Acer Nitro 5 AN515-57-79TD Gaming Laptop | Intel Core i7-11800H | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop GPU | 15.6 FHD 144Hz IPS Display | 8GB DDR4 | 512GB NVMe SSD | Killer Wi-Fi 6 | Backlit Keyboard

I ran some thermal and acoustic tests on this along side some cinebench and heaven benchmarks to stress the unit. On the default fan profile I experienced thermal throttling not even 1 minute into the test. Ended up with a final score of 12940 on the multicore in cinebench. I then tested in performance mode and with the fans ramped up to maximum. My score changed to a more impressive 13788, nearly a thousand points higher than testing under normal conditions, however, the decibel meter showed 77.5dB which is extremely loud, so while the performance mode does indeed improve performance, the sacrifice is a very loud laptop. I personally do not see the life of the cooling fans being very long if one keeps it maxed out while gaming. I think this would be a great casual gaming laptop if you are the kind that doesnt fiddle around with settings and would rather just install your game and go. But if you are the type that loves to tweak settings to squeeze every last bit of performance you can, than this might not be the laptop for you because of all the stress and high acoustic levels required to get to that peak. This unit ships with 8 gigs of ram, but Ill probably be bumping it up to 16. It also includes screws and the needed ribbon cable for attaching a secondary 2.5 drive on the inside. The power brick on this is a little smaller than my Acer Predator Helios 300, its only a 180 watt unit and it also comes with I believe some sort of lanyard with the word NITRO on it. I decided to go 4 stars on this laptop. Its a great performer, boots super fast, runs well, and looks cool. Would make a great gaming laptop for casual gamers or even a great school laptop. Hardcore gamers who wanna tweak and squeeze performance numbers, might wanna pass.

For playing my online games.

Good performance

I bought two, my kids use them to play games on work well for that they can play any game out to date, the computer is capable they are good laptops do what they are supposed to do

It was DOA right out of the box, no juice in Battery, Charger no help & no lights and wouldnt turn on.

First thing i did when bought and opened this laptop was to test it on a CPU Benchmark tester: userbenchmark.com . I attached a photo along this review. The GPU RTX 3050 isnt there! What is going on ? Most likely going to have to return this now

Product arrived with faulty (or tampered) RAM and BSODed constantly. Untrustworthy Company.

Battery does not charge. Support was unhelpful.

My only complaint is the battery life. But it was a great price and I was able to add an extra 1tb storage and 32gb.

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