Acer Nitro 50 N50-640-UA91 Gaming Desktop | 12th Gen Intel Core i5-12400F 6-Core Processor | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 | 8GB 3200MHz DDR4 | 512GB NVMe M.2 SSD | Intel Wi-Fi 6E AX211 | Windows 11 Home

I wanted an up to date computer that was up-gradable to Windows 11. Please make sure to check this before buying a computer. The computer powered up right out of the box without any issues, connected to internet and upgraded to Windows 11 in less than two hours I was all set up. I upgraded the RAM by adding another 8GB. The web sight says the Ram is PC 2666 MHZ but is actually PC3200 in the computer. I had to return the PC2666 because felt it important that the computer runs with what was put in, plus was the same price for either speed, so faster RAM did not cost me more. One reviewer said his fan was loud. Mine is quieter than my last computer. I suppose in a quiet room you could here it. The Red LED lighting is okay. I added two more SATA hard drives for storage. I have not run any games yet. From the reviews I read this should not be an issue. I am not a hard core gamer and most of my games are several years old so I do not expect and issues. I am very happy with this computer.

If you buy this system, or probably any other Acer Nitro desktops, you will find Acer has enabled a very dangerous setting. In Device Manager, under Disk Drives, go to the properties of the SSD, click the Policies tab, and UNcheck Turn off Windows write-cache buffer flushing on the device. Before I figured this out, user profiles on the machine were getting corrupted regularly. I have never seen this on by default in any other machine I have gotten from Dell, Lenovo, HP, etc.

I cant believe that in 2021 there are still companies selling computers that are advertised as gaming PCs but only ship with 8GB of RAM. That is ridiculous in my opinion. I hope Acer will realize their mistake and start shipping this computer with 16GB of RAM. So as soon as you receive it, that is the first thing you need to upgrade. If you want a good overall computer for daily use and plan to do a bit of gaming, that might be the only upgrade you need. But if you are a serious gamer who needs the best performance possible, you will either want to replace the GPU or look at a different computer than this one. But I am a light gamer and am more concerned with the overall performance of a computer, so this system has performed well for me after I upgraded the RAM. It doesnt ship with Windows 11 like many systems do these days, but Acer says it will be available as a free upgrade. Other the fact that you need to upgrade the RAM, this system is a fairly good value for the price and it is fairly fast.

Proprietary board limits the power supplies you can use

Cant leave much of a review due to the fact that I didnt receive a power cord for my computer.

Like I set as the reason for return to the seller, the PC is alleged to be a gaming desktop, but after I received it and opened the box, only to see it lacking the basic gaming function, Display Port, which is considered as essential function port nowadays to be ready-made for gamers and can support 144 HZ and above refresh rate for FPS games such as Call of Duty and Fortnite to run fluently while HDMI is much lower. Oh man, DP is baaaasic, otherwise how come Nitron is especially alleged by Acer to be gaming array priced over $798.00, without even DP? You cannt react quick enough with HDMI. The word Gaming in your title doesnt make sense. So I just returned it without even trying it.

The description is just like the product. The computer works good no complaints. It arrived all in one piece.

This Acer Nitro Desktop is amazing!

This was surprisingly easy to carry into another room and set up, and to a person that originally only had a puny 2 Gb on her graphics card and was not able to play any game that came out after 2020, now the graphics are astonishingly better. Do yourself a favor, though, and order a HDMI to VGA converter with this if you are like me and do not have the latest and greatest monitor to plug in - mine is widescreen, but is VGA and I could not use the new graphic card until I had the right cable. It also does not have a DVD or CD-rom, so if you need one you have to order that, too. Once you get over the audacity of such a thing now not being included in a computer, that is. Laptops have long been doing that, and floppy disk drives I get, but in a desktop tower with lots of room?!

So I actually bought this to be able to focus on school work and still be able to game. This actually turns out to be good for both things and runs fast and smooth. Id 100% buy this if you cant afford to make your own.