technology Is this computer any good?

[CastletonSnob 3,074]

I got this computer today. Is it any good? Anyone have any experience with Acer computers? I plan on using it to surf the web and watch streams.

I ask because I've heard of Acer products breaking soon after purchase, and I've heard horror stories about Acer's customer service.
 

https://www.amazon.com/Acer-TC-895-UA92-i5-10400-Processor-802-11ax/dp/B088X2YR3X

Edited April 14, 2021 by CastletonSnob

[Splashee 28,564]

Acer do have a reputation. I haven't had any problems with them myself.

 

I am looking at that integrated graphics... It won't be good for playing games. Watching streams, maybe, at least 1080p should be fine.
CPU has 6 cores, so if you can find one with lower, you might save some money. More cores are only good for rendering videos faster, or heavy calculation tasks such as compressing files, where you need more work to be done simultaneously.

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Graphics Card Ram Size     0.1 GB

That does seem rather small. Just 100 MB for graphics?
Just doing some math here, Full HD is 1920 times 1080 times 4 bytes (RGBA) equals 8294400, which is around 8 MB. One unit Megabyte 1024 times 1024, times a 100, divided by 8294400.... equals 12.

That is kinda low. Only 12 frames of video can fit in video RAM at the same time, where other graphics will also be stored. Just saying, there is a bottleneck there.

 

For a nerd like myself, I would probably never survive without a proper physical video card, like a NVidia or ATi. But that is just me, who needs a computer for all kinda of things including testing some games.

[Rikifive 24,192]

That's pretty much a typical PC not meant for games, so if you aim to only browse the internet, watch vids/streams, do some other basic tasks, play not demanding games that rely mostly on CPU, play minesweeper on large maps, record gameplay of calculator.exe, speedrun word documents, it should be fine. 

Its specs are okay for what it was designed for. Adding a dedicated graphic card could turn it into a nice PC capable of some gaming and that kind of stuff. However, choice may be limited by various factors, such as small case, 300W PSU power, and there I'd also worry about limited airflow, which could perhaps make the PC double as an oven when stressed for long enough - KFConsole confirmed.

Basically, if you're not a gamer, that PC should serve you well. It's not just a budget office PC, so aside lack of GPU, it's okay, average.

 

As for Acer computers as a whole, I don't really have an opinion yet, because I never owned one myself and didn't have the need to contact the customer support. My experience with these is pretty much limited to my dad having one (and my brother used to have one for some time). He has a cheaper Acer computer than the one you have for few years now and it still works. Cable management "exists", nothing extraordinary. It even came with dedicated budget AMD radeon card, which was always something, but the newer games hardly ran on it and my dad likes to play games once in a while. Yesterday I upgraded his PC by swapping it with a better Nvidia card and the PC didn't seem to complain, can run these games normally now. PC like a standard PC as far as I can tell. Case poo poo, motherboard pee pee, it is what it is, but it's probably because it's not a "gaming" PC after all.

So far I haven't bumped into significant flaws in Acer computers, so currently my opinion is that these are what they are, just like other ordinary pre-build PC's. Although if I remember correctly, I did hear about issues with some of their builds too in the past. I bumped into some of their models full of flaws, that people criticized in reviews. ...So I guess Acer has, or at least had the tendency to do some science and throw it to the market without proper prior testing. ...which is something that happens often nowadays, sadly.

 

10 minutes ago, Splashee said:

That does seem rather small. Just 100 MB for graphics?

Don't question Intel Graphics, these are like Shaggy and use only 0.0001% of their true power and this is what they list there.  

 

[The Kaeya Simp 13,989]

I mean if it was a siuation where you could easilly get a decent gpu, I would say it's great (despite acer kinda giving me a chill down my spine)

but my advice is look for something with an AMD processor for most usages