All right. Quite alot of customer / forumer asked me: "ACER!? This brand safe ka?" Well i don't know either earlier. So few days ago i manage to squeeze out some time to test out the unit and prepare myself to write this article.

All right, less crap and let's get to the "business"


P/S: Before we start, please bare with the water mark which reduce the image quality. I do this in purpose after my previous review has been misused and was treated very not "客气-ly".

The Color box of the unit


ACer has the spec clearly listed out on the box


Had the box opened up, revealing the content. Left chamber is the adapter (Some one call it "PSU"...)


The Specification of the adapter. Standard 19V round headed 135W Adapter.


i experience more and more people asked about the thickness of the adapter, and well the adapter is around 27mm thick, 400G+/- heavy. Quite standard i say


[b]Remove the laptop and that have a thin chamber, storing the manuals


The Icon of the machine "ASPIRE V NITRO" (Be note the color is silver, not gold as it's affected by the light effect in my shop


This post has been edited by storm88: Dec 1 2014, 10:50 AM

DANG DANG DANG, here it comes!




The bottom of the unit. Clean design. The Vent at corner bottom left and right are speaker vent




THREE USB3.0 Connects, ONE HDMI port and furthest one is Ethernet Lan port




The rear air vent / Heat exhaust point. The Center is Subwoofer (if not mistaken)




Open up the unit, the machine's keyboard is cover by a sheet of soft paper




Remove the paper, revealing the C Panel (Keyboard and touchpad area)




It written: "Black Edition". The Icon of this Machine, on the touchpad. Quite some people ask me how does it feel of the touchpad. I pay sometime test out the touchpad and i can say the touch is "NOT BAD AT ALL! . I can only find the similar using experience on the Lenovo THINKPAD machine.



This post has been edited by storm88: Dec 1 2014, 11:06 AM

The thickness of the machine. I used a 50cent coin to demonstrate how thick the machine is. The machine is around 26mm thick



Unfasten the screw, used abit of skill to unshell the unit. Revealing the internal of the machine



The main "ingredient" of the machine. After spending some time examine the unit, i am very surprised to find that the construction is very tidy, not messy and workmanship is above average!



This is a 8G Cached 1TB SSHD drive pre-installed in the machine



Total of 2G GDDR5 memory chip for the NVIDIA GTX860M spotted.



Alot of people has been asking: "Can add ssd?" well, this photo basically had the question answered.


The Other side of the motherboard. The GPU and CPU is both covered by two way, dual heatpipe heatsink fan cooler


GPU and CPU Core's generated heat is cooled by Two heatpipes


This post has been edited by storm88: Dec 1 2014, 11:20 AM

Ahah, the keyboard is RED COLOR backlit




Experience sharing:

That's all about the spec wise. I powered up the unit to see how it does. Not surprised by the good spec provided- SSHD, the machine enter into DESKTOP after few basic setup in pretty short time!

The Machine's display is prefix with a LG-AHIPS screen. I believe i don't need to go detail in this for the good color and detail.

One thing that i decided to go more detail with is the "Heat control"
The machine is covered with dual heatpipe, dual fan design. By theory it should work good in carry the heat away from the machine.

My early benchmark shows that the heat control of the unit totally "another thing".
Simple and short Tests with FURMARK and PRIME95 is totally failed. I have high "taste" in heat control for laptops.
Below is how i categorize the cooling capability of a laptop

Anything above 95'C is consider FAIL;
90'C～95‘C : VERY HOT, not comfortable while gaming.
85'C~ 90'C : HOT, But Still acceptable
80'C~ 85'C : LUKE WARM, most people are fine with that
Anything less than 80'C: COOL Very good cooling. You won't feel heat at all.

By first attempts, i stop pushing benchmark afraid benchmark would damage the machine and had the test stop in less at 3 minutes. Later i compare my result with NBC and result is much different. So i decided to gave another run with different attempt by let each benchmark run for 3 hours. This time i get a TOTALLY DIFFERENT RESULT than the earlier tries.

Second tries had the RANK from FAIL increased to COOL. Strange eh ? This happened due to how ACER program their cooling PWM. The cooling fans TAKE TIME to kick in to provide full performance.


3 hours of max out setting at UNIGINE VALLEY FULL HD.


3 hours of "Donut ring" Furmark FullHD burnin benchmark


3 hours of Prime95 benchmark


[Specification]
INTEL CORE I7 4710HQ
12G DDR3L 1600MHz RAM
1TB 8G SSHD HARDDRIVE
NVIDIA GTX860M 2G GDDR5 DISCRETE DISPLAY
15.6" FULL HD IPS SCREEN
BACKLID KEYBOARD
WINDOWS 8.1 SINGLE LANGUAGE
NO DVD
1 YEAR WARRANTY
MARKET PRICE: RM3399


PROS:
- VERY GOOD VALUE.
- LIGHT WEIGHT. ABOUT 2.3KG
- AUDIO IS VERY STRONG
- GOOD COOLING, PROVIDED FANS ARE KICKED IN
- SLIM
- GOOD BUILD QUALITY

CONS:
- HARDDISK IS NOT LOCKED IN WITH ANY SCREWS BUT PROTECTED BY SOFT FOAMS ONLY. HARDDISK WILL EASIER TO GET DAMAGED WHEN THE FOAM GOT AGED UP
- HEATSINK FANS TOOK ABIT LONG TO KICK IN
- ONLY 1 YEAR WARRANTY
- ALL CONNECTORS IS SQUEEZE AT ONE SINGLE SIDE.
- THE GAP BETWEEN THE LAPTOP'S BOTTOM TO GROUND IS ABIT LOW, AFFECTING AIR INTAKE. BY RAISING THE GAP 5MM TEMPERATURE DROP FEW BY DEGREE CELSIUS.
- VERY VERY VERY LIMITED STOCK NATIONWIDE


Personal thinking about quality:
Yes, i heard alot about Acer's Quality issue and my sister in law once got hit by it before. Quite alot people hold their horse even they see this ASPIRE V NITRO at such good price tag. That also had me once doubt whether if ACER CUT COST to sell cheap.

After i had the unit examined in detail, it's clear that i would not agree it's the cut cost matter. The build quality is not bad and even better than our once hottest selling Y50-70. I checked the price of ASPIRE V NITRO at Singapore and i found that the price at Singapore here with similar spec is MUCH HIGHER. So, why is this model is so cheap in Malaysia?

I can only think of one reason: MARKETING ACTIVITY.

This post has been edited by storm88: Dec 1 2014, 12:00 PM

how was the performance ?

Pretty good review, thanks for sharing!

wow, finally its come 1 of my target ~
i think that not subwoofer , its spec stated that only got 4 speaker .
wait for more reveal ya !

So Tech Armory have available unit currently?

finally one of my question answered. there are M.2 slot inside this one.

Do update us time to time (if you have time), about what your feeling after 1 week of usage, 1 month or anything.

I plan to buy this sexy baby.

Bear in mind, TechArmory is a retailer for gaming laptop. I doubt they will update much unless more people decide to pick up the laptop, but it should be on display right, storm88 ?

I use clevo machine, so i kinda hard to update.

Yes i have display set now and also vry limited qty of stock now.

any option for warranty add on?

Acer can upgrade warranty to 3 yrs

bro, g551 unboxing?

Thanks for the review. Got mine today. PRetty happy with it....thus far.

How about that LCD Panel quality? sorry i'm not so familiar with LCD panel. It's seems too many in the market to offer.

G551 unbox?

nice unboxing,there has a m2 slot for the upgrade ,dont know its working or not.

m2 slot is working fine.

sweet...its well balance n inexpensive laptop///

Its also listed as top 10 gaming in notebookcheck and 2014's best affordable gaming laptop in LYN review.

http://www.lowyat.net/2014/12/review-acer-...-black-edition/

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Acer-Aspire-V...w.128435.0.html