the Aysen Nitro 5 is a budget-friendly
gaming laptop but just how well does it
perform in this detailed review I'll
show you everything it's got to offer
and help you decide if it's a laptop you
should consider buying I've got that AMD
configuration of the Nitro 5 here rather
than the Intel and NVIDIA model
so other than performance thermals and
battery life the information here should
mostly apply to both models starting
with the specs this unit has an AMD
Rison 5 2500 u quad-core CPU with vague
a graphics so it's got a 2 gigahertz
base clock and a 3.6 gigahertz max boost
I've got 16 gig of memory running at
ddr4 2666 and single-channel but it's
got 2 slots available so performance
could be improved with a dual channel
configuration thinner storage the single
m2 slot is populated with a 128 gig SATA
SSD while the single 2.5 inch drive bay
has a one terabyte hard drive installed
for the graphics as a Radeon rx 560 X
with 4 gig of memory and we'll see how
well this performs later in the
benchmarks this Powell is the 15.6 inch
1080p 60 Hertz IPS panel for network
connectivity there's a Gigabit Ethernet
port support for 802 11 AC Wi-Fi and
Bluetooth the Nitro 5 features a grooved
black plastic carbon fiber pattern on
the top and a similar smooth pattern on
the interior the build quality wasn't
bad considering the whole thing's
plastic no sharp corners or anything
like that the dimensions of the laptop a
39 centimeters in width 26.8 centimeters
in depth and 2.66 centimeters in height
so about average for a 15-inch laptop in
this sort of price range the weight is
listed as 2.7 kilos although mine was a
fair bit lighter at around 2.4 kilos
with the 135 watt power brick and cables
for charging included it increased to
around 3 kilos as mentioned it's got a
15.6 inch 1080p 60 hertz IPS panel throw
no mention of whether or not it's sports
free sync anywhere but the Radeon
settings list free sync is disabled and
I did notice tearing in games has an IPS
panel viewing angles were all right in
of color shift but it did appear a
little darker on an angle I've measured
the current color gamut using the Spyder
5 Pro and my results returned 64% of
srgb 46% of NTSC and 48% of Adobe RGB so
not great but ok for gaming at 100%
brightness I measured the panel at 276
mitts in the center and with a 920 to 1
contrast ratio sir all right brightness
but nothing special and decent contrast
I've taken a long exposure photo in a
dark room as a worst-case backlight
bleed test and there were no serious
problems with my unit a few
imperfections picked up on camera but I
could hardly see these with my own eyes
during the test and never noticeable
during normal use however this will vary
between laptops there's some flex to the
screen while pushing it although it felt
fairly sturdy as its thick plastic the
hinges are out towards the far left or
right corners which also aids in
stability the laptop could just be
opened up with one finger there seems to
be a little more weight towards the back
throw no problems using it on my lap
above the display in the center is a
720p camera the camera doesn't look too
bad and the microphone sounds alright
but you'll be able to judge both for
yourself the keyboard was pretty good to
type with I had no issues with it to
call out it's got red backlighting which
can only be turned on or off using the
function and f9 keys there are no
effects other colors or levels of
dimness it's either red lighting on or
off and that's it here's what typing
sounds like to try and give you an idea
of what to expect
that was some keyboard flex while
pushing down hard but I never found this
to be a problem during normal use the
touchpad was smooth to the touch and
what fine
it can be clicked down anywhere - left
click or down the bottom left and right
sides for left and right click or two
finger clicked anywhere - right click on
the Left there's a Kensington lock
Gigabit Ethernet port USB 3.1 gen2 on
type C port no thunderbolt support here
unfortunately HDMI output USB 3.0 type a
port and SD card slot on the right
there's a 3.5 millimeter audio combo
jack 2 USB 2.0 type a ports status LEDs
and the power input on the back there's
air exhaust vent towards one side along
with some subtle nature branding on the
top red plastic while the front is just
smooth plastic on the back of the carbon
fiber lid there's the ASA logo in the
center with a mirrored finish
fingerprints don't show up too well on
the lid as it's a textured surface
however they show up quite easily on the
inside though as a smoother surface
they're easy to wipe away underneath
there are some rubber feet which did a
good job of preventing the laptop from
sliding around while in use as well as
some air intake vents towards the back
the speakers are found towards the front
bottom corners on the left and right
sides and they sound decent for laptop
speakers still clear at high volumes
with a tiny bit of bass there are two
panels which each have one screw to open
giving you easy access to the 2.5 inch
drive bay and memory slots for easy
upgrade ability the rest of the base
comes off by taking up the remaining 14
screws with a Phillips head screw driver
and this gives us further access to the
Wi-Fi card battery and single them to
slot
powering the laptop is a four cell 48
one hour battery and with a full charge
and just watching youtube videos with
the screen on half brightness lighting
effects off and background apps disabled
I was able to use it for three hours and
17 minutes when not doing graphically
intensive tasks the laptop will use the
less powerful they get graphics in the
CPU rather than the more powerful Radeon
rx 5 60 X while playing The Witcher 3
with medium settings it lasts for around
an hour and 20 minutes
although the frame rate on battery power
was a bit low compared to running on
wall power but either way the battery
life wasn't too bad
thermal testing was completed with an
ambient room temperature of 20 degrees
Celsius so expect warmer temperatures in
a warmer environment also keep in mind
there's a shared heat pipe between the
processor and graphics so a change in
one component may affect the other
starting at the bottom of the graph in
light blue I've got the idle
temperatures and the CPU was a little
warm compared to the GPU while gaming
with the fans on default speeds shown by
the green bar the temperatures go up but
they're still pretty good and can be
improved by 9 degrees Celsius by maxing
out the fans shown by the yellow bar the
stress tests were done by running a 264
and the heaven benchmark at the same
time in order to attempt to fully
utilize both the pros
and graphics continuing up in the graph
with the red bar we're reaching the
highest temperatures in this worst case
scenario though again realistically
these aren't very hot at all compared to
many other laptops I've tested likely as
the hardware isn't as powerful with the
fans maxed out in the purple bar we're
able to lower the temperatures by around
10 degrees Celsius these are the clock
speeds I got while running the tests
just shown absolutely no change at all
to the GPU which was static we can see
small improvements to the CPU with
better cooling applied
however as shown by the temperatures
before it wasn't near throttling with
the CPU only stress test running and no
GPU load the clock speeds were able to
get a little higher to demonstrate how
this translates into performance I've
got some Cinebench CPU benchmarks here
just for comparison I've also got some
other Intel for Core eight thread CPUs
for reference I haven't tested the 7300
HQ myself so don't have the data then it
seems to be below the 2500 you in this
test I'll also note that no one
defaulting has been tested here as I
wasn't able to work out how to do this
with a rise in mobile CPU after some
research it seems like there are no
software applications available at this
time to support this but if I'm wrong
let me know as for the external
temperatures way you'll actually be
putting your hands at idle it was in the
low 30 degrees Celsius range fairly
average while gaming it gets to the mid
40s in the center and high 40s up the
back and a very similar result was noted
with the CPU and GPU stress tests
running quite cool overall as for the
fan noise produced by the laptop all you
ever listen to some of these tests
at idle the fans were still fairly
audible and while gaming and under
stress tests we're getting the same
noise levels and I'll note that this is
five to ten decibels quieter than most
other gaming laptops I've tested though
again they do typically have more
powerful hardware and require more
cooling once we max the fan out we're
around average with most other laptops
finally let's take a look at some gaming
benchmarks all games will run at 1080p
with the latest Windows updates and
these AMD drivers fortnight was tested
with the replay feature and an epoch in
high settings the performance wasn't
great I would definitely suggest playing
at medium settings or lower as this is
able to get us around the 60 FPS mark
but more importantly there was less
stuttering as illustrated by the 1% lows
overwatch was tested playing in the
practice range it still felt playable
for the most part of epic settings but
the overall experience was better in
ultra settings or lower I didn't notice
any issues with ultra settings which was
able to average above 60 FPS while still
looking great pub G was tested using the
replay feature and as an example of what
we start to see with more resource
intensive or less optimised games it was
playable for the most part at very low
settings I wouldn't want to go any
higher than that personally csgo was
tested using the oolitic all been smart
and the results were a bit lower than I
expected still high enough for a
first-person shooter game and definitely
playable but I'd probably look for
something with high aspects if you want
to go pro Rainbow six siege was tested
with the built-in benchmark and I found
this test to generally run very well on
old laptops so even on this hardware
were still seeing fairly good results no
real difference between ultra and very
high settings and over 100 FPS average
with the low prieser dota 2 was tested
using a fairly intensive replay so this
should be a worst case scenario these
results are not the same as actually
playing the game in this test the frame
rates aren't excellent but even with
these numbers I think he can still play
the game with that issue battlefield 1
was played during the first campaign
mission and I was playing with no
problems at all on medium or low
settings if in high ultra we'll find
most of the time but I think for this
type of game you'd probably want to try
and stick to a 60 FPS average or above
watchdogs 2 is a demanding game and I
always say that this does
need a high frame rate to play which was
the case here I found high settings or
below to run perfectly fine so it seems
as long as you're getting 30fps it
should run alright doom was tested using
Vulcan and it all setting levels it
played fairly smoothly though there was
some choppiness at times which seems to
be illustrated by the one percent low
results being under 30 fps though this
was nowhere near as low at low settings
which did play noticeably better The
Witcher 3 played alright at medium or
low settings but it was noticeably
slower at higher ultra settings so still
playable but you'll just need to stick
to the lowest setting levels I haven't
been able to test some of my usual games
like Ghost Recon as a wouldn't load
shadow of the Tomb Raider was crushing
on start and Far Cry 5 and Assassin's
Creed Odyssey didn't recognize the rx 5
6 DX and instead we're using the vague a
graphics so barely reaching 10 FPS on
minimum settings you could probably put
in some workarounds to fix these but I
still think it's worth noting these are
more issues than I've ever had testing
the same games on an Intel and NVIDIA
combination
I did try manually changing the games
using Vega graphics to the 560 X but it
made no difference to be honest the
results are a fair bit lower than most
other laptops I've tested but the price
point of it is also a fair bit lower
than most others - in the games tested
it's still definitely able to offer a
playable experience you'll just need to
stick to medium or low settings for the
most part especially if you're planning
on playing Triple A games I've used
crystal disk mark to test out the
storage vm to solder SSD is going well
for the breeds but not so great for the
rights the one terabyte 5400 rpm hard
drive is scoring about where I'd
expected to while the SD card was tested
with a V 90 rated card and was doing
pretty good considering something like
the Dell g7 only gets 20 megabytes per
second for updated pricing check the
links in the description as prices will
change over time at the time of
recording here in Australia with these
exact specs it can be picked up for
under 1,300 Australian dollars on sale
in the US sits around 780 US dollars
though with half the memory but bigger
SSD this is the first AMD laptop I've
tested but it does seem like you might
be better off getting the Intel and
NVIDIA configuration instead I haven't
tested
but for around the same price you get
the i-580 300h which as shown earlier in
Cinebench seems to beat the 2500 year by
a fair bit and it's got a 1050 ti2 which
also seems to beat the RX 560 ex so what
do you guys think about the acer Nitro v
gaming laptop a lot of you've been
asking me to review this one for a while
now and it took me a while to get it but
here we finally are for the money I
think it's a decent gaming laptop you're
able to play most games at around medium
settings no problem the build quality
was decent and overall it just worked
well I did have some problems launching
some games which seems to be due to the
Radeon graphics so that could probably
be fixed with further investigation or
suffer updates the screen quality wasn't
great and was another weak area but not
surprising as it seems to be where many
gaming laptops try to cut costs it'll
look fine in games just not great color
gamut or brightness to be honest I'd
probably look at the Intel and NVIDIA
combination myself as based on the specs
I suspect it may perform a bit better
for around the same price let me know
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