this right here is 800 worth of laptop
which doesn't sound like a lot but acer who sponsored this video by the
way thank you acer is particularly proud of what they've
managed to pack in to their eighth generation nitro 5.
so let's crack this bad boy open and have a look at it shall we
all right so while i crack these boxes open let's talk the specs of this thing
it's got a core i5 processor which again
doesn't sound gaming or anything but if you look a
little closer at the specs the 8th gen core i5 8300h which is what
this thing is equipped with is actually nearly identical to the last generation
core i7 7700 hq which was kind of the de
facto standard for gaming laptops so
consider this over one generation we are getting
slightly better performance actually and at 128 less on the CPU alone so that is
a big part of why acer was able to hit
this fairly aggressive price point as for the rest of the specs it's got 8
gigs of RAM which as we talked about recently for gaming anyway you know i
can't say anything for chrome users but for gaming anyway is still enough even
in current year 2018 it's got 256 gigs
of SSD storage so we have finally gotten to the point where even for like value
models like this one we don't have to rely on a larger hard drive in order to
have enough space to install a few games with the fact that it's a pci express
based SSD being an extra bonus and it's
got a gtx 1050 ti so the biggest
difference between a 10 series card like what we've got here and the last
generation 9 series GeForce cards is that it used to be that the mobile
version was a cut down version of what was in some cases not even the same GPU
at all so a 970m for example was actually a desktop
960 and then a 950m which would have
been the like similar position in the product stack to this one
was i don't even know what that thing was so
the 1050 ti is over a hundred percent
faster than the 950m that you would have gotten in an 800 laptop in years past so
the point i'm trying to make here is that at this price with these specs
you're gonna get a great experience in esports titles like you'll be able to
crank them and i'd be surprised if you ever dropped a frame and then even in
aaa titles you should be able to drive this 1080p panel at its native
resolution at like medium settings
so all that's left here is for us to uninstall norton
you may have to download norton consumer product removal tool
and go ahead and get some games installed in steam so we can take it for
a test drive so i had to run and grab a copy of doom off an external drive
because i don't feel like waiting for 60 gigs to download which i guess is a good
time to talk about io because i like having my mouse over on the left
so that it doesn't interfere with movement on the mouse pad over on the
right and we've only got one usb 3 over
on this side of the type a persuasion so i'm going to
go ahead and use that second one right in between the HDMI port we've got an sd
card reader and a regular wired Ethernet
port yay for my external drive and then over on
the other side we've got power in two more usb ports though it should be noted
these are usb 2 and then a headphone microphone combo
jack one thing that's noticeably better is the display brightness
so ips displays started showing up on
value laptops what about two years ago i guess but one of the big issues that
they had was that while they have ips qualities like better colors and better
viewing angles they were typically really dim this one's actually not too
shabby no i don't want the game bar like barely
gives you enough time to tell it to never come back i'm gonna go with expert bots today all
right so we're running anywhere from about 80 to 110 or so frames per second
damn these expert bots oh crap they're all
yes they're better than me thank you i guess i could have bought a better gun
or i could just
okay enough cs csgo okay while fortnite's loading maybe we
can just uh spend a little bit of time with the keyboard actually actually
overall impressions of the keyboard are not bad
it's got a bit of a long keystroke and that does take some getting used to so i
i found myself missing a couple here and there but if you're a heavier typer
you probably wouldn't even notice not bad
really quiet too let's apply the best settings for our system here battle royale of course does
anyone play the other one okay motion blur off because it's terrible yeah i
was not expecting all high to uh and oh
okay it kind of settled in there so i'm kind of a view distance guy i'm not
i don't really care about any aliasing though so let's go ahead and have a look at how that looks wait the ones with
arrows are on my team right i don't remember no that's not bad like
if your goal is you know do some school work and you're
not expecting crazy battery life because it does have a dedicated graphics card
and then play fortnite in your off hours
this is not a bad experience can you harvest a car
evidently you can yeah you build stuff say i'm harvesting brick right now
like this is rock solid now it's not doing any of that dipping or anything
it's actually not that loud either like it's you know it's not silent or
anything but it's very tolerable so there you have it that's pretty much
the latest gen nitro 5.
overall looking pretty good for 800
bucks if you get it from best buy we have really
come a long way actually
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