Acer Nitro 5 review: Cheap and cheerful powerhouse, but not without compromises - SoyaCincau

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The Acer Nitro 5 packs some incredible hardware under the hood for its price. But were there too many compromises made to still be worth it?

I’ve always had a soft spot for the Acer Nitro 5. While I’ve never personally owned one, the Nitro lineup has over the years truly become one of the best bang-for-buck gaming laptops you can get these days. However, they also tend to only feature entry-level to mid-range specs.

As for the Nitro 5 in question, well it may be an RTX 3070 class GPU, but it’s not exactly the cream of the crop either. Acer has clocked back the RTX 3070 to a maximum of 100W, which is a little lower than the 140W you can get on higher end rivals like thefor instance. The AMD Ryzen 7 5800H meanwhile performs mostly as expected, though it has some of its own concerns that I’ll get to in a bit.

Another quirk I noticed regarding the Nitro 5’s cooling is that the ‘Auto’ fan setting in their NitroSense tool didn’t seem to let the fans ramp up as high as it could go; all of the games tested were done with the ‘Max’ fan setting. You’ll also definitely want to have headphones on during long gaming sessions as it gets pretty loud. And it’s not like you’ll want to use the speakers on it anyway.There are two bottom firing speakers on the Acer Nitro 5 which aren’t that great to say the least.

Meanwhile, the keyboard felt decent enough to use both for work and play. There isn’t too much in terms of keycap wobble, and the travel was fine. The same goes for the touchpad too; it’s not the best, but it’s also perfectly decent for most users out there. But if you were thinking of picking the Nitro 5 up as a cheap entry into the world of streaming on Twitch, you’ll probably not want to use the built-in 720p webcam as it’s honestly quite bad.

 

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