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Acer again proves its skills and creates a inch machine that is just as suitable for gaming as for home entertainment or work. But first things first. The performance is the clear winner here. The cooling system with two fans ensures consistently high frame rates during gaming stress. We recommend the GTX to gamers looking for a laptop as it offers the best price-performance ratio. While the V15 hardly produces noise in idle mode, it is quite loud during games.

The very good speakers with high and low pitches can easily drown this out, though. The input devices are relatively decent and the maintenance options are almost exemplary. A matte, high-contrast IPS panel rounds things off. Although it does not cover all color spaces, it does not use PWM. The energy efficiency and long battery life of six hours can compete with equally strong rivals. This now brings us to the shortcomings: We find the thin lid and wobbly hinges a bit unstable. Furthermore, the webcam is poor, and the hard drive is slow and it clacks.

The latter issue can be eliminated by opting for a V15 model with an SSD. The in some places unstable casing, despite a new aluminum finish, remains. In return, it has never been easier to replace components. In addition, the contrast is higher, but the brightness is slightly lower. PWM flickering is not present, which is good.

The 4K display only reduces the Wi-Fi battery life by 20 minutes, which is hardly worth mentioning. Working For Notebookcheck. The new Nitro has to connect to the success of its Skylake predecessor. Although it has more gaming power for this, it is not enough for a Very Good rating. Where is the shortcoming? Update 4K display. Windows Gaming Kaby Lake Geforce. Intel Core iHQ 4 x 2. Acer homepage Acer notebook section. Note: The manufacturer may use components from different suppliers including display panels, drives or memory sticks with similar specifications.

New: Brushed aluminum surface New: Brushed aluminum surface. Right: USB 3. Left: Kensington, 2 x USB 2. Useless: p webcam with strong noise. Strong: watt power supply. Easy: Release screws, remove base tray. When necessary, move innards with a thin screwdriver. Dual fan design. Two speakers on both the right and left. Hard drive and battery screw-fastened. Input Devices.

Keyboard The keyboard with a crisp drop and firm stroke has not been modified. Touchpad The ClickPad with its matte, gliding-friendly surface is pleasant to use and is also relatively big with a diameter of Almost ideal: Firm pressure point and stroke. Nice and big but a short drop.

X-Rite i1Pro 2. CalMAN: Grayscale - no bluish tint. CalMAN: Grayscale calibrated. Matte with useful brightness CalMAN Grayscales uncalibrated. CalMAN saturation calibrated. CalMAN Grayscales calibrated.

Response times: black to white. Intel Core iHQ. Stress: Prime95 on all cores - fluctuations from 2. System Performance. Storage Device. HD Tune: Slow, clacking Seagate hard drive. HD Tune. Transfer Rate Minimum: Transfer Rate Maximum: Transfer Rate Average: Access Time: Burst Rate: CPU Usage: 2.

CrystalDiskMark 3. Sequential Read: Sequential Write: Graphics Card. Gaming Performance. Dual fan. System noise characteristics. System Noise Two fans with Acer's metal blades cool the system. Noise Level Idle.

The Witcher 3: FPS stable. The Witcher 3: CPU fluctuates between 2. Witcher 3. Power Supply max. Upper side idle. Underside idle. Upper side stress test load. Underside stress test load. Energy Management. Power Consumption The good runtimes point to low power consumption, but this is only conditionally true. Key: min: , med: , max: Metrahit Energy Currently we use the Metrahit Energy, a professional single phase power quality and energy measurement digital multimeter, for our measurements.

Find out more about it here. All of our test methods can be found here. Battery Runtime. Cons - slow HDD version. Test model courtesy of notebooksbilliger. Editor of the original article : Sebastian Jentsch - Managing Editor Consumer Laptops - articles published on Notebookcheck since Add to cart.

Price Alert. Add To Wish List. Best Sellers. Corn Electronics. DoDo DIY. XQM Electronics. Are you an E-Blast Insider? Get Educated. RSS Newsletter Join. AMD have been playing catch-up with Intel ever since Intel's Core architecture reared it's not so ugly head. Unfortunately, they didn't manage fast, but they did manage to get one out.

Phenom is a native Quad Core chip which is fantastic, but it's launch was marred by reactively low clock-speeds. The Phenom we have here today kicks us off at 2. Well the thing is, not a whole lot is actually new with the new CPU.

AMD have gone with a three tiered cache level for their Phnom processors with the L3 being labelled "Smartcache", with K per core adding up to a total of 2MB L3 cache. This would be hunky-dory, except for the fact that in very extreme circumstances , there is a bug called the L3 cache Translation Lookup Buffer TLB erratum which can cause a system crash.