Acer Nitro 60 Gaming Desktop: AMD Ryzen 7 7700 CPU, RTX 5070 GPU, 32GB RAM, 2TB SSD $1299 + Free Shipping

Theslash

Sep 23, 2025 12:14 AM

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TheslashSep 23, 2025 12:14 AM

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Why they braggin about gigabit ethernet lol.

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edgarwong

Sep 23, 2025 3:20 AM

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edgarwongSep 23, 2025 3:20 AM

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does Acer use standard motherboard and other parts?

phillip9

Sep 24, 2025 1:08 AM

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phillip9Sep 24, 2025 1:08 AM

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Quote from edgarwong

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does Acer use standard motherboard and other parts?

this person says it is not a standard BIOS for the motherboard

from the amazon reviews section:

Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2025
Style: R9 / RTX5070Ti
This review is for the N60-181-UR26.
Wanted to play BL4 and my old computer wouldn't be able to. Found this one on sale elsewhere (1951480) and bought it. It also came with a free copy of BL4.

System was well packed with foam inside the case (assuming to protect the tempered glass) and a foam support on the video card.

Power up went smoothly for the most part, annoyed by Win11 needing a MS account and other stupid things but whatever what are you going to do.

I don't like the RGB fans and wanted to turn the colors off. Went into the BIOS setup RGB fusion menu but nothing was working and the back button didn't work either. Had to restart the computer with the reset button to escape.
Went on the Gigabyte website (it's a B650M C V3-Y1) and found a BIOS update. Tried to use the Q-Flash utility but it gave me a Oemid mismatch error.

Checked Acer website and they are still 5 BIOS versions behind. I doubt they're even motivated to update it.
Was able to disable the colors with the GCC utility so that was good, but it looks like that's only for when Win11 is loaded as it will still turn them on during power up/down.

The motherboard and BIOS screens looked stock, so using a proprietary BIOS is a jerk move IMO. There doesn't appear to be any good reason to have a proprietary BIOS. Thankfully where I bought it have 90 days to return so it's probably going back. CyberPowerPC and iBuyPower computers use stock parts and no proprietary BIOS so will be looking at one of them.

As for the computer itself it is quite fast, on my old computer the BL3 load up with the dancing claptrap it would take about 6 passes before game would load. On this one it loads within 1-2 seconds after claptrap appears. BL3 set all the video defaults to max and it's running at 4K (have it hooked to a 65" TV) and all was good.

While not playing a game occasionally the screen will blank out for a few seconds, not sure why. It is a little concerning though.

If a proprietary BIOS doesn't bother you then I'd say go for it. Otherwise look elsewhere.

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MONSTER

Sep 25, 2025 11:48 AM

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MONSTERSep 25, 2025 11:48 AM

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RAM is single channel, mustard cables, PSU is unlikely good, crappy mobo with crappy BIOS and cheapest 5070 they could possibly find. As always, plenty of catches.

Peterockduke

Sep 26, 2025 1:34 AM

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PeterockdukeSep 26, 2025 1:34 AM

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It's coming up as 1099.00 at Walmart for me.

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