TECH NEWS – A modder has shown how to upgrade your Asus handheld PC to get more power and memory.

Replacing parts is a common thing for PCs (there’s nothing worse than having to replace a monitor that’s been working fine for nine years on a Saturday morning), but it’s not so common for handheld PCs, or even laptops, to add more storage and memory to make the machine more powerful (more RAM never hurts, especially if your browser is eating up memory).

We’ve already seen changes to Valve’s Steam Deck and Asus’ ROG Ally, from more storage to a cooling solution, we’ve seen the RAM configuration of Asus’ device tweaked, but now for the first time, courtesy of SlickBuy Mods and Repairs, we’ve seen how it’s been modified. Of course, keep in mind that such modding can void the warranty (it depends on the manufacturer who allows it and who doesn’t), and the process shown in the video below requires experience, so it’s not something everyone can do.

First you have to disassemble the Asus machine, then you have to desolder the memory modules that are welded to the motherboard at the soldering points. You have to be very precise, otherwise the machine will not work. By default, the machine has a maximum of 16 gigabytes of LPDDR5 memory at 6400 MT/s, but after modding it has 32 gigabytes of LPDDR5X RAM at 7500 MT/s. This gives you double the memory and 17.2% more bandwidth, which is good for performance.

Unfortunately, no benchmarks were published by the modder, so we don’t know how much of an improvement the better and more memory will show, but we can see that it supports better components than the base build, so it could be very useful in the future if manufacturers support DIY device swapping, so if you were to put a 2TB NVMe SSD in the machine, for example, you could enable this with a design that supports easier swapping.

Either way, the result is good.

Source: WCCFTech