Acer Nitro 5 (AN515-42) - Specs

  • BOE NV156FHM-N43
  • Color accuracy  4.1  2.4
  • LG LP156WF6-SPK6
  • Color accuracy  4.7  3.5
  • HDD/SSD
  • up to 2000GB SSD + up to 2000GB HDD
  • RAM
  • up to 64GB
  • OS
  • Windows 10 Home, Windows 10 Pro
  • Battery
  • 3220 mAh, 4-cell
  • Body material
  • Plastic / Polycarbonate
  • Dimensions
  • 390 x 266 x 26 mm (15.35" x 10.47" x 1.02")
  • Weight
  • 2.23 kg (4.9 lbs)
  • Ports and connectivity
  • 1x USB Type-A
  • 3.2 Gen 1 (5 Gbps)
  • 2x USB Type-A
  • 2.0
  • 1x USB Type-C
  • 3.2 Gen 1 (5 Gbps)
  • HDMI
  • 2.0a
  • Card reader
  • SD, SDHC, SDXC
  • Ethernet LAN
  • Wi-Fi
  • 802.11ac
  • Bluetooth
  • Audio jack
  • TRRS audio jack
  • Features
  • Fingerprint reader
  • Web camera
  • HD 720p
  • Backlit keyboard
  • Microphone
  • Speakers
  • Optical drive
  • Security Lock slot

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Office Work

Office Work should be used mostly by users who spend most of the time looking at pieces of text, tables or just surfing. This profile aims to deliver better distinctness and clarity by keeping a flat gamma curve (2.20), native color temperature and perceptually accurate colors.

Design and Gaming

This profile is aimed at designers who work with colors professionally, and for games and movies as well. Design and Gaming takes display panels to their limits, making them as accurate as possible in the sRGB IEC61966-2-1 standard for Web and HDTV, at white point D65.

Health-Guard

Health-Guard eliminates the harmful Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM) and reduces the negative Blue Light which affects our eyes and body. Since it’s custom tailored for every panel, it manages to keep the colors perceptually accurate. Health-Guard simulates paper so the pressure on the eyes is greatly reduced.

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CPU performance

Here you can find the price/performance difference between all the CPUs that come in the Acer Nitro 5 (AN515-42) series.

Results are from the Cinebench 20 Multi-core test (the higher the score, the better)

GPU performance

Here you can find the price/performance difference between all the GPUs that come in the Acer Nitro 5 (AN515-42) series.

Results are for the 3DMark: Fire Strike (Graphics) benchmark (the higher the score, the better)

Acer Nitro 5 (AN515-42) in-depth review

It's been quite some time since the release of the Kaby Lake Refresh CPUs that surprised users with high performance but disappointed them with the fact that they don't go under the name "Coffee Lake". Now it's time for the "real" 8th Gen high voltage processors. They are already here and the most popular two models quite expectedly will be i5-8300H and i7-8750H, which are actually successors to the widespread i5-7300HQ and i7-7700HQ.Acer Nitro 5 is one of the first lineups to incorporate the new Intel chips and of course, we can't wait to check how the budget gaming machine handles th[...]

Pros

  • Nice design
  • Amazing IPS screen (the BOE version)
  • Easy RAM and HDD/SSD upgrade
  • Good temperatures of the internal components at full load (for the RX 560X and GTX 1050 versions)

Cons

  • Relatively high temperatures of the corpus at full load (for the H-series configurations)
  • The cooling won't be powerful enough for GTX 1050 Ti
  • Not so comfortable touchpad