Acer Aspire 5 (2022) Laptop Review / RTX 2050 / i7 1260p

I've tested the new ACER Aspire 4 with the i7 1260p, 16GB and an RTX 2050.
And it's VERY mediocre! Why? Come and find out!

00:00 Intro
00:29 Specs
01:35 Chassis and Display
02:28 Keyboard and Touchpad
02:40 Connections and Ports
03:08 THE STUTTERING (and fixing it)
04:28 Performance and Loudness
05:17 Webcam
05:31 Battery
06:25 Workload Benchmarks
07:33 Gaming Benchmarks
09:58 Conclusion

Laptop Specs:
Acer Aspire 5 A515 57G
RTX 2050 25W
i7 1260p
16GB DDR4 3200 Mhz
NVME SSD

[hrxsckf]

Bought this laptop last year for work and light gaming. I didn't even notice the throttling issue until recently. Your solution fixed the problem for me. Although my CPU thermals are all over the place once I turn on throttlestop, jumping from anywhere between 70 to 90C. But it goes back to normal once I turn it off.

It's really astonishing that no other reviewer has talked about the throttling issue when reviewing this laptop. You're one of the real ones. Subscribed.

[JohnSmith-oqkr]

Great review + throttle stop worked like a charm. Such a good video.

[saviofernandes]

sir i have a i5 1240p version of this laptop and my laptop is showing two different performence indicators at a same time please help me iam worried

[k_]

Fn+f aus Neugierde auf meinem Asus Vivobook 15 Pro probiert und siehe da, es funktioniert! Vielen Dank, jetzt muss ich nicht mehr ständig die MyAsus Software öffnen, um den Leistungsmodus zu wechseln :)

[Frangelo]

There's another video review saying there's a gap between the screen and the bezel above the logo. Is this the case and do you think this is make or break issue?

[sahiru]

UH would really appreciate if you reply, Got the same laptop with a different cpu which is i5-1240P, I did what you showed in the video but it cranks up the Clock speed too much hence game Lags due to sudden Jump in heat, So like 85-98 C Up's and down's

Was wondering if there is anyway to just lock the clock speed around 2-2.5 Ghz?

[NR-iwsp]

How did you manage to enable CPU voltage monitoring on this laptop? I can only choose the one for a GPU. Does it require some third-party software to be installed like AIDA64?

[luciekristofova]

Hello, I play Sims 4 (not only base game, I have almost everything they offer to this game), will be this notebook ok with this game?

[gilangnur]

What is the bios version that you use?

[mitkopetrov]

Hello, I have the same laptop but with Intel I5. When I lock the MMIO setting, the CPU temp reaches almost 100 degrees. Could you give an advise if I should try anything else in the settings?

[salkata]

Hello, I’m using the throttle stop and it’s doing an amazing job, but my laptop is overheating and turning off. Any solution?

[ArthurDeKeersmaeker]

I got the same stuttering problem with my lenovo thinkbook gen 2 (i5-1135g7, 16gb ram, mx450 2gb gddr6, 1tb nvme)
From the moment the gpu hits 70°C, the cpu powerlimit goes to 13w. And it's stay there. The gpu and cpu temperature will drop arround 65-70°C for cpu and gpu but shit as lenovo notebook designer won't give the cpu any more power. 70°C is far away from the 100°C temperature limite. (I'm really upset that they programmed it like that)
(the powerdelivery of the system is powerfull enough to let the cpu drawn a constand of 28 watts and a gpu power drawn of 25w. I know this because i layed my notebook on the excaust of my AC.)

Throttle stop didn't seam to do anything in my case. I think I'm on the latest bios (thanks to the lenovo vantage bloatware).

I have been in the bios but it's really limited and I also have been in the advanced bios, I could chance the fanspeed, the limite of total system powerdraw, powerstages and other advanced shit that i didn't understand. so I didn't dare to chance the more advanced stuff that would have propably have fix some shit. Sadly know I have forgotten how to get in the advanced bios. I think i had to research for 3 days to find a way in to the bios.

(I know it was going in to the basic bios, restart from that bios, pressing a lot of keys. something is telling me eather it was pressing all the function keys, But something else is say that it was pressing qwerty/azerty) I know that i have rescently tried it and failed, the timing realy has to be right

In most game is you limited the fps to 30 or 60 and lowed the grafics settings, it was fine. But I also try to do some emulation on it, The last of us via RPCS3. When the cpu got 28w the game ran at 45fps but when the cpu only got 13w it was 7-25fps.

[aliaksandrkhudalei]

Hello, which is better to take 3050 60+15w or 3050 ti 40w?

[RobertWilliamsserving]

Any chance you can show exactly what you did to fix throttling? THANK YOU SO SO MUCH FOR VIDEO this is so helpful.

[shivamtiwari]

Please recommend a laptop which doesn't heat ?, not a macbook

[fishysquad]

Hubwood could you please do a new msi alpha 15 video🙏.

[davidhauzel]

Great review! Do you think there's a chance the GPU power could be increased with custom vbios from other laptops with same GPU but higher power limit?

[tmlg]

Hello youtuber, I'm sorry to bother you, but may I ask you a question? I think the video you made is very good and has reference value. Can I reprint your video to a Chinese website? Because they don't have access to YouTube

[noscopenub]

dudee thank you sooo much 😘😘 i used that throttlestop and checked that mmio option and gained lot of fps can i use permanently without any issues ?

[AW-]

Hello brother
I bought this laptop and I suffer from severe and unstable framerate drops, even on old games such as AC Black Flag and even GTAV.
Is there any help please?