Acer Nitro AN517-51-79C9 Specs and Details

Acer Nitro AN517-51-79C9 Specs

Chassis, connectivity, screen of the Acer Nitro AN517-51-79C9

The Acer Nitro 5 AN517-51-79C9 may well represent the range of “base” of the game at Acer, its design has leapt ahead of the previous generation. Yes, it is still entirely made of plastic and, yes, there are still touches of red everywhere, but the size is reduced (403 x 280 x 27 mm) and the quality of overall construction significantly higher. The surfaces are mainly smooth and woken in places by a textured pattern of the most beautiful effect and almost no marks fingerprints.

The keyboard is underlined with red and backlit in red also on three levels of intensity. On this point, Acer saves money and does not choose to opt as its direct competitor for multicolored lighting or, at least, in several areas.

For its part, the connection is satisfactory with several USB ports, a USB Type-C port, an Ethernet port and an HDMI 2.0 output. The Thunderbolt 3 and more curiously the card reader are not at the rendezvous. Also note that the power supply and the headphone jack are misplaced on the front half of the right side, which can interfere with your mouse. Anyway, all the necessary at present is present and the wireless modules are entrusted to Wifi ac and Bluetooth 5.0 latest generation.

The screen is applied on a slab of 17.3 inches luminous Full HD IPS mate. Following the trend, he opted for a rather immersive edge-to-edge design, a feeling amplified by the IPS panel and its wide viewing angles. In addition, the Full HD (1920 x 1080px) definition is the most suitable for gamers and allows you to make the most of your High Definition content while the anti-glare treatment prevents the ambient light from being reflected on the screen, improving game comfort (especially in dark scenes). Note that the frequency of the slab is apparently the basic option (60 Hz), the players seeking a perfect fluidity in the frames will have to prefer the options 120 Hz or 144 Hz.

Performance, autonomy of the Acer Nitro AN517-51-79C9

There to meet the needs of versatility, the latest generation processor Hexa Core i7-9750H Coffee Lake Refresh shows the muscles. If the gain compared to the previous generation is not necessarily significant on the perfs (10% env.), It nevertheless gains some points and allows to glimpse big resources in the multicore tasks, in the service of the creatives. Indeed, its 6 cores (12 logics multi-threading) are valuable when you work on greedy applications type 3D modeling, parallelization, video editing … Especially since the RAM is present in quantity. With 8 GB of RAM behind, you get the fluency of multitasking .

Opposite is a graphic card of last generation Turing GeForce GTX 1650 . If it does not support Ray-Tracing like the last RTX Turing, it obviously gains in performance compared to a GeForce 1050 since its capacities are placed between those of a GTX 1050 Ti and a GeForce 1060. In fact , it can be measured without problem to the intensive players and assures honorable frequencies in Full HD on the totality of the titles of the market provided to avoid the details Ultra on the greediest of them. Support for the creative is also valuable with its 4GB VRAM GDDR5 .

For its part, storage is there to promote system responsiveness without compromising capacity. In fact, the 256 GB dedicated NVMe PCIe SSD will be able to accommodate the operating system and all programs and games and thus contribute to the most responsive execution, shortened download times and an overall brighter environment. The hard drive of 1000 GB to 5400 rpmin addition is there to allow you to archive your entire library.

The battery of 58 Whr does not lead off the major components of this Acer Nitro AN517-51-79C9 and can not exceed 4 hours of autonomy in Internet browsing with active WiFi. This is an average result for a 17 inches of this ilk but not disappointing so far.