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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Screen is sub-par IPS, quite washed out, but I guess you can't complain for $729. Speakers are quite good actually with some tuning. I can't really find anything I don't like about it except for the display. I highly recommend this machine, it's lovely.
Edit: Forgot to mention I did pop in a 16gb dual channel kit which perhaps helped GPU performance a bit... This machine is even with my Zephyrus G14 /w 6700S gpu at less than half the cost!
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.
The input delay was improved a lot by hooking the laptop up to an old nothing special decade old spare Asus 1080p 60hz monitor, I swear perhaps something was faulty in my laptop where it wouldn't use the dedicated gpu unless plugged into an external monitor, not sure whats up with that. It still wasn't dead on accurate input though like how I get on my super computer (in comparison) desktop though. The horrid performance I was getting before was akin to it trying to use the integrated graphics. The poor old 4 thread i5 7300HQ was pegged to ~95% in task manager in-game, father time has just marched on it seems. A 3rd gen lowly ryzen 4 thread quadcore in a sub $200 acer laptop in another deal posted here beat mine by a good bit in a multithreaded comparison
Is it bad if I laughed at the comment where someone complained about the total after tax price on this gaming laptop? Unless you buy in-person, I don't think you can really escape paying taxes on online purchases anymore lol.
I tried steam's home streaming feature where the game runs on my desktop and is streamed to my laptop, and, it wasn't that great of an experience even wired in, maybe I need a very expensive fancy router? Or is a 200mb connection not good enough even wired in? Perhaps a very niche question though, I don't personally know anyone who has ever even used the steam in home streaming.
Honestly, I'm very close to pulling the trigger on this laptop, it'll last for years, is actually mainstream with good specs instead of my years old budget laptop, and, I'm sure I could unload the old laptop locally for $200-250 for school use and low end gaming to someone, low end laptops at walmart are more than that.
We've come a long way in the laptop world...years ago, my 2017 model with only a 4 thread i5 7300HQ, 8gb slower ram, 256gb slower gen 1 nvme, and 4gb 1050 gpu with 1080p 60hz screen was $900 originally.
This laptop for sale actually has a feature more expensive ones don't, two nvme slots PLUS a 2.5 slot.
It runs very processor intensive software well, DAWs, IDEs, Office apps, etc.
It is usually OS updates that make people update their hardware, and the OS updates aren't usually needed, just MS convincing people to send them more money.
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Screen is sub-par IPS, quite washed out, but I guess you can't complain for $729. Speakers are quite good actually with some tuning. I can't really find anything I don't like about it except for the display. I highly recommend this machine, it's lovely.
Edit: Forgot to mention I did pop in a 16gb dual channel kit which perhaps helped GPU performance a bit... This machine is even with my Zephyrus G14 /w 6700S gpu at less than half the cost!
even if I buy 32gb ram to throw in the thing, it's considerably cheaper than others.
Stay away from Acer.
even if I buy 32gb ram to throw in the thing, it's considerably cheaper than others.
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.
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Screen is sub-par IPS, quite washed out, but I guess you can't complain for $729. Speakers are quite good actually with some tuning. I can't really find anything I don't like about it except for the display. I highly recommend this machine, it's lovely.
Edit: Forgot to mention I did pop in a 16gb dual channel kit which perhaps helped GPU performance a bit... This machine is even with my Zephyrus G14 /w 6700S gpu at less than half the cost!
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