Acer Nitro 5 12th Gen Intel Core i7-12650H Gaming Laptop (Windows 11 Home/16 GB/1TB SSD/NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070Ti Graphics/165Hz) AN515-58 with 15.6 inch QHD IPS Display, Killer WiFi 6, RGB Keyboard

Temps:Like other gaming laptops such as the lenovo LOQ's rtx 4060, the nitro 5's GPU can hit 75 to 80 degrees. However, even a desktop rtx 3070ti and rtx 3070 hits these temps, so there's nothing to worry about. The CPU hits 90 like all other gaming laptops. That is if you do intensive workloads. Now, there's some obvious ways to lower temps, like raising the laptop up from the back and that alone can yield a 4-5 degree drop to the GPU and a bit to the CPU. Due to intel removing undervolting on all H and U series CPU's, you can't lower temps that way anymore. And AMD has done the same. So, temps are in line with other gaming laptops. The reason rtx 4050 laptops and rtx 4060 laptops see such low temps is people review the helios or predator lineup's which feature better cooling for parts that use less power and have lower GPU performance. Let those laptops actually cool a 150w GPU and the temps will only be slightly lower than the nitro 5's. You can undervolt the 3070ti to lower temps and OC the vram to makeup for any perf loss incurred via undervolting.Performance GPU:The rtx 3070ti 150w matches the 140w rtx 4070 in performance. So essentially for 100k you get a 4070. The 3070ti itself is a good 15 to 20% faster than the 4060. So its well equipped to handle 1440p. And in most games it can do 1440p ultra settings without upscaling, except the most unoptimized games like starfield, cyberpunk, etc. But those games are infamous for bringing down even an rtx 4090. Games like forza horizon 5, doom eternal, elden ring, valheim, spiderman, etc. can do 1440p ultra settings 60fps without even fully using the GPU. Since the 3070ti mobile shares the same specs as the 3070 desktop, it performs similar to it and thus will generally be within 5-10% of the desktop variant. And the 8gb of vram will be enough for 1080p and 1440p for the most part. 6gb is however pretty much dead for 1440p and just hanging on by a thread for 1080p.Performance CPU:The i7 12650h has 6 P cores and 4 E cores making for 16 threads vs the i7 12700h's 6 P cores and 8 E cores for a total of 20 threads. As a result the i7 12650h is only slightly weaker than the i7 12700h in multi core and equal to it for single core. Compared to ryzen 7840HS, its about 20% weaker, but roughly equal to a ryzen 5 7640HS. And the i7 12650h is within 5-10% of a i5 13500HX. So this i7 will beat 99% of all 13th gen i5's. You can use throttlestop to limit the temp to 90 or lower if you wish. And of course, you can use it to manipulate clockspeeds to further lower temps.RAM:DDR4 3200mhz ram is enough for years to come. You can easily and cheaply add in more ram and be good to go. DDR4 3200mhz is not going to be much worse than DDR5 4800mhz ram, while being cheaper.Display:This is the best display you're going to get at this price point. Only the LOQ will offer the same 1440p display, but again, it'll cost more when all other specs are equalized. The display of the nitro 5 has a 100% srgb coverage and about 300 nits or slightly higher brightness. Its got 3ms response time and certainly feels responsive. The advantage of a 1440p display is when you use upscaling it will not look as blurry as with a lower resolution option since the display's PPI is quite a bit higher.Upgradability:The nitro 5 has 3 storage slots, 2 x Gen 4 PCIE NVME ssd slots and a 2.5' drive bay. Buying 3 x 8tb ssd's you can add int 24tb of ssd storage. With a 2.5' bay you can get an expansion device to turn the one 2.5' bay into 2 x m.2 sata slots, for potentially 4 storage slots. Thats already more than most gaming laptops offer. The 2 ram slots can house 64gb of ram. The nitro 5 also has replaceable battery and wifi card. Its relatively easy to open it up but make sure to be gentle with the rear section.Battery life:Sadly the intel CPU + QHD display does not do favors for the 57whr battery. If you set the display to around 230 nits and all power saver features on, you can expect about 3-4 hours of battery life. This would've increased by 2-3 more hours had acer sold the FHD + 6800h version. However, thats still more than enough for some casual use on the bed, taking it out briefly on the train to watch a movie or something. A good thing is the nitro 5 can be charged via a USB c charger of upto 135w capacity. So you can get one of those to take with you on travels instead of the massive 280w brick.Features:You get other than Frame Generation, all the other nvidia features. And you can also use FSR 3 which would provide similar results to FG. The nitro 5 has a MUX switch which is quite handy for high FPS titles.Price to performance:There is a strange trend where people simply go for software features and are willing to pay more for less hoping software like frame generation catches on. Acer is giving you a proper, desktop xx70 class GPU for just 100k. No other previous desktop class xx70 class GPU was ever given at 100k. And now people want to pay more for an rtx 4060 which itself is based on the same die (AD107) as the rtx 4050? Its literally just a 4050ti at best being called a 4060 and itself is barely 10-15% faster than a 3060. Infact, the rtx 3060 launched at around 90k for the 95w variant and quickly dropped to 80-90k for the 85 to 95w variants which still beat a 115w rtx 2060 while costing quite a bit lower than it. The rtx 4060 doesn't even give you a 85w to 95w variant for less than 90k, despite being 6 months old now. Do you really want to pay 100k+ for a literal entry level part? Because thats what the rtx 4050 and rtx 4060 are. Nvidia is using software to jack up their prices.Edit:After experimenting, you can access the advanced bios (no need to flash bios, just boot into advanced bios via flashdrive) which will let you perform the AC loadline + IMON tweaks. The AC loadline tweak sort of undervolt's the i7 and lets it hit higher clocks during full load. The IMON tweak under reports CPU power meaning CPU and GPU can pull more power when both are fully loaded. You can repaste the laptop to lower temperatures and raise the laptop. You can undervolt the GPU too. All this lets the nitro 5 trade blows in terms of performance with the best 3070ti laptops which cost a lot more money. It also widens its lead over the 4060. I have done this and found my 3070ti drawing 150w + i7 12650h drawing ~50-60w for a total of 200-210w while playing CP2077 and with max fans, the GPU stayed at 77-78 and CPU at 80-90 degrees. If you do repaste, use genuine PTM7950 as its your best option.You can also potentially add in a larger 90whr battery from the acer predator/helios. It SHOULD be compatible. I haven't tested it yet, but the nitro 5 does seem to have the space necessary for it. You just have to remove the hdd caddy. Potentially you could spend a couple thousand rupees and extend battery life to ~5-6hr's.

For the price of which it's providing a powerful processor and a powerful graphic card that too, 3070 Ti. It's a power pack device. The lack here is system heating issue and unstable Nitrosense.Over all you can do app building, coding, Video-photo rendering, Gaming at high FPS high res.

Used this for almost a week now.Pros - everything except thermals. The laptop is a beast will deliver what you want outstanding performance at this price range, I got for 70k in sale.Cons -1. The heat management. While gaming the GPU goes upto 85 which is fine but even though while gaming my CPU usage us hardly 10% still CPU reaches at 95 temperature which is very very strange.2. Yes, battery life sucks no doubt on that but that's okay it's a gaming laptop anyways will draw more power and you can't expect everything to be good at this price point but yeah thermals should've been better it degrades performance due to thermal throttling sometimes and also reduces laptop life

One important task for folks who buy this laptop - upgrade the RAM by adding in 1 more 16Gb DR4 3200 Mhz CL22 memory kit to make the setup dual channel.The stock 16Gb is single channel and it severely bottlenecks the CPU while gaming. I uograded mine and now it's on par with good gaming laptops ( it got promoted from Decent to Good performer)Battery - not very good. But can be used for light activities for 2 hours straight.Display - awesome 165Hz color accurate display85.2% AdobeRGB 1998 (Argyll 2.2.0 3D)99.8% sRGB (Argyll 2.2.0 3D)95.6% Display P3 (Argyll 2.2.0 3D)For this price, this display is the best you can get.Speakers - after using Predator 15 for the last 5 years no laptop speaker will satisfy me ever. So i would call it a decent speaker with not much good qualities to it.Mux switch will come in handy if you know that you are going to play coniltinously with power adapter connected.Overall answer is that this is the best gaming experience laptop at this price point. Not the new RTX 4060 laptops as the RTX 4060 is a joke when compared with RTX 3070 Ti. But if you can spend 20k INR more, then try the all AMD Asus strix g15 advantage edition with the RX6800M and Ryzen 9 5950HX. The processor is 3 years old, and even the GPU is more than 2 years old, but the raw rasterization performance of the RX6800M is comparable to a RTX 3080 laptop. So there is nothing even close to that powerhouse at that price range of 1.3 lakh INR.So either get this RTX 3070 Ti laptop for 1 lakh and count on Nvidia's DLSS to deliver flagship level performance or buy the RX6800M laptop for 1.3 lakh and be the proud owner of a flagship GPU.

Edit : 2024-11-5Over the past month, started facing random charging issues, the charging port heats up and the laptop will disconnect the chargerNot expected to see such issues after medium usage after 1 year---------------I saw this on sale and bought it for use while travelingGood:High TPD on both CPU about GPUPriceFan customizationHDD expansionBad:Fan noise, you will have to run the fans at 5500 rpmNitro sense - don't keep it running in the background, it's poorly optimized will increase cpu temp and usageCpu runs hot, I have seen it touch 90,have to crank up the fans for it to come downNuetral:Speakers are okaish but it's expected for a laptopScreen is also ok but some colors look too brightBattery is small as it makes space for hdd , Lasts 3hrs with normal use. I expect gaming laptops to be connected to outlet so it's a non factor for me.

Awesome product, fairly priced. Good value for money. Throughly enjoying playing games on this laptop. Great performance and good display. Have been using it for a year now and I have no complaints.