$750 Acer Nitro 5 Review: Upgraded RAM = More FPS!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ก.ค. 2024
- Gordon reviews the Acer Nitro 5 AN515-55-53E5, which is consistently the best selling gaming laptop on Amazon, that sells for about $750 as of this recording. He a number of gaming and general benchmarks to see the performance of the included Intel Core i5-10300H and Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 compared to laptops from higher price points.
What he found out was that by upgrading the memory for $30-$35 it made a huge impact for CPU limited games, and makes it well worth the cost even for those on a budget. Towards the end of the video he also showed off just how easy it is to get inside and make this upgrade!
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00:00 - Intro
00:27 - Specs
02:18 - Cinebench R20 Multi-threaded Results
02:56 - Cinebench R20 Single-threaded Results
03:53 - Handbrake Results
04:50 - PCMark 10 Results
05:52 - Battery Run Down Results
06:27 - 3DMark Time Spy Results
07:32 - 3DMark Port Royal Results
08:26 - 28 Game Benchmark Results
11:39 - Memory Upgrade Testing
15:29 - How To Upgrade The Memory
19:04 - Conclusion - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
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Had mine since 2021 runs like a champ
Had mine since 3/2021.. runs like a champ.. great product.. and till now did not need to upgrade.. memory.. adding Samsung 1TB and while I am at it I will upgrade my memory from 8 to two sticks of 8gb Crucial... easy even for an old fella like me.
I bought one,back in the day...on an island in the gulf of thailand...I5,1050ti, free M.2 128gb,1tb ssd,banging photoshop install,mouse,bag and a usb multi out cable.
It also had thai under the roman script.brilliant wee thing it was.
What I like about Acer is they give you both m.2 slots along with a 2.5 bay across most of their gaming lines. Sadly they don't have a SD slot or per key RGB. Was going to get a 10th gen Helios 300 with the 10750H and 2060 back yonder, but they were out of stock then price jumped after.
Went with a MSI GL65 with a 10750H, 115w 2060, and 16GB of performance RAM for 1.1k after a 100 MIR, free mouse and Outriders for Steam. Fairly happy with it, but I had to solder in the components to get a 2nd m.2 slot and it has a poor vent design where the plastic vent guards are easily breakable when weight is placed on them, and SD cards stick out 3mm instead of being fully inserted.
I want to change out the thermal paste but it feels like I might lift a component trying to get the HS/F assembly off.
Yeah I remember reading up on those. Way to rich for my blood at the time. But I remember the reviews. It was a great buy. You planning on upgrading or sticking it out for a while longer?
I just don't even bother gaming on my Nitro 5... it just doesn't have the chops really anymore.
yeah... pcworld... it does noct exist here in europe ;) . i just hope that such offers reach us here over the pond
Lately, Gordon is on fire 🔥
I've seen gaming laptops about this range now. And that's a very good thing.
It's not going to be good as the top ones but at least you can game without breaking wallets.
Yeah, it was obvious that time was coming for my little Acer when Gears 5 came out and I had to turn down EVERYTHING just to get it to run at 30fps.
Otherwise I would buy it again. Fit my budget, did it's job well.. can't complain.
I got a i5 11400h RTX 3050 Acer nitro 5 , upgraded to 16gb RAM and it's amazing.
Was upgrading your ram easier I want tobut I'm kinda scared to do anything(I did start watching videos on it)
@@ac550 Its ultra easy. Make sure to watch 3-4 videos on youtube about it for your particular model and year.
Hi Brother, can you link the ram you upgrade?
I'm upgrading mine to 64gb soon
@@masondamoose7520I think it only can take 32 gigs
Hmm, looks to be bare pads for a 3rd m.2 connecter between the SATA bay and hold down screw of the 256GB drive at 17m/34s. Be interesting if the board and BIOS can support a 3rd m.2 drive. My MSI GL65 had the pads for the 2nd m.2 bay and it was enabled in the BIOS, so I added the parts for it.
But I don't see a real reason to do it to that Nitro since you have the 2 m.2s and a 2.5 bay.
I think most people only play at medium to high settings anyway.. Like I push 4K with a 6800XT but in some games I have to play with the settings too, to get high frames unless it's like a 10 year old game then I can do 150 to 200 FPS. It all depends on what games you play..
I love my Acer Nitro 5 AN515-51-5082 that I picked up in 2018 off Newegg for $572.00 and free shipping. Had the exact same specs as above and gamed pretty well. Looks like this one is just the natural progression of the formula. Mine had an i5-7300HQ, 8GB Ram, 256GB Intel nvme ssd, and a GTX1050 4GB. It's def starting to show it's age now at this point though. I'm seeing some games really struggle but for what I paid at the time I'm def not complaining. Got a solid 3+ years worth of solid gaming performance out of the thing!
First thing I did was upgrade to 16GB DDR4 2666Mhz ram (unfortunately bios locked to 2666) and threw in a second 500GB SSD for my games and I was all set. After the upgrades I was under $700 all said and done. These are also so easy to get into to upgrade which is another plus. Just a bunch of screws and just pop off the bottom. Since games had gotten so massive I did eventually upgrade the OS drive to a Samsung 500GB nvme and a 1TB Samsung sata SSD.
Not sure about the newer model but only problem I had with mine is when the network card died it's super picky and won't accept anything other than the exact replacement of what it came with. A Qualcomm Atheros chip I believe. I remember trying to drop in an Intel AC 2200 wifi card and one other Qualcomm card and it just refused to recognize either of them. So hopefully that's no longer an issue in these newer models.
As I was a traveling technician at the time where I was in a completely different state each week I can attest to the Nitro 5's durability as well. No it doesn't have that solid build quality that you'd see in a $1000+ laptop. But It literally traveled all over America from California to Boston to Florida and never gave me a days trouble. I liked being able to sit in the airport during layovers and get a quick game in while I waited! :)
Overall I'm with Gordon on this one. If all you want is a decent traveling laptop for not a lot of scratch the Acer Nitro 5 won't let you down.
Great review sir.
I love my Nitro 5 from 2018 as well! Except mine has a 1050 ti. Have you undervolted yours? It makes a pretty significant improvement to thermals, and a moderate improvement to battery life.
I honestly didn't think anything like that was even possible. I vaguely remember trying a few different apps in vane attempts to get longer battery life but nothing worked. I did update the BIOS in 2019 when the wifi card died and I tried to replace it. But as far as I remember.. going into the BIOS was like walking back in time. LOL. No real ability to change anything!
No memory profiles, multipliers, OC frequency, absolutely nothing. So maybe because you had the next step up the BIOS was better. But on mine.. it was about as barebones as you could get.
On the plus side though I never truly felt I needed to. New I was getting a little over 2 - 2.5 hours under normal use on battery and only 1 hour while gaming. Crazy thing is I still get about that even today... almost 4 years later. Probably helped that I only gamed on it when I was in a hotel or airport. I primarily gamed on my Xbox One or Ryzen PC when I was home. So that's just probably way less wear on the battery as the reason why.
What are your plans with yours? It's about time for us to upgrade and I think my mom would probably get mine. If I can bare to part with it! lol
So I got two 16 GB RAM sticks is there anything I need to know about switching it out do I have to run any special setups?
I couldnt believe when i opened tha back of my nitro 5 to upgrade the ram on top of both of the fans and the heat pipe ther was some kind of oil all over it. I cleaned it up and it working fine but very worrying.
That is a nice Laptop even though, Very easy to work on from the looks..
I upgraded mine to 64GB Ram and 4TB Memory… works flawlessly
If laptops came with came preinstalled with Gordon instead of Norton, the world would be a lot more magical.🥓🥓
Was able to buy the Ryzen 7 with 3070 version at Equivalence of $800 i know last gen but good enough for me and my 1080p 144hz monitor
people love that laptop... me, I LOVE GORDON...
my preforms great but thats all good about it .. 5800h, 3060 95w, 8x2 ddr4 etc.. It will be desktop replacement..
Saw the ryzen 5 5600h variant in my country for just 700€. If I wasn't short on cash and had other priorities I would have picked it up asap.
Yeah. I'm with ya.. I think I was the Ryzen version if I upgrade. Honestly, I have so little time to game these days I'm seriously considering a Non-gaming enable laptop this time around.
The graphs need to be 2 lines, first line for the name ivieweof the laptop and the second line for specs. Right now, the font is too low to comfortably see from a distance.
There is too much of a gap that can be used to increase the font size so that the graphs are actually comfortably legible.
Please take this as a constructive suggestion from a regular viewer.
Hp victus 16" with 5600H+3050 sells for the same price tho in my country
Yeah.. can't get those anywhere here in America though. That's the one to get for sure!
Alexa built-in O_0 tf never heard of that one before
i just orderd 2 x 16gb Crucial sticks of ram and a 1tb Western Digital nvme m.2 pcei SSD too up grade my Acer nitro 5. im just waiting for em too come in the mail!
Should go to 64GB dual channel 32GB works absolutely amazing. My memory is 4TB now aswell
nice
Does it support 64 gb
Yea dual channel 32GB each slot
I have a Acer Aspire (8350u), I am not a happy customer, mainly for these reasons. It is incredibly annoying that that laptop comes with only one mouse button, who thought that that is a good idea? Yes, Apple does it but Apple has good touchpad-software and a better touchpad. The second problem: this laptop has serious BSOD-problems and it shouldn't be the hardware because it has been extremely lightly used. I only use the laptop when I have to because I don't like to use a laptop and this device has Windows on it which I don't like either. I did a clean install of Windows, it did not solve it. I did a clean install of W11, it does not solve it. I get a BSOD around 1 time in every 1-2 hours, sometimes more frequently (like twice within 15 minutes), sometimes less frequently. Sorry to say it, but that is my user-experience with a recent Acer-laptop. I also had an Acer desktop from 2009, with an i5-750 on it. That also gave BSOD's. It took me years to find the cause of the problem, it turned out that it was a buggy Intel-driver (RAID related), I solved it by flashing some of the low-level software and I never got a BSOD again. Now, I can imagine that another manufacturer (in this case Intel) causes a problem but there should be an easy way for the customer to find out about such problems and fix it, like getting the first hit in any search engine with the model and company and then having a page on which it gives a very clear warning to update some software. Now I am going to nitpick, on that OEM I saw this sentence: "no any drives found". That did not boost my confidence, not so much because of the grammatical error but because apparently nobody did quality control. If that does not happen for this, does it happen with things like drivers.
So no Acer for me in the future. I am sorry to say that, but also this is valuable feedback and I hope that somebody at Acer picks it up so that things will improve and that 10-20 years from now I might consider Acer again. ;)
Sorry to hear that bro! But even new the 8350u was a dog of an SOC in 2017. You just bought the wrong one. I've been buying Acer's for years with both AMD & Intel CPU's and they've been rock solid for me and my family. But S happens.
You might want to try installing 32bit Windows 10 and see what happens. Recently had issues with a Core i3 that absolutely refused to install 64bit Windows even though it was a 64bit chip. Something with the drivers just not playing nice in the laptop. Boot to desktop and bam... complete lockup. 32bit Windows... smooth as butter. Odd.. but older hardware sometimes hates being catapulted into the future.
Asia made
Why does bro sound like hes lagging irl sometimes
Different perspective here but this all looks pretty horrible performance to me especially considering how limiting 4 GB VRAM is nowadays, I would argue the 3060 laptop would be the minimum if you want to play most if not all titles and not have a slideshow
They Nitro 5 isn't Really that good if you Compare it to Some Asus, Lenovo Laptops in the same price range. msi has some good ones too
PCWorld : the problem is that the i5 10300H is WEAK because it's only a 4-core with inefficient Hyper-Thrading. The Ryzen 5 5600H 6c/12t variant was only 100 bucks more expensive and with the same RTX 3050 mobile it was around 55-75% faster in every game possible. This one is now selling only because there are almost no Ryzen Nitros anymore because they were too good of deals and sold out 2 months ago across the globe. People just buy this one because nobody wanted it months ago and now it's the only one that is in stock.
It's still sufficient for what it is though. But I agree... I would of snatched that Ryzen version up in a heartbeat if I had the funds.
@@DarkMikaruX you buy sufficient food when you go on a trip. You don't buy a sufficient laptop to game on. In this cas sufficient on a low level RTX 3050 with a weak 4-core i5 translates into almost no modern game working fluently at 1080p medium-low details. That makes this laptop a flop and insufficient.
It’s got only 4GB of VRAM, you can’t play anything with that
1650 better
I change the VRam and enabled it to perform higher works a dream now
@@nathansthebest
Not bad Congrats 🎉