Similar specs the deal on Lenovo, without the need to have .edu address. 8GB RAM upgradable to 32 GB. 144Hz screen. Newer Processor 6C/12T
Acer Nitro 5 Gaming Laptop (15.6" FHD, i5-11400H, 8/512GB, RTX3050 4GB $1093 + Bonus $100 Gift Card + Delivery @ Harvey Norman
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Yeah
Tbh I was surprised that the 3050 doesn't even outpace the older 1660ti
Hardly a generational leap
Been using one of these as main PC for 6 months, pretty happy with it. I use it as a desktop replacement, wouldn't use it as a school or uni laptop, but for very casual gaming I think it's great
Just wondering, what do you define as very casual gaming? What games are we talking about?
Cyberpunk 2077, Fortnite, What remains of Edith Finch, Darq. By very casual gaming I mean I don't play often, and I'm not that worried about frame rates etc. It plays all the games I want and it looks good to me while playing them, to a more dedicated gamer perhaps they wouldn't look good, but as an overall package for me it has been awesome.
I have one too, seems to run modern games decently. (3060) Though I bought mine from acer directly due to (profanity) hn
I hope the Labour govt tries to get our 20 million back from scammy HN
I wouldn't count on it - they can't even spell their own party name properly.
How come? Lobo is very easy to spell
*labor
*I think the coalition has already done their job by giving back to their donorsThe money went poof the moment they announced jobkeeper
I just cancelled my lenovo order. This is much better because it has $100 gift card from HN. The range of HN deals lately means that $100 gift card is worth at least three times than its face value.
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Strange to cancel the Lenovo deal, where you are downgrading the GPU from a 3060 to a 3050 and paying more . But then I saw your name lol!
You must be shellshocked
Lol, did someone downvote you cause they couldn’t detect sarcasm?
But seriously, in case someone is taking this seriously. This is 8gb vs 16gb in Lenovo deal. The Lenovo one is also RTX3060 vs RTX3050 in this one, which is a huge difference in graphics performance. All at basically the same price taking gift card into account. I would definitely not cancel my Lenovo order for this one.
Damn never quick enough have been waiting for a 3060 deal for $1000 lol
If you can afford to wait, I would pass on this deal. Bound to be more good EOFY deals ahead and RTX4000 is coming soon. We’ve also seen the Nitro 5 with RTX3060 graphics on sale for a similar price.
good advice!
Exactly my thoughts. 4000rtx ftw
I have an older model of this laptop with a 10th gen i5 16gb RAM and 1650ti, it’s a great laptop, obviously not super powerful, but great for lower spec games and easy to upgrade storage
Currently going through issues with a nitro 5 3060 model where both mine and my fathers is overheating.
Acer's support has been terrible and they've pretty much admitted ALL current nitro 5 models have overheating issues and it's luck of the draw as to when your model will have these issues.
Still have not worked out where we are going with this as harvey's are dragging their feet on it despite Acer admitting that their entire nitro 5 series is having known issues and its a question of when not if they cause severe issues (crashes, failures etc due to overheating at worst, throttling performance at the other end)
I have an asus tuf with a rtx2060 and it was going through overheating/bsod during games.
Read on reddit to set max processor speed at 99% which prohibited turboing
Ever since zero bsods or crashes and games are running great at ultra settings
Mine doesnt have turbo.
Intel turbo-boosts their processors which during gaming can get stuck always on causing the overheating
It can and does happen, can sometimes be cured by updating the bios
Else you can force it to not turbo by bumping it down to 99% of max processor in power management@Drakesy: got no options on mine, bios doesn't give any option for it. I've just got the acer power management thing which acer got me to play with and all we got out of it was the fans sounding like a jet engine.
@Drakesy: Turbo boost enabled on laptop’s not great for gaming as it’ll sit on 100% cpu utilisation for most AAA titles, not to mention overheating also, so I suggest this way as you’ll still get the full stock frequency:
Using Registry Editor, go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Power\PowerSettings\54533251-82be-4824-96c1-47b60b740d00\be337238-0d82-4146-a960-4f3749d470c7 and select Attributes. Set the value of "Attributes"=dword: 00000002 (Just type in 2 not all the zeroes as it automatically adds them). After that, go back in the Power Plan Options and a new option "Processor performance boost mode" will appear. Set it to Disable and click Apply. Your CPU now runs on the stock frequency.
@[Deactivated]: you shouldn't have to do this to a laptop off the shelf.
I also don't think this will apply much in my fathers case, he doesn't game on his.
We get his for him to play blurays usbc external bluray player, it's not pushed to hte limit and still faces the same issues.
He gets dialyzed 3x a week and churns through movies on it, for me i get issues from 25-50m into games, with him he gets issues 2-3 hours into watching movies off the laptop and similar when plugged into a 4k screen at home watching his 4k movies.
One of the points I kept asking acer everytime they wanted me to modify stuff like this was, hey we've bought these off the shelf as daily drivers, if we have to modify them or have the fans running high like jet engines (which makes movie watching for him at dialysis impossible) whats the point?
@typhoonadventure: Yes, I agree with your point, unfortunately manufacturers don’t care about longevity, I’ve seen countless complaints about overheating issues in laptops & desktops from the major brands.
One thing I’ve thought of is in the nitrosense app it says fan control on the left side change it to custom & set fans to about 2500-3000rpm it shouldn’t be too loud. For reference I also have a nitro 5 (i5/1650ti) that I used to play games on at 120fps, fans set to just under 4000rpm + turbo boost disabled would never hit over 60°C on an average day.
@typhoonadventure: Power plan options is where the battery symbol is, click on advanced power options.
Decent deal but it's a shame this isn't the 3060 model. I have the i5-10300H/3060 model and the GPU is great, just wish I had the newer 6 core CPU too.
These pretty much all thermal throttle at stock settings. Acer has not done any work to optimize them at all.
Turning the fan boost on in the Nitro Sense software and running it on a flat surface or stand helps extend the time between throttling but it still runs very warm and eventually throttles under extended loads.To sort that out I managed to lower temps 12c each on CPU package and GPU hotspot by undervolting both. In turn it no longer thermal throttles at all, performs more consistently and is much quieter when gaming too!
Settings used below but YMMV. Feel free to PM me if you want to give this a go and get stuck anywhere.
Before tweaking:
CPU core max: 94c
GPU core/hotspot max: 78/82c
Cinebench multi score: 5036
Heaven score: 5133Nitro CoolBoost + flat surface + tweak CPU and GPU:
CPU core max: 82c
GPU core/hotspot max: 66/70c
Cinebench multi score: 5375
Heaven score: 5130Software config:
Windows 11 Home 21H2
BIOS v2.06
VBIOS v101a
NVIDIA Driver 511.79
Acer Nitro Sense 3.01.3024
Latest OEM Acer drivers + any updated through Windows updateTweaking and testing tools:
HWiNFO64 v7.14 (CPU and GPU temp/clock/volt/power monitoring)
ThrottleStop 9.4 (CPU undervolting/underclocking/turbo limiting)
MSI Afterburner 4.6.4 Beta 4 (GPU underclocking/undervolting)
Cinebench R23.200 (CPU benchmarking)
Unigine Heaven 4.0 1080p high default settings (GPU benchmarking)Links:
Enable CPU undervolting
ThrottleStop guide
GPU undervolting guideSettings I used:
CPU core UV: -100mv
CPU cache UV: -75mv
CPU turbo limits: 4.3/4.2/4.1/4.0GHz i.e 200MHz underclock at all turbo limits
CPU TPL: 45W PL1 / 55W PL2 / 32 TTL
GPU voltage/clock curve: Flatline 1552MHz @ 743mv
GPU VRAM: +400MHz
Observed GPU clock max: 1582MHz
Observed GPU volt max: 744mv
Observed GPU TGP max: 87WPS
Standing it up vertically with the lid slightly ajar in a tent like configuration improves the above after temps an additional 2-4c, but you need an external display/peripherals and forgo using the internal screen.
The above undervolting also prevents the machine from slowly sucking battery life when gaming even when plugged in - it appears to be normal behavior as the 180W PSU doesn't supply enough juice for the default boosting config. I assume at stock it eventually power limits itself further when the battery runs out.
3060 vs 3050 though…
Not to mention the recent Nitro 5 deals for cheaper with a 3060