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this right here is $800 worth of laptop which doesn't sound like a lot but Acer who sponsored this video by the way thank you Acer is particularly proud of what they've managed to pack in to their eighth generation nitro 5 so let's crack this bad boy open and have a look at it shall we all right so while I pack these boxes open let's talk the specs of this thing it's got a Core i5 processor which again doesn't sound gaming or anything but if you look a little closer at the specs the 8th gen Core i5 8300 H which is what this thing is equipped with is actually nearly identical to the last generation Core i7 7700 HQ which was kind of the de facto standard for gaming laptops so consider this over one generation we are getting slightly better performance actually and at a hundred and twenty eight dollars less on the CPU alone so that is a big part of why Acer was able to hit this fairly aggressive price point as for the rest of the specs it's got eight gigs of RAM which as we talked about recently for gaming anyway you know I can't say anything for Chrome users but for gaming anyway it's still enough even in current year 2018 it's got 256 gigs of SSD storage so we have finally gotten to the point where even for like value models like this one we don't have to rely on a larger hard drive in order to have enough space to install a few games with the fact that it's a PCI Express based SSD being an extra bonus and it's got a gtx 1050 Ti so the biggest difference between a 10 Series card like what we've got here and the last generation 9 series geforce cards is that it used to be that the mobile version was a cut-down version of what was in some cases not even the same GPU at all so a 970 m for example was actually a desktop 960 and then a 950 M which would have been the like similar position in the product stack to this one was I don't even know what that thing was so the 1050 Ti is over a hundred percent faster than the 950 M that you would have gotten in an $800 laptop in years past so the point I'm trying to make here is that at this price with these specs you're going to get a great experience and eSports titles like you'll be able to crank them and I'd be surprised if you ever dropped a frame and then even in triple-a titles you should be able to drive this 1080p panel at its native resolution at like medium settings so all that's left here is for us to uninstall norton you may have to download norton consumer product removal tool and go ahead and get some games installed and steam so we can take it for a test drive so i had to run and grab a copy of doom off an external drive because i don't feel like waiting for 60 gigs to download which i guess is a good time to talk about io because i like having my mouse over on the left so that it doesn't interfere with movement on the mouse pad over on the right and we've only got one USB 3 over on this side of the type-a persuasion so i'm gonna go ahead and use that second one right in between the HDMI port we've got an SD card reader and a regular wired Ethernet port yay for my external drive and then over on the other side we've got power in two more USB ports though it should be noted these are USB 2 and then a headphone microphone combo jack one thing that's noticeably better is the display brightness so IPS displays started showing up on value laptops what about two years ago I guess but one of the big issues that they had was that while they have IPS qualities like better colors and better viewing angles they were typically really dim this one's actually not too shabby no I don't want the game bar like barely gives you enough time to tell it to never come back I'm gonna go with expert BOTS today alright so we're running anywhere from about 80 to 110 or so frames per second damn these expert BOTS oh crap they're all yes they're better than me thank you I guess I could have bought a better gun or I could just okay now csgo okay well for tonight's loading maybe we can just spend a little bit of time with the keyboard actually actually overall impressions of the keyboard are not bad it's got a bit of a long keystroke and that does take some getting used to so I I found myself missing a couple here and there but if you're a heavier type er you probably wouldn't even notice not bad really quiet - lets apply the best settings for our system here Battle Royale of course does anyone play the other one okay motions are off because terrible yeah I was not expecting all hi - oh okay it kind of settled in there so I'm kind of a view distance guy I'm not I don't really care about any alias signals so let's go ahead and have a look at how that looks wait the ones with arrows are on my team right I don't remember no that's not bad like if your goal is you know do some schoolwork and you're not expecting crazy battery life because it does have a dedicated graphics card and then play fortnight in your off hours this is not a bad experience can you harvest a car evidently you can yeah you build stuff let's say I'm harvesting brick right now this is rock solid now it's not doing any of that dipping or anything it's actually not that loud either I think it's you know it's not silent or anything but it's very tolerable so there you have it that's pretty much the latest gen nitro 5 overall looking pretty good for 800 bucks if you get it from Best Buy we have really come a long way actually so thanks for watching guys if you dislike this video you can hit that button but if you liked it hit like get subscribed or maybe consider checking out where to buy the stuff we featured at the link in the video description also down there is our merch store which has cool shirts like this one and our community forum which you should totally join