Acer’s Nitro 5 is a gaming notebook with an attractive price. The appeal of these laptops is their higher end spec also make them a great option for photo and video editing on the move or just a fast everyday computer. It’s still not cheap at around £800 or $800, but you can pay a lot more for a laptop far less capable.
This model comes with a 144Hz 15.6” Full HD IPS screen, an AMD Ryzen 5 4600H, 512GB of fast SSD storage, 8GB of RAM and an NVidia GTX 1650Ti graphics card. At this price it’s not perfect. Battery life is not great, the screen is only average and it’s mostly made of plastic, but it can handle most current games at its native resolution and it’s no slouch editing your videos in Adobe Premiere Pro or your photos in Adobe Photoshop.
Could this be the perfect budget gaming or performance laptop?
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro*
1:01 Overview*. What's in the box.
1:12 Left, right, back view of laptop. Ports, vents etc
1:55 Laptop build, design, size, weight
3:03 Powering up laptop first time, finishing off Windows install, junkware
3:50 Bezels, webcam
4:03 Keyboard, travel, flex, feel, listen to sound test of typing
4:35 Toggling function key behaviour in BIOS - changing to Media Key
4:56 Trackpad, listen to clicks
5:12 Display & general performance*. Full HD 1920 x 1080 matte IPS screen, 150 degree hinge, viewing angles
5:29 Hot pixel, 144Hz refresh rate, 3ms response time
6:02 Measured brightness 330 nits, 246 on battery. Turn off AMD Vari-bright to get this to 330 on battery
6:37 sRGB colour space covered - only 59%. 40% aRGB and P3
6:53 Colour accuracy, screen uniformity
7:22 Battery, charging, no fast charging
7:52 Battery life: PCMark 10 tests various scenarios, real life tests gaming, watching KZfaq, general use
8:57 Using portable AC charger (RavPower Power House) to extend battery life (better frame rate too)
9:17 Laptop spec, performance, SSD speed tests, boot time, program loading time
10:15 PCMark 10 benchmark results
10:27 Geekbench results
10:40 Userbenchmark results
10:54 Performance for video / photo editing
11:40 UL Procyon Photo and Video Editing benchmarks
11:50 External SSD performance, USB-C port charging test - 15W (5V at 3A)
12:34 Fan noise sound tests
13:00 Webcam and mic test - compared to a full HD Logitech C920 webcam
13:13 Speaker test, WiFi & Bluetooth spec and performance
14:43 Gaming Performance*
15:02 3DMark benchmark results
15:12 Fortnite performance
15:22 Forza Horizon 4 performance
15:41 Shadow of the Tombraider, Doom Eternal performance
15:58 Zwift indoor cycling performance, cooling tests
16:13 Acer Nitrosense - control fans, monitor performance, power profile
16:39 Upgrade options*
16:44 Taking laptop apart
17:01 Battery replacement, upgrade RAM
17:28 Upgrade M.2 SSD and 2.5" hard drive bay
18:04 Conclusions*
*Sections
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