Acer Predator Helios 300 Gaming Laptop PC, 15.6 FHD IPS w/ 144Hz Refresh, Intel i7-8750H, GTX 1060 6GB, 16GB DDR4, 256GB NVMe SSD, Aeroblade Metal Fans PH315-51-78NP

For the money you cant beat this laptop for gaming. 16GB of ram, a nvidia 1060, 144hz screen... Its why I bought it even with the overheating warnings. I gave this a few good days of game time and found that all games on any settings would send the processors temperature up to the high 80s and at times the 90s. Now this is in a hotel room with the AC on and me shaking from the cold. I also bought a cooling pad and still this didnt do much, but Im sure it kept it from tipping over the red. The GPU wasnt overheating. So this issue is with the cooling on the CPU. So after much annoyance, I finally noticed that the CPU was boosting to full throttle 3.4ghz, anytime a game ran, no matter the game or load on the CPU. That made no sense to me, as this being a laptop, why would u max a CPUs heat production if the speed wasnt required? So I found a program that was able to turn off the CPUs Turbo feature. This was a night and day difference in heat being produced by the CPU and the fans were so quite after this. I tested the game I was playing which was now running better do to less heat in the CPU, and I tested Rise of the Tomb Raider, on highest, and it was smooth. I havent tried to replace the thermal paste on the CPU as some suggest, but I will, and see if the CPUs Turbo will work then. However, if my games remain smooth, why boost and create more heat?

Love the laptop. Had it for about 3 months now with no issues. Such an upgrade from my old used one - and at a bargain too. If youve never seen 144Hz, its eye candy. It makes 60Hz look jagged and laggy. Havent had much trouble running any of my games on max settings except for latest games. Fans run a little loud on max and gets a little hot, so just be aware when really pushing it on triple A games or trying to overclock. But its a small price for a great deal and specs. Other than that no groundbreaking flaws or performance issues. The only other thing I can think of is that the chassis gets fingerprints easily.

It has a serious overheating problem and the fixes arent very user friendly.

Todo excelente con este equipo. Nada mas no se si es mi idea pero el touchpad comenzó a levantarse. Me gustaria saber si alguien que la haya comprado tiene el mismo detalle, para saber si es normal.

Not sure whether the thermal paste is badly applied, or this laptop just sucks. But it has serious issues with overheating. I was consistently hitting temps of 90C+ and hit spikes of 98C quite a few times. The laptop shut down twice because it maxed at 100C. This is happening with the fan on MAX and the GPU set to NORMAL, not even overclocking.

lets start at the begin out of the box this laptop WAS amazing, tho it had thermal problems. My buddy and i bought the same exact laptop form amazon. We were hanging out and we both pressed the purchase button at the exact same time. Upon attempting to replace the thermal past (to possibly achieve better thermals) my buddys laptop had a THERMAL PAD over the gpu AND PAST and we noticed that both of our heat sink fans were missing several screws . Witch is sketchy on acres part. I am now battling customer service trying to get a replacement cable for this laptop i have been sending them multiple emails over the past month but to no avail. Today my buddy had issues with the rel tech audio drivers so he did the usual uninstall and reinstall of the drivers but this has ended up Screwing up his laptop with all of his system restore points being unreachable. I DO NOT RECOMMEND ANYONE BUY THIS LAPTOP and god forbid you have a part fail. I initially thought ACER was better than this. Acer will not catch me buying there product ever again. This has been by far the WORST laptop i have ever dealt with in my entire life. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND you to go buy a Dell, MSI or EVGA laptop there are more but thats all i will list. As i have previously dealt with MSI customer support and they replied back to me that same day with a fix. ( Note this is not amazons fault amazon has nothing to do with how Acer makes there products or Acers crappy customer support) Acer and there HELIOS PREDATOR 300 are the worst. Dont wast your money !!!!!!!!

Great laptop! Runs all my games well so far. It does tend to get pretty hot though while playing. I will probably get a cooling pad.

I’ll start by saying I purchased this product on sale, I payed $1011 and for that price you can’t beat it! I mainly payed for the processing power as this has an i7 8750H, Six cores 12 threads! This laptop makes super easy work of writing papers, powerpoints and browsing the web! I’m sure it can do some great photo and video editing as well! I utilize the GPU when I’m between classes and ahead of my assignments, just launch a game and I’m set! Overall excellent laptop for the price I payed! Battery life isn’t good but that’s expected, I get about 3-4 hrs on battery with battery saver on at 50% brightness.

This gaming laptop has a lot going for it and at this price, its a good deal. Of course there are downsides (it gets hot), but I will go over those later. I am going to try not to get into all the tech specs, because those are easily available, but I will point out the main features and what I thought of them.

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