To anyone from LMG - that trick, where the editor changed the saturation to show the effectively poor color space (6:28), was a neat way of visualizing a statistic that is often hard to wrap your head around real-world impact. Sure, it's not a lab-quality demo, but "your colors might look like this" computes a lot better in my head than "it has x% of color space coverage". Please do more of that. Little touches like that make the videos so much better.
Agreed, it's fast, to the point and understandable to 99% of the audience watching. (Before anyone asks, the 1% I'd say is for the blind and severely visually impaired where visual demonstrations/examples aren't able to be taken in so easily but in comparison to what a lot of other creators and channels do, those examples are significantly better :) )
Also Giving just 45% ntsc color space with 250 nits in 2024 should be a crime, the panels should be minimum 99% srgb atleast to be usable for watching content
Yes, I hadn't realized what it really means. I had assumed something like that the colors would be inaccurate, like always tinted somehow to look like different colors (e.g. like when the eye-saving mode has been turned to the maximum on a phone), but the demonstration made me see that it makes the picture look more like saturation had been turned down. Also, I realized that's how the screen on my Lenovo IdeaPad looks like after first using another computer for a while, and before getting again used to the IdeaPad's colors.
How would people that are already watching the video in a screen with poor color space? Would they see no change at all and not understand what is he talking about or would they think is even worst than it is?
I bought an Acer Nitro 5 back in 2019--8th gen Intel, 1050 Ti, 8G RAM, 256GB SSD. First ever computer that was mine, beforehand I was using a 6 (8?) year old AIO PC that was dying. Got me started in my computer hobby.
Saaameeeeee. got this very nitro 5 as mi first gaming laptop ever in 2018 but with HDD and optane. Was soo stoked, used the heck out of it. Poor thing ran at 99 degs for years without any issues, until i was able to sell it for $450 and get myself a rog strix g18 RTX4080 last year
@@kjharishSame, I had mine until now, It fell and the motherboard and screen broke. Now I am watching this vid to know if getting a new nitro 5 is worth it 😅
I recently got the Acer Nitro 16, which is this laptop, but better in every single way. Significantly better display at 1920x1200 165hz 99.8% SRGB Coverage if memory serves, better build, better keyboard, 90wh battery, waaaay better speakers, better camera and mic, Ryzen 7 7840HS, RTX 4060, still the same cringe stickers. So satisifed with it, fantastic laptop for the price
@@m.hreels9822 If it does, I haven't noticed it, it's still just FHD+ with better colour gamut. I can run Cyberpunk on ultra at 90fps. And personally, I'd rather have a significantly better display with 4fps less, than a god awful display with 4 more fps
There are worse laptops, the only laptops that won't flex are magnesium or aluminium laptops for example dell xps, macbook, thinkpad... gaming laptops flex like nobody's business
I'm a fan of the Acer Nitro series. They have quietly been the low key best cheapie gaming laptops since about 2016 or so. Best bang for the buck at their price point especially if you go for a well equipped slightly older or refurbished model. Some corners are cut like not having a very rigid body and not the best viewing angles on the screen but overall they are one of the best deals in gaming not just gaming laptops.
This is a really, REALLY good value if you use it as a low-end desktop replacement and use it with an external monitor, keyboard, and mouse. It's similar to what I used to do. It's passable for occasional travel use, and has a good enough price-to-performance ratio WHEN ON SALE that it's a pretty good "beginner" laptop for someone who maybe doesn't really care about things like keyboard flex or bad speakers - and maybe they keep it plugged into a pair of speakers as well.
@@Ben_Dover15Or less, yes. Best bet would be to buy the lower end model with the same GPU but less RAM and storage and upgrade that later on since everything else is the same.
I daily drive a nitro 5 for school, I have a pc for gaming but this thing crushes 3D modeling. Honestly for a powerful laptop that's cheaper than some other thinbook trash, it's great priced and honestly one of the most repairable machines I've encountered. I also just have throttlestop for the noise just in case I'm not doing something intense.
I remember when my sister and I went to Best Buy to get work laptops and were looking for something in the $450 range and we saw Nitro 5's for about $600 with dedicated graphics cards and we decided to just do that and it was fantastic. Nitro 5's were and still are excellent intro level budget friendly PC gaming.
I went from an Asus tuf 15 inch, fhd, 3060, 12650h to an Acer nitro 16, 165hz QHD+ 500nit, 4070, 7940hs. I was worried about the acer while awaiting delivery cause yeh, its a budget brand but I love it. The built-in 1TB NVME is outperforming the 2TB Samsung 980 pro by a couple percent, screen is amazing, thermals good, quiet as heck on balanced where I leave it. Camera and speakers are meh. I never use the trackpad. For the sound I had to KILL the DTS, it was unusable while DTS was running, even with my DT 770's, uninstall that immediately. Hinge is way better than the Asus tuf too.
No wonder it's better - better Model to start with and without the crap Intel sells these days. Acer can actually build good laptops - but quality comes at a cost, even with them.
Im a noon to this stuff, i just bought the same one as featured in the video but it has a i5 instead. I bought it for college and occasional gaming. What do i need to download or youtube as far as throttlestop and undervolting etc
I think The LOQ from Lenovo is a better option for the overall improvement of the Performance. like having a mux switch and advanced Optimus, and for the budget option we can get the 3050 6gb vram variant for a lot cheaper if you don't want to game intensely. more solid build quality the keyboard is better and not so gaming looks. personally i have the intel 3050 variant and its always running quiet when i code or browsing with 20 chrome tabs open and while gaming the laptop is not getting really high temps and hover between 70-80 ish while running AAA games.
Gamedev here. The "enhance pointer precision" thing hasn't been a thing for more than a decade now. Games use raw pointer data since the moment microsoft allowed us to do it easily. The last game where this had an effect that I remember was Far Cry 2 and CoD4 (the original)
I do like the fact that the laptop does have a numpad, i cant live without one. But i think that the absence of a numpad LED to indicate if its on or not should be a more talked about feature. laptops still have it but its only in very specific ones that are either really expensive and impractical. Or really cheap ones that dont have the performance needed
I had a nitro 5 back in 2019 with a 4500f, 1650ti and 8gb of ram. It’s carried me for years up until last week when i finally built my dream rig with a 7900xt 7800x3d 32gb. Got 0 rgb and its in an nzxt h5 flow all black. I’ve been saving for years (just turned 18 why took so long)
Im pointing this out as I own this laptop that the speakers are very good, the problem is out of the box the dtsx ultra makes the audio preset to shooter config. The speaker are actually very loud and above average for the price that it was launched at atleast in my country. The LOQ is almost the same price here for the 3050 6gb and except for the MUX switch and better display, nitro is more of a value for money lap here. But got to say the LOQ is a very fine laptop.
@@afeef2152 If You can spend the money go for LOQ with RTX 4050 as Lenovo does refine there tech very well. I would say to go for the LOQ with Ryzen 7 7840HS and RTX 4050
i got one last year on sale at best buy for $500, (2022 model, N22C2) and honestly i love it, the only thing i would change is put the usb ports on the left so they arent in the way of the mouse. But as a regular consumer, just a great laptop, and easy to take apart, all the screws on the bottom are the same size, the two m.2 slots are easy to get to, so is the ram and the battery, and it just performs great even if the fans are a bit loud sometimes (edit after watching video) wow the insides look a lot different, the keyboard on the 2022 isnt very squishy at all especially at normal typing pressure, for audio the 2022 to me sounds just fine, better than the hp, toshiba and asus laptops ive had in the past, i think youd like the layout of the 2022 one a lot more, and for $500 for a slightly older one with an i5 and a 3050, you cant really beat that imo
This space is very competitive, bought an omen 16 4050, 13420, 16 gb variant for 750 on sale(hp equivalent to the lenovo) and it's great. Only gripe is the single ssd slot, and 512 storage. But for 750$ its been a steller travel computer, when im not gonna cart around my pc.
I'd also disagree with his assessment on the keyboard/trackpad (at least compared to my older unit). The keyboard is actually fine to type on for me, the track pad I don't like at all. It has the clicky buttons under the track pad and often I will intend to click one side and end up clicking the other. For navigating the screen space it's fine, but the "mouse" buttons are pretty awful.
I own 3 acer laptops (Nitro 5 2020, Predator Helios Neo 16, Aspire 5 2022), and i can tell you this laptop uses the aspire line chassis, so basically its a thin and light packed with entry-mid tier hardware branded as a gaming laptop. if you can spare just a little bit more cash then you should go for the Nitro 16 instead, which shares chassis with the Neo 16, giving it much more thermal headroom, and so power to the components
as a nitro 5 2022 owner i say: it is certainly worth it. For best performance while being quiet i use throttlestop and for average high sound quality fxsound gaming profile. Best price-to performance ratio amongst budjet gaming laptops in 2022. Pls review some more nitro products as they are kinda forgotten right now.
@@ForgivenSheep3 throttlestop is a free program used to prevent ur cpu/gpu from overheating because at 89-90 degrees performance is noticably cut down by the system itself. It works great for most games but some like Horizon it NEEDS to be disabled. Every cpu is different so u should research urs and find best parameters. It is strongly recommended to install fxsound and make it to gaming preset. It is balanced and works for music and games.
That's what I did with my Lenovo loq last year I got the 8 GB one with a 13th Gen I5 a 1tb SSD and a 3060 and got a 32 gig ram kit at a later date all in all I spent 800 bucks total on it and couldn't be happier with the product
As a owner of 2019 Nitro 5, I must say it's a great laptop with two 2 major cons- 1) Keyboard is trash 2) Unnecessarily large. My hinge broke once but other than that it's a great laptop considering the price I paid and the performance I get.
I think Alex was a bit harsh on the nitro 5, I purchased the 17.3inch screen at Christmas and it's great! Been thrashing it with cyberpunk all day and no problems and it's upgradable memory/SSD easy to add more, also the screen brightness was fine had to turne it down, ok the 17 is more expensive but not crazy price like the laptop Alex was comparing it 2
that note about the air exhaust is an acer thing, I had a spin 3 for school and it was the same story, though in fairness that was a 360 hinge so any rear exhaust would have interference sometimes
I still have an old Nitro 5 Spin 2-in-1, and would dearly love and updated version with a 4060... Sadly i don't think anyone is making such a device at the moment...
I own a 2019 Nitro, the 60 hz display one with a 1650. It's a great machine for the price I paid new (500$ CAD), the downsides are the bezels, quite big (got used to it), the weight, the battery and the screen which has burn in problems. Even after Acer supposedly replaced my screen, this problem came back and I now have to deal with it since it's outside my warranty window. Also, the back cover had the plastic break off due to the heat. It's toasty, don't put it on your lap. I wish that the back cover has been upgraded to something a bit more durable, even more so around the Ethernet Jack and the back screw holes. The power brick is chonky as hell, it's painful to carry in a backpack with the laptop, so beware, considering it didn't change. My next purchase will definitely be something lighter with a discrete GPU, considering I need it for work. The battery is horrendous down the line though. You have to be plugged in 80% of the time, it even drains quite fast while turned off.
My Nitro 5 2023 (yes the number not V. Not sure if thats a different model) has a 4050, now with 32gb ram, a 2 tb ssd and a 1 tb ssd. Core i5-12500h. Looks nothing like this inside and runs alot quieter while in default mode. On performance its loud, but it doesnt improve much so never use it. Works great for the Sony games i play on it. I also play it on my 65" tv. Usually 2k. Im happy with it for now.
i have a nitro 5 (bought in 2021) with 11400h and 3050, never expected it to run 60+ fps with cyber punk at low settings. never had an issue till this day
I have owned a Skylake-era Nitro V and was very happy to get away from that to a proper desktop PC. This version looks much improved already. Sad to see the colour performance of the screen is just as terrible though. Also, I don't know how it is with this one, but on slightly warmer days, my left hand got absolutely cooked by the GPU/heatpipe that apparently was right under WASD.
I recently got a Acer Nitro 5 with i7-12650H 3070Ti rest almost similar specs except its 1440p and has a 280w adapter. Overall like it as it, i decided on 3070ti over 4050 with 13th gen i7. The screen is okish., but is worth the value.
I have this laptop and it's very good value. The screen and speakers aren't the best but then again there had to be compromises for the price. I use headphones as the fan is very loud while gaming. Brilliant value and I nabbed it on special.
I recently purchased a nitro5 with a 3070ti and the amd 6800H currently waiting for it to be delivered paid about 1100usd after tax can't wait to absolutely send it with my sim. It is the replacement for my broken g15 advantage that died after the mobo got damaged
We have standard i7 ThinkPads at my company for general Microsoft Office type work. We've got T490-T14 Gen 4 types primarily. Pretty standard work stuff. The Intel models often sound like they're about to lift off even when they're sitting idle. Intel is hot. 🤷♂️
love that it has a numpad...but can laptop manufacturers stop squishing up/down into a single key space, or at least make left/right half height as well so all arrow keys are consistent!
This is exactly like my MSI Katana 15. 13620h, RTX 4070 in mine, the display is "ok" at 1080 165hz / 60hz, the battery is 1.5 hours give or take, and its loud when the fans are running. But hey for portability, I cant complain. It's cheap and compromised in acceptable ways (as long as you are aware before buying). If I wanted quieter fans and a better display, I'd have a 17-18 inch gaming desktop-replacement.
I lived in Indonesia before, I already had a laptop, not for gaming, just light editing, now I want to go to some kind of school and live there, I will do things like coding, edit videos and games like GTA, Roblox, Valorant or something like that with high FPS. My considerations about the Acer Nitro V15 are the same as Apart from its light weight, the performance is also no less. I have a budget of around 15.2 million rupiah. At my place, the Acer Nitro V15 RTX 4050 I5 costs 14 million rupiah and the LoQ HX series is priced at 15 million.
Just a heads up, The Nitro V is a completely different laptop from the Nitro 5 The nitro V14/V15/V16 are refresh of the Acer Aspire 7 which used to come with RTX 30xx series while the Nitro 5 has been refreshed into the Nitro 16/17
I know its a different machine, but I'm looking at picking up a Nitro 5 with a 13th gen i9 processor, RTX 4060 graphics, 16 gigs of ram (upgradable) and a 512 GB SSD. What would your thoughts on that machine be at a $800 black friday price point? I do a bit of gaming, most graphics intensive being Bulders Gate 3.
I was between the victus 15 and the acer nitro 5, hp victus was on sale at $600 (USD) core i5 13 gen + 8gb ram + rtx 3050 6gb, I was surprised by the build quality, I see they are reviewing mid-budget laptops , I would love for you to give it a chance to check it out.
Laptops are becoming like TVs, in that nobody really expects a lot out of the built in speakers. With TVs, you're going to get some kind of soundbar setup, or a surround sound. With laptops, you're going to use earbuds or headphones. If I'm trying to have a gaming laptop on a budget, I'd rather use a modestly priced pair of headphones, earbuds, or a headset than listen to the built in speakers. As you noted, headphones etc solve the fan noise issue.
just got one from my local pawn shop, didnt expect to buy anything, but i saw the beauty on display. was originaly 450$ talked the nice lady down to 250 because it was all i had on my card, absolute steal if i do say so myself. edit: Ive been using the same lenovo legion 5 1660 ti i7 16gb for 6 years and the battery died a week before i got the nitro
Speaking on the LOQ discount at the end. I just picked up the higher spec version at $999 a couple weeks back. Same i7 CPU as that nitro has but has the RTX4060 instead. Its also got a way more accurate screen and a much more solid keyboard (as to be expected from lenovo/IBM). Would recommend for anyone looking for a decent laptop to blow a grand on.
I would have went for a desktop if I had the space but I just went with the Nitro. I got the Ryzen 5 and RTX 3050 6 gig laptop and I am loving it so far. Plays all my games in my Steam library no problem. I do recommend.
If you don't mind the question, what games do you play? I want to get into the PC world but not at some of the price points. I mainly want to play games like RDR2, DayZ and emulate older gen games from the ps2 gamecube era but I'm not sure what I actually need vs what people are "selling"
@@ItsTyYo I’ve played RDR2 on here and it’s flawless. I play a lot of DOOM Eternal, GTA 5 with graphics mods and Devil May Cry 5. I’ve also emulated some PS3 games like inFamous and haven’t had a problem. I’ve never really had a gaming computer before so this is just all amazing to me and I do recommend it.
Under that budget I prefer to go to lenovo. Better keyboard and sturdier chassis, also with better cooling configuration. I'm still rocking my $750 2022 ideapad gaming and all is fine, added a decent $100 monitor recently and it's much better than I ever anticipated
Bought 2 of these 5 years ago, one 15" and one 17", they were really good value for money. The chassies were horrible, a lot of flex but I just changed the RAM and SSD and they were unbeatable at 1000€ and just below the higher end gaming laptops at 2000€ at the time. Edit: in terms of raw performance, not talking about the speakers (still crap) and screen (meh)
I bought this laptop for 75.5k INR which would be around 900USD which is actually a really good price considering the Indian market. Also I have the 13420H version with the 4050. Still I can Alex's review is pretty accurate but this laptop is pretty good enough for me. Except that the fans are loud and the keyboard backlit can't be left turned on forever and the display is kinda meh. Other than that great laptop considering in my country at this price getting a 4050 is rare and I bought this laptop especially for that 4050.
@@tatsamraipure2712damn bro u r rich! I couldn't even upgrade my ram untill recently for gskill 16gigs single channel... And my monitor is too basic one! Still on 1050ti .... 😅 I really wish I had better monitor and a decent GPU.. maybe i have wait for long! Anyways congratulations for your new lap!
@@vivekanandan5093 no bro no one is rich in this world, it's just a matter of comparison. Also I couldn't really afford this laptop, but my parents still gave it to me.
i realize as im watching this that the old nitro 5 he's talking about is my current laptop, which im still hoping to use for the rest of the year. maybe ill end up getting this once my breaks
I primarily play Roblox and nothing really else. I wasn't looking for anything too mad since I'm under a budget, and anyways, anything too powerful would be overkill. This is one I've been looking into for a while now, and judging by this review, it seems to do the job. Good review 👍🏾 Note: Most computers can run roblox well enough, but in order to maximise your performance in more intense games, you're gonna need something like this
The thunderbolt port should be attached to a mux instead of a display port, so you can just get a type c display cable and should be sorted for optimus
Acer Nitro 515.6 Gaming laptop at 165 Hertz with an I 712-6508 with 16GB of RAM and A512GB SSD with RTX 4050 8GB vram VS ASUS Rock Ally at 120 Hertz FHD Gaming handheld touch screen with AMD Ryzen Z 116 gig RAM? And a 512 SSD
I got the Lenovo legion 5 (gen6), at 1400 € , it has ryzen 7 5800H, RTX 3070 laptop, 2x8 ram at 3200, and 512 nvme, what do u think about the quality/price ratio guys ?
Not all games unfortunately so it's still good to turn it off for the odd game that doesn't automatically do it, can't think off the top of my head but theirs a few games I play which don't have raw mouse Input as an option and don't do it as default and It actually took me awhile to figure out it was the mouse enactment setting (as I didn't know it existed)
Went through three of these things, with one being warranted once. The GPU simply didn't last on any of them and /something/ cooked despite the GPU temp showing acceptable ranges... since all three failed from the GPU throwing artifacts. The fact that all /three/ failed just outside of the 1y warranty was also a tad sketch... One I could see, but not three with each dying within 1-2 months of each other. I just can't recommend them for laptops at all. "You get what you pay for" as the saying goes....
maybe let us know what the target price should be rather than saying "on sale"? I got the Gigabyte G5 MF w a 4050 for usd$480 in Dec 2023 from Officeworks in Sydney. (could u review/compare that next?) 😅
Random thought, I hope that tv in the background isn’t an OLED. Looks like an LG C3 to me at quick glance. Not 100% static image, but enough that I worry about the red pixels
Pro tip: I remember on my old Nitro V uninstalling the special audio software made it sound waaaaaaay better (can’t recall if it was also dtsx back in the day though)
Holyy..1k usd for that specs?? That kind of money you can get HP Victus 16 with ryzen 7 7840HS, RTX 4060, 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD, 100% srgb screen and 1080p webcam
I use my alienware x17 for VR. and the displayport is required to connect to the headset. Its only mini on the X17 but adapter or cable is cheap enough.
To anyone from LMG - that trick, where the editor changed the saturation to show the effectively poor color space (6:28), was a neat way of visualizing a statistic that is often hard to wrap your head around real-world impact. Sure, it's not a lab-quality demo, but "your colors might look like this" computes a lot better in my head than "it has x% of color space coverage". Please do more of that. Little touches like that make the videos so much better.
Agreed, it's fast, to the point and understandable to 99% of the audience watching.
(Before anyone asks, the 1% I'd say is for the blind and severely visually impaired where visual demonstrations/examples aren't able to be taken in so easily but in comparison to what a lot of other creators and channels do, those examples are significantly better :) )
Yup .. that was brilliant.
Also Giving just 45% ntsc color space with 250 nits in 2024 should be a crime, the panels should be minimum 99% srgb atleast to be usable for watching content
Yes, I hadn't realized what it really means. I had assumed something like that the colors would be inaccurate, like always tinted somehow to look like different colors (e.g. like when the eye-saving mode has been turned to the maximum on a phone), but the demonstration made me see that it makes the picture look more like saturation had been turned down. Also, I realized that's how the screen on my Lenovo IdeaPad looks like after first using another computer for a while, and before getting again used to the IdeaPad's colors.
How would people that are already watching the video in a screen with poor color space? Would they see no change at all and not understand what is he talking about or would they think is even worst than it is?
I bought an Acer Nitro 5 back in 2019--8th gen Intel, 1050 Ti, 8G RAM, 256GB SSD. First ever computer that was mine, beforehand I was using a 6 (8?) year old AIO PC that was dying. Got me started in my computer hobby.
Same
Saaameeeeee. got this very nitro 5 as mi first gaming laptop ever in 2018 but with HDD and optane. Was soo stoked, used the heck out of it. Poor thing ran at 99 degs for years without any issues, until i was able to sell it for $450 and get myself a rog strix g18 RTX4080 last year
I bought the same one! Got me into computers!
@@kjharishSame, I had mine until now, It fell and the motherboard and screen broke. Now I am watching this vid to know if getting a new nitro 5 is worth it 😅
Same thing bro!
I recently got the Acer Nitro 16, which is this laptop, but better in every single way. Significantly better display at 1920x1200 165hz 99.8% SRGB Coverage if memory serves, better build, better keyboard, 90wh battery, waaaay better speakers, better camera and mic, Ryzen 7 7840HS, RTX 4060, still the same cringe stickers. So satisifed with it, fantastic laptop for the price
But how does the display affect the performance?
@@m.hreels9822 If it does, I haven't noticed it, it's still just FHD+ with better colour gamut. I can run Cyberpunk on ultra at 90fps. And personally, I'd rather have a significantly better display with 4fps less, than a god awful display with 4 more fps
What was the price?
@@THE-X-Force I got it at USD $1050 from Amazon, I hear it's currently selling at $999
@@Ehaeka Thanks for the info! ☮
"there is no wiggle"
*proceed to wiggle the whole keyboard*
There are worse laptops, the only laptops that won't flex are magnesium or aluminium laptops for example dell xps, macbook, thinkpad... gaming laptops flex like nobody's business
The fact they played a bell sound when it hit Bell
I'm a fan of the Acer Nitro series. They have quietly been the low key best cheapie gaming laptops since about 2016 or so. Best bang for the buck at their price point especially if you go for a well equipped slightly older or refurbished model. Some corners are cut like not having a very rigid body and not the best viewing angles on the screen but overall they are one of the best deals in gaming not just gaming laptops.
This is a really, REALLY good value if you use it as a low-end desktop replacement and use it with an external monitor, keyboard, and mouse. It's similar to what I used to do. It's passable for occasional travel use, and has a good enough price-to-performance ratio WHEN ON SALE that it's a pretty good "beginner" laptop for someone who maybe doesn't really care about things like keyboard flex or bad speakers - and maybe they keep it plugged into a pair of speakers as well.
What price is good for this? $800?
@@Ben_Dover15Or less, yes. Best bet would be to buy the lower end model with the same GPU but less RAM and storage and upgrade that later on since everything else is the same.
low end? you are underestimating it
acer nitro v15 $1147 i9 13900h rtx 4050 32gb ddr5 1tb ssd is the price good or bad
@@jijopov no I'm not. This is definitely low end.
For the same price, get a MSI prestige 16 studio, RTX4060 with miniLED monitor 165Hz
But msi tho
@@agumon1605 msi is better anyways
@@agumon1605what’s wrong with msi
mby in the US, defo not where i live.
@@JustMikeBro Wait for the OMEN, needing a good system ;)
I gotta say, the amount of great old days I'm having since Alex started hosting videos really skyrocketed
I daily drive a nitro 5 for school, I have a pc for gaming but this thing crushes 3D modeling. Honestly for a powerful laptop that's cheaper than some other thinbook trash, it's great priced and honestly one of the most repairable machines I've encountered. I also just have throttlestop for the noise just in case I'm not doing something intense.
I bought this for college, occasional gaming, what exactly is throttlestop ? Could you explain how i do that? Or something i could youtube for that
What is the batterylife like?
I remember when my sister and I went to Best Buy to get work laptops and were looking for something in the $450 range and we saw Nitro 5's for about $600 with dedicated graphics cards and we decided to just do that and it was fantastic. Nitro 5's were and still are excellent intro level budget friendly PC gaming.
I went from an Asus tuf 15 inch, fhd, 3060, 12650h to an Acer nitro 16, 165hz QHD+ 500nit, 4070, 7940hs. I was worried about the acer while awaiting delivery cause yeh, its a budget brand but I love it. The built-in 1TB NVME is outperforming the 2TB Samsung 980 pro by a couple percent, screen is amazing, thermals good, quiet as heck on balanced where I leave it. Camera and speakers are meh. I never use the trackpad. For the sound I had to KILL the DTS, it was unusable while DTS was running, even with my DT 770's, uninstall that immediately. Hinge is way better than the Asus tuf too.
You think i believe a gaming laptop nvmeis beatingthe world's best nvme, 980 pro?
I had to kill DTS too because it was using 2gb of ram, did yours came with a single stick of ram included?
No wonder it's better - better Model to start with and without the crap Intel sells these days.
Acer can actually build good laptops - but quality comes at a cost, even with them.
Watching this on my old acer nitro 5 with i7 8750h and gtx 1060 6 Gb. It still works fine. After undervolting of course.
Im a noon to this stuff, i just bought the same one as featured in the video but it has a i5 instead. I bought it for college and occasional gaming. What do i need to download or youtube as far as throttlestop and undervolting etc
I think The LOQ from Lenovo is a better option for the overall improvement of the Performance. like having a mux switch and advanced Optimus, and for the budget option we can get the 3050 6gb vram variant for a lot cheaper if you don't want to game intensely. more solid build quality the keyboard is better and not so gaming looks. personally i have the intel 3050 variant and its always running quiet when i code or browsing with 20 chrome tabs open and while gaming the laptop is not getting really high temps and hover between 70-80 ish while running AAA games.
I completely agree with you, and that's why I bought Lenovo LOQ customised version.
Lenovo really stepped up their game
do not trust acer! failure rate is high!
Does it have thunderbolt ?
@SkyMina_ No, but it has usb 3 gen 2 with DP 1.4 and PD 140w.
Gamedev here. The "enhance pointer precision" thing hasn't been a thing for more than a decade now. Games use raw pointer data since the moment microsoft allowed us to do it easily. The last game where this had an effect that I remember was Far Cry 2 and CoD4 (the original)
I do like the fact that the laptop does have a numpad, i cant live without one. But i think that the absence of a numpad LED to indicate if its on or not should be a more talked about feature. laptops still have it but its only in very specific ones that are either really expensive and impractical. Or really cheap ones that dont have the performance needed
I had a nitro 5 back in 2019 with a 4500f, 1650ti and 8gb of ram. It’s carried me for years up until last week when i finally built my dream rig with a 7900xt 7800x3d 32gb. Got 0 rgb and its in an nzxt h5 flow all black. I’ve been saving for years (just turned 18 why took so long)
Im pointing this out as I own this laptop that the speakers are very good, the problem is out of the box the dtsx ultra makes the audio preset to shooter config. The speaker are actually very loud and above average for the price that it was launched at atleast in my country. The LOQ is almost the same price here for the 3050 6gb and except for the MUX switch and better display, nitro is more of a value for money lap here. But got to say the LOQ is a very fine laptop.
between LOQ and Nitro V (2024) which one would you recommend?
@@afeef2152 If You can spend the money go for LOQ with RTX 4050 as Lenovo does refine there tech very well. I would say to go for the LOQ with Ryzen 7 7840HS and RTX 4050
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Thank you so much, I can finnaly use this laptop without headphones just to watch videos!
@@rexy2981 👍 your welcome.
Got a nitro 5 for blender, did not dissapont, it just smashes through every frame even in 4K resolution.
i got one last year on sale at best buy for $500, (2022 model, N22C2) and honestly i love it, the only thing i would change is put the usb ports on the left so they arent in the way of the mouse. But as a regular consumer, just a great laptop, and easy to take apart, all the screws on the bottom are the same size, the two m.2 slots are easy to get to, so is the ram and the battery, and it just performs great even if the fans are a bit loud sometimes (edit after watching video) wow the insides look a lot different, the keyboard on the 2022 isnt very squishy at all especially at normal typing pressure, for audio the 2022 to me sounds just fine, better than the hp, toshiba and asus laptops ive had in the past, i think youd like the layout of the 2022 one a lot more, and for $500 for a slightly older one with an i5 and a 3050, you cant really beat that imo
This space is very competitive, bought an omen 16 4050, 13420, 16 gb variant for 750 on sale(hp equivalent to the lenovo) and it's great. Only gripe is the single ssd slot, and 512 storage. But for 750$ its been a steller travel computer, when im not gonna cart around my pc.
Seeing this video makes me realise how much of a difference is there between a person who regularly reviews laptops and who sometimes review laptops.
Bro😂 fr right. I mean his “mux” info is even dated and he got no idea. I guess Linus’s companty is just entertainment and not for info.
I'd also disagree with his assessment on the keyboard/trackpad (at least compared to my older unit). The keyboard is actually fine to type on for me, the track pad I don't like at all. It has the clicky buttons under the track pad and often I will intend to click one side and end up clicking the other. For navigating the screen space it's fine, but the "mouse" buttons are pretty awful.
There were a couple other people who said last year's model was fine, seems they dropped the ball this time though. It did look pretty squishy.
keyboard didn't feel too awful to me but maybe I was keeping my expectations too low. @@Dan-Simms
I own 3 acer laptops (Nitro 5 2020, Predator Helios Neo 16, Aspire 5 2022), and i can tell you this laptop uses the aspire line chassis, so basically its a thin and light packed with entry-mid tier hardware branded as a gaming laptop. if you can spare just a little bit more cash then you should go for the Nitro 16 instead, which shares chassis with the Neo 16, giving it much more thermal headroom, and so power to the components
Acer Nitro v is the best price to
Performance in India
Predator Helios Neo 16 comes in second place
How is your experience with them
Bro that keyboard was like a trampoline lol
as a nitro 5 2022 owner i say: it is certainly worth it. For best performance while being quiet i use throttlestop and for average high sound quality fxsound gaming profile. Best price-to performance ratio amongst budjet gaming laptops in 2022. Pls review some more nitro products as they are kinda forgotten right now.
I just bought this, what exactly is throttlestop, how do i install this, when would i use it etc
@@ForgivenSheep3 throttlestop is a free program used to prevent ur cpu/gpu from overheating because at 89-90 degrees performance is noticably cut down by the system itself. It works great for most games but some like Horizon it NEEDS to be disabled. Every cpu is different so u should research urs and find best parameters. It is strongly recommended to install fxsound and make it to gaming preset. It is balanced and works for music and games.
Could you guys please do an explainer on colour coverage etc? I find the different standards and coverage completely baffling.
That's what I did with my Lenovo loq last year I got the 8 GB one with a 13th Gen I5 a 1tb SSD and a 3060 and got a 32 gig ram kit at a later date all in all I spent 800 bucks total on it and couldn't be happier with the product
As a owner of 2019 Nitro 5, I must say it's a great laptop with two 2 major cons-
1) Keyboard is trash
2) Unnecessarily large.
My hinge broke once but other than that it's a great laptop considering the price I paid and the performance I get.
I think Alex was a bit harsh on the nitro 5, I purchased the 17.3inch screen at Christmas and it's great! Been thrashing it with cyberpunk all day and no problems and it's upgradable memory/SSD easy to add more, also the screen brightness was fine had to turne it down, ok the 17 is more expensive but not crazy price like the laptop Alex was comparing it 2
Hell yeah, just found this model you are talking about with the 4060 at a local tech store for under $1K
I always appreciate Alex saying "Have a great 'ole day". Just wholesome. Thanks mate, you too.
bezels with some screen all in a 20 kg package that you have to deadlift everytime you want to charge the 15 mins battery
$849 USD on B&H with 4060, 32GB ram, and i7 13th gen Intel processor
Getting this for nursing school+ gaming
that note about the air exhaust is an acer thing, I had a spin 3 for school and it was the same story, though in fairness that was a 360 hinge so any rear exhaust would have interference sometimes
I still have an old Nitro 5 Spin 2-in-1, and would dearly love and updated version with a 4060... Sadly i don't think anyone is making such a device at the moment...
My Acer Nitro AN517-55 with a i7-12700H, RTX 4060, 16GB RAM & 144Hz works soo fine :D
I own a 2019 Nitro, the 60 hz display one with a 1650. It's a great machine for the price I paid new (500$ CAD), the downsides are the bezels, quite big (got used to it), the weight, the battery and the screen which has burn in problems.
Even after Acer supposedly replaced my screen, this problem came back and I now have to deal with it since it's outside my warranty window. Also, the back cover had the plastic break off due to the heat. It's toasty, don't put it on your lap.
I wish that the back cover has been upgraded to something a bit more durable, even more so around the Ethernet Jack and the back screw holes.
The power brick is chonky as hell, it's painful to carry in a backpack with the laptop, so beware, considering it didn't change. My next purchase will definitely be something lighter with a discrete GPU, considering I need it for work.
The battery is horrendous down the line though. You have to be plugged in 80% of the time, it even drains quite fast while turned off.
My Nitro 5 2023 (yes the number not V. Not sure if thats a different model) has a 4050, now with 32gb ram, a 2 tb ssd and a 1 tb ssd. Core i5-12500h. Looks nothing like this inside and runs alot quieter while in default mode. On performance its loud, but it doesnt improve much so never use it.
Works great for the Sony games i play on it. I also play it on my 65" tv. Usually 2k. Im happy with it for now.
i have a nitro 5 (bought in 2021) with 11400h and 3050, never expected it to run 60+ fps with cyber punk at low settings. never had an issue till this day
This is not a nitro 5 buts its actually the nitro v (the letter V) which is why the logo is unique to this laptop
I have never seen a ''budget-ish'' gaming laptop screen that didn't have horrible color coverage. Are there exceptions to this ''rule''?
I have owned a Skylake-era Nitro V and was very happy to get away from that to a proper desktop PC. This version looks much improved already. Sad to see the colour performance of the screen is just as terrible though. Also, I don't know how it is with this one, but on slightly warmer days, my left hand got absolutely cooked by the GPU/heatpipe that apparently was right under WASD.
I recently got a Acer Nitro 5 with i7-12650H 3070Ti rest almost similar specs except its 1440p and has a 280w adapter. Overall like it as it, i decided on 3070ti over 4050 with 13th gen i7. The screen is okish., but is worth the value.
I have this laptop and it's very good value. The screen and speakers aren't the best but then again there had to be compromises for the price. I use headphones as the fan is very loud while gaming. Brilliant value and I nabbed it on special.
I recently purchased a nitro5 with a 3070ti and the amd 6800H currently waiting for it to be delivered paid about 1100usd after tax can't wait to absolutely send it with my sim. It is the replacement for my broken g15 advantage that died after the mobo got damaged
How is it now
I have this laptop for 800euros in France, and this computer is a beast for his price (in sales)
We have standard i7 ThinkPads at my company for general Microsoft Office type work. We've got T490-T14 Gen 4 types primarily. Pretty standard work stuff. The Intel models often sound like they're about to lift off even when they're sitting idle. Intel is hot. 🤷♂️
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Iris is just not what you need, just enough to run Windows 11, Office levels only, nice for browsing the internet.
love that it has a numpad...but can laptop manufacturers stop squishing up/down into a single key space, or at least make left/right half height as well so all arrow keys are consistent!
Can you do a video on Lenovo LOQ as well? The one with same specs or Ryzen CPU.
A bad display is an instant deal breaker to me, i do more on a laptop than just game
This is exactly like my MSI Katana 15. 13620h, RTX 4070 in mine, the display is "ok" at 1080 165hz / 60hz, the battery is 1.5 hours give or take, and its loud when the fans are running. But hey for portability, I cant complain. It's cheap and compromised in acceptable ways (as long as you are aware before buying). If I wanted quieter fans and a better display, I'd have a 17-18 inch gaming desktop-replacement.
I lived in Indonesia before, I already had a laptop, not for gaming, just light editing, now I want to go to some kind of school and live there, I will do things like coding, edit videos and games like GTA, Roblox, Valorant or something like that with high FPS. My considerations about the Acer Nitro V15 are the same as Apart from its light weight, the performance is also no less. I have a budget of around 15.2 million rupiah. At my place, the Acer Nitro V15 RTX 4050 I5 costs 14 million rupiah and the LoQ HX series is priced at 15 million.
Outside of the poor screen, battery, and keyboard, hardware wise, is this solid?
Yep. Just use a big TV, external keyboard/mouse, and keep it plugged in.
tbh most budget gaming laptops do not have 100srgb color raing, most have around that 60% mark and 45% ntsc
Just a heads up, The Nitro V is a completely different laptop from the Nitro 5
The nitro V14/V15/V16 are refresh of the Acer Aspire 7 which used to come with RTX 30xx series
while the Nitro 5 has been refreshed into the Nitro 16/17
tnx for giving perspective on the saturation.
Budget Laptop?
Watch the video and find out.
$1000...
Gaming laptops are expensive, always have been. I paid 600 for mine 6 years ago with a gtx 1060, and that one was used.
I know its a different machine, but I'm looking at picking up a Nitro 5 with a 13th gen i9 processor, RTX 4060 graphics, 16 gigs of ram (upgradable) and a 512 GB SSD.
What would your thoughts on that machine be at a $800 black friday price point?
I do a bit of gaming, most graphics intensive being Bulders Gate 3.
I was between the victus 15 and the acer nitro 5, hp victus was on sale at $600 (USD) core i5 13 gen + 8gb ram + rtx 3050 6gb, I was surprised by the build quality, I see they are reviewing mid-budget laptops , I would love for you to give it a chance to check it out.
Laptops are becoming like TVs, in that nobody really expects a lot out of the built in speakers. With TVs, you're going to get some kind of soundbar setup, or a surround sound. With laptops, you're going to use earbuds or headphones. If I'm trying to have a gaming laptop on a budget, I'd rather use a modestly priced pair of headphones, earbuds, or a headset than listen to the built in speakers. As you noted, headphones etc solve the fan noise issue.
I have a acer V15 nitro, do i need to plug the charger when gaming? Or it will destroy the battery? Pls help i am new at laptops. 🙏
Does this nitro v is better than lenovo loq 15irh8 i5 12th gen and rtx 4050? Thanks for the answer ♥️
Again with the coolers together? They already made that error before!!
Wdym?
I got the lenovo legion 5 slim with the 4060 for $899. Very happy with it
No way unless it is used or black friday sale
just got one from my local pawn shop, didnt expect to buy anything, but i saw the beauty on display. was originaly 450$ talked the nice lady down to 250 because it was all i had on my card, absolute steal if i do say so myself. edit: Ive been using the same lenovo legion 5 1660 ti i7 16gb for 6 years and the battery died a week before i got the nitro
what model is this?
Speaking on the LOQ discount at the end. I just picked up the higher spec version at $999 a couple weeks back. Same i7 CPU as that nitro has but has the RTX4060 instead. Its also got a way more accurate screen and a much more solid keyboard (as to be expected from lenovo/IBM).
Would recommend for anyone looking for a decent laptop to blow a grand on.
Wait what's the name of the model?
@@Raynorhunter apologies it's with a ryzen 7 instead.
It's the LOQ 15APH8
Can you just add an external monitor? If so, which kind? Thanks.
Can you test the Acer Nitro 16 as it has good specs.
I would have went for a desktop if I had the space but I just went with the Nitro. I got the Ryzen 5 and RTX 3050 6 gig laptop and I am loving it so far. Plays all my games in my Steam library no problem. I do recommend.
If you don't mind the question, what games do you play?
I want to get into the PC world but not at some of the price points. I mainly want to play games like RDR2, DayZ and emulate older gen games from the ps2 gamecube era but I'm not sure what I actually need vs what people are "selling"
@@ItsTyYo I’ve played RDR2 on here and it’s flawless. I play a lot of DOOM Eternal, GTA 5 with graphics mods and Devil May Cry 5. I’ve also emulated some PS3 games like inFamous and haven’t had a problem. I’ve never really had a gaming computer before so this is just all amazing to me and I do recommend it.
Under that budget I prefer to go to lenovo. Better keyboard and sturdier chassis, also with better cooling configuration. I'm still rocking my $750 2022 ideapad gaming and all is fine, added a decent $100 monitor recently and it's much better than I ever anticipated
Bought 2 of these 5 years ago, one 15" and one 17", they were really good value for money. The chassies were horrible, a lot of flex but I just changed the RAM and SSD and they were unbeatable at 1000€ and just below the higher end gaming laptops at 2000€ at the time.
Edit: in terms of raw performance, not talking about the speakers (still crap) and screen (meh)
I bought this laptop for 75.5k INR which would be around 900USD which is actually a really good price considering the Indian market. Also I have the 13420H version with the 4050. Still I can Alex's review is pretty accurate but this laptop is pretty good enough for me. Except that the fans are loud and the keyboard backlit can't be left turned on forever and the display is kinda meh. Other than that great laptop considering in my country at this price getting a 4050 is rare and I bought this laptop especially for that 4050.
That was a shit deal,the 3060 is better and like 5- 7k less expensive, so you paid a whole 5-7k for dlss 3?
@@Prithvi- which laptop?
@@tatsamraipure2712damn bro u r rich! I couldn't even upgrade my ram untill recently for gskill 16gigs single channel... And my monitor is too basic one! Still on 1050ti .... 😅 I really wish I had better monitor and a decent GPU.. maybe i have wait for long! Anyways congratulations for your new lap!
@@vivekanandan5093 no bro no one is rich in this world, it's just a matter of comparison. Also I couldn't really afford this laptop, but my parents still gave it to me.
@@tatsamraipure2712 really nice bro .... Enjoy ! Happie for you dil se 💕 💕
I was looking for a gaming laptop, this is very convenient
you could do a bluetooth speaker, but i am betting if you are using a laptop, you are more then likely going to invest in a good bluetooth headset.
Don't see a link to the product in question....?
What was the software used for the display color test? I wanna try it on my current laptop
i realize as im watching this that the old nitro 5 he's talking about is my current laptop, which im still hoping to use for the rest of the year. maybe ill end up getting this once my breaks
Found a store nearby with the 17 in stock, big screen, good specs, the 4060, and extra space for upgrades.... Under $1K 👍
I primarily play Roblox and nothing really else. I wasn't looking for anything too mad since I'm under a budget, and anyways, anything too powerful would be overkill. This is one I've been looking into for a while now, and judging by this review, it seems to do the job. Good review 👍🏾
Note: Most computers can run roblox well enough, but in order to maximise your performance in more intense games, you're gonna need something like this
They didn't highlight the WASD keys! How can you call this a gaming laptop?
Good day, just want to ask is there any other laptop unit with the same price but better?
Having non-standard 3 columns Numpad: Weird, but kinda win.
Having half size up/down arrows: Fail.
The thunderbolt port should be attached to a mux instead of a display port, so you can just get a type c display cable and should be sorted for optimus
Bro rough with that box the first 5 secs when he slammed it down
Acer Nitro 515.6 Gaming laptop at 165 Hertz with an I 712-6508 with 16GB of RAM and A512GB SSD with RTX 4050 8GB vram VS ASUS Rock Ally at 120 Hertz FHD Gaming handheld touch screen with AMD Ryzen Z 116 gig RAM? And a 512 SSD
I got the Lenovo legion 5 (gen6), at 1400 € , it has ryzen 7 5800H, RTX 3070 laptop, 2x8 ram at 3200, and 512 nvme,
what do u think about the quality/price ratio guys ?
You don’t need to turn off Mouse Acceleration in Windows anymore, because all games use RAW INPUT nowadays. So it ignores the windows setting
Not all games unfortunately so it's still good to turn it off for the odd game that doesn't automatically do it, can't think off the top of my head but theirs a few games I play which don't have raw mouse Input as an option and don't do it as default and It actually took me awhile to figure out it was the mouse enactment setting (as I didn't know it existed)
Went through three of these things, with one being warranted once. The GPU simply didn't last on any of them and /something/ cooked despite the GPU temp showing acceptable ranges... since all three failed from the GPU throwing artifacts. The fact that all /three/ failed just outside of the 1y warranty was also a tad sketch... One I could see, but not three with each dying within 1-2 months of each other.
I just can't recommend them for laptops at all. "You get what you pay for" as the saying goes....
maybe let us know what the target price should be rather than saying "on sale"?
I got the Gigabyte G5 MF w a 4050 for usd$480 in Dec 2023 from Officeworks in Sydney. (could u review/compare that next?) 😅
Random thought, I hope that tv in the background isn’t an OLED. Looks like an LG C3 to me at quick glance. Not 100% static image, but enough that I worry about the red pixels
I guess they didn't want some sort of overheating issue if the system was super hot and then the power cut.
Pro tip: I remember on my old Nitro V uninstalling the special audio software made it sound waaaaaaay better (can’t recall if it was also dtsx back in the day though)
Holyy..1k usd for that specs?? That kind of money you can get HP Victus 16 with ryzen 7 7840HS, RTX 4060, 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD, 100% srgb screen and 1080p webcam
6:25 Watching this on the Nitro 5: I did know the screen was this bad
Me watching this again with a much better panel: *wheezes*
Wait how did you turn off the keyboard lights so I can save power, been trying to find out how
Wow best review ever . In the end of the review i still i don't know if this video is about the laptop .
I use my alienware x17 for VR. and the displayport is required to connect to the headset. Its only mini on the X17 but adapter or cable is cheap enough.
TUF A16 with Ryzen 7735HS/7940HS and 7600S/7700S this laptop's value killer IMO.