Laptops gaming are rarely cheap, but there are a few exceptions. The Acer Nitro 5 is one of them. Usually sold around € 1,000, it is even a little more sold by Cdiscount who offers it at € 809.83. Small clarification: for this price, no Windows installed on the machine, but a Linux distribution – not really ideal for a PC gaming.
Despite its entry-level appearance, the Nitro 5 is a perfectly decent gaming PC. If its finishes and its screen deserved a little more care, it is thanks to these concessions that Acer can afford to deliver a machine that is both cheap and satisfactory in terms of its performance. It is notably equipped with an Intel Core i5-9300H processor (4 cores, 8 threads) engraved in 14 nm with a maximum frequency at 4.1 GHz, which allowed it to rise to a level close to models decked out in ‘a Core i7 during our tests.
Its advantages
- Strong game performance
- Good thermal management of the chassis
- 256 GB SSD storage easily expandable
- 8 Go of RAM
What could hold you back
- Windows to install yourself
- Very noisy in game
- Careless screen
- Low autonomy
Source alternative?
In the same price range (excluding promotion), the Legion Y540 from Lenovo is satisfactory in all areas where the Nitro 5 fishes: it is not very noisy, has a good screen (144 Hz) and good autonomy for a gaming PC. It also has a slightly higher-end graphics card, the RTX 2060, which notably offers raytracing effects that the 1660 TI on the Acer PC does not provide.
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