Acer Nitro 5 15.6-inch i9-11900H/16GB/512GB SSD/RTX3060 6GB Gaming Laptop + Bonus $300 Harvey Norman Gift Card
i9 laptop gaming or not.. after $300 giftcard $1399, pretty solid specification and price.
144Hz 15.6-inch FHD Panel
Intel Core i9 11900H 24M Cache, up to 4.80 GHz
1 x 16GB Memory
GeForce RTX 3060 6GB
agreed gimped gpu
are all 3060 the same across nitro?
They are, but I suspect your biggest problem with this config is you'll run out a power from the brick due to processor higher power requirement. Do a search for Acer nitro 5 on here, most deals will have a bunch of comments on the downfalls of this system.
Unless you Need a laptop, 1400 will get you a better pc from techfast.
these have 3060 95W, and the panel has poor color space coverage. also, 4-core i5 has no issues feeding into 95w 3060, having i9 in this machine is overkill
Harvey Norman, no deal
I9 will certainly throttle in this chassis. I had an i5 11400H variant of this with the 3060 and the i5 was running around 85 degrees in game and that was after a noctua NT-H1 repaste
Same issue for me. I managed to undervolt the CPU and make things a bit cooler.
How did you undervolt? Isn't it locked now?
Using similar instructions to here to unlock undervolting:
https://www.reddit.com/r/AcerNitro/comments/l6d4mi/unlock_uv…
Step 4 is slightly different for Intel 11th Gen. Further info in the Discord link pasted on top of the page.
Can you use the gift card on the laptop? If not, then you're not saving $300. You are paying $1698 for $1998 worth of Harvey Norman merchandise.
Next generation Nitros have arrived. I would expect the prices of last gen Nitros to decrease further.
you can spend the $300 on a ram upgrade I guess.
Or buy a SATA drive and/or M.2 Drive to go in it.
Neither of these are ideal as $1700 gets you a better laptop or a much much better desktop.
i9+nitro=hot
winter is coming…
If you have an edu email just get the Lenovo IdeaPad gaming with updated screen and higher TGP 3060 for $1299.
higher TGP 3060
That's 90W.
The nitro 5 is 95W
true that.
Lenovo has much better screen though, so if gaming on the laptop is priority, Lenovo sounds just better
3060 nitro, no deal