.

This post has been edited by blaqkthespian: Jan 21 2025, 03:32 PM