Hands-on Unboxing The ACER NITRO 5 QHD Gaming Laptop

Hands-on Unboxing The ACER NITRO 5 Intel i7-11800 Octa-core 2.40 – 4.6 GHZ with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 6 GB

The motherboard manufacturer is Kamiq_TLS which has PCI-express 4 (16.0 GT/s), but it comes with PCIe Gen3 Nvme (Samsung PM991a MZVLQ512HBLU) PCIe Gen3.0 x4.
Hardware | Specifications |
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Screen | 17.3 (IPS LCD) QHD 165Hz |
CPU | Intel i7-11800 Octa core 2.40 – 4.6 GHz |
RAM | 16GB 3200mhz |
SSD | 512GB PCIe® NVMe™ |
GFX | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 6 GB |
DTS | |
GPU Boost Clock | Up to 1425 MHz Up to 95 W |
Bluetooth 5.2 USB Type-C Thunderbolt 4 (DisplayPort™ 1.4) USB 3.2 Gen 2 (up to 10 Gbps) 1 HDMI 2.1 Intel® WiFi 6 – 2×2 Killer Ethernet E2500 port | |
Power Supply Wattage | 180 W |


ACER Care Centre app says the drive cannot be defragged, there is no option to Trim it, but this is available with windows defrag. It seems ACER could do with fixing this. Also with the Samsung Nvme Drive, it is possible to use Samsung Magician to benchmark the hardware.

Software and Apps
The Nvidia software is installed and gives Game Ready driver updates.
The Acer updater has given updates on the first day we got the Nitro a week ago, but nothing since so far.
NitroSense gives options on performance and fan control. So far on Acer Optimised, the laptop performs fast.
Norton Security Ultra is also pre-installed and ni e to know you have it while setting up the computer.
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