Portable handheld PC gaming is all the rage right now. But these little machines have some big limits, which means users need to carefully manage both their expectations and their hardware. For example, one popular tweak for the Steam Deck is to undervolt its CPU to give it better battery life. To that end, Asus is enabling finer user control on the new ROG Xbox Ally X with its latest software update.

The new update to the Armoury Crate driver management program adds the option to tweak the P-core and E-core settings for the flagship of the Ally line. For the unfamiliar, we’re talking about Performance cores and Efficiency cores in the AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme CPU. Unlike some earlier iterations of AMD’s highly customized laptop processors with integrated graphics, the Z2 Extreme has three

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