Hey guys, how's it going? so in today's
video I wanted to revisit this laptop so
this is the Acer Aspire 5 slim series
laptop and this one is the risin
configuration so this is the cheapest
configuration this goes for about $300
and a bunch of you guys were asking me
about you know whether they can buy this
laptop and do gaming on this so that's
what I wanted to cover in this video so
right out of the gate I will say couple
of things one is that then you buy this
laptop so I'm talking about the Rison
configuration right the $300 one this
comes with only 4 gig off system memory
and it comes with Windows s mode so with
those two limitation you actually cannot
game on this laptop unless you make some
changes and the reason is that Windows
10 s mode it will not allow you to
install any games for example the
fortnight game you can't install it on
Windows 10 S board so you need to exit
the Windows 10 s mode and I have already
covered that in my previous video so I'm
not going to repeat myself but I will
put a link in the description of my
previous video where I give you
step-by-step instructions on how you can
you know get rid of Windows 10 s mode so
you need to do that and that will not
cost you anything that's completely free
so that's the first thing the second
thing is that this laptop only comes
with four gig of system ram and that's
not enough to play any game on this
laptop so you need to upgrade the RAM so
upgrading the RAM is actually very easy
all you have to do is you know to remove
these screws so this is about like a
dozen screw get rid of those screws this
thing comes out so the AMD Reisen
version it will have two dimm slots and
what you will see is that the first dim
slot is populated with a four gig memory
stick the other one is empty so I got a
8 gig memory stick and I put it in the
second dim slot so now this guy has 12
gig of ram now you can go all the way up
to 32 gigs so you can get 16 gig stick a
pair of 16 gig stick and put it in both
the slots and you will end up the 32 gig
stick so I'm going to link all the
compatible memory modules that you can
get from Amazon and that works on the
system but for today's gaming I wanted
to keep it in the budget territories so
this laptop now it has 12
hey Graham it's running Windows 10 full
version of Windows 10 Windows 10 Home
Edition and I ran a bunch of games on
this so first let's just watch the
gameplay on this laptop and then in the
end I will give you my conclusion
you
so as you can see I played the four
tonight on this and I also played a
bunch of racing games so Need for Speed
and you know some other racing games
that I already had in my Steam account I
just wanted to show you whether you know
it's possible to play these kinds of
games on this laptop you will be able to
play the games but as you noticed there
will be few starters when you play four
tonight it will not play perfectly
smoothly and you may have to go and drop
the resolution and you know decrease
some of the details in the setting if
you want to play it smoothly if you are
really interested in gaming and you want
to try the newer titles then my
recommendation is spend a little more
money and instead of buying this go with
the Intel Core i5 and in fact Acer has
released the newer tenth generation Core
i5 models and I made a video about this
again I am going to link that video in
the description and I am also going to
link to the laptop which I think is
going to be a better model if you are
interested in gaming a lot so this is
the 10th generation Core i5 processor
which is the comment Lake processor
along with the Nvidia discreet graphic
card obviously it's more expensive than
this but that model will play really
nice it will come with eight gig RAM and
it will also have the full version of
Windows you don't have to mess around
with you know exiting Windows 10s mode
so remember one thing Intel version
actually has only one dim slot which
means four gig Ram is soldered to the
motherboard and four gig Ram is on the
solitaire dim slot that is available so
if you want to upgrade you will have to
get rid of that four gig ram and you
know you can add either an 8 gig or a 16
gig ram but even if you don't do the
upgrade 8 gig ram will kind of work for
you and it has a discreet and video
graphic card so it's not going to share
the system Ram the video memory is you
know dedicated video memory that comes
with a discreet graphic card so that's
an additional advantage so that's the
model which I will recommend if you want
to do serious gaming but if you are
interested in casual gaming then you
know this guy will work just add 8 gig
RAM and get rid of the windows 10s mode
and you will be able to game on this but
it's not going to be perfect like if you
are playing for tonight everything is on
the default setting you may see some
framedrops and you know you may have to
use the resolution you may have to
reduce the details in order to get
smooth playback so there will be some
compromises and like I have mentioned
before if you want to do serious you
know programming or serious development
work then you will have to add more RAM
one thing which I like about this model
the AMD model is that they give you two
DIMM slots so you can add up to 32 gig
ram so that's really nice because ram is
cheap and if you max it out to 32 gig
ram you can actually use this as a
workstation for you know software
development and you know those things so
that's it guys I hope this video was
helpful if you have any questions or
comment feel free to leave them in the
comment section below and again I'm
going to link to this configuration of
Acer Aspire 5 the cheaper one I will
also link to the core i5 version which
you know is the better version for
gaming and I will link to all the
compatible memory modules that you can
buy to upgrade this laptop and I hope
this helped you if you are interested in
you know purchasing this for Christmas
if you are thinking of getting a you
know a budget laptop for gaming so
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