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 Electronics

5.0 out of 5 stars

It’s pretty good

I have been using this laptop for a week and honestly find it pretty good. I went through a lot of reviews before making my decision and wanted to add my own for anyone thinking of buying this.PROS:-The screen is really vibrant. I haven’t noticed any screen bleed or dull colors and the refresh rate is great.-The laptop stays very cool* under heavy gaming.-It’s really snappy and responsive. I haven’t noticed any lag.-The touchpad is very responsive and easy to use.-The keys are slightly raised and feel a bit soft but in a good way. They’re pleasant to type on and it wasn’t hard to adjust to this smaller layout from a wider desktop keyboard.CONS:-The fan is loud when gaming. Like, really, really loud. It might be jarring if you’re coming from a desktop.-Battery life is pretty bad and the performance decrease when not connected to a charger is not extreme, but noticeable.NOTES:-As the other reviews have said, you need to press the power cord in and hear it click twice.-If you downgraded to Windows 10, you’ll want to redownload the relevant drivers from Acer’s website. I had to redownload the touchpad and io drivers to get mine working again.-You’ll also want to redownload Nitrosense if you downgrade. You can use it to toggle on coolboost which keeps the laptop extremely cool. You can also allegedly use it to lower the speed of the fans but I didn’t notice a reduction in fan noise so I decided to keep it on coolboost.All in all? The cons are pretty minor compared to the pros. I got it for a little under 800 dollars and consider that to be a steal.

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5.0 out of 5 stars

Great for the price

Got this for my daily usage and casual gaming and I’m very pleased with it. I’m not sure how it holds up for mmorpg and intensive online gaming, but it’s worked fine for me for single-player games. I played all of Baldurs Gate 3 on this laptop (single-player only), and while the laptop ran super hot, I had fun playing the game and experienced no lag. I did have to get a separate laptop fan, tho–without it, I wouldn’t trust the laptop to hold up. It risked overheating and the screen flickered. This shouldn’t be surprising given the laptop’s specs, tho. You get what you pay for. And like I said, it ran fine with the laptop fan. It definitely needed to be plugged in tho; without that, the battery would die in about half an hour or so.Overall, great value! Perfect for a casual gamer who doesn’t want to spend crazy $$ or build their own machine.

1.0 out of 5 stars

Big Disappointment

I had to spend an extra hundred dollars just to upgrade the RAM. So, it could play a few modern games. Still lags and everything looks pixilated. I mainly bought this laptop in hopes I could run my capture card through it and stream console games with Overlays and Alerts. I was dead wrong, this piece of junk crashes after two minutes of me streaming on StreamLabs, OBS Studio, and gostreamlight.com. NO matter what I stream the laptop freezes and crashes every time. NOT A GAMING LAPTOP

5.0 out of 5 stars

Use TV For Monitor

I’m mainly into adventure gaming and regular computer use. I bought this to use my TV screen as a monitor with excellent results with the included HDMI port. On my TV the gaming video quality is beautiful. I expect that Hotel TV’s will give me equally good results. I have wireless accessories and I’m quite pleased. I also upgraded to 16Gb RAM and installed a 1TB Samsung 870 EVO SATA SSD for backup and storage. I’m confident that I can play any game that I want to with no reduction in quality and with high FPS, including with hand-to-hand combat scenes. With the i7 core, RTX3050, and sturdy build quality it was a steal at $739. No complaints.

6 people found this helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars

Good noutbook, bu overheating

Noutbook is very good at all, but overheats very much

5.0 out of 5 stars

La laptop correcta, aún en 2023

La laptop llegó a los días, no demoro casi nada, al encenderla todo funcionó bien, para conectar el cargador hace dos clicks así que si no ven que carga no se asusten, en rendimiento va perfecto, la uso más que todo para estudiar (programación) y también para jugar un poco obvio, he jugado juegos demandantes y va perfecto, pero claro si quieres más FPS pues bajemos los gráficos, sin embargo corre a 70-90Fps de media en Warzone, así que si ajustas los gráficos un poco más a la baja si llegas a los 100Fps, sin duda la recomiendo.

5 people found this helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars

Good value

Been using it for a month, very good performance for the money. First time Norton updated it caused a no boot condition. A quick restore and I was back in businessband uninstalled Norton, been working fine since. Good specs for the money, battery life isn’t spectacular at about 2.5 hours . Overall decent laptop value.

3 people found this helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars

Arrived with scratches in the screen

Everything perfect but the screen have little scratches

One person found this helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars

Great computer, but has its downsides

Only having 8 Gs of ram does take a toll on the computer, but overall, it has a decent battery life, is easy to carry around, and does what I need it to do. Easily plays SIMS, haven’t tried any other games however. But overall happy with my purchase, will be upgrading ram soon however

5 people found this helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars

amazing Laptop

I extremely love this computer because it works for my schooling and my son does mess with it so it holds up to a two year old.

One person found this helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars

Guys i know I know just listen.

Ok. I was worried when I bought this I wouldn’t be able to play any of the games I want. Buy a 8 gig ram stick and add it in. This has 2 ram slots. It runs fortnite max graphics at 120 FPS. It plays games like minecraft with good shaders on it at 60. It runs games like grounded and minecraft dungeons at max graphics beautifully. It’s an amazing computer. Fans can get a bit loud but just turn noise cancelation on discord and you’re good to go. Amazing laptop. And incredibly worth it for the money. My wife is getting one too. Windows 11 is also an amazing feature on this

9 people found this helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars

Excellent gaming PC for the price

Not too much to say here. I’m very happy I bought this computer. It’s fast and the graphics are brilliant! The fans can get a little noisy at times, when it’s under a heavy load, but if you’re wearing a headset while gaming you won’t even notice. Highly Rex this machine!

4.0 out of 5 stars

best “budget” laptop for a 3050ti laptop

I like the feel of the keyboard and just the size and frame of the whole product itself. Has slightly sharp edges so it hurts your forearm if you type and rest you arms on it. The performance is outstanding in playing games but you cant really multitask as much on it since it only has 8gb ram and a “good” CPU. but definitely can run at 60 or more in fps in warzone 2.0.

3 people found this helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars

Storage expandability, average Battery, bright Screen, powerful gpu and cpu

Powerful CPU (intel i7 11800h) and gpu (nvidia 3050 ti). Stays cooler than my 8th gen intel .Expandability is excellent with one nvme gen 4 (see attached photo with specs), one nvme gen 3 and sata hard disk. You can also upgrade ram to 64giga but is overkill, 2X16 is more than enough.Monitor model is Chi Model Mei [CMN1521] N156HRA-EA1 with Brightness 306 cd/m2, sRGB 66%, No PWM (Flicker-Free), Panel Type IPS, Contrast 1480:1.In other words, is pleasant in the eye but not suitable for photo editing. Anyway at this price range it’s difficult to find a photo editing monitor at 99% srgb.In my case this isn’t a problem since I use an external monitor connected through the hdmi or the thunderbolt 4 port at 4k 60hz.Battery is average. Audio is mediocre.All in all: it’s a bargain! [as long it lasts]

16 people found this helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars

Nice starter gaming laptop

Bought this on a deal. It has been a nice entry level gaming laptop for my husband. I like that this can be upgraded with the extra RAM slot and an extra SSD slot and 2.5 bay. Something to keep in mind, this does not accept anything made by crucial. I don’t know why, but I had a crucial nvme m2 internal ssd (4×4 gaming ssd) and a crucial 2.5 ssd and both caused the laptop to stay on a black screen upon boot up. After a lot of research, there were many forums from others saying they also ran into this problem and crucial storage is not compatible with the bios. Would I have bought this at full price at around $1000. No. For the deal I got it at, yes. If you can get this during a deal and looking for a great starter gaming laptop, this is a good choice to go with.

6 people found this helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars

It can run THE ISLE on EPIC settings.

I genuinely didn’t know what to expect with this laptop especially it being my very first gaming laptop. But all I ever wanted to play was the isle and if you don’t know what it is, it’s a extremely DEMANDING game and it’s only 20$ but you need such a good setup for it and it broke my heart but I was praying I could run it on atleast low or medium. Nah. It runs the smoothest I’ve ever played a game on epic I literally almost cried like a little boy loading in. Absolutely would recommend you can’t go wrong and it’s such a sharp and slick design. It’s just genuinely a amazing laptop and honestly I’d say it gives PC’s a run for their money. I’m going to be testing out God of War and spider man but I think it will run

17 people found this helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars

At first.. It did not turn on. Not switching on!! Fixed

So, at first I thought it was dead on arrival.. I tried different outlets and all.. I was even requesting to a refund.. but I know this sounds like a simple fix.. step 1. Relax, Step 2. Put back the power cable and use a bit more force till you hear a click.. trust me.. I thought I was using enough force at first.. it should show the indicator light.. then switch it on.. good luck ????????

16 people found this helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars

Decent laptop

I haven’t found any real problems with this laptop yet, has a program mapped to a key that allows you to change the mode from battery saving to optimal performance which is really handly. The same program has other features like allowing you to manually control the speed of both of its 2 internal fans (one for cpu and one for gpu). Awesome little laptop for its price point, great for all around use and runs most games at max settings with decent frame rate. Definitely worth the money to me.

5 people found this helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars

Just what I needed

I needed a new gaming laptop for a bit and this one is perfect. Runs fast, has space to had an extra hard-drive. Resolution is good for most games.(Ran Minecraft and Apex like a dream. But struggled with Forge for dnd)One complaint. She gets hot, the fans are really powerful and keep it pretty kool. But I HIGHLY recommend getting a cooling pad or something to keep it elevated for the fans on the bottom.Overall really happy with what I got for the price.

4 people found this helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars

Good budget laptop…

Good price, good cooling, great screen. Tossed a second m.2 SSD and a bigger RAM kit in it and it purrs like a kitten.

4.0 out of 5 stars

If asked to do realistic tasks its a power house.

Keep expectations realistic do your research for what kind of games your gonna play how this hardware stacks up to running sed games and your gonna have a good time and be happy with your buy. The only ball drop by Microsoft or Acer was i had to download some additional C++ code to get some games running how they should. I play fighting games and this laptop suits my needs and runs the games without issue should also be enough to handle street fighter 6 with no issues playing more demanding games performance may decline. You also need to understand you absolutely will not be gaming without being plugged into the charger you will just gimp the component’s if you don’t play plugged into a outlet and have a bad time. Make sure you set up the PC to optimize performance and take full advantage of its dedicated nividia card and intel processor the ram can be upgraded but i would only put 16gigs in max the 8 gig stick is okay. The native 144hz screen is impressive for the price this laptop costs all in all if you know what your doing and know how games will run on the hardware that you want to play you will be happy with the buy. Understand this all depends on the type of games you want the hardware to play and what those games will be asking the system to preform i cant stress that fact enough please do your research before you buy that means you parents of children google and youtube are your friend when it comes to this.

19 people found this helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars

A lot of bang for such little buck

This definitely can’t compare to my gaming desktop, but I needed something to hold me over while I was traveling out of state for 10 weeks for a training program in my new career.The build definitely feels like what I paid for (about $800), being a bit plastic and flimsy. However, the core components are pretty solid. I like the built in software for monitoring temps and controlling cpu and gpu fans separately. It does run a bit hot during high intensity applications (as to be expected with any laptop) but if you don’t mind the noise you can really let the fans rip.If I were rating this in a vacuum, without considering price it would be a 3.5/5 as the build, camera, and ram are a bit lackluster. However, as an under 1k travel rig, this thing really slaps.After my trip I’ll be able to get more mileage out of this as a DnD DM as it is compact enough to hang out behind my DM screen. The built in hdmi ports will be able to connect to a tv screen for digital battlemaps as well.Elden Ring and ESO both ran like dreams on this machine. I’m a big fan of AMD cards, but they are a lot harder to set up. I forgot how optimized nvidia cards come right out od the box. It was a pleasant surprise.The screen was nothing special, but it worked. I wish it were more vibrant and bright, but it wasn’t a total game breaker.

23 people found this helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars

Decent laptop

I’ve only had this for a day now, so I can’t speak to longevity. All in all I’m pleased with this laptop. It’s lightweight but packs a punch still. Set up and updating was quick and easy. It’s a great utilization of space, only a slim border around the screen and keyboard.A few first impression negatives: you can see in other review images that it comes with 5 semi permanent stickers, (Nvidia, Intel, Alexa, 144hz, and a long feature banner). That was a bummer because they weren’t in the product image, and they look awful (not to mention some were crooked). Thankfully they’re removable, though I had to use glass cleaner to get rid of residue from one. Not a big deal though. The frame is very lightweight and flexible. The feet keep it raised which is good for cooling, but any pressure on the middle makes it flex, which I don’t love. It’s not going to crumble, but it’s definitely a step down from my Lenovo with a metal body. You’re paying for the internal components, not the frame.

10 people found this helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars

Great laptop

It has its fair share of problems but it gets the job done…I thought it was working at first but if you do buy this just know that you have to push in the charger hard so that it goes in properly…. If you are trying to play hard games like CoD it won’t work so keep that in mind

5.0 out of 5 stars

It’s pretty good

I have been using this laptop for a week and honestly find it pretty good. I went through a lot of reviews before making my decision and wanted to add my own for anyone thinking of buying this.PROS:-The screen is really vibrant. I haven’t noticed any screen bleed or dull colors and the refresh rate is great.-The laptop stays very cool* under heavy gaming.-It’s really snappy and responsive. I haven’t noticed any lag.-The touchpad is very responsive and easy to use.-The keys are slightly raised and feel a bit soft but in a good way. They’re pleasant to type on and it wasn’t hard to adjust to this smaller layout from a wider desktop keyboard.CONS:-The fan is loud when gaming. Like, really, really loud. It might be jarring if you’re coming from a desktop.-Battery life is pretty bad and the performance decrease when not connected to a charger is not extreme, but noticeable.NOTES:-As the other reviews have said, you need to press the power cord in and hear it click twice.-If you downgraded to Windows 10, you’ll want to redownload the relevant drivers from Acer’s website. I had to redownload the touchpad and io drivers to get mine working again.-You’ll also want to redownload Nitrosense if you downgrade. You can use it to toggle on coolboost which keeps the laptop extremely cool. You can also allegedly use it to lower the speed of the fans but I didn’t notice a reduction in fan noise so I decided to keep it on coolboost.All in all? The cons are pretty minor compared to the pros. I got it for a little under 800 dollars and consider that to be a steal.

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