Acer Predator G5-793-73NZ 17.3" Review

[cowpker4life]

Only have had this laptop for a few days but was differently worth the price on NewEgg of $1370 usd. very happy with it so far.

Pros

-16Gb ram can upgrade to 64Gb as it supports 4 dims

-256Gb m.2 ssd has 2 m.2 slots.

-1Tb 7200rpm hdd

-very good thermals haven't had the cpu stress tested as installing games and stuff still but getting 70-80c during most games and 84c with just the cpu under 100% load will spike up to 90c at times tho and gpu is 60-75c without max fan speed and can reach 2050+mhz most the time around 1800-2000mhz sometimes 1750s

-Good built in speakers sounds very nice.

-75Hz G-sync 1080p IPS display with very good color accuracy giving very nice images

-keyboard is membrane but feels closer to a mechanical keyboard has that nice click sound.

-very well built chassis for the most part. the keyboard deck has little to no fleck

-very easy to turn the mouse pad off 2 different ways.

-Almost no bloatware just acer stuff and windows not a bunch of 3rd party crap.

-Quite even still at max fan speed hard to hear it and have to really listen for the fans.

Cons

-can't under volt or overclock the CPU what is a given as its a hq

-cant incresse power or voltage for the GPU

-screen has a lot of flex and wouldn't recommend carrying in backpack as chance the screen might get scratched or break or something.

-can not tell if caplock or numlock is on.

-Preditorsence dose not overclock the CPU from what i can tell as 1 core=3800mhz 2=3600mhz 4=3400mhz but during stress test 4 cores were running 3355mhz. Also only is a +120 core clock and +100mem for the GPU can get around +180-190core and +400mem or so Manuel overclocking in MSI AB

Minor cons

-keyboard is stuck to red and numpad blue

-Marco keys are all red even tho the button to cycle through them is different colors would of been nice.

-not very portable and will not fit in many backpacks kinda a good thing tho as screen might get damaged from being in a backpack as mentioned above.

-not the best battery life but should get you through the day for classes or something if you are just web-browsing or typing a paper.

 

Overall it is a very solid laptop especially for the price and i would recommend buying one if you are looking at a mid range laptop. The only big negative for me is the flex in the screens bezel and would of liked to see it be stronger. The 1060 version has the same cooling set up as the 1070 and 1080 version what is nice for keeping temps low. The overclock ability or under voltage would be nice for more performance or better thermals and battery life. There is quite a bit of other reviews on this laptop as well so go check them out before buying one just to make sure all the ones I found were very positive about it.

 

URL to laptop:

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834315934&ignorebbr=1&nm_mc=KNC-GoogleAdwords-PC&cm_mmc=KNC-GoogleAdwords-PC-_-pla-_-Gaming+Laptops-_-N82E16834315934&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIm52q7JD-1QIVC1gNCh1DBQSIEAQYASABEgJZrfD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

 

 

[TheRandomness]

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[cowpker4life]

1 hour ago, TheRandomness said:

-Thread moved to Member Reviews.

thanks I didn't know where it went and it said reviews.

[cowpker4life]

On 8/29/2017 at 11:37 PM, cowpker4life said:

 

-256Gb m.2 ssd has 2 m.2 slots.

 

 

 

just had it apart and only has 1 m.2 but could solder in anther as it has traces on the mobo for one.

thermal paste is okay dropped 15-20c on the cpu while stressing just the cpu but when gaming thermals seem to havnt changed using arctic mx-4

with burnintest and heaven on max thermals are 80-83c cpu and 69-72c gpu.