Acer Nitro 16 Gaming Laptop | AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS Octa-Core CPU | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop GPU | 16" WQXGA 165Hz IPS Display | 16GB DDR5 | 1TB Gen 4 SSD | Wi-Fi 6E | RGB Backlit KB | AN16-41-R5KC

This unit is designed to be a replacement for a gamers desktop machine. It gets pretty close. I am able to run nearly all high-end AAA titles with no stuttering. Some graphical glitches at extreme (overclocked) settings are usually the norm. It runs games great at unclocked speeds with the extreme 165Mhz. But I wanted to see what would bring the system to a halt, and I tried to do some DVD ripping (nothing illegal). After about 5 minutes, the system overheated and shutdown. Very good IMO. I want a machine to shut down when it's overloaded. This tells me that the system is tailor-made for a specific group of users and optimized for them. All upgrade parts were purchased on Amazon. I upgraded the memory with Crucial CT2K16G56C46S5 (DDR 32Gb CL46) and added two M.2 drives (TEAMGROUP TM8FP7002T0C311 (2 Tb) with graphene heat spreaders). I chose the latter because this is a laptop and therefore has little room for thermal attachments, and the graphene heat-spreader was just the ticket for this application. The memory was my second choice as the first set did not run in the unit. The first set that failed to run were the G.SKILL Ripjaws (F5-5600S4040A16GX2-RS). My second go at research indicated that the laptop could not use CL40 memory. Anyway, the Crucial CL46s are running superb, so I can't really say for certain whether the CL timings were the culprit. Cheers!

This 16" laptop has the most features, at the highest specs, for the lowest cost. I spent months reading reviews and comparisons to other laptops, and I decided on this model because it offered the best value. So if that is your primary concern, buy this laptop. I'm a creative entrepreneur who also games, so I needed a machine that could be fun while also making me money, yet without looking like a typical gamer laptop. The Nitro will play all of the latest games on Ultra and run them perfectly. The 4070 has 8 GB of VRAM, and in most situations this is plenty. There are a few games that require more for the highest quality textures, but you can toggle a different feature off to compensate, and it'll then run it at a high FPS. The DLSS and RTX on some games help it run even smoother. This laptop has excellent cooling, with multiple vents. The fans are not as loud as I thought they would be. In fact, when you use the included Nitro software, you can toggle it for everyday use and the fan is near-inaudible. There's an even quieter setting for absolute silence. The fan does get loud when playing a few intense games at max, but your headphones can block it out with in-game sound. The same is true for most desktop towers, and is the nature of gaming. The screen is excellent, with vivid colors, high brightness, a 165 Hz refresh rate, and a 16:10 ratio. The extra vertical height serves a valuable purpose when reading documents and editing images in graphic design programs. It's also pleasing to the eye. The thin bezels add to this appeal. Lots of connection ports. Fast Wi-Fi and ethernet. The keyboard is slightly squishy, but it's fine, and I use a full external keyboard anyway. The backlit keys are fun, useful, and can be modified in 4 zones, or turned off. The included webcam isn't stellar, but it works like you want it to. The only concern I had with this laptop is the 16 GB of RAM. They are high-speed sticks from Hynix, but when I multitasked in Photoshop, Chrome, and other editing programs, or while gaming at max settings, it would sometimes use 95% of the RAM. That's not a problem with the hardware, because RAM is designed to be utilized at its fullest for hours at a time, but I knew that I'd be doing simultaneous video and audio editing while browsing that would require more RAM, so I upgraded to 64 GB G.Skill RipJaws. It turns out that this was overkill, and I never utilize more than 32 GB. The 16 GB is fine for most creative people. Similar situation with the built-in SSD. It's a fast model Samsung, but I needed more space, so also upgraded the SSD from 1 TB to two 2 TB Samsung Pro 990s, to fit the extra m.2 drive bay. There is no third bay for a SATA SSD platter, as there was on the previous Nitro model. The laptop battery is huge, but this laptop supports USB-C charging. I purchased a 140 watt portable USB-C battery with a 240 watt cable. When plugged-in, this charger provides all of the necessary energy to run my applications and keep the battery at max. This lightweight charger makes trips to the library easier. However, once plugged in, Acer notifies me with a brief message that the laptop is not receiving the ideal amount of power. Unfortunately there are no 240 watt portable chargers available on the market at the moment. Some day soon they'll have 240 watt chargers and the larger brick will be obsolete. To conclude, this laptop can do everything you need a laptop to do, while also playing games at max, and it provides a tremendous value. --- Here is the information I gathered about this machine, from various reviews and the internal readouts after owning it. I wish Acer added this to the sales page to have helped with my initial purchase, but since they didn't, here it is for you, to help with your decision. Acer Nitro 16 (AN16-41-R5KC) 2023 Launched: January 2023. Date First Available: June 18, 2023 Screen-to-body ratio: ~73.6% Dimensions: 14.18 x 11.02 x 1.1 inches (360.17 x 279.9 x 25.9-27.9 mm). Area: 156.3 inches2 (1008 cm2) Weight: 5.95 pounds CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS Octa-Core CPU. Base frequency: 2.5 Ghz, Turbo frequency: up to 5.2GHz. AMD Radeon 780M iGPU. Cores: 16. Threads: 32. L3 Cache: 64 MB. Fabrication: 4 nm. GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop GPU. 8 GB GDDR6 VRAM. Memory bus: 192 bit. Memory speed: 16 Gbps. Shading units (cores): 7424. Texture mapping units (TMUs): 232. Raster operations pipelines (ROPs): 80. Performance: 17.1-24.7 TFLOPS. TGP: 140 watts maximum. Display: 16" WQXGA (16:10, 2560 x 1600) 165Hz IPS LCD Display. 189 ppi. Side bezels: 7.8 mm. Matte coating. (No HDR support. No touchscreen. No Ambient light sensor). Response time: 3 ms. Maximum open angle: 165 degrees. No PWM flickering. 475 to 520 nits brightness. Display tests: sRGB color space: 100%. P3: 67.9%. Adobe RGB: 69.9% Memory: 1TB PCIE Gen 4 M.2 SSD (Samsung PM9A1 MZVL21T0HCLR): 7079 MB read / 5161 MB write. 2 slots. Ram: 16GB DDR5 5600 Mhz SODIMM (2 x 8 GB) from Hynix. Max. ram size: 64 GB. Mainboard: AMD Promontory/Bixby FCH Wi-Fi: 6E (MediaTek MT7922, can be upgraded). Supports dual-stream Wi-Fi in the 2.4GHz, 5GHz and 6GHz bands, including 2x2 MU-MIMO Technology; Killer Ethernet E2600 10/100/1000; Bluetooth 5.1 or above. 802.11ax. Keyboard: 4-zone RGB Backlit chiclet keys, Numpad. Concave keys (letter, number row) and flat keys (function keys, numerical pad). Touchpad: ~12.6 x 7.7 cm. Windows Precision multi-gesture. OS: Windows 11 Home Code: AN16-41-R5KC Audio: 2W dual speakers. DTS:X Ultra 3D spatial soundscape Features: NitroSense, AMD Adrenaline Edition, AMD FreeSync, NVIDIA G-SYNC, NVIDIA Advanced Optimus Cooling: 2-fans, 2-intakes (top and bottom), and a quad-exhaust port design. Liquid metal thermal grease. (No vapor chamber) IO: 1 USB A 2.0, 2 USB A 3.0, 2 USB C 4.0, HDMI 2.1, Micro SD (max transfer rate of 80.3 MB/s), Headphone/Microphone audio-multi-jack. Ethernet: RJ45 Ethernet. Killer/Intel chip (E2600; 1 GBit/s). Battery: Li-Ion, 90 Wh, Fast charging, USB Power Delivery, Charge power 280 2, AC adapter weight: 820 grams. Life: 12 hours of idle, 9 hours of websurfing. Maximum load: 1.75 hours. Webcam: 1280 x 720. 0.9 MP. Warranty: Two-year guarantee. Noise: Idle: 25.7 dB(A). Average: 33.9. Maximum: 62.

Ive been using this laptop for almost 2 years now. I never had any problem with it other than the nitro app and it solved by deleting and installing it again. Im currently playing ARK Ascended wich is a really demanding game and it runs fluid and pretty good. I got zero problems running my games or with the temperature, it does run a little hot but never got any dameges but if that worries you, just go to the nitro app and put those fans really high or just get like a gaming laptop cooling pad. I love this laptop really satisfied with it

This laptop is awesome. I love it. It runs all the games I play (COD, Fortnite, MGS3, Apex, WoW) flawlessly without any issues. The only thing I really don't like is that when I have it plugged in with the charger and try to run a game, it'll freeze and I'll have to do a hard restart to get it to work again. I found that if it's unplugged the issue won't happen though. as far as I know there isn't a fix for that issue. Other than that it's everything I expected and more.

This Acer might be the best option for price to performance, right now. The 4060 and 7840hs are more than powerful enough to drive the 1920x1200 resolution at max settings, high refresh rate in every modern game I've tried out. It's really a perfectly balanced set-up, for spec, that should last quite a while. The laptop has solid build quality, stays pretty quiet in all but the Turbo setting (I generally just use Performance. Nearly the same clock/ CPU speeds, but fans aren't maxed out), and has great repairability/ upgradeability (just unscrew the bottom plate, pop it off, and everything is right there). The IPS screen is quite nice, and the extra vertical space you get with the 1920x1200 res, over standard 1920x1080 really benefits the viewing experience. Keyboard is pretty good, and the RGB is solid, if you're into that (I use it as key lighting primarily). Not a huge fan of touchpads without deparated mouse buttons, but this one is overall fine, I just use a usb mouse when I need it. Speakers aren't great (standard for laptops), but, the laptop comes stock with DTS:X, which makes a huge difference. It boosts the sound a ton, and adds a ton more depth and scope to the sound. I'd highly recommend keeping it installed, and running it. I don't even use headphones (as i normally would), it's so good. I've been able to play everything I own at max settings (modern games included), taking advantage of the 165hz Gsync panel. May have to enable DLSS, or frame gen, etc. when dealing with RTX, but the 4060 has it covered. Temps are awesome. In the heaviest loads, GPU maxes out around 70c and CPU gets to the 80s. Overall, I think it's an amazing value for a gaming set-up, and really well balanced in the spec department, and would easily recommend it

This is the question I have asked ACER since I have now had issue unresolved for almost 4 months of going through their RMA process. I have tried all options on my own, and now am left with no choice but to wonder how this laptop even got allowed out of the factory and how many times it will take before I get a non-defective one that works or my full refund back. "Why is this happening? I have sent my laptop in now TWICE to RMA, only to continue to have problems with my laptop. Mainly this issue of "Snow Blindness" as my wife calls it. It comes on as white dots in any game I play and despite being on the phone talking about it twice now, the people at the center who fix these issues have either not been properly informed or severely ignoring the problem. I have gotten a paper back that states and I quote "System is performing to factory specifications. All hardware/function tests passed." How can a test pass and yet I still cannot run ANY game that this laptop was deaigned to handle? My other laptop which has a 1650 GTX outperforms this behemoth (compared to the older model I use) in various games, applications, and even in video stabilization on Youtube. The only thing I cannot beat it on is Image Quality and streaming, which for some baffling reason is perfect for the end user, but not on my side. At this point, I may as well ask for a refund if my calls keep being ignored and my money is wasted yet again in buying a package to send into RMA just to be told "All clear!" Amd yet STILL have a defective piece of equipment. It isn't hard to boot up the device, run an application, maybe take about 30 minutes to download a stress test or ANY SOMEWHAT demanding video game and see firsthand what issue is at play here. I was quite happy with the original "fix" that took about a day, but then ultimately ended up being a week of my time wasted and my investment into ACER wasted as well. Ironically, the older model I use IS an Acer Laptop, which is why I got this newer model. However due to the circumstances I may not continue with this brand and unfortunately cannot recommend this product to any peers, friends, or collegues. I will be looking for an alternative to hopefully spend my refund on if my product cannot be fixed (which has been a problem to me since day one, I just couldn't get it fixed right away due to being deployed to the middle east, go figure) and it will not be the ACER brand unless I can get both PROMISE and ACTION on a proper repair. Sincerely, -Bogle, John-Jack w. P.S. Why is it a product does not even get held for 24 hours and then sent back to the user? How much time was spent on diagnosing this product? What does ACER consider a good QA check? What is considered "Standard Procedure" to ACER? I eagerly await a reply, and will for now have to leave a negative review online as well as no longer being able to endorse and/or recommend this product to another user in the forseeable future."

I got this laptop on sale during the holidays so was lucky to snag an awesome deal. Performance-wise this laptop runs pretty much flawlessly on modern games (Alan Wake 2, Ghost of Tsushima Director's Cut, Counter-Strike 2). I run these games at max/near-max settings on Balance Mode. There are other options to overclock your device easily in real-time with the push of the on-keyboard Nitro button. The Nitro Sense app that comes with the device is also pretty interesting/cool in that you can see real-time performance stats of the GPU, CPU, RAM, as well as running temperatures. They keyboard is backlit with various color options accessible through the same Nitro Sense app. The touch of the keys feels smooth yet solid. In terms of how this laptop performs compared to luxury/high-end laptops... I ran the 3D Mark Demo on steam and I'd rate it 78-81 per cent. 100 per cent being the ultimate latest cutting edge game laptops. Considering the price for luxury gaming laptops, this Nitro 17 Acer is an amazing performer with a nice big monitor. I am very happy and satisfied with my purchase and see myself using it for the next 5 years at least. Startup time is also great too. Solid State Drive 1 TB that boots up in about 30 seconds or less.

this is the best laptop i have ever had and probably one of the best laptops you can get for under $1000. the battery life has been really good which was a suppressed for a 17 inch laptop. if you want the best battery life put it in eco mode and maybe turn down the brightness i haven't tried playing games on battery because its not recommended. when it come to playing games this laptop is amazing you can play AAA titles and have good graphics and it will run great and with old games or esports titles you can play high graphics and max out the refresh rate of the screen. i recommend if your playing games to play on performance or turbo mode. performance mode overclocks the cpu and gpu a bit and turbo mode overclocks the cpu and gpu to max and maxes out the fan. overall this is an amazing laptop and i highly recommend if you are in the market for a gaming laptop.