Want to take the hottest e-sports ride? Acer V5-591G EDG Special Edition boot experience

Perhaps the vast majority of e-sports games cannot reflect the full charm of PC games in terms of gaming experience, but there is no doubt that ever since the American Blizzard Entertainment pioneered the era of e-sports with "StarCraft", more than ten years have passed, and the e-sports community has become a giant on the PC platform.

As a leading global IT manufacturer, Acer has actually set its sights on the e-sports industry for a long time. Its Predator is a high-end brand specifically for the e-sports industry.

Just this year, Acer continued to deepen its ties with the e-sports industry. Acer V5 and China's top League of Legends team EDG reached a cooperation and launched the Acer V5-591G EDG Special Edition Metal Gaming Laptop.

The exterior style is tough, and seems to show the competitive spirit

The Acer V5-591G EDG Special Edition uses aluminum alloy as the top shell. In the center of the shell is the metallic EDG team logo in the shape of a flame explosion. In addition, the top shell is covered with dark code stripes using nano-imprinting technology. Strong and powerful is the first impression given by the shell.

Acer V5-591G EDG Special Edition inherits the design concept of Aspire V5, with no excessive decoration on the body and keyboard. The neat keyboard layout and the simplest touchpad style all show the low-key and simple side of this notebook. However, the silver aluminum keyboard surface and the 15-inch large screen echo each other, which is more domineering than other models of Aspire V5.

But the only drawback is that the average 30mm body thickness seems a bit thick for a gaming laptop, although among all notebooks of this level, the Acer V5-591G EDG Special Edition is still relatively thin.

The single-fan exhaust design also makes people a little worried. As an Acer V5-591G EDG special edition gaming laptop that needs to accompany players to kill all the enemies, can it maintain a good temperature during heavy use?

The interface selection of Acer V5-591G EDG Special Edition is more in line with the tastes of e-sports players. E-sports players do not need more functions. USB interface and headset interface can meet the needs of most of the time. The Acer V5-591G EDG Special Edition has three USB interfaces, a headset interface, a network cable interface, an HDMI interface and a VGA interface, which is just right.

On the left side are two USB 3.0 ports, a network port and a headset port. On the right side is only one USB 2.0 port, which corresponds to the power port on the other end.

The screen uses a 1080P Chimei IPS screen, which has no obvious disadvantages except that the color of the picture is slightly insufficient. Compared with the unsophisticated screens used by some domestic brands, the Acer V5-591G EDG Special Edition, a gaming laptop dedicated to e-sports, also gives people an unexpected surprise in terms of the screen. The maximum opening angle of the screen of nearly 160 degrees adds a business style to the notebook.

At the bottom of the body, there is a long heat dissipation vent on the metal heat sink to assist in heat dissipation. However, the heat dissipation vent designed like this at the bottom of the body basically cannot play a role in heat dissipation during use. I am afraid it will need to be used in conjunction with an external heat dissipation base to be effective.

Can you actually play large-scale stand-alone games? Not just LOL

In fact, when it comes to e-sports games, most of them do not require high hardware performance. To meet the needs of most e-sports players, the basic requirements of the game cannot be too high. So as an e-sports exclusive gaming laptop, will the Acer V5-591G EDG Special Edition relax the requirements for hardware performance because of its target audience?

In fact, the Acer V5-591G EDG Special Edition uses the sixth-generation Core i7, Core i7-6700HQ as the processor, and the graphics card is Nvidia GTX 950M. The top-level CPU is enough to ensure smooth operation of any game, and GTX 950M, as the mark of mid-to-high-end graphics cards, can obviously also bring some of the latest 3A masterpieces.

Let's use the 2015 annual blockbuster Grand Theft Auto V to test whether the Acer V5-591G EDG Special Edition can challenge large-scale 3A works without any pressure.

The test proved that the Acer V5-591G EDG Special Edition is capable of playing a large-scale PC stand-alone game normally. There was no lag during the game, and the overall operation was relatively smooth, with the FPS stable at 31 frames. Of course, with 52% battery remaining, after only 50 minutes of gaming, the battery level had dropped to single digits, which seems a bit regrettable.

But apart from the gaming experience, the disadvantages of the single cooling fan and cooling port are obvious. When the CPU and GPU are pushed to a very high load at the same time, the shortcomings of the Acer V5-591G EDG Special Edition's average cooling capacity are undoubtedly exposed. During the operation of GTA5, the CPU has been kept above 60 degrees Celsius, and the GPU is as high as 70 degrees Celsius.

When the game was in the intense gun battle stage, the GPU temperature once soared to 90 degrees Celsius. The Acer V5-591G EDG Special Edition abandoned the dual-fan dual-vent design of the Acer V5, perhaps based on the consideration that e-sports games do not occupy such a high proportion of CPU/GPU load. But from the results, isn't it a bit of a loss to have such a poor heat dissipation?

As for other aspects, as a high-end gaming laptop, the Acer V5-591G EDG Special Edition is reliable in terms of hard disk, memory, etc. 128GB Samsung SSD + 1TB Toshiba HDD, at least the quality is impeccable.

The 8GB Hynix memory stick is an even better choice, and combined with the choice of hard drive brand, it can be seen that the Acer V5-591G EDG Special Edition is still sincere in making a high-end gaming laptop.

A special edition that goes deep into e-sports and approaches high-end

The price of 6999 RMB puts the Acer V5-591G EDG Special Edition gaming laptop in the high-end notebook category. However, compared with other high-end gaming laptops at this price, the combination of the sixth-generation Core i7 + GTX970M is also quite good, not to mention the high-end laptops equipped with GTX 960M or GTX965M that are popular at this price.

Perhaps the brand of EDG, the top Chinese League of Legends team, is quite valuable, which has raised the value of the Acer V5-591G EDG Special Edition to 7,000 RMB. However, for most of the audiences of high-end gaming laptops, the top priority is probably whether a laptop can withstand the rendering consumption of large-scale games. The Acer V5-591G EDG Special Edition is ultimately aimed at enthusiasts of e-sports online games or fans of EDG.

I'm afraid that the Acer V5-591G EDG Special Edition is just as its name suggests, a "special edition" among high-end notebooks, a passenger who has come on the e-sports bandwagon and has taken a coquettish turn at the peak of gaming notebooks. And where the bandwagon goes will directly determine the future of the Acer V5-591G EDG Special Edition.

As a winner of Toutiao's Qingyun Plan and Baijiahao's Bai+ Plan, the 2019 Baidu Digital Author of the Year, the Baijiahao's Most Popular Author in the Technology Field, the 2019 Sogou Technology and Culture Author, and the 2021 Baijiahao Quarterly Influential Creator, he has won many awards, including the 2013 Sohu Best Industry Media Person, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Beijing Third Place, the 2015 Guangmang Experience Award, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Finals Third Place, and the 2018 Baidu Dynamic Annual Powerful Celebrity.