Acer Nitro 50: Sleeper pre-built gaming PC
**A Test Fit: Modifying the Acer Nitro 50**
The process began with a test fit to see how all the components would fit together inside the case. To begin, the front plastic was put on and the top, giving the case a more nitro-like appearance rather than just a plain gray box. "It looks pretty good," the creator said, noting that only two small plastic bits had to be cut down to get everything to fit properly.
The next step was to install the power supply. The creator had to use a non-modular power supply due to its size being too large for the case's modular power supplies. Fortunately, the power supply they chose was exactly the same size as the one that comes with the PC, making it a perfect fit. However, the only real challenge was finding an adapter for the short power button cable, which kept getting in the way.
The entire modding process has been surprisingly easy, unlike most of the creator's other experience with building computers. "Normally when I try and fit stuff into a thing where it doesn't belong, it's basically three days of my own personal hell that ends with me just going crazy," they joked. Instead, this build has been a breeze, with the most frustrating part being finding an adapter for the short power button cable.
With all the components installed, the creator was pleased to find that the case still had very little airflow, which is a major concern for the front radiator and overall temperatures of the system. To test this, they ran half an hour of Ida 64 on the CPU and Fur Mark on the GPU, resulting in some concerning temperatures.
The CPU performed admirably, with the Corsair H100 keeping everything cool and under control. However, the graphics card was struggling, reaching its highest temperatures ever recorded on that particular card. The creator noted that this was particularly problematic given the case's motherboard VRM design, which was getting Louisiana bio level hot and causing the system to throttle.
The gaming performance difference between the original Acer Nitro 50 and the upgraded "super mega version" is a stark contrast, with the GTX 1650 being outperformed by the RTX 2060 in an unfair test. The creator joked that comparing such vastly different components was like racing a Prius against an Audi RS6 – it's just not going to end well for the Prius.
The journey with the Acer Nitro 50 has come to an end, and the creator is sad to see it go. Once modified, they realized they wouldn't be able to reassemble it in its original form, so they made the difficult decision to disassemble it entirely. The case itself is a bit of a letdown, with the Acer Nitro 50 resembling Starburst from Community – plain and unremarkable.
The creator expressed their gratitude for watching the build process and encourages viewers to check out their stream later that day. They also invite viewers to subscribe to their channel and thank them for watching until the next video.
WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthis is the acer loser nitro suckface edition not many people know this but that's actually the internal code name that acer uses to refer to this bad boy but anyway i've done a bunch of videos on this pre-built and i don't like it very much i've reinstalled windows on it several times and it still behaves like it's the catalyst that's gonna start skynet so for the sake of the future of humanity i'm gonna take a dremel to this bad boy and turn it into a badass sleeper build oh i almost forgot i don't have a huge amount of plans as to how i want to mod this pc the only thing i know is i'm going to fit this corsair h100i rgb pro xt in here if it kills me corsair sent this aio out for a video ages ago and i still haven't used it and it's just it no matter what i have to do to this pc it's going in there now as you can see it's pretty tiny but there is one great thing about it is that this looks like it's a standard atx power supply so that's going to be really easy to replace we do need to replace it because it has a bunch of uh proprietary connectors and stuff so we're not going to be able to plug our non-acer motherboard in now the next thing i want to do is get rid of this dvd drive because it's actually quite in the way of where the power supply cables plug into the motherboard so i don't want to i don't want to have to struggle underneath it so let's see how we're going to get in there as we know the mono brow of this little pc lights up and here is where it connects to the power supply this looks like the front panel i o connector for the power button and then you've got another two running down there and that's actually the wi-fi antenna cable that runs all the way through there and then attaches somewhere to the front so what i'm going to do now is unplug all of those cables and see if we can actually pull this front panel off okay so i've been able to get the front off it does really feel like you're going to destroy it in the process but you just kind of have to take it by the scrap of the neck and just go to town on it a little to get it off one thing that's really cool is i'm easily going to be able to hook up the power button so i'm pretty excited for that but just look at that airflow there is literally no space for airflow in the front uh this front i o is actually attached to the motherboard itself so i'm gonna have to remove that we're not gonna have access to that anymore we're not gonna have access to the dvd drive but hopefully we're gonna be able to fit the 240 millimeter corsair aio in here the dvd drive design is actually really interesting so they've got this caddy so that you can attach extra hard drives and then you have this clip which you push down it's really hard to do with one hand actually okay so you push it down and then it slides out like that there's also a little bit of paint on this clip so that they can see when you've actually removed it what's also really interesting about this is on the back it uses a normal sata port for data but it's got a weird proprietary power connector which you can see here it's actually adapted from a normal sata power and then you've got this little itty bitty one what really blows my mind about this little pc is how they go out of their way to make it really difficult for the person who bought it to upgrade it you can see here there's an m.2 slot but it's tucked away under all of these cables and underneath this thing so you need to remove this whole assembly to get to it which i'm a hundred percent sure will void your warranty again with the power supply they make it really difficult for you to get out there's that clip in the back that you have to push down and there's that little block on the top that you have to push up so you kind of need three hands to get the power supply out but we've got that clingy bugger out so now let's get down to the motherboard it's still stuck somewhere feels like it's stuck with the rear i uh am i missing a screw so i found where they're hiding the last screw it's under here it's under the tape that they use to keep the wi-fi antenna down that's very sneaky i actually thought they may have hidden it under the actual wi-fi card but i i was kind of on to something with that there we go okay the front is just stuck there we go what a looking motherboard now i've lined the aio up more or less where i'd want it on the other side of the panel and i'm kind of measuring uh bear in mind i am a professional so this is going to be kind of like acer did it from the factory but what i'm thinking here is if i remove this i don't need to cut out this entire panel it doesn't need to be an amazingly accurate job because there's barely any front airflow in the plastic panel even without this metal tray not there so i'm just going to cut a little bit out and then mount it because i kind of want to keep these these two antenna here because the motherboard i'm going to use does have a wifi module and it would be pretty cool to be able to use that so i drew boobs on it as a joke and then i realized that it's permanent marker and i couldn't get it off so i added a nice smiley face so that the algorithm algorithm doesn't doesn't demonetize this video look at that we've got a very professionally mounted aio in the front as you can see i actually mounted the aio upside down in here with the tubes going up from the bottom because i wanted to give the power supply as much space as possible however this isn't really final because the graphics card needs to sit down there and there may be a bit of a battle for space over there i do have a very small graphics card that i'm going to be using which is my rtx 2060 but there may still be a bit of an issue so what i'm gonna do is a bit of a test fit to see how all of that kind of fits in there but before we do that let's put the front plastic on and the top so that it looks more like a nitro 50 and not just a kind of gray box okay and then and just like that it looks way better i didn't have to do much modification other than cut down two little plastic bits to get it to fit on there that looks pretty good so now i'm gonna put in the power supply and see what kind of clearance we have and compare it to the 2060 in the bottom there look at that it's starting to look really good in here i ended up having to use a non-modular power supply because the modular power supplies i had were just a little bit too big to fit in there and this uh i think it's a 500 br is the exact same size as the power supply that comes with the pc so it fits perfectly luckily there's a huge hole to stuff cables in over there the only real problem i have is that cable over there is the actual power button and it's just a little bit too short to reach over there so i'm gonna have to find an adapter somewhere to be able to plug that in so so this has been the easiest pc modding experience i've ever had normally when i try and fit stuff in a thing where it doesn't belong it's basically three days of my own personal hell that ends with me just going and then it's finished whereas this one has been so easy the most irritating thing about this entire build is that damn power button cable that's like it's a hobbit's pinky away from reaching so now i have to jump start the pc like it's a car in 1917. but that's okay that's okay it works we've got all of the stuff in there and it looks pretty badass there's still very little airflow for that front radiator so i don't have particularly high hopes for the temperatures with that um yeah let's actually have a look at the temperatures and see how it went after running half an hour of ida 64 on the cpu and fur mark on the gpu now as you can see here um the cpu is doing very well that corsair h100 is just doing its work but the graphics card was struggling that is the highest temperatures i've ever recorded on that card and i've used it in a bunch of weird configurations i've used it in ikea drawers in other itx builds and yeah it's never been that hot before so that's that's not ideal in regards to the motherboard vrm it was getting louisiana bio level hot it was hitting 100 degrees c and then throttling so i actually just ended up stopping the testing because i didn't want to set fire to the little motherboard so with that let's have a look at the gaming performance difference between the previous loser face suck edition of the acer and the david improved super mega version so that was clearly a very unfair test comparing a gtx 1650 to an rtx 2060 is a little bit like racing a prius against an audi rs6 it's it's not going to go very well for the prius and that brings me to the end of my journey with the little loser acer nitro suckface edition and i'm actually pretty sad because now that i've cut it up a bit i'm not going to be able to reassemble it the way that it was before and i'm not going to keep these components in here because why would i do that why would i run this setup in this case if i could run it in like an nzxt h1 which is the pc case equivalent of ashton kutcher it's a real fine cutlet whereas this acer nitro 50 case is a little bit like starburst from community it's a very plain looking dude with some star-shaped sideburns on it so anyway with that thank you very much for watching if you enjoyed the video go check out my stream later today while i try and talk over an ambulance driving by and thank you very much for watching subscribe to the channel and until the next video byethis is the acer loser nitro suckface edition not many people know this but that's actually the internal code name that acer uses to refer to this bad boy but anyway i've done a bunch of videos on this pre-built and i don't like it very much i've reinstalled windows on it several times and it still behaves like it's the catalyst that's gonna start skynet so for the sake of the future of humanity i'm gonna take a dremel to this bad boy and turn it into a badass sleeper build oh i almost forgot i don't have a huge amount of plans as to how i want to mod this pc the only thing i know is i'm going to fit this corsair h100i rgb pro xt in here if it kills me corsair sent this aio out for a video ages ago and i still haven't used it and it's just it no matter what i have to do to this pc it's going in there now as you can see it's pretty tiny but there is one great thing about it is that this looks like it's a standard atx power supply so that's going to be really easy to replace we do need to replace it because it has a bunch of uh proprietary connectors and stuff so we're not going to be able to plug our non-acer motherboard in now the next thing i want to do is get rid of this dvd drive because it's actually quite in the way of where the power supply cables plug into the motherboard so i don't want to i don't want to have to struggle underneath it so let's see how we're going to get in there as we know the mono brow of this little pc lights up and here is where it connects to the power supply this looks like the front panel i o connector for the power button and then you've got another two running down there and that's actually the wi-fi antenna cable that runs all the way through there and then attaches somewhere to the front so what i'm going to do now is unplug all of those cables and see if we can actually pull this front panel off okay so i've been able to get the front off it does really feel like you're going to destroy it in the process but you just kind of have to take it by the scrap of the neck and just go to town on it a little to get it off one thing that's really cool is i'm easily going to be able to hook up the power button so i'm pretty excited for that but just look at that airflow there is literally no space for airflow in the front uh this front i o is actually attached to the motherboard itself so i'm gonna have to remove that we're not gonna have access to that anymore we're not gonna have access to the dvd drive but hopefully we're gonna be able to fit the 240 millimeter corsair aio in here the dvd drive design is actually really interesting so they've got this caddy so that you can attach extra hard drives and then you have this clip which you push down it's really hard to do with one hand actually okay so you push it down and then it slides out like that there's also a little bit of paint on this clip so that they can see when you've actually removed it what's also really interesting about this is on the back it uses a normal sata port for data but it's got a weird proprietary power connector which you can see here it's actually adapted from a normal sata power and then you've got this little itty bitty one what really blows my mind about this little pc is how they go out of their way to make it really difficult for the person who bought it to upgrade it you can see here there's an m.2 slot but it's tucked away under all of these cables and underneath this thing so you need to remove this whole assembly to get to it which i'm a hundred percent sure will void your warranty again with the power supply they make it really difficult for you to get out there's that clip in the back that you have to push down and there's that little block on the top that you have to push up so you kind of need three hands to get the power supply out but we've got that clingy bugger out so now let's get down to the motherboard it's still stuck somewhere feels like it's stuck with the rear i uh am i missing a screw so i found where they're hiding the last screw it's under here it's under the tape that they use to keep the wi-fi antenna down that's very sneaky i actually thought they may have hidden it under the actual wi-fi card but i i was kind of on to something with that there we go okay the front is just stuck there we go what a looking motherboard now i've lined the aio up more or less where i'd want it on the other side of the panel and i'm kind of measuring uh bear in mind i am a professional so this is going to be kind of like acer did it from the factory but what i'm thinking here is if i remove this i don't need to cut out this entire panel it doesn't need to be an amazingly accurate job because there's barely any front airflow in the plastic panel even without this metal tray not there so i'm just going to cut a little bit out and then mount it because i kind of want to keep these these two antenna here because the motherboard i'm going to use does have a wifi module and it would be pretty cool to be able to use that so i drew boobs on it as a joke and then i realized that it's permanent marker and i couldn't get it off so i added a nice smiley face so that the algorithm algorithm doesn't doesn't demonetize this video look at that we've got a very professionally mounted aio in the front as you can see i actually mounted the aio upside down in here with the tubes going up from the bottom because i wanted to give the power supply as much space as possible however this isn't really final because the graphics card needs to sit down there and there may be a bit of a battle for space over there i do have a very small graphics card that i'm going to be using which is my rtx 2060 but there may still be a bit of an issue so what i'm gonna do is a bit of a test fit to see how all of that kind of fits in there but before we do that let's put the front plastic on and the top so that it looks more like a nitro 50 and not just a kind of gray box okay and then and just like that it looks way better i didn't have to do much modification other than cut down two little plastic bits to get it to fit on there that looks pretty good so now i'm gonna put in the power supply and see what kind of clearance we have and compare it to the 2060 in the bottom there look at that it's starting to look really good in here i ended up having to use a non-modular power supply because the modular power supplies i had were just a little bit too big to fit in there and this uh i think it's a 500 br is the exact same size as the power supply that comes with the pc so it fits perfectly luckily there's a huge hole to stuff cables in over there the only real problem i have is that cable over there is the actual power button and it's just a little bit too short to reach over there so i'm gonna have to find an adapter somewhere to be able to plug that in so so this has been the easiest pc modding experience i've ever had normally when i try and fit stuff in a thing where it doesn't belong it's basically three days of my own personal hell that ends with me just going and then it's finished whereas this one has been so easy the most irritating thing about this entire build is that damn power button cable that's like it's a hobbit's pinky away from reaching so now i have to jump start the pc like it's a car in 1917. but that's okay that's okay it works we've got all of the stuff in there and it looks pretty badass there's still very little airflow for that front radiator so i don't have particularly high hopes for the temperatures with that um yeah let's actually have a look at the temperatures and see how it went after running half an hour of ida 64 on the cpu and fur mark on the gpu now as you can see here um the cpu is doing very well that corsair h100 is just doing its work but the graphics card was struggling that is the highest temperatures i've ever recorded on that card and i've used it in a bunch of weird configurations i've used it in ikea drawers in other itx builds and yeah it's never been that hot before so that's that's not ideal in regards to the motherboard vrm it was getting louisiana bio level hot it was hitting 100 degrees c and then throttling so i actually just ended up stopping the testing because i didn't want to set fire to the little motherboard so with that let's have a look at the gaming performance difference between the previous loser face suck edition of the acer and the david improved super mega version so that was clearly a very unfair test comparing a gtx 1650 to an rtx 2060 is a little bit like racing a prius against an audi rs6 it's it's not going to go very well for the prius and that brings me to the end of my journey with the little loser acer nitro suckface edition and i'm actually pretty sad because now that i've cut it up a bit i'm not going to be able to reassemble it the way that it was before and i'm not going to keep these components in here because why would i do that why would i run this setup in this case if i could run it in like an nzxt h1 which is the pc case equivalent of ashton kutcher it's a real fine cutlet whereas this acer nitro 50 case is a little bit like starburst from community it's a very plain looking dude with some star-shaped sideburns on it so anyway with that thank you very much for watching if you enjoyed the video go check out my stream later today while i try and talk over an ambulance driving by and thank you very much for watching subscribe to the channel and until the next video byethis is the acer loser nitro suckface edition not many people know this but that's actually the internal code name that acer uses to refer to this bad boy but anyway i've done a bunch of videos on this pre-built and i don't like it very much i've reinstalled windows on it several times and it still behaves like it's the catalyst that's gonna start skynet so for the sake of the future of humanity i'm gonna take a dremel to this bad boy and turn it into a badass sleeper build oh i almost forgot i don't have a huge amount of plans as to how i want to mod this pc the only thing i know is i'm going to fit this corsair h100i rgb pro xt in here if it kills me corsair sent this aio out for a video ages ago and i still haven't used it and it's just it no matter what i have to do to this pc it's going in there now as you can see it's pretty tiny but there is one great thing about it is that this looks like it's a standard atx power supply so that's going to be really easy to replace we do need to replace it because it has a bunch of uh proprietary connectors and stuff so we're not going to be able to plug our non-acer motherboard in now the next thing i want to do is get rid of this dvd drive because it's actually quite in the way of where the power supply cables plug into the motherboard so i don't want to i don't want to have to struggle underneath it so let's see how we're going to get in there as we know the mono brow of this little pc lights up and here is where it connects to the power supply this looks like the front panel i o connector for the power button and then you've got another two running down there and that's actually the wi-fi antenna cable that runs all the way through there and then attaches somewhere to the front so what i'm going to do now is unplug all of those cables and see if we can actually pull this front panel off okay so i've been able to get the front off it does really feel like you're going to destroy it in the process but you just kind of have to take it by the scrap of the neck and just go to town on it a little to get it off one thing that's really cool is i'm easily going to be able to hook up the power button so i'm pretty excited for that but just look at that airflow there is literally no space for airflow in the front uh this front i o is actually attached to the motherboard itself so i'm gonna have to remove that we're not gonna have access to that anymore we're not gonna have access to the dvd drive but hopefully we're gonna be able to fit the 240 millimeter corsair aio in here the dvd drive design is actually really interesting so they've got this caddy so that you can attach extra hard drives and then you have this clip which you push down it's really hard to do with one hand actually okay so you push it down and then it slides out like that there's also a little bit of paint on this clip so that they can see when you've actually removed it what's also really interesting about this is on the back it uses a normal sata port for data but it's got a weird proprietary power connector which you can see here it's actually adapted from a normal sata power and then you've got this little itty bitty one what really blows my mind about this little pc is how they go out of their way to make it really difficult for the person who bought it to upgrade it you can see here there's an m.2 slot but it's tucked away under all of these cables and underneath this thing so you need to remove this whole assembly to get to it which i'm a hundred percent sure will void your warranty again with the power supply they make it really difficult for you to get out there's that clip in the back that you have to push down and there's that little block on the top that you have to push up so you kind of need three hands to get the power supply out but we've got that clingy bugger out so now let's get down to the motherboard it's still stuck somewhere feels like it's stuck with the rear i uh am i missing a screw so i found where they're hiding the last screw it's under here it's under the tape that they use to keep the wi-fi antenna down that's very sneaky i actually thought they may have hidden it under the actual wi-fi card but i i was kind of on to something with that there we go okay the front is just stuck there we go what a looking motherboard now i've lined the aio up more or less where i'd want it on the other side of the panel and i'm kind of measuring uh bear in mind i am a professional so this is going to be kind of like acer did it from the factory but what i'm thinking here is if i remove this i don't need to cut out this entire panel it doesn't need to be an amazingly accurate job because there's barely any front airflow in the plastic panel even without this metal tray not there so i'm just going to cut a little bit out and then mount it because i kind of want to keep these these two antenna here because the motherboard i'm going to use does have a wifi module and it would be pretty cool to be able to use that so i drew boobs on it as a joke and then i realized that it's permanent marker and i couldn't get it off so i added a nice smiley face so that the algorithm algorithm doesn't doesn't demonetize this video look at that we've got a very professionally mounted aio in the front as you can see i actually mounted the aio upside down in here with the tubes going up from the bottom because i wanted to give the power supply as much space as possible however this isn't really final because the graphics card needs to sit down there and there may be a bit of a battle for space over there i do have a very small graphics card that i'm going to be using which is my rtx 2060 but there may still be a bit of an issue so what i'm gonna do is a bit of a test fit to see how all of that kind of fits in there but before we do that let's put the front plastic on and the top so that it looks more like a nitro 50 and not just a kind of gray box okay and then and just like that it looks way better i didn't have to do much modification other than cut down two little plastic bits to get it to fit on there that looks pretty good so now i'm gonna put in the power supply and see what kind of clearance we have and compare it to the 2060 in the bottom there look at that it's starting to look really good in here i ended up having to use a non-modular power supply because the modular power supplies i had were just a little bit too big to fit in there and this uh i think it's a 500 br is the exact same size as the power supply that comes with the pc so it fits perfectly luckily there's a huge hole to stuff cables in over there the only real problem i have is that cable over there is the actual power button and it's just a little bit too short to reach over there so i'm gonna have to find an adapter somewhere to be able to plug that in so so this has been the easiest pc modding experience i've ever had normally when i try and fit stuff in a thing where it doesn't belong it's basically three days of my own personal hell that ends with me just going and then it's finished whereas this one has been so easy the most irritating thing about this entire build is that damn power button cable that's like it's a hobbit's pinky away from reaching so now i have to jump start the pc like it's a car in 1917. but that's okay that's okay it works we've got all of the stuff in there and it looks pretty badass there's still very little airflow for that front radiator so i don't have particularly high hopes for the temperatures with that um yeah let's actually have a look at the temperatures and see how it went after running half an hour of ida 64 on the cpu and fur mark on the gpu now as you can see here um the cpu is doing very well that corsair h100 is just doing its work but the graphics card was struggling that is the highest temperatures i've ever recorded on that card and i've used it in a bunch of weird configurations i've used it in ikea drawers in other itx builds and yeah it's never been that hot before so that's that's not ideal in regards to the motherboard vrm it was getting louisiana bio level hot it was hitting 100 degrees c and then throttling so i actually just ended up stopping the testing because i didn't want to set fire to the little motherboard so with that let's have a look at the gaming performance difference between the previous loser face suck edition of the acer and the david improved super mega version so that was clearly a very unfair test comparing a gtx 1650 to an rtx 2060 is a little bit like racing a prius against an audi rs6 it's it's not going to go very well for the prius and that brings me to the end of my journey with the little loser acer nitro suckface edition and i'm actually pretty sad because now that i've cut it up a bit i'm not going to be able to reassemble it the way that it was before and i'm not going to keep these components in here because why would i do that why would i run this setup in this case if i could run it in like an nzxt h1 which is the pc case equivalent of ashton kutcher it's a real fine cutlet whereas this acer nitro 50 case is a little bit like starburst from community it's a very plain looking dude with some star-shaped sideburns on it so anyway with that thank you very much for watching if you enjoyed the video go check out my stream later today while i try and talk over an ambulance driving by and thank you very much for watching subscribe to the channel and until the next video bye