750 Acer Nitro 5 Review: Upgraded RAM = More FPS!
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Date: 2022-06-16
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DarkMikaruX
I love my Acer Nitro 5 AN515-51-5082 that I picked up in 2018 off Newegg for 572.00 and free shipping. Had the exact same specs as above and gamed pretty well. Looks like this one is just the natural progression of the formula. Mine had an i5-7300HQ, 8GB Ram, 256GB Intel nvme ssd, and a GTX1050 4GB. It's def starting to show it's age now at this point though. I'm seeing some games really struggle but for what I paid at the time I'm def not complaining. Got a solid 3+ years worth of solid gaming performance out of the thing!
First thing I did was upgrade to 16GB DDR4 2666Mhz ram (unfortunately bios locked to 2666) and threw in a second 500GB SSD for my games and I was all set. After the upgrades I was under 700 all said and done. These are also so easy to get into to upgrade which is another plus. Just a bunch of screws and just pop off the bottom. Since games had gotten so massive I did eventually upgrade the OS drive to a Samsung 500GB nvme and a 1TB Samsung sata SSD.
Not sure about the newer model but only problem I had with mine is when the network card died it's super picky and won't accept anything other than the exact replacement of what it came with. A Qualcomm Atheros chip I believe. I remember trying to drop in an Intel AC 2200 wifi card and one other Qualcomm card and it just refused to recognize either of them. So hopefully that's no longer an issue in these newer models.
As I was a traveling technician at the time where I was in a completely different state each week I can attest to the Nitro 5's durability as well. No it doesn't have that solid build quality that you'd see in a 1000+ laptop. But It literally traveled all over America from California to Boston to Florida and never gave me a days trouble. I liked being able to sit in the airport during layovers and get a quick game in while I waited! :)
Overall I'm with Gordon on this one. If all you want is a decent traveling laptop for not a lot of scratch the Acer Nitro 5 won't let you down.
Great review sir.
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I love my Acer Nitro 5 AN515-51-5082 that I picked up in 2018 off Newegg for 572.00 and free shipping. Had the exact same specs as above and gamed pretty well. Looks like this one is just the natural progression of the formula. Mine had an i5-7300HQ, 8GB Ram, 256GB Intel nvme ssd, and a GTX1050 4GB. It's def starting to show it's age now at this point though. I'm seeing some games really struggle but for what I paid at the time I'm def not complaining. Got a solid 3+ years worth of solid gaming performance out of the thing!
First thing I did was upgrade to 16GB DDR4 2666Mhz ram (unfortunately bios locked to 2666) and threw in a second 500GB SSD for my games and I was all set. After the upgrades I was under 700 all said and done. These are also so easy to get into to upgrade which is another plus. Just a bunch of screws and just pop off the bottom. Since games had gotten so massive I did eventually upgrade the OS drive to a Samsung 500GB nvme and a 1TB Samsung sata SSD.
Not sure about the newer model but only problem I had with mine is when the network card died it's super picky and won't accept anything other than the exact replacement of what it came with. A Qualcomm Atheros chip I believe. I remember trying to drop in an Intel AC 2200 wifi card and one other Qualcomm card and it just refused to recognize either of them. So hopefully that's no longer an issue in these newer models.
As I was a traveling technician at the time where I was in a completely different state each week I can attest to the Nitro 5's durability as well. No it doesn't have that solid build quality that you'd see in a 1000+ laptop. But It literally traveled all over America from California to Boston to Florida and never gave me a days trouble. I liked being able to sit in the airport during layovers and get a quick game in while I waited! :)
Overall I'm with Gordon on this one. If all you want is a decent traveling laptop for not a lot of scratch the Acer Nitro 5 won't let you down.
Great review sir.
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Peter
I have a Acer Aspire (8350u), I am not a happy customer, mainly for these reasons. It is incredibly annoying that that laptop comes with only one mouse button, who thought that that is a good idea? Yes, Apple does it but Apple has good touchpad-software and a better touchpad. The second problem: this laptop has serious BSOD-problems and it shouldn't be the hardware because it has been extremely lightly used. I only use the laptop when I have to because I don't like to use a laptop and this device has Windows on it which I don't like either. I did a clean install of Windows, it did not solve it. I did a clean install of W11, it does not solve it. I get a BSOD around 1 time in every 1-2 hours, sometimes more frequently (like twice within 15 minutes), sometimes less frequently. Sorry to say it, but that is my user-experience with a recent Acer-laptop. I also had an Acer desktop from 2009, with an i5-750 on it. That also gave BSOD's. It took me years to find the cause of the problem, it turned out that it was a buggy Intel-driver (RAID related), I solved it by flashing some of the low-level software and I never got a BSOD again. Now, I can imagine that another manufacturer (in this case Intel) causes a problem but there should be an easy way for the customer to find out about such problems and fix it, like getting the first hit in any search engine with the model and company and then having a page on which it gives a very clear warning to update some software. Now I am going to nitpick, on that OEM I saw this sentence: no any drives found . That did not boost my confidence, not so much because of the grammatical error but because apparently nobody did quality control. If that does not happen for this, does it happen with things like drivers.
So no Acer for me in the future. I am sorry to say that, but also this is valuable feedback and I hope that somebody at Acer picks it up so that things will improve and that 10-20 years from now I might consider Acer again. ;)
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I have a Acer Aspire (8350u), I am not a happy customer, mainly for these reasons. It is incredibly annoying that that laptop comes with only one mouse button, who thought that that is a good idea? Yes, Apple does it but Apple has good touchpad-software and a better touchpad. The second problem: this laptop has serious BSOD-problems and it shouldn't be the hardware because it has been extremely lightly used. I only use the laptop when I have to because I don't like to use a laptop and this device has Windows on it which I don't like either. I did a clean install of Windows, it did not solve it. I did a clean install of W11, it does not solve it. I get a BSOD around 1 time in every 1-2 hours, sometimes more frequently (like twice within 15 minutes), sometimes less frequently. Sorry to say it, but that is my user-experience with a recent Acer-laptop. I also had an Acer desktop from 2009, with an i5-750 on it. That also gave BSOD's. It took me years to find the cause of the problem, it turned out that it was a buggy Intel-driver (RAID related), I solved it by flashing some of the low-level software and I never got a BSOD again. Now, I can imagine that another manufacturer (in this case Intel) causes a problem but there should be an easy way for the customer to find out about such problems and fix it, like getting the first hit in any search engine with the model and company and then having a page on which it gives a very clear warning to update some software. Now I am going to nitpick, on that OEM I saw this sentence: no any drives found . That did not boost my confidence, not so much because of the grammatical error but because apparently nobody did quality control. If that does not happen for this, does it happen with things like drivers.
So no Acer for me in the future. I am sorry to say that, but also this is valuable feedback and I hope that somebody at Acer picks it up so that things will improve and that 10-20 years from now I might consider Acer again. ;)
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LFly
PCWorld : the problem is that the i5 10300H is WEAK because it's only a 4-core with inefficient Hyper-Thrading. The Ryzen 5 5600H 6c/12t variant was only 100 bucks more expensive and with the same RTX 3050 mobile it was around 55-75% faster in every game possible. This one is now selling only because there are almost no Ryzen Nitros anymore because they were too good of deals and sold out 2 months ago across the globe. People just buy this one because nobody wanted it months ago and now it's the only one that is in stock.
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PCWorld : the problem is that the i5 10300H is WEAK because it's only a 4-core with inefficient Hyper-Thrading. The Ryzen 5 5600H 6c/12t variant was only 100 bucks more expensive and with the same RTX 3050 mobile it was around 55-75% faster in every game possible. This one is now selling only because there are almost no Ryzen Nitros anymore because they were too good of deals and sold out 2 months ago across the globe. People just buy this one because nobody wanted it months ago and now it's the only one that is in stock.
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MarcasswellbMD
I think most people only play at medium to high settings anyway.. Like I push 4K with a 6800XT but in some games I have to play with the settings too, to get high frames unless it's like a 10 year old game then I can do 150 to 200 FPS. It all depends on what games you play..
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I think most people only play at medium to high settings anyway.. Like I push 4K with a 6800XT but in some games I have to play with the settings too, to get high frames unless it's like a 10 year old game then I can do 150 to 200 FPS. It all depends on what games you play..
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Aura
I've seen gaming laptops about this range now. And that's a very good thing.
It's not going to be good as the top ones but at least you can game without breaking wallets.
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I've seen gaming laptops about this range now. And that's a very good thing.
It's not going to be good as the top ones but at least you can game without breaking wallets.
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bloodydrain
Saw the ryzen 5 5600h variant in my country for just 700 . If I wasn't short on cash and had other priorities I would have picked it up asap.
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Saw the ryzen 5 5600h variant in my country for just 700 . If I wasn't short on cash and had other priorities I would have picked it up asap.
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