Nitro 5 Have I Made A Mistake??

[Shaun Parker]

Hi Everyone,

I've just recently purchased an Acer Nitro 5 AN515-55 and i feel I've made the wrong choice. Dont get me wrong I love the laptop as a whole however I feel I may of made the wrong decision with regrds to spec.

i5 10300h
GTX 1660 Ti
Adata 8200 pro SSD M.2 1TB (upgraded)
HyperX 2933 mhz CL17 2 x 8 gb RAM (upgraded)
144hz screen

I'm comletely brand new to laptop / PC gaming so didnt really know what I was loking for when I purchased the machine... anway... I'll be primarily using the machine for gaming and feel I should have opted for the 2060 graphics and may be an i7 however I didn't feel it was worth the extra £££ at the time.

When I check game running reqs it appears the i5 is the weak link in the chain.

Have I made a bad choice?

Regards,

Shaun.

 

[Kohaashi]

It depends what your budget is, what games you plan to play on it and how long you plan on keeping it.

 

[hugh2711]

I just got a new gaming laptop for the first time in decades. I did spend a lot of time researching beforehand. Your machine is very good. I actually have a lenovo l340 which has gtx 1650 graphics, a bit less (10% ish) powerful than yours and an i5 9300 which is a bit less powerful than yours. Before buying I looked at yours and decided that the extra specs were not worth the extra cash BECAUSE nothing to do with the actual hardware itself which is very good: Unless you have spent a lot of time since you got it tweaking windows 10. i.e. specifically disabling and removing the frivolous real-time rubbish that nobody wants but they put on it anyway that hogs all the resources unneccessarily, it is MOST likely the bottleneck is NOT the hardware, it is the software (win 10 plus 'freebies'. The 1% (?) extra frame rate you will get for that nice hardware is negligeable compared to the massive performance boost you will get by tweaking windows to how you want it!. Unfortunately while all this info is available on the web it takes a lot of time and effort to study it to do it right but the info is there and it is worth it. The second thing to do to get extra performance out of your system is use Intel XTU program (Extreeme Tuning Utility) to undervolt (use version 6 not 7, it is easier to use). Even though i have been tinkering with computers for decades (plural) I was shocked at the gains I got. I can now use it at 100% cpu utilisation all day every day because of my 15 degree celsious temp drop and I also got a significant battery life boost to it as well.