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coming off of the release of Tears of the Kingdom the switch is still going strong the great on the
deck library and its Community continues to grow and the windows 11 handheld Market is absolutely
exploding it feels like the I need a 2 6800u just hit the market but it's already getting
ready to be overshadowed by the ironyo 2s 7840u and then there's devices like the GPD win the 1X
player and most recently the aces roll Galley which I'm hoping to get my hands on very soon
but with all of the attention getting paid to handheld gaming right now as a majority what
is the biggest complaint when it comes to gaming while you're on the go battery life and honestly
as we move into the 7000u era and Beyond it's only going to get worse so right now is as good
as time as any to address the elephant in the room with some very viable Solutions oh
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with me four of the most popular modern high capacity power Banks the storm too slim the
original Storm 2 the basis 100 watt Bank in the anchor 737 each of these power banks are more than
capable of charging a PC handheld during sustained gameplay of course you can always lower TDP and
put up with less than ideal performance but where is the fun in that why buy a high-powered handheld
just as starve it of the power that it needs to perform this is why I think it's time to start
thinking of many PCs and lithium high capacity power banks in the same sentence because we're
honestly getting to a point where these go hand in hand PC handhelds are an investment so why not
start looking at quality supported power banks in the same light aside from performance advantages
these power banks have over Legacy versions you'll notice that they all feature digital displays so
at a glance you can quickly monitor information like volts amps and charging time however the
two shark geek power Banks take it to an entirely different level at first these two Storm 2 display
ways can feel like information overload but once you familiarize yourself with the layout you can
better appreciate it each port on each power bank has its own color indicator in the top left hand
corner when it's in use just below that you can monitor the wattage the volts and the current
going in and going out battery percentage is on the top right and below that you can
check the battery voltage the battery current the battery temperature and the circuit board
temperature and finally the running time now the basis in the Anker 737 on the other hand
have digital screens as well but there are a bit more Bare Bones however these banks have an
estimated time until recharge which is something I was surprised to discover is not available for
the Storm 2 versions now you can track how long it takes to charge the Storm Power banks by resetting
the timer to zero but it doesn't look like there's an automated feature that resets the clock between
charges so you'll have to manually do it the Anker 737 has an approximate weight of one pound and six
ounces while the original Storm 2 is about one pound and 4.8 ounces the storm too slim is just
shy of one pound sound and bases comes in at one pound and two ounces surprisingly even though the
Storm 2 has the largest milliampere at 25 600 is actually lighter than the anchor 737 which has a
milliampere of twenty four thousand but the storm too slim is definitely the most impressive when it
comes to size versus output coming in at less than one pound at twenty thousand milliampers and the
ability to Output 130 watts and a bonus is that the slim profile works perfectly with something
like the steam deck jsox modular case in the colored IPS display fires right up for quick
reference however it only features two ports while all other power banks have three ports at minimum
I'll leave the specs here momentarily for you to take in and you can see that the Storm 2 even
features a DC Port the DC Port will work great for dated electronics that aren't PD compliant because
you can actually adjust the DC volts administered inside the settings long pressing the face button
brings up the settings menu and from there you have the DC settings and then you have the battery
info temperature units Celsius or Fahrenheit display settings and finally the power off button
so when it comes to testing how these power Banks perform I wanted to approach things
from a very practical and realistic standpoint so I came up with three drills to better help
answer three very important questions number one How does each power bank perform during constant
gameplay for demanding games add moderate to high TDP number two how fast can each power bank charge
a PC handheld with a 50 watt hour battery like the Ionia 2 and lastly once the power
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ground up kicking off with gameplay I let the steam deck battery drop to about 15 and then
I fired up cyberpunk 2077 at medium settings and move TDP to 12 Watts for the Storm 2 slim you can
see projected charge time was a little over two hours the power bank is delivering just shy of
40 watts and I reset the clock timer to zero so we can track the progress fast forward 1 hour and 27
minutes later and the power bank was completely exhausted leaving us with 66 battery life for
the steam Deck with a projected play time of 49 minutes remaining so adding everything up
that comes to a total of roughly 2 hours and 16 minutes of continuous gameplay running cyberpunk
and a TDP of 12 Watts medium settings Switching gears to the storm to original keeping things
consistent the deck charged at a little over 40 Watts fast forward 2 hours and 5 minutes
later and the bank is fully exhausted we're left with one hour 143 minutes of gameplay remaining
coming to a total of 3 hours and 48 minutes of sustained gameplay again at a TDP of 12 Watts
the basis power bank charged the deck at 15 volts and 2.7 amps which equates to roughly 40.5 Watts
1 hour and 36 minutes later the battery was fully exhausted bringing the deck battery percentage to
68 percent in a remaining gameplay estimate of 51 minutes for a total of 2 hours and 27 minutes and
finally the Anker 737 charged a deck at about 39 Watts 1 hour and 57 minutes later the deck battery
was at 81 percent with 1 hour and 33 minutes remaining for an overall total of 3 hours and
30 minutes so in order from best to worse it was the storm geek 2 original the Anker 737 the bases
and finally the storm too slim insert the Ionia 2 6800u for the next drill which again has a 50
watt hour internal battery versus 40 for the deck I let the eye near 2 battery drop to roughly 15
because it's good practice not to completely drain it I set the TDP to 15 plugged in each
power bank respectively and then I put the device to sleep the Storm 2 slim brought the eye near 2
to 99 to 100 in about 1 hour and 15 minutes the Storm 2 original 1 hour and 18 minutes
bases 1 hour and 20 minutes and the anchor 737 1 hour and 10 minutes and lastly the power bank
recharge each of these power Banks has an input watt limit so I use the range between a 65 watt
charger and a 140 watt charger from ugreen that also has a 100 watt Port from 20 to 100 percent
the storm too slim recharged in one hour the Storm 2 original charged in one hour and seven
minutes base is 47 minutes and the anchor 46 minutes so to summarize as I said at the top
of the video I highly recommend that you pick up a quality supported power bank such as these to
supplement your handheld PC whether it be a steam deck or 6800u and especially if you're looking
at the 7000 series or the Z1 as with the Asus Rogue alley these are some of the most highly
recommended power Banks and they'll get the job done depending on your budget and your power
expectations personally I lean towards the storm to original as my primary daily driver when weight
isn't an issue largely because of the 93.5 watt hour battery now the anchor 37 charges a little
faster but for continuous gameplay during charging in my experience the Storm 2 has provided me with
the longest battery life overall if weight and dimensions is of great concern for you
or if you're determined to strap your power bank directly to your handheld then the Storm 2 is one
of the best on the market right now for a small footprint my only gripe for the shark gig banks
in general as I mentioned earlier is that that beautiful colored IPS display does not provide an
automated estimation recharge time I also really like the slim build of the basis Bank making it
very manageable to slide down inside a book bag but it was the slowest of the four when it came
to charging big battery devices like the eye neo2 I also really like how fast the 737 charges and
the fact that the company actually discloses the estimated total battery life cycles which is 300.
something that I wasn't able to verify at the time of this video for the others my biggest gripe for
the anchor though is that it is the heaviest and the bulkiest of the bunch each power bank supports
pass-through charging as well with the exception of the bases so you can charge the bank with the
power brick while the bank charges another device with no problem hope you guys found
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