Acer Nitro 5 2022 Review - Budget gaming laptop of the year?

While Acer isn’t currently as competitive in the high-end of the gaming laptop market (I suspect that will change in the near future), they do have some solid value-oriented options available through their Nitro lineup of laptops.

Today in our review, we are looking at the Acer Nitro 5 2022 and see if this is the best budget gaming laptop of 2022. Subscribe so you don't miss our next video where we'll talk about Nitro 5's problems!

0:00 Intro
0:10 Specs
1:13 Ports
1:36 Design
2:00 Keyboard
2:58 Display
3:36 Cooling
4:02 Battery Life
4:45 Availability

[Kestrel]

I have the Nitro 5, i5 10300H / RTX 3060. Out of the box the CPU was thermal throttling at 93 degrees, laptop manufacturers use very low quality thermal paste, that is if the job is even done correctly. The GPU runs very cool.

For anyone needing to solve this issue - You can repaste with a high quality thermal compound if you have the know how, or you can adjust the maximum processor state of the CPU.

Go to Control panel-
Hardware and Sound-
Power Options-
Change plan settings-
Change advanced power settings-
Processor power management-
Change maximum processor state from 100 > 99.

This will disable turbo boost on the chip. You will now be running at the base clock speed of the CPU. It will solve the throttling issue but now you're limited to your base clock which will cause fps drops in CPU intensive games. There's always a trade off or sacrifice with gaming laptops.

[yasminfonseca]

I bought the Nitro 5 AMD Ryzen 7 5800H GTX 1650 512 ssd here in Brazil, conversion to 1024, 00$. Here the things are much more expensive so i think it was a big deal. Waiting anxiously for it to arrive.

[NiceBoltYT]

Hello, can I know when this release? And from where you get it? I am from Indonesia 🇮🇩, I want know this laptop release when 😭

[Livein]

Would this be a good laptop to use with Unity for game development? Say like making 2D games?

[apurba_rabha]

I'm on a tight budget, should i go for the victus w 5600h or the nitro 5 w 11400h?

[arjunbhat]

Hey can u suggest me laptop for programming and video editing under $1000

[Vonntyy]

Looking for a cheaper acer nitro price choose the 1650 version( its a 9th Gen Intel Core i5-9300H With a 1650 GTX from GeForce Price is 758$ USD) i recommend getting another 8gb the best and cheaper one i found is 29$ USD from TeamGroup Elite

[Arman-i]

Does that mean there is no gtx Version of it?

[khooricky-bebz]

i just want simply to say, acer nitro 5 ！NOT budget gaming laptop ANYMORE !

[keynanmartinez]

What is the highest storage space this laptop can hold?

[cemakbulut]

I don't know, I'd probably look at other options if they're gonna charge over 1k for a nitro 5.

[dizzy]

For how much I can get 2022 model with i5 and 3050 4 gb?

[heavymetalboy]

Watching this on my 2021 nitro 5 it cost 750 when it was new but with the 1650

[joshadventures]

I'm thinking of getting the i9 1100h 3060

[hendrawongso]

Does this laptop need to plug the dc charger harder to the laptop? Because on the previous 2020 & 2021 model, you need to push the charger harder until you hear a "click".

[edwingawarancalvelo]

I got mine core-i5 11th gen nvidia rtx 3060 32gb ram nvme2.

[jaidevkale]

I bought the 11400h intel 5 3050rtx version

[lil.soul]

he said 3070tay instead of 3070ti, now thats a first 😂😂

[eddyalvaross]

Red light keyboard is ugly. They should take Lenovo with its latest Legion models as a reference.

[imcosima]

No more nitro around $800? What a shame for budget gamers