I bought this a few weeks ago, and immediately upgraded to the max supported 32GB and added a 1TB SSD in that second slot. Super easy to do. I've been really pleased with it so far. Yeah, the fans are really loud, but I'm pretty much always playing with headphones, so no big deal to me. One thing worth mentioning, the speakers are absolutely terrible. Not a problem for me, since I'm a headphones guy, but worth mentioning!
@@TheEndermanTM Billy is lying. Billy bought two of em to have that sweet, two screen set-up. However, I never bought one. I got a 2080 super laptop four years ago and still wonder if I love it or regret buying it.
@@BREEZYM6015 absolutely and I have, but I needed a laptop and this is pretty good for what I need it. But it wasn't 1500. It was about 720ish after the ram upgrade
I Own this very laptop. Out of the box it is fine for daily driving but adding 32gb(dual channel) 5200 and 4tb(2x2tb) gen4 NVME makes it outstanding. I ALSO upgraded the LCD panel to one with a higher NTSC and Gamout. My biggest and really ONLY complaint is it is LOUD! Those fans are incredibly loud! Bonus is it has USBC video out. I run it with a HP g5 Dock and a 24inch 180hz 1080p monitor mostly with external wireless keyboard and mouse.
@@omfgitsaroach4974 depends on the laptop friend, some like newer Mac, or Surface tablets, ultra books etc, are all unified with non-upgradable parts. But *Most* gaming laptops will have the ability for *some* upgrades, namely ram and storage.
@@amooooodhonestly I had an older Acer Nitro that I upgraded the display on. I just removed the LCD, and found a replacement online which has better color and literally just plugged it in. It's not hard. So, when I got this new Acer, I removed the new panel from it and basically swapped screens again so the older unit got the LCD from the brand new Acer, and I moved the better panel to the brand new Acer. Then sold the older laptop off. You must need the replacement LCD to have the same 40 pin and location of the connector.
@@Brian_Buckley You seem to know a lot already, so I'm not sure how beneficial my advice is, however you can try undervolting and also replacing the thermal paste and pads with something better. You could also get one of those special cooling pads that creaet a seal around the laptop? General maintenance (cleaning) goes a long way too, and it's free
I boutght myself an Acer Nitro V15 with a RTX 4060, a ryzen 7 7735HS, 16gb ddr5 4800mhz ram and 1tb storage for just 749, its crazy tbh. it performs well on all games. on fortnite i get around 220 to 290fps in battle royale, 144fps maxed graphics in apex, 85fps with Very high graphics in GTA online. 200fps in warthunder with cinema preset DLSS quality. On COD Warzone. i get around 80 to 100fps with Extreme preset, DLLS Balanced. Highly recommend. and sure the fans are loud but atleast you get amazing temps and High clockspeeds without throttling Edit: fortnites optimization is trash, now i only get around 170-210 fps
I wish they would sell these with atleast 12GB of RAM. It would cost these companys not a lot to do it, but the gaming experience would be so better overall.. 🙂
I dont prefer 12GB since that would mean one stick is bigger than the other (unless they custom order 6GB sticks from a manufacturer like Apple did years ago). I prefer it the way this laptop is since it gives you the option to upgrade. For soldered RAM I agree
Usually these types of laptops have the same kind of stick RAM used in desktop, at least in my experience. It's really easy to pop off the bottom panel and upgrade your RAM with gaming laptops.
High ram usage is also a good thing. You want the memory to be utilized. The problem is if the memory can not be reallocated when you want to launch something new.
Wait for prime sale get laptop for 650, go into bios disable effeicent cores. Upgrade ram and memory and enjoy. For $890 you got a 2.5tb memory laptop with 32gb ram and decent specs to run games.
Dissabling the efficiency cores in bios really ruins the power efficiency of a laptop, unless you're running it solely at your desk your better off leaving them on and just using whatever performance profiles your laptop has to manage the cores depending on usage.
Got the same laptop around june, only difference was that it had come with 16GB of DDR5 ram, it smacks any game except for helldivers at maximium rendering settings, than it kills itself. Only problem with the laptop i see are with the fast and loud fan speeds it gathers a motherload of dust
Acer is honestly the only damn company that really gives you the option of 2 m.2s in their laptops, that's a huge reason to get them. Some of them even allow a third drive for sata drive
Why buying used for laptops is always going to be the way for me. It's not hard to find a good seller and a decent deal. For $700-$800, I'd rather deal with a small scratch and year old thermal paste/ a slightly degraded battery for a much better long-term experience.
@@yt.person_9629eBay is pretty good. If your scared about eBay all you have to do is check the sellers information and see if there reliable or not. If they have 40+ sales and are rated 97+ I’d buy from them.
@@yt.person_9629eBay and Facebook market place are fine. I don’t like FaceBook Marketplace for me though as the people in my area think a 2011 MacBook is worth 1200 CAD.
Got this laptop with a single ddr5 16gb ram stick and a 4060 with 8gb of vram (on sale). Put Ubuntu on it (better performance). Found that lifting the laptop off the table with a stand helped with temps from 80c to 68c on the gpu, letting it stay at full clock. Warthunder movie setting 154fps all day.
You should really put another stick in for dual channel ram. It’s wayyy faster that way. Right now it’s in single channel memory mode.basically opens up double the bandwidth with two sticks
I bought this gaming laptop out of curiosity and experience. I am not a laptop gamer. I use it while recharging my Macbook M1. Gaming laptop's battery is unbelievably short. My next laptop is still a Macbook because its battery can last 1-3 days for casual laptop user like me. I use it to watch movies in Netflix, Max, etc. At work, I have an HP laptop Elitebook. I am satisfied with its battery because it can last 2-4 hours.
I remember years ago I used to have an Acer Nitro 5. And older model, don't quite remember the specs. But it would have so many issues that I would have to return it to geek squad and they'd either fix it or just swap it with a whole new one. I know the most common problem was 'No bootable drives' would pop up and fuck me over.
My brother used to own this laptop and it’s alright at first but after a while it starts breaking down. I would suggest looking for something else cause this one isn’t that great of a buy.
If you're going to upgrade from the single 8gb stick of RAM, you might as well just get a paired set of two 16gb modules instead. It's a bit more expensive, but the difference in stability over what will likely end up being two mismatched 8gb modules is worth it.
It's a bit... weird to sell a gaming laptop with 8GB ram sitting at over 70% use just idle. Upgrading the RAM is easy though. Get the proper tools and follow a tutorial.
At $700 it’s more than a bit weird lol, but I’m not familiar with gaming laptops. I’m assuming more ram would make the price jump? So maybe it’s kinda a steal in a way since upgrading the ram is an easy task
I have a Nitro 5 with an i7 11800h and a 3060. Works fairly well for everything I've played. Some new games handle max graphics ok, some not so much, but oh well lol
I honestly think that this would have been more of a fair review if you did several games with actual gameplay, before or after ram upgrade fine. Just to see if the money was actually worth it. Thanks for your efforts though, it was a good attempt.
I went with MSI pulse with 1440p, i7 12th gen, 16gb 5200mt, 4060, and it runs really great, but it was £1199. I think even 16gb is pushing it these days with some games going over 80% usage. I couldn't go back to 1080p though unless was really confined to a budget and had no other options.
I am watching this video on an Acer Nitro AN17-41 that I bought through Amazon this past year. I do like it, but even with 16GB of (2x8) RAM I find it struggles. The 4060 gets overloaded with encoding in VMix, though it games very well. QHD 165 Hz 3ms display.
That heat pipe arrangement is a big No No! Cooler is linked to the GPU and then the CPU sharing the same heat pipes, this will cause for sure high throtling in the CPU under GPU + CPU heavy load. For good performance, we should have cooler in the midle and shared heatpipes for CPU and GPU or independent heat pipes if the cooler needs to be at one side of the laptop. I think that should be mentioned in the review, that does not invalidate that I agree with most of the content of the review.
As a gaming laptop, there are a lot of compromises, but it is a great value for money and quite o.k. for 1080p gaming with low to medium settings. Obviously, you cannot compare this to a Razer Blade 16 with an RTX 4090, costing more than 4000 $.
I bought the acer nitro 17 for like 900 on Black Friday and upgraded it to 32gb but it can go to 128gbs?out of the box I think.Best gaming laptop I’ve had and parts are interchangeable to an extent
Ive been looking at laptops lately and while im fairly knowledgeable on desktops im not on laptops. One thing ive noticed is don't assume its a good laptop because its 8 cores. Most sellers are more than happy to tell you its 8 cores but thats not the full story because some of those 8 core CPUs are only 2 performance cores, 6 efficiency cores and like this one is 4 performance cores 4 efficiency cores. Now i haven't seen testing of these models that are only 2 performance cores but im highly suspect that they will under perform.
i snagged a legion slim 5 16 inch rtx 4060 . ryzen 7 8th gen for 800 , 2k display 165 hz 16 gb ram 1tb of SSD space in the uk equivalent of micro centre . i purchased it and ran like i stole it . because defo a steal of a life time price wise
Got myself a Lenovo Ideapad 3. Slapped 32gb ram and some ssd's in it. Best decision i've made yet (gaming wise). Can run a lot of stuff on high/med on most games. Will probably end up switching to a pc when this dies but i feel like it'll be a while before that happens. Bought it nearly 2 years ago and still runs well.
if the ram is upgradable, why don't u just buy a new 2 stick kit to make it identical 🤔 seem previous obvious to me. 2x16 would be great for a on the road machine.
I bought the Nitro V i5 and Nitro V 15 i9. I just got my son and I each a Meta Quest 3 and we want to play No Man’s Sky and Squadrons, among others. I’m tech illiterate. Will either of these function for PCVR with the Quest 3? The i9 seems pretty legit, but I know nothing about any of this but my son loves it and I want to support his interest. Please point me in the right direction. Need to return one or both if this won’t work. Thanks!
I bought this last month except mine came with the 16. Your thoughts on me doubling it to 32? I paid $750 at bestbuy for it. Came with an international warranty which is nice since I am in southeast asia much of my time.
Most laptops use Optimus now, so no that’s not really a thing anymore as long as your laptop is set to “dedicated gpu only” which if you’re gaming is a no brainer
Great laptop but Nvidia 50 series is coming out Feb 2025. Meaning the 4050 may not perform too great for much longer. Mainly once games start to take advantage of the 50 series GPU lineup
Its so funny how we all changed to Ghz, for cpu/gpu, but on memory were going to talk thousands of Mhz!?😂 That memory is clocked at a whopping 4,7Ghz son, now all of a sudden thats a impressive number right? Its clocked faster then most cpu/gpu.
I am looking to buy a gaming laptop. I have never built/bought any computer, PC or laptop, with Intel or Nvidia. (I take that back. The first PC I built back in 1997 or 8 had a Cyrix 166Mhz CPU (Talk about blazing fast at that time). I had an ATI All-In-Wonder GPU though). Yes, I'm an AMD fanboi. I've never had a problem with AMD so I never felt the need to change. I'm more than happy with the Ryzen 5900x (12 core/24 thread) CPU and XFX 7900 XTX (24GB) I have right now. I am thinking about upgrading the CPU to a 5950 (16core/32 thread).
Go with Legion, go it can do so much you can get extra power If you need it down the road it has a big screen but still small to travel 8.8 you take off the controller use it like a laptop hook a keyboard and Monitor use fps mode as a mouse or for gaming also people mod the legion go but it's amazing as it self it's like a switch but pc you can play old and games on it very well!
When we are talking ram on laptops even know you guys recommend 16 gigs in 2024 I'd like to see what difference from 16 gig pc 5200 and 32 gig 5200 in this laptop, I beleave it be worth it over all significantly
Ladies and gentlemen i am in need of advice. Im looking for upgrades for my pc but i really dont know what to get. Im also on a very tight €/$50-100 budget. My main problem with my pc is that after it boots up, it takes ages to load apps up. Also if i dont use an external SSD my pc boots up and is in an infinite bootup screen for some unknown reason. My specs are: Ram: 16GB DDR4 Gpu: Nvidia geforce gtx 980 Cpu: intel core i7-5820k 3.30GHz Storage: TOSHIBA DT01ACA200 1.81Tb and an external SanDisk Extreme 55AE SCSI Disk Device. Also it is worth mentioning that this is in a prebuilt Alienware Area 51 r2 pc bought back in like 2017 or 2018. I dont know what motherboard i have, nor do i know how to check it, but has 4 ram slots all filled in with 4Gb each, and it can have 3 Gpu’s installed.
just got the 3050 for 1200 $ ca. wish i got it from the us but never tried cause they don't like us Canadians bypassing Canadian companies on line. 1.40ca per 1 us dollar;) im happy though. 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-13420H 2.10 GHz 16.0 GB (13.7 GB usable) geforce rxt 3050 laptop gpu
ps thanks for giving me a heads-up on how to open it, will be upgrading the ssd to 1 terra . maybe 32 ram . keeping the beer away this time around 😊😊💕💕
Hey i got a question. My old laptop broke that i used for gaming, im plannij gon buying a prebuilt. I need to buy from costco, My budget is 500-600$ i dont know if i should build one or buy a prebuilt. I cant buy from other sites because i will return the old laptop. If i buy a prebuilt will i be able to upgrade it after? Im planning on buying the cyberpower prebuilt with a rtx 4060 for only 927$. Is that a good deal? It has I Intel® Core™ i7-1370P Processor, is this good deal? It is onsale at my local costco.
It's a laptop, therefore it has all mobile versions of desktop components. That GPU will perform like last gen hardware. The Intel i5 is again, a mobile CPU and cannot perform like a desktop i5, otherwise it would require a massive heat sink to keep it cool, and there is not enough airflow to keep the fans from ramping up during gameplay. You can find a better desktop PC at a cheaper price. Really, you can.
3 years ago I bought a laptop for 700$ it has Ryzen 5 5500U and integrated graphics card(Vega 6), it's insane how much better laptops you can buy now for the same price
I think you got a bad deal ngl, all my friends got gaming laptops (I'm slowly converting them into gaming pcs, as they don't really travel and a gaming laptop is sometimes double the price of a pc with the same components). They all got laptops from around 3-4 years ago and most of them have dedicated cards, like a gtx 1060. Also around the same price (600-700$)
I got this laptop for about $500 here in my country the shop i bought was decluttering and it was like off by 50% also had a free upgrade of 8gb ram since i paid in cash lmao
I've been recently looking into a gaming laptop just to have tekken 8 on the go so I can take it to friends and play since none of them have ps5s. Would this be good enough?
was considering this but with the specs and low battery watt like 130W charger your inviting troubles in future. bare minimum should be 200Watt. thoughts? 💭
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I bought this a few weeks ago, and immediately upgraded to the max supported 32GB and added a 1TB SSD in that second slot. Super easy to do. I've been really pleased with it so far. Yeah, the fans are really loud, but I'm pretty much always playing with headphones, so no big deal to me. One thing worth mentioning, the speakers are absolutely terrible. Not a problem for me, since I'm a headphones guy, but worth mentioning!
I did not buy the laptop, so the claim that everyone is buying it is an inaccurate
Yes u did lol
Ok Me Shapiro we get it
@@TheEndermanTM Billy is lying. Billy bought two of em to have that sweet, two screen set-up.
However, I never bought one. I got a 2080 super laptop four years ago and still wonder if I love it or regret buying it.
@@LLJVBass That's so true
@billy_cross
I also, like your good self, did not buy this laptop.
Fake news !!!
😂👍🏻
I recently upgraded one of these for a friend. Reasonable value for money, although a lot of fan noise, and it ran hot.
Yeah its for gaming, what do you except
@@zoro_065 You mean 'expect'. I don't expect it to start throttling down after five minutes of gameplay.
@@grahamherbert3612 its multifunctional can cook egg with it
Great power requires great cooling.
That’s why most people don’t like gaming on a laptop
I bought that same one and upgraded it to 16gb of RAM and it's pretty nice. Well worth it
1500 dollar. What a scam.
@@FE-RoadRunnerFor that price you could build two decent PC's. 😂
Terrible price to performance laptop
@@BREEZYM6015 absolutely and I have, but I needed a laptop and this is pretty good for what I need it. But it wasn't 1500. It was about 720ish after the ram upgrade
@@mugenspiral its 1500 for those that live outside the US.
So its a scam!
I Own this very laptop. Out of the box it is fine for daily driving but adding 32gb(dual channel) 5200 and 4tb(2x2tb) gen4 NVME makes it outstanding. I ALSO upgraded the LCD panel to one with a higher NTSC and Gamout. My biggest and really ONLY complaint is it is LOUD! Those fans are incredibly loud! Bonus is it has USBC video out. I run it with a HP g5 Dock and a 24inch 180hz 1080p monitor mostly with external wireless keyboard and mouse.
So sorry I know this is a dumb question. But you can still upgrade and change parts in laptops??
how did you upgrade the lcd panel?
@@omfgitsaroach4974 depends on the laptop friend, some like newer Mac, or Surface tablets, ultra books etc, are all unified with non-upgradable parts. But *Most* gaming laptops will have the ability for *some* upgrades, namely ram and storage.
@@amooooodhonestly I had an older Acer Nitro that I upgraded the display on. I just removed the LCD, and found a replacement online which has better color and literally just plugged it in. It's not hard. So, when I got this new Acer, I removed the new panel from it and basically swapped screens again so the older unit got the LCD from the brand new Acer, and I moved the better panel to the brand new Acer. Then sold the older laptop off. You must need the replacement LCD to have the same 40 pin and location of the connector.
@@Brian_Buckley You seem to know a lot already, so I'm not sure how beneficial my advice is, however you can try undervolting and also replacing the thermal paste and pads with something better. You could also get one of those special cooling pads that creaet a seal around the laptop? General maintenance (cleaning) goes a long way too, and it's free
8 gb in 2024 is unacceptable.
At least you can upgrade it.
I agree lmfao.
3050 is worthless too.
tbh best budget laptop gpu are 3060 and 4050 and any better anything less than that is just bad
I boutght myself an Acer Nitro V15 with a RTX 4060, a ryzen 7 7735HS, 16gb ddr5 4800mhz ram and 1tb storage for just 749, its crazy tbh. it performs well on all games. on fortnite i get around 220 to 290fps in battle royale, 144fps maxed graphics in apex, 85fps with Very high graphics in GTA online. 200fps in warthunder with cinema preset DLSS quality. On COD Warzone. i get around 80 to 100fps with Extreme preset, DLLS Balanced. Highly recommend. and sure the fans are loud but atleast you get amazing temps and High clockspeeds without throttling
Edit: fortnites optimization is trash, now i only get around 170-210 fps
This is the better buy, minimum 4060
With intelcore i9? I just got one but i havent use it
the 4060 in that laptop has a low tgp
I wish they would sell these with atleast 12GB of RAM.
It would cost these companys not a lot to do it, but the gaming experience would be so better overall.. 🙂
Is 12GB even possible? Haven't seen smaller than 8GB sticks for DDR5
@@TheKims8212gb ram sticks do exist for laptops at the very least.
@@TheKims82 mini PCs and some Lenovo LOQ laptops started Shipping with 12GB modules now
I dont prefer 12GB since that would mean one stick is bigger than the other (unless they custom order 6GB sticks from a manufacturer like Apple did years ago). I prefer it the way this laptop is since it gives you the option to upgrade. For soldered RAM I agree
Usually these types of laptops have the same kind of stick RAM used in desktop, at least in my experience. It's really easy to pop off the bottom panel and upgrade your RAM with gaming laptops.
I need me a laptop for gaming outdoors in the wild as a gamer in his unnatural habitat.
buy a handheld !!!!!!
High ram usage is also a good thing. You want the memory to be utilized. The problem is if the memory can not be reallocated when you want to launch something new.
Wait for prime sale get laptop for 650, go into bios disable effeicent cores. Upgrade ram and memory and enjoy. For $890 you got a 2.5tb memory laptop with 32gb ram and decent specs to run games.
Don't call storage "memory", memory is ram
Dissabling the efficiency cores in bios really ruins the power efficiency of a laptop, unless you're running it solely at your desk your better off leaving them on and just using whatever performance profiles your laptop has to manage the cores depending on usage.
Got the same laptop around june, only difference was that it had come with 16GB of DDR5 ram, it smacks any game except for helldivers at maximium rendering settings, than it kills itself. Only problem with the laptop i see are with the fast and loud fan speeds it gathers a motherload of dust
theres a program called fancontrol, it might help setting yourself up a fan curve to lower the sound but still getting the same amount of cooling.
Acer is honestly the only damn company that really gives you the option of 2 m.2s in their laptops, that's a huge reason to get them. Some of them even allow a third drive for sata drive
Why buying used for laptops is always going to be the way for me. It's not hard to find a good seller and a decent deal. For $700-$800, I'd rather deal with a small scratch and year old thermal paste/ a slightly degraded battery for a much better long-term experience.
Do you recommend buying used laptops from ebay or where?
@@yt.person_9629eBay is pretty good. If your scared about eBay all you have to do is check the sellers information and see if there reliable or not. If they have 40+ sales and are rated 97+ I’d buy from them.
@@yt.person_9629eBay and Facebook market place are fine. I don’t like FaceBook Marketplace for me though as the people in my area think a 2011 MacBook is worth 1200 CAD.
Open box or refurbished is the way to go, you don't want any nasty surprises buying off randoms.
Got this laptop with a single ddr5 16gb ram stick and a 4060 with 8gb of vram (on sale). Put Ubuntu on it (better performance). Found that lifting the laptop off the table with a stand helped with temps from 80c to 68c on the gpu, letting it stay at full clock. Warthunder movie setting 154fps all day.
linux is not better performance in games lmao
how much
Windows Ghost spectre would be better tho check it out
You should really put another stick in for dual channel ram. It’s wayyy faster that way. Right now it’s in single channel memory mode.basically opens up double the bandwidth with two sticks
As not everyone, MacBook Pro 2011, basically an upgradable hp stream these days
You got to start going color gamut tests, The people wanna know how the screen is on a laptop they are buying... LOVE THE VIDEOS BTW
Funny how everyone can buy this laptop and I'm still here with integrated graphics.
I bought this gaming laptop out of curiosity and experience. I am not a laptop gamer. I use it while recharging my Macbook M1. Gaming laptop's battery is unbelievably short. My next laptop is still a Macbook because its battery can last 1-3 days for casual laptop user like me. I use it to watch movies in Netflix, Max, etc. At work, I have an HP laptop Elitebook. I am satisfied with its battery because it can last 2-4 hours.
These videos are super ultra helpful 🙏🏿🙏🏿
Bout time you guys reviewed this litte guy, the Nitro V15 ♥️😎👍🤟
I remember years ago I used to have an Acer Nitro 5. And older model, don't quite remember the specs. But it would have so many issues that I would have to return it to geek squad and they'd either fix it or just swap it with a whole new one. I know the most common problem was 'No bootable drives' would pop up and fuck me over.
I’ve no idea what the guy in the seven shirt is saying half the time haha just sound like he’s about to sneeze just talk and breath lad ! 😄
My brother used to own this laptop and it’s alright at first but after a while it starts breaking down. I would suggest looking for something else cause this one isn’t that great of a buy.
Hey! Always disconnect the battery before installing some component, whether is ram or NVME, or doing something inside of your laptop!
If you're going to upgrade from the single 8gb stick of RAM, you might as well just get a paired set of two 16gb modules instead. It's a bit more expensive, but the difference in stability over what will likely end up being two mismatched 8gb modules is worth it.
Oooooo that rolling shutter at the beginning 😊😂😂😂
It's a bit... weird to sell a gaming laptop with 8GB ram sitting at over 70% use just idle.
Upgrading the RAM is easy though. Get the proper tools and follow a tutorial.
At $700 it’s more than a bit weird lol, but I’m not familiar with gaming laptops. I’m assuming more ram would make the price jump? So maybe it’s kinda a steal in a way since upgrading the ram is an easy task
I'm thinking about it with all the sales now, but the fan noise is making me look at other options.
The fan sounds like it's straight out of a 7yr old ps4 that's never been cleaned lol
I have a Nitro 5 with an i7 11800h and a 3060. Works fairly well for everything I've played. Some new games handle max graphics ok, some not so much, but oh well lol
I honestly think that this would have been more of a fair review if you did several games with actual gameplay, before or after ram upgrade fine. Just to see if the money was actually worth it. Thanks for your efforts though, it was a good attempt.
I went with MSI pulse with 1440p, i7 12th gen, 16gb 5200mt, 4060, and it runs really great, but it was £1199. I think even 16gb is pushing it these days with some games going over 80% usage. I couldn't go back to 1080p though unless was really confined to a budget and had no other options.
2024 and mine came with a 13620H with 16 gigs of DDR5 RAM 512 gigs of ROM and a 4050 for $799
I am watching this video on an Acer Nitro AN17-41 that I bought through Amazon this past year. I do like it, but even with 16GB of (2x8) RAM I find it struggles. The 4060 gets overloaded with encoding in VMix, though it games very well. QHD 165 Hz 3ms display.
Usually the claim that "EVERYONE is buying this item on Amazon" just means that its dirt cheap and when it comes to gaming laptops... cheap = shit.
It's ashame that not many popular tech reviewers talk about Acer brand. They are very affordable and bang for the buck.
I can't buy into gaming laptops unless I wanna cook stirfry on it.
Got my GE76 Raider over a year ago, runs great, Tarkov and Star Citizen run solid. I did have to replace cooling fans a month ago but it was easy.
I play too much games that my eyes needs an upgrade, my reaction time needs tuning so this laptop is good enough to be entertaining for me.
That heat pipe arrangement is a big No No!
Cooler is linked to the GPU and then the CPU sharing the same heat pipes, this will cause for sure high throtling in the CPU under GPU + CPU heavy load.
For good performance, we should have cooler in the midle and shared heatpipes for CPU and GPU or independent heat pipes if the cooler needs to be at one side of the laptop.
I think that should be mentioned in the review, that does not invalidate that I agree with most of the content of the review.
Add 8 GB ram take out motion blur and do lower resolution then it’s solid
As a gaming laptop, there are a lot of compromises, but it is a great value for money and quite o.k. for 1080p gaming with low to medium settings. Obviously, you cannot compare this to a Razer Blade 16 with an RTX 4090, costing more than 4000 $.
Might get this Laptop next,Wont be any time to soon,Got to save up the pennies first
I bought the acer nitro 17 for like 900 on Black Friday and upgraded it to 32gb but it can go to 128gbs?out of the box I think.Best gaming laptop I’ve had and parts are interchangeable to an extent
Acer Nitro 5 is one of the most underrated machine ever created. Ill die on this hill
Not really a big gamer but would this be good for video editing and music recording?
Ive been looking at laptops lately and while im fairly knowledgeable on desktops im not on laptops. One thing ive noticed is don't assume its a good laptop because its 8 cores. Most sellers are more than happy to tell you its 8 cores but thats not the full story because some of those 8 core CPUs are only 2 performance cores, 6 efficiency cores and like this one is 4 performance cores 4 efficiency cores. Now i haven't seen testing of these models that are only 2 performance cores but im highly suspect that they will under perform.
the 4800mhz ddr5 stick you bought will most probally work fine on 5200mhz. recently i bought 16gb ddr4 2100mhz and it runs 3000mhz without a problem.
Crazy it comes with 8GB RAM.. My Asus Rog Ally X handheld pc has 3x that amount of RAM.
Thats why if im buying ram and laptop like that i double check the specs on the site buying from as well as every other site i can find them on
Perfect for dual pc steaming setup
This is the nitro V not nitro 5. The nitro 5 actually has better cooling and runs at a higher TDP 95 Watts vs 65.
V means 5
I just can't buy another gaming laptop ever. The value when compared to a desktop is a joke.
i snagged a legion slim 5 16 inch rtx 4060 . ryzen 7 8th gen for 800 , 2k display 165 hz 16 gb ram 1tb of SSD space in the uk equivalent of micro centre . i purchased it and ran like i stole it . because defo a steal of a life time price wise
Got myself a Lenovo Ideapad 3. Slapped 32gb ram and some ssd's in it. Best decision i've made yet (gaming wise). Can run a lot of stuff on high/med on most games.
Will probably end up switching to a pc when this dies but i feel like it'll be a while before that happens. Bought it nearly 2 years ago and still runs well.
got 1 6 years ago they are tough. (floor model) they drink beer too. :) just bought a new one of above mentioned 16gb ram 3050 though.
Thought Lenovo LOQ more popular. Acers tend to have mosfet problems after a year ,maybe these new ones not.
I got the i7 with an RTX 4060 👌
I bought this one with 3 differences, mine had a 6gb rtx 3050 and 16 gb ram, but it's no Lambo, I knew that ,$550 at staples.
I would never buy a laptop for gaming with only 8GB and only an RTX 4050. The minimum you will need for gaming is 16GB and an RTX 3070 or 4060.
if the ram is upgradable, why don't u just buy a new 2 stick kit to make it identical 🤔
seem previous obvious to me. 2x16 would be great for a on the road machine.
I bought the Nitro V i5 and Nitro V 15 i9. I just got my son and I each a Meta Quest 3 and we want to play No Man’s Sky and Squadrons, among others. I’m tech illiterate. Will either of these function for PCVR with the Quest 3? The i9 seems pretty legit, but I know nothing about any of this but my son loves it and I want to support his interest. Please point me in the right direction. Need to return one or both if this won’t work. Thanks!
I have this one and works great I upgraded to 32GB of dual channel though
Also put Nobara OS on it cause F windows and its like perfect
The RTX 4050 Mobile is as fast as a GTX 1070 . ^^
I’ll keep my Asus Zypherus G16 with upgraded 48 GB RAM, and it’s a beast!
I have an acer nitro5 amazing!!! I got the 1650 model and at some point I'm gonna get the newer model.
i picked one of these up last month on fb market place for $350 barely used very nice gaming laptop.
I would go with the legion go it has 16GB ram with upgrades down the road it can play any game pass game black ops 6 very well
I bought this last month except mine came with the 16. Your thoughts on me doubling it to 32? I paid $750 at bestbuy for it. Came with an international warranty which is nice since I am in southeast asia much of my time.
u can get better Proformance if u connect it to an external monitor
Most laptops use Optimus now, so no that’s not really a thing anymore as long as your laptop is set to “dedicated gpu only” which if you’re gaming is a no brainer
Great laptop but Nvidia 50 series is coming out Feb 2025. Meaning the 4050 may not perform too great for much longer. Mainly once games start to take advantage of the 50 series GPU lineup
Its so funny how we all changed to Ghz, for cpu/gpu, but on memory were going to talk thousands of Mhz!?😂 That memory is clocked at a whopping 4,7Ghz son, now all of a sudden thats a impressive number right? Its clocked faster then most cpu/gpu.
Damn just bought this but sending it back as i now find out to many people buying it 😢
Carin Leon of Gaming
getting this soon
So the ram upgrade did next to nothing. You’re only going to see a difference if the RAM was maxed out- which it never was.
I am looking to buy a gaming laptop. I have never built/bought any computer, PC or laptop, with Intel or Nvidia. (I take that back. The first PC I built back in 1997 or 8 had a Cyrix 166Mhz CPU (Talk about blazing fast at that time). I had an ATI All-In-Wonder GPU though). Yes, I'm an AMD fanboi. I've never had a problem with AMD so I never felt the need to change. I'm more than happy with the Ryzen 5900x (12 core/24 thread) CPU and XFX 7900 XTX (24GB) I have right now. I am thinking about upgrading the CPU to a 5950 (16core/32 thread).
Go with Legion, go it can do so much you can get extra power If you need it down the road it has a big screen but still small to travel 8.8 you take off the controller use it like a laptop hook a keyboard and Monitor use fps mode as a mouse or for gaming also people mod the legion go but it's amazing as it self it's like a switch but pc you can play old and games on it very well!
Just order one for streaming cornhole games hopefully it’s good
When we are talking ram on laptops even know you guys recommend 16 gigs in 2024 I'd like to see what difference from 16 gig pc 5200 and 32 gig 5200 in this laptop, I beleave it be worth it over all significantly
Wait the logo is acer Predator right?
I know they didn't have a shaq skin with a banana umbrella 💀 9:30
Ladies and gentlemen i am in need of advice. Im looking for upgrades for my pc but i really dont know what to get. Im also on a very tight €/$50-100 budget. My main problem with my pc is that after it boots up, it takes ages to load apps up. Also if i dont use an external SSD my pc boots up and is in an infinite bootup screen for some unknown reason.
My specs are:
Ram: 16GB DDR4
Gpu: Nvidia geforce gtx 980
Cpu: intel core i7-5820k 3.30GHz
Storage: TOSHIBA DT01ACA200 1.81Tb and an external SanDisk Extreme 55AE SCSI Disk Device.
Also it is worth mentioning that this is in a prebuilt Alienware Area 51 r2 pc bought back in like 2017 or 2018.
I dont know what motherboard i have, nor do i know how to check it, but has 4 ram slots all filled in with 4Gb each, and it can have 3 Gpu’s installed.
Troll?
My Girlfriends Mother has a very tight budget.
Y’all need to buy the yeyian yumi pc its would be a good vid
just got the 3050 for 1200 $ ca. wish i got it from the us but never tried cause they don't like us Canadians bypassing Canadian companies on line. 1.40ca per 1 us dollar;)
im happy though.
13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-13420H 2.10 GHz
16.0 GB (13.7 GB usable)
geforce rxt 3050 laptop gpu
ps thanks for giving me a heads-up on how to open it, will be upgrading the ssd to 1 terra . maybe 32 ram . keeping the beer away this time around 😊😊💕💕
No sale for me but I guess I don’t count… he said EVERYBODY!
Is a rtx 4070 intel i7 13700HX 16gb ram and 1tb ssd worth it for £633 uprfront?
Absolute insanity that a laptop at that price could come with only 8GB ram. Even apple changed their standard to 16GB on base models for new Mac’s.
everyone? For example, I did NOT buy this gaming laptop. If it would come with 16 GB of RAM, it would be a servicable 2024 gaming laptop.
Just put it in the fridge when playing. (keep the receipt)
Hey i got a question. My old laptop broke that i used for gaming, im plannij gon buying a prebuilt. I need to buy from costco, My budget is 500-600$ i dont know if i should build one or buy a prebuilt. I cant buy from other sites because i will return the old laptop. If i buy a prebuilt will i be able to upgrade it after? Im planning on buying the cyberpower prebuilt with a rtx 4060 for only 927$. Is that a good deal? It has I Intel® Core™ i7-1370P Processor, is this good deal? It is onsale at my local costco.
It's a laptop, therefore it has all mobile versions of desktop components.
That GPU will perform like last gen hardware. The Intel i5 is again, a mobile CPU and cannot perform like a desktop i5, otherwise it would require a massive heat sink to keep it cool, and there is not enough airflow to keep the fans from ramping up during gameplay.
You can find a better desktop PC at a cheaper price. Really, you can.
3 years ago I bought a laptop for 700$ it has Ryzen 5 5500U and integrated graphics card(Vega 6), it's insane how much better laptops you can buy now for the same price
I think you got a bad deal ngl, all my friends got gaming laptops (I'm slowly converting them into gaming pcs, as they don't really travel and a gaming laptop is sometimes double the price of a pc with the same components). They all got laptops from around 3-4 years ago and most of them have dedicated cards, like a gtx 1060. Also around the same price (600-700$)
@@miuletzmitzu6641 well yes it's because of my location, because for example here rtx 4060 is around 400$ while on Amazon it's in 250-350$
dude spoiled the whole video before they even turned the damn thing on
I got this laptop for about $500 here in my country the shop i bought was decluttering and it was like off by 50% also had a free upgrade of 8gb ram since i paid in cash lmao
how did they make the dGPU run with the laptop screen? I have the same laptop but says iGPU is used for the laptop screen
I've been recently looking into a gaming laptop just to have tekken 8 on the go so I can take it to friends and play since none of them have ps5s. Would this be good enough?
more that enough
Does the ryzen 7 version give good battery life
hi guys could you show the bios and see if there are voices like, cfg lock and overclocking lock?
An itx setup at full power is 700
was considering this but with the specs and low battery watt like 130W charger your inviting troubles in future. bare minimum should be 200Watt. thoughts? 💭
Its a 45W TDP on the GPU. I'm using a 180W brick for an RTX3060 130W TDP configuration😂