Acer Predator Helios 300 Gaming Laptop | 12th Gen Intel i7-12700H | GeForce RTX 3060 GPU | 17.3 Full HD 144Hz 3ms IPS Display | 16GB DDR5 | 512GB Gen 4 SSD | Killer Wi-Fi 6E | PH317-56-70XJ

Pretty decent. Only REALLY bad thing about this is the speakers. It has horrible audio, like even on full blast you can hardly hear a peep. But that is ok

I bought this laptop to be able to work remotely and also play call of duty world war II. I tried to make the best of the preloaded operating system with the stuff that was on there, but I did not like it. I downloaded the Windows 10 creation tool and put that on a USB. I booted to USB and did a clean install of Windows 10 home. Afterward I started utilizing this little beast to play call of duty. Let me tell you, I have never in my life seen a laptop get this hot! When I say hot I mean it will burn your freaking fingers! The panel center of the screen above the keyboard was so hot I could have literally fried a piece of meat on it! Im not kidding! Luckily for me I had a five fan laptop cooling device that I plug into my USB and was able to put it underneath my laptop which yielded impressive cooling to this machine. Let me tell you it is still hot! But not so hot that it would burn you now. I am very worried that the heat that is generated from this machine will make it die too soon. Otherwise I am averaging a hundred and sixty three frames per second on call of duty world war II, I do not have the settings to max on anything because I want performance more than I want beautiful pictures. I hope this review helps some of you and especially I hope this helps the people at Acer so that they can design some type of better cooling system for future gaming rigs at this price point.

I’ve had this for about a month and have put in over 200 hours of games and homework. So far, I haven’t had any issues with frame lag as long as it is plugged in. This is most definitely the best bang for your buck. Whereas you don’t have the luxuries of having an aluminum body or a better quality camera, you do get what matters in gaming: the powerful insides to give you solid performance, adequate heat management, and smooth graphics. For its price range, I still think it to be the best.

Why a company would lock the bios from the user and require physical modification to the chip is beyond me. Cant dual boot this machine as I would have to take it into a repair facility because Acer for some reason doesnt think that the community cant take care of their own devices. I wont be purchasing an Acer again.

I got this computer one year ago for christmas, its been amazing except for two giant flaws. The battery life is terrible, it wont last an hour just using google chrome, no games in the backround no nothing. The other major flaw is that it overheats a lot just playing fortnite cod or even sometimes just minecraft the cpu will get to 100 degrees celsius its crazy the computer will get so hot it will hurt to the touch. This is not very important but the speakers are pretty quiet. On the other hand the picture is great, games run really smoothly the graphics card is great it works really well. Except for the battery and the computer battery.

Ive had this laptop for a week now, and while there is much to like, there is also a few things that make me wish I had bought a different machine.

Very pleased with this laptop in terms of speed, noise level, and features. There is a slight amount of light bleed around the edges of the screen, but I dont use it in a dark room so it really isnt a problem for me. One of the reasons I chose this model was for ease of access for a SSD addition as a secondary drive; very straightforward. (I didnt have to remove the motherboard like some competitors do.)

The value of this laptop cant be understated. There are no real weaknesses here. The only notable problems people may have with it are the fan noise while gaming and the lack of silent fan operation when not gaming. You wont notice the idle whirl of fans unless you are in a completely silent room with no music or headphones in play.

This was for my Grandson, he LOVES it! Great gaming laptop!

Ive had the computer for a couple of weeks now and Ive started to get advertisements popping up in my notification center. If you want to push ads on me you had better give me something for free. - 1 star