Acer Nitro 5 AN515-55-53E5 Gaming Laptop | Intel Core i5-10300H | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 GPU | 15.6″ FHD 144Hz IPS Display | 8GB DDR4 | 256GB NVMe SSD | Intel Wi-Fi 6 | Backlit Keyboard

5.0 out of 5 stars

Excellent laptop for the price!

At this price, you’ll have a hard time finding the same raw power anywhere else. So far, I’ve played No Man’s Sky and Planetside 2 (at default settings) with no framerate issues that I can notice. Minecraft with RTX also works. It has a few framerate hiccups, but I’ve seen the same from some desktop RTX cards.The screen is nice. The colors aren’t washed out by the backlight, like in other laptops, and the higher refresh rate makes everything feel liquidy smooth.A big factor that drives the price down is, of course, the storage. The more modern games you’ll probably want to play on this machine are usually 50+ GB in size, and at that rate, the 250 GB hard drive is going to fill up in no time. Just remember that the storage is extremely upgradeable–another feature that’s hard to find in laptops at this price point. Don’t need a ton of storage? Great, enjoy the low price. Need more storage? The option’s there for you when you’re ready.P.S. I was wary at first, because Acer has a bit of a “you get what you pay for” reputation. But I’ve had it for about a month now, and haven’t encountered any issues. I also purchased the 4-year protection plan, just in case.

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5.0 out of 5 stars

Unleash your gaming potential

I bought this for my 9 yr old grandson. the Acer Nitro 5 AN515-55-53E5 Gaming Laptop, and he’s loving it! The Intel Core i5-10300H processor and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop GPU make it a powerhouse for gaming and other tasks. The 15.6″ FHD 144Hz IPS Display is a visual treat, and the backlit keyboard is a nice touch. The laptop is sleek and stylish, and I love the way it looks. Overall, I’m very happy with my purchase and would recommend it to anyone looking for a high-performance gaming laptop.

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4.0 out of 5 stars

Great Laptop but Check it all when it comes

I’m definitely loving this laptop.I have a gaming rig with a Ryzen 5 3rd gen and XFX main card, and this laptop holds up with all the AAA titles I play on my big rig, BUT I can take it anywhere!The only reason this gets a 4 star is because it clearly states that there are supposed to be 2 stick (PCIE) SSD slots with a 2.5″ HDD port to upgrade storage.When I popped this bugger open to add storage and RAM, low and behold I find it has only 1 stick SSD slots and a 2.5″Luckily I bought a 2.5″ SSD instead of a stick (PCIE) since this thing clearly has a spot on the MB to have that extra PCIE slot but there is nothing there. So basically I get 1 PCIE and 1 2.5″ HDD port instead of 2.Super disappointed, considering there is even a Nitro 5 sticker that says “Available slots: 2 SSD, 1 HDD”Unfortunately not true at all…..

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5.0 out of 5 stars

Very good for the price 🙂

This is my first laptop after a decade and I am very happy to purchase this one. So many good words about Nitro 5s, even this one is not one of the better ones, I added another 8Gb ram and 2 TB 2.5 SSD to make it bit more usable. Not that anything wrong with 8Gb ram and 256Gb SSD but 8Gb rams are not that expensive at all these days.. I had 2TB SSD from my big computer, just switched it over. Talking about upgrading the laptop, it’s so easy. Comes with everything you need to add another 2.5 SSD. YouTube videos helped me out though, made my job a lot easier. This computer does play FPS games, and plays them very smooth. The fans start running though, and you might think it’s overheating, that’s not the case, it’s normal. They don’t go full speed. I also play mobile games and stream through laptop… no heating no fan issues at all… it’s like so smooth and easy for the machine. For this price, I highly recommend it, if you are in a tight budged like I am. One more thing for this laptop, I am going to travel Europe next year, and it won’t be problem bringing it with me, since it is travel friendly 🙂

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4.0 out of 5 stars

FEW PROBLEMS BUT IT WAS WORTH THE COST

Model & Specs: Acer Nitro 5 AN515-55-53E5 | Intel Core i5-10300H | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050I had this laptop for a little over 2 years and, despite the problems, I’m pretty happy with it.First a Warning: The new laptop didn’t turn on and I thought it was DOA but it was b/c you have to push the power plug fairly hard into it to hear the *snap*.Whether for gaming or something else, its CPU & GPU are strong, but you’ll need to buy additional SSD & RAM to really make it shine.PROS:- The CPU & GPU are excellent for the price. (This is the biggest PRO)- Great cooling ~ I never had an overheating problem while using a cooling pad.- Easy access to multiple slots for adding extra Storage & RAM.- Backlit keyboard is really nice, even when using it in a well-lit room.CONS:- 2 USB ports died after 10 months. Sending it in for repairs takes over a week so I had to buy the $50 part and replace it myself.- The mousepad started acting jumpy and annoying to use. No problems with using a mouse but sucks for pad users and I’ve never had this problem with other laptops before.- The Delete [Del] key, in the top-right corner, is moved one space to the left and [Home] key is in its place. Didn’t think moving 1 key out of place would be so annoying but I always find myself pressing the “Home” key when I want to press “Delete.”

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5.0 out of 5 stars

Excellent Value Gaming Laptop

Good sub-$1000 gaming laptops are hard to find, but The Nitro 5 gives great value without breaking the bank. The 10th Gen Core i5 processor is 2 generations old at this point, but it has plenty of power to run pretty much all modern games at a decent setting. The Nvidia RTX 3050 graphics processor is an entry level to the new Ray-Tracing sexiness that’s the next big thing in graphics. On newer games you probably won’t be able to get past the 60fps barrier at 1080p with the settings cranked, but dialing the details down a bit will give you better rates. The display is rated for 1080p and 144hz, and while it’s not the brightest or most vibrant screen out there, it’s fine for this price point. There is also a (full size) HDMI out, but I have not had occasion to connect this to an external monitor yet. The cooling fans do a good job of keeping this machine within temp specs… but do note they can get pretty loud under load (honestly that’s almost inevitable on a gaming laptop, it’s hard to keep things cool in such a small box. Anyone who games on a laptop should invest in a good headset IMHO.)I have opened this computer up to install a few upgrades (more on that below) and I will say I’m pretty impressed with the build quality for a computer in this segment. The components are reputable makes rather than mystery off-brands (WD for the SSD, looks like Micron on the single 8gb RAM stick.) All the panels fit together nice and go back together easily after disassembly, making upgrades something you don’t have to dread.Speaking of those upgrades… for a computer at this price point you have to live with a few compromises and here is where they may be found. The storage this model comes with is a paltry 256gb m.2 drive… If you do plan on gaming on the Nitro, either be ready to upgrade this quickly or learn to love delete-ing and re-installing games and apps constantly. Fortunately, there is a second un-used m.2 PCIe slot on the motherboard to accommodate an upgrade (this processor and motherboard supports PCIe up to gen-3 speeds.) There is also an open 2.5 inch bay for an SSD. Memory-wise, this unit comes with a single 8gb DDR4 SODIMM RAM stick installed. This should be fine for most gaming- if you don’t run big apps in the background- but since this has two slots total for an upgrade I removed it and installed 2 8gb sticks of Kingston FURY Impact DDR4 RAM, just for a bit of extra headroom (the max speed the i5 10300H will operate memory at is 2933 Mhz, so it’s not worth it to spend more on faster RAM.)All in all, this is a fine machine for someone who’s interested in a good no-fuss entryway into PC gaming, or a seasoned gamer who wants an inexpensive but capable machine to go mobile with. Highly Recommended!

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5.0 out of 5 stars

Budget friendly for new-to-PC

This is very much a highly modifiable and budget friendly starter PC. As soon as you look at the hardware you know there are going to be bottleneck points if you want to actually use this for more than 1 modern program. I immediately put it a Predator SSD and upgraded the RAM to 32 bit @ 3200 MHz (two RAM sticks at 16 is going to benefit more than a single 32) which skyrocketed the CPU performance. Every upgrade video you will see show a bunch of adapters that you don’t need. There are two (2) M2 ports you can easily access removing the bottom; one hosts the original Hard Drive and the second I put the new SSD drive in, I then followed the Hard Drive copy process on their website and within 10 minutes I was done. It also opened up the bottleneck in the system and allowed games to appropriately use the GPU.Now, the GPU is just midgrade but you get what you pay for. You’re not going to play Battlefront / COD at 1080p by any means without a lot of lag, but after just the two upgrades every game so far it flawless at 720p. I could have also lowered the refresh rate from 144 Hz and gotten the responsive 1080p at the cost of smoothing. You can plug in an HDMI-ported high refresh display that bypasses the graphics bottleneck but you got a laptop for a reason and the GPU can still only handle so much.Overall, this is my first time getting a dedicated gaming PC and I’m extremely happy with not only how well it performs but how well laid out it is to modify/upgrade. I would recommend it to people starting out and don’t have a high graphics demand.

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5.0 out of 5 stars

La mejor relación costo beneficio

Ya llevo con esta laptop casi un año y estas son mis impresiones:1. Lo que más me gustó es la capacidad de expansión: ahora tiene 32 GB de RAM (crucial 3200MHz), dos discos NVMe (256GB, y 1 TB) y uno SATA de 1 TB.2. El rendimiento para los juegos es aceptable: Halo Infinite corre a unos 90 FPS a 1080p y calidad media-baja de configuración. Otros juegos menos exigentes corren por encima de los 100 FPS.3. Hablando de la pantalla, la tasa de refresco es alta, no es tan cómoda frente a la luz directa (el brillo no es muy alto) y la representación de colores no es la mejor. No lo recomendaría para edición de video o fotografía, a menos que se contara con un monitor secundario de alta calidad.4. Para desarrollo de software es un gran equipo, el procesador, aunque ya de dos generaciones atrás, responde bien. Windows inicia inmediatamente y funciona bien para virtualización.5. La batería dura máximo 3 horas y media.6. El puerto USB C no tiene capacidades de carga de la laptop o de salida de video. Sería ideal que un tuviera un lector de tarjetas integrado.7. No tiene el switch MUX (tampoco es de esperar en el rango de precios).8. El teclado se siente bien, el touchpad después del primer mes empezó a mostrar un brillo como si tuviera años de uso, sin embargo, mantiene su funcionamiento normal.9. No es un computador muy vistoso y la calidad de los plásticos no es la mejor. Más pesado que un equipo no orientado a juegos pero sigue siendo transportable.10. La cámara y el micrófono son aceptables para videollamadas. Creo que los streamers preferirán conectar mejores dispositivos.Conclusión: revisar el precio y comparar. Si hay equipos con i5 o i7 de 12° generación o con RTX 3060, a un precio similar, sería mejor ir por esas opciones. Si el presupuesto es muy ajustado o está unos 200 dólares por debajo de la competencia, el Nitro 5 vale la pena.

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5.0 out of 5 stars

Best bang for your Buck

Good laptop, this i5 10300 H and RTX 3050 is a great combination add a extra stick of ram make sure it’s @2933 and you should be okay. I would suggest just buying a duel channel kit of Corsair vengeance @ 2933 just to make sure the ram dimms work together probably. You can always add more storage later as Acer acutely advertises right on the laptop itself you can basically open it and add more at any time you see fit. For games like WoW open world 89-144 fps out questing. PvP epic or random around a average in the 90s fps with medium/high settings can handle being upscaled in game to 1440p with a small performance hit. But is great at 1080p seeing it’s a smaller screen resolution @ 1080p looks amazing. color is a tad lack luster but not a dealbreaker by any means at this price point does well with fallout series and other games as well. I honestly did not expect this to perform as well as it does. Honestly I think it’s handles games just as well as a gtx 1070 or in at or right under 1660ti desktop version. The 4GB v ram is not going to be able to handle ultra setting in most newer games. but with the smaller screen turning down certain settings are going to get you great performance With almost no visual quality loss. I would take higher refresh rate over higher resolution any day certain games you may not be able to achieve the 144hz but anything over 60 is going to stay buttery smooth. You will have one extra nvme ssd slot under the one in use I do believe that can handle up to a 2TB drive and a 2.5 sata drive slot as well. I Iiked it so much my girlfriend wanted a laptop and I couldn’t justify buying anything less even though she only plays sims 4. I can’t bring myself to buy anything in the 600 to 700$ range that only runs on integrated graphics it’s just not worth the money.

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5.0 out of 5 stars

Great for getting started on PC gaming but…

So, I got this laptop so I could start pc gaming for the first time, and I love it so far. However, the first day of having it, I’ve noticed that the charging indicator would flash orange nonstop after a full. I’ve tried calibrating the battery(No flash for 2 days), battery resetting(No flash for 10 hours), unplugging the battery(No change). None of these things would get that darn light to stop flashing. So, to remedy this issue, I’ve changed the battery. Low and behold, it never has flashed orange since. First thing I recommend with this laptop is change the battery ASAP for two reasons. 1. The battery life isn’t very long. 2. Prevent that issue that I ran into when buying mine.(plus it lasts 4 hours longer than the one it came with.)I haven’t hit my 80 Days with it. So, I will update this review when I do if I run into any other problems.

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5.0 out of 5 stars

Fantastic Computer

This is the first computer I’ve ever bought myself now at 18. Previously my dad would usually get the PCs that were being replaced where he worked in IT. I never had a computer that could run the beefy games that I like smoothly and this was the first to ever do it and do it well. It doesn’t overheat and the fans are great.My 16 year old brother eyed my computer and loved it so much that he bought one for himself.You really can’t go wrong with such great specs and RTX 3050. The only thing that I’ve altered is the ram. Please do yourself a favor and get 32GB to see this baby run like hell. Purchase this computer.TLDR: Buy this and buy 32GB of DDR4 ram.

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5.0 out of 5 stars

Push the plug in all the way!

This was the first gaming computer I ever bought, so I had no idea that the plugs were different from regular computers. When I first plugged it in and tried to turn it on, nothing happened. I thought I got a bum computer! I called the number on the package and was told that gaming computers have different plugs than standard computers, and that I had to push the plug into the back of the computer all the way until I heard a click. I thought I had, but when I pushed on it again I heard the click and it started right up.Onto the computer itself… the graphics are great, the speed has worked well for all the games used so far (Minecraft, Bloons TD6, etc.), the picture is vivid, and I have no complaints so far!

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5.0 out of 5 stars

An excellent option for limited budget!

So, I was tracking it’s price for a few months and it reached it lowest price in Black Friday so I didn’t hesitate. After almost six months of use I’m really glad of the results, I bought it mostly for work, present content in virtual meetings while having some programs running. Since the beginning I only ran a few games (Halo Infinite and Destiny) because the storage is a huge limitation, but after a few months I bought an extra ssd plus 8gb for ram and the results are really admirable. Must games run smoothly at high definition (not top but four out of five) and in some more demanding games you can still play in good quality. Lately I plugged it to the tv (standard Samsung) to play a little more comfortable and my experience has been really pleasant. No crashes until now. I’ve tried RE2, DBZ Fighterz, COD and FIFA22.

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5.0 out of 5 stars

Good mid range laptop

I bought this….2 years ago? 3? It’s been serving me very very well. You’re gonna have to pop it open and add a larger SSD but otherwise it’s a solid laptop for the price. I can blow through games at non-4k resolution well, it handles VR, did some programming on it. It’s great I love it to death

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4.0 out of 5 stars

Arrived today, running quick and smooth so far

I see a lot of people complaining about the disk space and yeah, it’s low for a gaming laptop but I just got me a 1tb m.2 ssd for $126 so I’m not complaining. Even with 8gb Ram it seems to run smooth and work well also (though I am upgrading to 32gb). I can’t comment on the gaming bc I can’t install a real game until my ssd upgrade comes in but I’m hopeful and I’m happy thus far. It is important to note that to charge you have to push the cable in kinda hard until you hear the click sound, otherwise it doesn’t charge. It took me a few minutes to figure that out. Also, not a lot of bloatware installed so that’s good too; it’s unnecessary to use Norton when you have Windows Defender so I’d uninstall it along with Dropbox. Laptop isn’t very heavy and to keep it that way I’m opting to not use the HDD bay and instead just use m.2 ssd instead. This seems like a quality product so far so hopefully it lasts as long as my last Asus laptop did (6+yrs & still going). Wish a Blu-ray drive was included but not a deal breaker as you can buy an external slim one for around $100. Highly recommend this system so far, just know you’re going to need to upgrade the storage immediately before playing storage heavy games like WoW, COD, etc hence 4/5 stars.edit 3/5/22: I’ve had this awhile now & no issues at all still. I really like this laptop.

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5.0 out of 5 stars

Best Bang for your Buck

I’m an architecture student and I bought this laptop as I needed an affordable but powerful laptop to run some of the architectural software (Revit, Inventor, etc) while on the go. The dedicated 3050 comes in handy when rendering finished models and the CPU is beefy enough to handle all the processing requirements these programs take.While the i5 is great for my own needs I would recommend going with the i7 if you can afford the extra costs. I haven’t found a laptop yet that can beat the performance this offers at this price.However here are some drawbacks and considerations.The screen quality is great but the backlight shows slightly and the color seems a bit off compared to when I link the screen to another monitor. Maybe that’s a user error, but its a noticeable difference from when I look at the same image on another screenTerrible battery life. Make sure you always have a charging cord handy and don’t expect it to last the entirety of a long flight. The battery last around 4 hours with light usage. 3 hours if I’m rendering or designing. If power-saving mode is enabled you can extend this time frame at the cost of performance.Low Storage and mediocre ram. Luckily these issues can be mitigated. Additional storage slots for SSD and HHD are available to increase storage capacity. The RAM is acceptable for what I need, however, if you plan on rendering large projects or want to play some AAA games you’ll want to upgrade these features.I’m very happy with my purchase.

21 people found this helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars

You can’t utilize half of the storage

So after doing some digging around and setting up my laptop I checked my storage after I had downloaded a single game being stardew valley which is a game that is really small its only take 500 mbs to download. Well I found out with a game that’s 500mbs and all the things the laptop needs to be bale to cuntion I only am able to use roughly 90 gbs so if you want to play any shooter or any game that has decent amount of content you have to upgrade the storage cause 150 ish gb are used on nothing but the of and other default items which you cannot Uninstall to free up space. The fact of the matter is you are only able to actually use less than 100 gb which you have to really pay attention to other wise your storage will cap. I would have loved to get ark survival evolved but it’s a pretty big game being 231gb and with this laptop you can only use just under 100 of the advertised 256 gb memory

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5.0 out of 5 stars

Runs amazing with the sims 4

I mainly got this gaming laptop for the sims 4 because I have almost every single add on you can get for it and a few mods. I have been playing on a regular laptop for years! It was always so laggy and took forever to load even to just the main screen. I had it now for about 2 ish months and WOW it works amazing and runs smoothly. I also have Apex Legends and Life is Strange installed and they also run amazingly smooth!! I do have a lot of add on and mods so my sim game is the tiniest bit lag but not enough to bother me! I give is a solid 9.5/10 I gave it a 9.5 because it does get hot so I got a cooling laptop stand and haven’t had any problems so far!

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4.0 out of 5 stars

If it doesn’t start up the charger is not clicked in your laptop properly

When I plugged it in there was no life no lights whatsoever. Was very disappointed but when I called customer service they said to make sure the charger that is on the laptop end make sure it clicks in properly. And that was it! It started up right away. I thought it was not working my son was very upset. But it was pretty simple issue. So if you have this problem just make sure you hear a click sound when you plug the laptop in charge

4.0 out of 5 stars

Mouse Touch Pad is terrible

Only thing I did not like about this is the left/right mouse click buttons, there are not any, they are built into the touch pad and if you move your finger at all when you push down the pointer moves off the target on the screen. Also unless you are on the very left or right of the pad when you click you don’t know if your going to get a left or right click.