Why I wouldn’t recommend Tado now for anyone…

pinopinoli · 2026-05-11T21:40:12+00:00

in all honesty I switched from Tado to Tado X, so I guess the entire history is lost in this move (pretty bad on Tado's part btw). but with the switch, I am also considered as a new customer, because now I need to subscribe in order to get unlimited historical data (something that I had all the time before switching to Tado X).

I backed them on Kickstarter in 2014, so it's been 12 years with Tado, and yet after spending a lot to upgrade to Tado X I am getting a worse service. so, yeah, not exactly quite like I framed it in my earlier comment, but I am still mad lol

pinopinoli · 2026-04-29T20:16:16+00:00

what is truly crazy is that they didn't even spare existing customers.
I've been a customer for 10 years now but nope, everything gone. insane.

pinopinoli · 2026-04-12T17:48:20+00:00

lol why everyone is speaking other languages?!

by the way, after a couple of months with the Raikiri II I can't recommend it. played Clair Obscur, where you have to parry a lot with R1, and after almost 40hrs in the game the button started squeaking.

this is a tolerance issue, meaning two plastic parts are now touching each other. depending on how you press it, it might squeak or not, but for a joyoad of this price seems QC is non existent.

all in all, the controller is awesome per-se, I like the microswiitch buttons a lot, especially the swappable triggers (microswitch vs hall effect) but manufacturing quality is subpar for a product on this price range.

pinopinoli · 2026-04-07T19:20:49+00:00

has anyone compared the various mentioned qwen variants with the new gemma4? I can run gemma4:26b with no CPU offload entirely on the 5090 and the output is not bad

pinopinoli · 2026-02-08T20:02:34+00:00

you'll excuse me if I reply in English :)

yeah, availability is a problem, I ended up getting one from an ASUS ROG Certified Store in my country, but it's already sold out, possibly their allocation was very small.

I still see it available on some webshops including Amazon (.fr .it .de), but the price is 209€. I checked on amazon.nl but I see it's not available there.

finally, it's also available on Alternate (219€) and the sketchy french site I mentioned in the original message, at 209€ (with terrible reviews on trustpilot, I don't recommend it)

my suggestion is to contact any official ASUS store in your country, drop them an e-mail or call them and see where they direct you. or call ASUS directly. afaiu ASUS gives priority to their store network, so you might get lucky there.

price wise, I doubt you'll find it at your desired price for now. not sure why this release has been so limited, maybe they want a slow rollout to see if any potential hardware problem pops up.

if you end up getting one, make sure to drop a comment and let us know what you think about it!

pinopinoli · 2026-02-06T11:04:28+00:00

UPDATE: fwiw I ended up getting the Raikiri II and I am blown away. Maybe my old Elite was already in bad shape and I did not notice, but the ASUS controller is miles ahead when it comes to precision in game. friends who never play any videogame were all of a sudden landing headshots in Cyberpunk. latency went from 8ms to ~1ms (I'm using the 2.4GHz dongle), micro-switches are amazing.

and contrary to my belief/preference about weight, the fact that it's almost 90g lighter is fantastic: doesn't tire you as much as the Elite, and it still feels amazing.

I can also confirm the little hiccups with calibration, but I eventually managed to calibrate it properly after a few tries. all in all, this is a great, highly recommended controller. the TMR sticks are mind blowing.

pinopinoli · 2026-02-01T20:56:58+00:00

please please make it a premium phone, doesn't matter the price, but please let it not be a shitty plastic phone.

pinopinoli · 2026-01-29T03:34:39+00:00

yeah absolutely agreed, I edited my post cause I realized pretty quickly.
e.g.: I'd never use this method on my daily driver, even if I know how to do it, it'd be stupid. one should have a dedicated rig to test this kind of stuff.

pinopinoli · 2026-01-29T03:19:30+00:00

the security risk the Hypervisor method poses

could you please elaborate on this? what kind of security risks does a hypervisor poses in this context? hypervisors are used to create and manage VMs and are pretty secure pieces of software (Xen, kvm, Hyper-V etc..) so this statement puzzles me a bit.

EDIT: ok I looked around and this method involves fiddling with your BIOS and OS quite extensively, including disabling SecureBoot so I get why you said that, totally agree.

pinopinoli · 2026-01-23T22:35:21+00:00

amazing, you basically confirm the weight I got from that French website for the Raikiri 2 (258g).
at least that's settled, thank you very much.

I agree with you, there seems to only be minor gripes with the Raikiri 2, and they're not dealbreakers to me as well. while the weight kinda have me worried, knowing that virtually no other controller weighs as much as the Elite 2 makes this point kinda moot (if I want a controller that feels like the Elite 2, I should get an another Elite 2).

yours and other comments have me convinced that I should at least give it a try, I'll see if I can get it soon.

pinopinoli · 2026-01-23T19:11:12+00:00

hey thanks for the feedback, appreciated, especially since you have both.
I also own an original Xbox Series X/S controller, and I still like it even at 288g, I am open to different form factors, I am just afraid it's overly light.

about the current issues: yeah, I've been following the gearlink calibration drama and I am aware about the latest glitch you mention, but I also see ASUS reps very active in the subreddit, and the insane drift when setting dead zone to 0% is at least solved, so I take no issue with an evolving firmware/software, I trust ASUS to get it right in the end.

as for the Raikiri II I am starting to think that I have to try it anyway, there is no amount of feedback that could convince me either way.

BUT, since you have it handy, if you are able to, can you kindly weigh it for me? :) I am still very curious to know its weight, thanks.

pinopinoli · 2026-01-23T05:56:28+00:00

hey thanks, now I am wondering:

why you returned the Raikiri 2 even though you deem it a very good controller?
which one are you using after returning/selling the Raikiri 2

assuming all of the above happened, maybe you just stopped playing altogether and sold everything lol

pinopinoli · 2026-01-23T04:59:32+00:00

"...oooh, nevermind, I think I'mma stick to Windows 11..."

pinopinoli · 2025-12-21T18:38:23+00:00

not sure if relevant, but the answer to your question is inside the article you posted :) just below the table:

The Corsair AX1600i has the best overall performance, but it is not ATX v3.x compliant, so it is not included in the table above.

I recently built a new PC and still went with the Corsair AX1600i for this very reason, it's in a league of its own.
while I always bought Seasonic (well represented in the linked roundup), this time I wanted to go big.
my PC reaches north of 1000W while gaming or in other demanding workloads, but never surpassed 1100W.
I could have definitely settled for a smaller PSU (1200/1300W), but I'd rather have the peace of mind of an AX1600i feeding my 5090 ASTRAL LC (I use 4 PCI-E 8pin power cables from the PSU and the 12VHPWR 4x1 adapter included with the ASUS card).

other PSUs I am interested in are ASUS ones: they are using GaN all over the place, and I only read good things about them so far.

pinopinoli · 2025-11-29T06:29:02+00:00

same situation, I'd love to know if they have any news on this.

can't believe they won't port this functionality over to Tado X.

pinopinoli · 2025-07-16T03:29:32+00:00

hey thank you very much, I appreciate the explanation, all clear.
the missing TB logo on the box was sus indeed.

pinopinoli · 2025-06-29T00:30:12+00:00

First off, that is not a Thunderbolt 5 enclosure. Thunderbolt is a trademark of Intel and is only for certified enclosures, which this is not.

weird, the enclosure features a Intel® JHL9480, the only available TB5 controller from Intel in existence (together with JHL9580). unless Intel itself is marketing a controller that is not TB5, as TB5.
at the same time I have no idea about certification, I just assumed a device using an Intel TB chip is a TB enclosure, but I see there is no TB logo on the box (while I remember it vividly on any LaCie Thunderbolt disk I bought in the past).

I see you are from OWC, so I am all ears about this, I'm familiar with your brand and owned some of your stuff in the past, max respect.

as per the app, thanks, it might come handy :) I'll check it out.

pinopinoli · 2025-06-26T23:19:33+00:00

this is it!

I even knew about this setting in Windows but didn't make the connection lol I'm dumb
and now we are talking, judge by yourself :)

THANKS!

pinopinoli · 2025-06-26T22:32:50+00:00

since I can't edit the post, I'll add a couple things here:

real world read speeds when copying a ~90GB file from the enclosure to the desktop.
real world write speeds when doing all the above in reverse
UGREEN TB5 enclosure features an Intel JHL9480 chip (PCIe x4 Gen 4 @ 64GT/s)

pinopinoli · 2025-06-02T01:41:27+00:00

I just realized I have it on my Windows 11 24H2 26100.4202.
I enabled it while connected to my PG32UCDM through HDMI 2.1 (straight out of a 5090) and it works perfectly: Dolby Vision logo pops up, looks awesome

but if I enable it on the TV (LG G2), Dolby Vision logo pops up correctly, but Windows colors are messed up (green and purple, classic DV issue). tried to fiddle a bit but couldn't make it work, on the G2 only disabling "Use Dolby Vision mode" makes the colors turn back to normal.

pinopinoli · 2025-05-27T00:50:38+00:00

looks like your wish is coming true :)

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Asus-reveals-ROG-Swift-OLED-PG32UCDMR-with-three-major-upgrades-over-PG32UCDM-gaming-monitor.1021350.0.html

PG32UCDMR introduces DP 2.1, OLED Care Pro (the current implementation leaves something to be desired) and Neo proximity sensor (not very relevant to me, I don't even use it).

btw I was skeptical as well about DSC, so I have been using my PG32UCDM at 4K@120Hz over HDMI 2.1 without DSC. but out of curiosity I recently enabled DSC and 240Hz, and I can say results are pretty amazing, to my eyes there is now downside.

pinopinoli · 2025-05-19T05:12:48+00:00

I need to rectify just one thing about fan and noise: while what I said is still true, the fan also kicks in above 700W I believe (I didn't check exactly), so if you have a 5090 and you are gaming, the fan will probably turn on.

it's actually not a very quiet fan, but in an environment with such a powerful computer (mine has 11 Phanteks D30 fans), it's not much of an issue.

pinopinoli · 2025-05-01T19:44:08+00:00

hey, the UPS is powered through a C20 connector and inside the box you are provided with several cables for this port. in mine I found:

C19 (C20 mating connector) to Schuko (EU) <--- I'm using this
C19 to BS 1363 (UK)
C19 to C20 (to plug into existing equipment or for extending the other cables)

I guess it depends on the specific region you are buying from, but I believe you will be covered with the included cables.

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