Acer Nitro 17 AN17-42-R9ZC, 17-inch multimedia gaming laptop PC 165Hz sRGB nomadic 7h Ryzen 7 8845HS RTX 4060 SSD 1 TB RAM 32 GB – LaptopSpirit

Our opinion on the Acer Nitro 17 AN17-42-R9ZC

L'Acer Nitro 17 AN17-42-R9ZC is a nomadic multimedia gaming laptop with 7 hours of battery life and a 17-inch anti-glare IPS Full HD screen with sRGB colors that are more faithful than average and a frequency of 165Hz which improves fluidity in games, running recent titles thanks to its high-end GeForce RTX 4060 ray tracing NVIDIA Ada Lovelace graphics card. This GPU accelerates processing like the large quantity of 32 GB RAM and the powerful AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS Hawk Point processor but also the fast SSD storage with a large capacity of 1 TB which reinforces responsiveness. This black Windows 11 laptop designed for gaming and creating is also equipped with a backlit keyboard and Wi-Fi 6 connectivity.

Features of the Acer Nitro 17 AN17-42-R9ZC

The Acer Nitro 17 AN17-42-R9ZC faces the competition

The Acer Nitro 17 AN17-42-R9ZC is currently displayed in promotion at Darty and at the Fnac. It offers a configuration/price ratio interesting for its category where it is one of the least expensive to offer such a substantial amount of RAM with such a recent and powerful processor (AMD), such a high frequency screen with such faithful colors with such large capacity SSD storage, all in such a large format chassis (17 inches).

If this Acer Nitro 17 AN17-42-R9ZC does not meet all your criteria, you will find in our guide Gaming laptop other configurations to play with a similar budget. For the same budget, choose the model with the most powerful graphics card, it will have the greatest impact on performance.

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Chassis, connections, screen of the Acer Nitro 17 AN17-42-R9ZC

With its angular black design and connectors positioned partly at the back, this versatile laptop targeting gamers and creators cooled by 2 fans, 5 heat pipes and 4 air vents has a gamer appearance.

This multimedia gaming laptop PC offers good connectivity including 2 USB-C, Ethernet and audio ports, Bluetooth 5.3 and Wi-Fi 6 ax wireless modules for communicating and connecting remotely, a practical HDMI video output for connecting it easily to a TV or a monitor for example, a microSD card reader but also 3 USB including 2 USB 3.0 (USB 2.0 compatible) ensuring transfers up to 10 times faster than USB 2.0 if you connect USB 3.0 devices.

The chiclet keyboard is equipped with an RGB backlighting solution that simply activates when you need to better discern your keys.

Players will be delighted that the screen has a frequency of 165Hz higher than the standard 60Hz, because it clearly improves overall fluidity, including in games.
The Full HD screen, whose 16:9 format lends itself well to video display, has an anti-reflective treatment ensuring better visibility in a bright environment (e.g. outdoors) than a glossy panel.
Furthermore, the screen benefits from sRGB colorimetry that is more faithful than average as well as significant viewing angles, both vertical and horizontal, thanks to its IPS technology.

Performance, autonomy of the Acer Nitro 17 AN17-42-R9ZC

The Acer Nitro 17 AN17-42-R9ZC may appeal to those who wish to acquire a powerful 17-inch multimedia multipurpose laptop PC, geared toward gaming and creation.

Demanding users will be delighted with the good overall power provided by this multimedia gaming laptop.
Because it is based on an AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS processor Hawk Point with a Radeon 780M graphics module, supported by a quantity of 32 GB of RAM – twice as high as the average!

Compared to a Quad/Hexa Core and 16/24 GB DDR4/5, we clearly feel the contribution of this duo in areas demanding CPU and RAM resources using multi-core since we then obtain much faster processing. This is for example the case in 3D rendering, video editing or photo editing.

Creative people will therefore be seduced, especially since their processing benefits from graphics acceleration provided by the dedicated GeForce RTX 4060 graphics card. And this in applications taking advantage of GPU computing power, such as the Adobe suite, VSDC or Vegas.

Featuring the NVIDIA Ada Lovelace architecture, the GeForce RTX 4060 ray tracing is a high-end dedicated graphics card with which you can play recent games that require 3D resources.
Here the Full HD definition represents an advantage compared to a higher definition (eg: 2.5K) because it requires fewer graphics calculations, which implies a higher number of fps.

The GeForce RTX 4060 is in fact automatically activated/deactivated in real time by NVIDIA Optimus technology depending on the tasks performed, typically for gaming.

Optimus prefers as much as possible to operate on the Radeon 780M inserted in the Ryzen 7 Hawk Point while its performance is much lower because it consumes little energy, which promotes autonomy.

Specifically in terms of autonomy, this versatile multimedia gaming laptop is able to last around 7 hours on battery in light use.
If by nature it is not the most portable there is since it is heavy and thick, it nevertheless remains more easily transportable than a desktop PC while its 17-inch format is very comfortable. Depending on the criteria, some wishing to equip themselves with a Student laptop may be interested.

The storage supports both the heart and the GeForce RTX 4060 on a daily basis because it provides great responsiveness and fluidity, in addition to quiet operation, a robust design and low power consumption.

It is in fact entrusted to an SSD with a high capacity of 1000 GB capable of housing quantities of software, games and files including, why not, personal creations.

Thanks to the core supported by the SSD, you can quickly access online game cards while launching games/software, processing and starting/stopping are done quickly.

Finally, in the event of heavy loads (e.g. games, treatments), expect this versatile multimedia gaming laptop to heat up and make itself heard.
If necessary, we can add a ventilated support to limit its temperatures (remember to check the dimensions carefully!).