Hello All! Thanks for the updates in the comments. We looked a bit further into this and the odd thing is that Acer is selling both in PARALLEL whereas the late 2019 now has a new updated price and an RTX 2060 (2019 came with GTX graphics). Its really bizarre but this IS the 2020 model....even though its also a late 2019 model in many ways. There is no 2020 model with the new red accents + this config.
people still compare it with asus tuf a15 and HP Pavilion Gaming 15. while tuf A15 is actually has poor cooling, i don't see any flaws to HP Pav 15 (it has 144hz screen with same price as nitro 5 in my country). Do you guys has any further insight?
@@nickochioneantony9288 nitro also have poor cooling it's get hot very hot from one side hp omen have better cooling one side fan make alot of difference i have to make of hole of laptop and buy cooler so it will get less hot
@@modernlogix pavilion actually come with 1650 here in indonesia, and cost the same with nitro 5... both of them cost about $850 (yeah being in 3rd world country sucks), and it is currently the cheapest gaming laptop with 1650. i don't actually concern in spec, i know that R5 4600h with GTX 1650 had the most bang for the buck... my only concern is the build quality such as screen quality, battery, durability, longetivity.
Happy to see a budget laptop review at sub $1000 dollars. I consider budget to be between 500 and 700 dollars, with like lower-end 1050s or the 1650 variants. It would be interesting to see a review of one of those...
@@NuclearSimon well, it actually budget for sure (nitro5) , the mid/medium tier is around 1k1-1k3 (helios) ,high tier is like 1k5-2k (triton) if im not wrong .(read it on a tech page couple years ago)
@@AhmedMahmoud-mx1xp I’ve got this pc I’m playing far cry 5 halo Master Chief collection destiny 2 Battlefield 1 and many other games all at consistent 60 FPS but sometimes far cry 5 can go up to 80 FPS
@@halo3odst395 I have an older lenovo y50-70 and I can tun those games pretty fine. But I can't run ac origins or odessey for instance, how do they run on yours ? Also, my main issue the build quality and temperatue. Does it get too hot quickly ? Do you feel like the build is cheap ?
@@AhmedMahmoud-mx1xp you need to download something called brute force basically the pc is automatically set to run games trash for some reason useing. Brute force you can set the pc to run games at high-performance keep in mind your pc may heat up and the fans are pretty loud but everything will work fine would recommend upgrading the ram for even better performance also press the big n on your laptop keyboard when that loads up press high-performance with brute force you can manually set the pc to 60 FPS but even at 60 FPS you could still get 80 FPS my pc was automatically set at 20 FPS So press the big n on your keyboard set everything to high-performance Then download brute force make a account then go on brute force settings and set your pc to 60 FPS instead of the default 20 FPS
Everyone yelling how this is a 2019 model: This is a model released in 2020 using the 2019 design (because of the 9th gen CPU / motherboard) alongside the 2020-design 2020 models. That's why this looks like the 2019 ones and not the Intel 10th gen model
i get your point.. but majority of people here want to see the actual New 10th gen / zen 2 in nitro 5, especially that R5 4600h, which outperform any other competitor in price to performance ratio
Hello, Eber! :-) I'm a fan. English is not my primary language (not even second), and although you speak very fast (to pack in more content), your dictation is so good I can understand everything. Another point that I really like about you is that you seem very humble (as in you have no need to show off, like other sites/presenters), but you're not afraid of giving your own (very well grounded) opinion: great value information-wise and you seem careful enough to present it as an opinion, not a fact. So, my most sincere gratitude for all the content you produce for us and congratulations on such a high-quality standards.
Your speak very proficient english,,,, English is my second language,,,, but you speak (type) it in a much better way than most people who speak english as a first language
Dude. I just bought one of these from Amazon recently and im so glad you made this video. Its my first plung into the PC master race, but I really appreciate how much work and testing you did for this laptop. Luckily I think the most recent generation of this laptop worked on its display so ill cross my fingers when it gets here in 5 days. Thanks!!!
Price seems to have come down a bit. Mine was $1130 from Newegg. 16gb RAM, 2060 and 512gb SSD. Ive been wanting a laptpp for a few years now and this is definitely the absolute best value out there. I've looked at, at least ~100 different laptops and the Nitro cant be beat.
@@sleepingdog12 i have owned previous nitro 5 and it doesnt have a good build quality. I know this is newer but there isnt much changes and for this price you can get a better laptop like msi or asus
I need to say this was a great review and very detailed. I have been debating this exact model for the past week or so.. found it with the 512ssd still the i7 9750, 16gb ram rtx2060 etc.. for $999. My question is if given the option would you go with this one.. or spring the little step higher for the Helios 300 you mentioned with the 10th gen i7. How does that laptop differ/compare with essentially this maxed out nitro 5 especially in regards to the build quality and aspects where the nitro is a bit lower than your average.
@@modernlogix 9750H is a good chip. Its what my msi gf 65 rtx 2060 is rocking. A 10th gen wouldn't be able to undervolt so the 9th gen is necessary to UV and have good thermals.
So...I'm researching budget laptop gaming for someone. Completely noob comment here, but as a console gamer what sort of game are we expecting from this?.. Decently running PS4 era' games?
thats the 2019 version not the 2020 i have the 2020 mode and its different but still great review and btw the acer nitro 5 IS AWSOME!!!*typing tis comment on the acer nitro 5:)
@@lulu_TheWitchBoy it cost 700 with tax but I warn u you will have to get a cooler pad cus it heats up even on Minecraft high settings it gets up to 82 degrees or you can get the go pavilion gaming laptop and that one cost around 600 or 550
I have the 2019 Intel model and it's probably the best thing I've spent my money on. Only problem with it is that the screen is dull as hell but that doesn't matter if you're gonna hook it up to a monitor.
@Eber Can't stress it enough that it isn't the 2020 model. the 2020 model has rgb backlit keyboard, red accents on the back grille and also has a completely different thermal design. :/
Yes and no. On one hand this is a carry over from 2019 into the 2020 model year with a new GPU. On the other hand the options you listed above aren't available with a 6-core chip or RTX 2060 from our understanding.
I bought this laptop 2 weeks ago and it runs amazing with any game I play on it, I played league of legends, apex legends, CSGO, Valorant and Halo Reach and I had no problems with the performance and the visuals whatsoever, totally recommend if you are at a tight budget or if you want a gaming laptop at any price. Also I use this laptop for college and never had a problem, totally recommend if you need a laptop for school and gaming.
I'm not sure about the new models, but I had an older model (bought in 2018) and in just a bit over 2 years a few of the keys on the keyboard stopped working. Checking online forums I found that quite a few people had this issue. Please make sure the model you buy doesn't have this issue!
CyberNotic Two-Three years ago my friends all bought $500-$800 budget gaming laptops. All had at minimum an intel i5 or i7 CPU, and Nvidia 1050 or 1050Ti Dedicated GPU. (AMD Laptops were not as good back then). As of right now, all of our laptops have deteriorated in different but about equal ways. Acer provides the best performance value per dollar, but getting the SSD is highly recommend instead of the slower HDD hard drive. I chose MSi because it offered an intel i7 and SSD at lower cost to the Dell competition. Unfortunately, I cannot recommend the MSI that I bought because despite its better performance specs per dollar compared to Dell, 3 years later the screen has 4 white blotches (poor panel quality), I had to superglue the hinge to reinforce the lid hinge strength, and the bottom panel has 1 broken clip due to brittle plastics. My friends with Dell have higher laptop build quality but have things like chargers and trackpad go bad, and they paid more for less performance. 1 friend bought an Alienware that we all agree was just way too expensive. The Acer did have a problem with the charging cable sometimes not feeding power (due to constantly being pushed up against in a bad way) but it cost by far the least and had equal specs to everyone else. Given what I know now, would I have chosen MSI all those years ago? Yes, because I need and love my superfast SSD hard drives; and back then Acer did not have SSD’s. I was also way too poor to buy the more expensive Dell/Lenovo/HP gaming laptop with SSD at comparable specs. I just would have warned myself to be delicate with my laptop when opening/closing the internals, and I would have taken to foresight to superglue the lid hinge panels at the very first sight of any bad flexing and popping open With the Acer Nitro 5 now, not looking back
@@Adrien_broner yes and no...my game definitely runs a lot smoother but it gets reallly hot..im talking hot to touch (lotta hot air blown thru the vents) The space it comes with is a bit low but its expandable I jus havent done so yet. The trackpad is a bit funny in terms of its location , its more to the left than the centre so i miss the left click so much times...it also feels like it how do i put this...its grease and dust prone..dust collects prettty easily and my fingertips seem extra oily for some reason..in terms of gameplay, aside from the heat (prolly cuz my games so demanding) my game can run at 60 frames at ultra high graphics no problem..hope that helpss
oooh yh and running two to three demanding apps simultaneously like my game, streamlabs and photoshop even just my game and streamlabs causes lagging in the apps aside from my game...its better to play my game windowed..minimizes the lagging of other apps
8:15 ahh yes. Keisuke vs Godhand, really a great race. I might look into lastgen Nitros, maybe they dropped in price already, 1060 really is all I'd need in a laptop if it is supposed to play games.
What Stage is that race in? Also I'd recommend looking into last-gen Lenovo Legion laptops, they have great build quality and they don't look like a riced out machine
@@TheCooledV Should be 5th Stage if I am not mistaken. I might look into older gaming laptops at some point because Pascal is still decent and laptops of its gen get cheap now.
Hey bro, great review as always. Love the time stamps in the description! If you could add weights in kg and dimensions in cm/mm for the non-US crowd that would be awesome. Cheers from New Zealand!
fatal issues with many of the reviews is not taking into account the company engineers all the stuff to fit in a compact space and still not heatup. I am a electronics engineer and I know the pain. if the trackpad is offset there is a reason. only question is can you live with it when you buy. there is compromise in everything just chose a device you can live with happily.
Lmao dude. What kind of engineer are you? You want people to compromise with the heat when there are other manufacturers making better cooling solutions around the same price.
@@saadmgdm706 that is true. But hey the spec is solid. They have Helios for better quality machines. Acer always has had some cost cutting with lower models.
I have the entry-level model (4600H/1650). It’s insanely good for the price. I added a second stick of RAM and a 960GB Team GX1 for storage and I’m confident it’ll hold me over for some time.
If you have like 200 dollar or 400 dollar laptop this will probably feel like a thousand to you. The refresh rate is so good. And I haven't had to change my settings to get the game to run. So I think it's definitely worth it
Great video! I landed what most likely is the best gaming laptop deal in history yesterday. My local WalMart (yes...that place) had put all of their MSI gaming laptops on clearance. When I went they'd sold them all. However, they had a display MSI GE63 Raider (core i7 9750h. 32gb RAM, RTX 2060 6gb, 512gb SSD NVMe, 1 TB HDD, 144hz display). It was in perfect shape and had never even been powered on. I bought it for $850 out the door. I couldn't believe it. Too bad they didn't have any more or I'd have bought another.
Hi, i might buy this one and i have a question, please answer it if u or anyone see this. so im planning to buy the Acer Nitro 5 AN515-57 laptop, is the microphone quality in this laptop good? like at least the other person can hear me when i talk normally because my other laptop had an issue with this. and my other question was if you could change the backlight color on the keyboard on the AN-515-57
Greeetings from Germany 🙋♂️ Interesting opinion, thanks 🙏 My currently prefered (Gaming) laptop is my XMG Fusion 15 /w 1660Ti 💁♂️ The balance of the package is the best I've seen for quite a while, still ...
I got an Acer Nitro 5 about two years ago, mine was the i5-8300H w/ GTX 1050Ti. Got it on sale for ~$600, so it was a pretty good deal. It is still a great budget gaming laptop, but the only issue I had with this laptop was the build quality, especially the screen. awful screen. AND FINGERPRINT MAGNET. HOLY. Mine broke after a year, without dropping it. I bought a $60 cheapo display from Amazon that was 120hz lol, it still runs great, thermals are pretty good & manual fans are nice. Just upgraded to the Lenovo Legion 7i, super happy
@@RiptideUrBadLol I’ve got this pc last Christmas not sure what model I’m only running games at 60 FPS and it’s set to unlimited 60 FPS is still good but is there something you did to increase your FPS
I found a deal for it on amazon: Acer Nitro 5 AN515-44 15.6 Inch Gaming Laptop (AMD Ryzen 5 4600H, 8GB RAM, 512GB SSD, NVIDIA GTX 1650Ti, Full HD 144Hz Display, Windows 10, Black), Plus Headset/Mouse/Mouse Pad - Amazon Exclusive Seems a good deal for £768.34 !
IM WARNING YOU, I bought this laptop 2 years ago with a i5-8300h 4ghz ; gtx 1050ti the performance is great but the build quality and Temps are so bad, the hinges of the acer nitro 5 is so bad they are thin as a stick, which means you can break it easily, the whole computer is made of plastic and the keyboard does not work all the time , the internal hardware is good but the outside is very bad
I love your review! It's so detailed and you provided so much tests with proper testers to give a review not basing mostly from looks and opinions. Thank you! I have an Acer nito 5 as well. And I do also not like the backlit on top of the monitor, is there any way to fix it?
wait im confused please awnser. Is the amd ryzen 5 6 cores / 12 threads 8gb ram dde4 32000MHz 256 gb NVMe SSD Gtx 1650 1080p 60 Hz Better then the next you showed us?. SHould i buy the amd or intel
I have big problem with mine i have I7 10750H GTX 3060 and 16GB ram and my pc go on 95-97 degree when i gaming did anyone in comment Know how to fix this big problem pls
I know it has a bad color range, but I’ve had no problems with video and photo editing on this thing. The adobe suite runs great on it and I’ve been overall satisfied. So you definitely can do video/photo editing on here, don’t listen to him. I didn’t buy this to do those things explicitly-I did buy it to game btw. But if you do want to edit on here, know that it isn’t terrible.
that is really good to hear. I'm going into college and I'm majoring for graphic communications. I got this laptop as a gift and I couldn't be more impressed with it to be honest. It is a very simple and straight forward laptop. Yes, I do game on it but I'm really excited to see what I can do with these editing software's. I personally really like this a lot.
I've had mine for a few weeks now, 10th gen i7, GTX 2060, and 16 GB RAM. Mostly been playing beam ng and it runs great! Over 100 fps on high graphics settings. Would recommend to anyone for a great budget gaming computer
Be Happy I bought my laptop for 370 dollars and I can play cs:go at 60 FPS no problem +mk10 dragon ball fighterz and many other games on low 60 FPS so yea
I bought a Acer Nitro 5 series AN515-54 from Best Buy Dec. 20th 2019. I'm not a hardcore gamer. I play War Thunder & World of Warships about once a week. My keyboard went out September 2020. I bought a plug-in keyboard. Then towards the end of Oct. My screen went black. The PC was still getting full battery charge. Couldn't even get the BIOS to turn on even though I had everything backed up on a flash drive. Called Acer in Texas they said sure send it in to us. They paid for all shipping and handling. I live in So. Calif. Long story short I called Acer 14 days after I mailed it to say what's up! The person gets back to me and said there tech said there was some sticky substance inside the keys so they won't fix it. I ask what exactly was it because my number 1 rule is no liquids on the same desk as my PC. The guy said call back. I did the next mourning and when I got a tech on the line and told him my name he hung up on me. I will never buy a Acer piece of sh*t ever again!!!
It is still pretty great, i suggest you to change thermal paste and get it cleaned, overclock your gpu just a bit and undervolt your cpu. I have sent it for these fixes yesterday, and honestly, I can't wait!
I have the i7 8750H, have come across many issues including high temperature, but the GPU is still, very great and I feel you can use the same laptop for gaming for at least 3 to 4 years more.
Yeah it's a really trash version. Mines running at around 95C. Im investing into a computer instead of another craptop. Not to say the laptop wasn't decent when it actually worked... but for $1000 I expected more out of it...
I have the Ryzen 5 3550H and GTX1650 variant, it was great even it has 8GB. I am planning for an upgrade soon, upgrading the RAM and SSD since it has 2 NVMe slots
The Nitro 5 has always been a good choice in the budget gaming laptop for the price. And honestly, a GOOD gaming laptop under 1k$ for canadians is pretty damn rare when specced right. Double up the memory from 8 to 16gb for like 40$ and itll be good. But i do recommend getting the Ryzen 5 version with the best GPU available, slow HDD and 8gb of ram. Then go buy your own 8gb of ram and a decent SSD to save money.
Great reviews as usual my man keep em pumping! Is there an nda out on the new dell g5-g7 that went up for sale a month or so ago? No one seems to be reviewing them.
