expiredVietty posted Sep 27, 2022 12:14 AM
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expiredVietty posted Sep 27, 2022 12:14 AM
Acer Nitro 5 Laptop: Ryzen 5 5600H, 15.6" 144Hz, 8GB DDR4, 512GB SSD, RTX 3060
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It's a beast, but be aware the screen is TERRIBLE, 144hz is a lie and it suffers from some of the worst ghosting I've ever encountered on a modern LCD.
There's a model with a 1440p screen and another with a 300hz 1080p, both are well reviewed and I'm planning on trying to find of of those screens and swapping it in, because gaming on this 144hz screen is just terrible.
it has 2 m.2 slots, 2 RAM slots and a wifi cards slot, getting anything with an HDD is practically impossible now
all you have to do is flip it, take the backplate off and change add more
and WTF was that about 6gb of RAM? that's the VRAM.... and no, 32gb is still overkill for anything gaming related
please refrain from giving terrible advice next time
It is superb on a laptop
Most laptops at this price point are rtx 3050 (4gb vram)
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To put it kindly, father time has NOT been kind to the 4 core 4 thread only i5 7300HQ Acer nitro 5 I got a few years ago in 2018 on sale...it ended up being way more of a bottleneck than the 4gb 1050 gpu in it...doubled the ram earlier this year to dual channel 16gb and it didn't help any. Dead by Daylight and Fortnite are slow stuttery messes even on the lowest settings. I'm not sure how else to describe my DBD experience earlier other than laggy and it had input delays even, I guess the poor old cpu just can't keep it up anymore. I'd be lying if I said it wasn't utterly depressing seeing a once expensive gaming laptop go from being able to play stuff on 1080p high to this. Some people said the meltdown/spectre patches hit these older cpu particularly hard, and windows getting heavier over time too. I also had weird problems where it felt like the laptop was using the iGPU instead of the 1050, unless it was wonky driver issues.
I'd love to play some modern games on 1080p high 60fps, I don't even care about ultra...neck, back, nerve problems in addition to sciatica are making me really hate being at my actual computer desk lately. Being able to chill in bed to relieve pain would be a godsend while being able to browse online and play modern games. I'd definitely chuck another 8gb ram stick in this thing, and upgrade the storage asap, 1tb m2 are pretty cheap these days.
....debating this, or a $1000 gigabyte laptop with the ryzen 5800h and "full" power 130w 3060 gpu in it, with 16gb ram and 512gb ssd.
it was pretty depressing also learning modern laptops, or at least those acer nitro 5's when I bought mine years ago couldn't have the cpu upgraded, they started being soldered directly to the mobo. I think plopping in an i7 into my old laptop for more threads would make a world of difference over my poor 4 thread only i5 that was knocked down a peg by the spectre and meltdown patches, but alas...the laptop has become a throwaway piece of technology. Before in years prior, you could open up laptops and upgrade the cpu if it was a compatible socket, I did it myself on an old laptop.
To put it kindly, father time has NOT been kind to the 4 core 4 thread only i5 7300HQ Acer nitro 5 I got a few years ago in 2018 on sale...it ended up being way more of a bottleneck than the 4gb 1050 gpu in it...doubled the ram earlier this year to dual channel 16gb and it didn't help any. Dead by Daylight and Fortnite are slow stuttery messes even on the lowest settings. I'm not sure how else to describe my DBD experience earlier other than laggy and it had input delays even, I guess the poor old cpu just can't keep it up anymore. I'd be lying if I said it wasn't utterly depressing seeing a once expensive gaming laptop go from being able to play stuff on 1080p high to this. Some people said the meltdown/spectre patches hit these older cpu particularly hard, and windows getting heavier over time too. I also had weird problems where it felt like the laptop was using the iGPU instead of the 1050, unless it was wonky driver issues.
I'd love to play some modern games on 1080p high 60fps, I don't even care about ultra...neck, back, nerve problems in addition to sciatica are making me really hate being at my actual computer desk lately. Being able to chill in bed to relieve pain would be a godsend while being able to browse online and play modern games. I'd definitely chuck another 8gb ram stick in this thing, and upgrade the storage asap, 1tb m2 are pretty cheap these days.
....debating this, or a $1000 gigabyte laptop with the ryzen 5800h and "full" power 130w 3060 gpu in it, with 16gb ram and 512gb ssd.
it was pretty depressing also learning modern laptops, or at least those acer nitro 5's when I bought mine years ago couldn't have the cpu upgraded, they started being soldered directly to the mobo. I think plopping in an i7 into my old laptop for more threads would make a world of difference over my poor 4 thread only i5 that was knocked down a peg by the spectre and meltdown patches, but alas...the laptop has become a throwaway piece of technology. Before in years prior, you could open up laptops and upgrade the cpu if it was a compatible socket, I did it myself on an old laptop.
I revisited the system reqs for Dead by Daylight, and it looks like you should be fine still with reasonable settings. Do you have issues with other games besides those two, with similar requirements? If you haven't yet, I'd recommend opening up the laptop and using compressed air to clean out the fans. There's also a chance that the thermal paste included has dried out after several years. I'm wondering if you're experience thermal throttling, but you'll know for sure if you have stats from MSI afterburner or similar while gaming.
Btw in case it helps anyone, my gf has had an Acer Nitro 5 (10th gen Intel i5, RTX 3050) for a year now. She uses a vented laptop cooling pad with fans. I helped her with upgrades, and it has been a fantastic budget laptop for her. From the various laptops I've upgraded, I'd say her Acer Nitro 5 was one of the easiest to upgrade and take apart since hers had 2 RAM slots (1 open) and had a total of 2 NVME M.2 slots along with a 2.5" SATA SSD slot.
if i wanted something to last 3+ years, should i be aiming for 3070 or higher?
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Now if you wanted a desktop for 1440p/60fps a 3060 would do you fine for current games. But if you can swing it I would aim for a 3070 as it will be more future proof.
if i wanted something to last 3+ years, should i be aiming for 3070 or higher?
running a 3080ti on my main computer so i'd like something to be able to run things as fast as possible / ultra quality
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