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

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Great laptop

Batteries always need to be charged :(

I’ve only had this laptop for 2 days and already it’s BSOD three times. I only have steam, discord, GeForce experience, and chrome downloaded.

Great computer for the price battery life is average and could do with more memory but fast running Great display.

Amazing for the price , has all the bells in whistles, just wish it had lighting input, 144 refresh is amazing, can run everything I want

For the price you can not beat it. Laptop runs my Oculus CV1 great as well. I have owned many gaming laptops, they all run hot. This is how it works, it is very difficult to cool that much in such a small space. I work in I.T. and travel all over, this is perfect, a combination of power, great screen and low weight. If you want to cool it a tad more undervolt your CPU to around -0.125 . Make sure you get air flow through the bottom, I used a cooling pad with fans but I never turn the fans on. The screen is great, crisp and 144hz. What people need to understand is a laptop peaking out at 90-95 degrees celcius with this level of CPU/GPU in a small package is VERY common. If you are overly picky and pick apart everything, gaming laptops are not for you. I forget to undervolt all the time and I have never had a shutdown or any serious frame drops, an occasional frame drop very very rarely. Yes WSAD keys get warm when gaming but once again this happens in laptops. If the heat is an issue for you expect to drop quite a bit more into a larger weight/dimension laptop and still it will run close to the same temps. I run about 80 - 85 degrees Celsius when I am maxing it out on newer games. It is the CPU that runs warm not the GPU. I have had 0 issues and I am a month in using it and love it. Also yes the battery will drain when gaming, this is normal too, when the little power brick does not have enough amperage it grabs from the battery, this is normal too. It will not die on you and it is supposed to do this, unless lugging around a huge 300 watt power brick is your idea of portable, then you are now getting into $2000+ laptops that are MUCH larger to have a charging circuit to handle it. So I HIGHLY recommend it, dont listen to the heat reviews, they are picking it apart and do not understand gaming laptops. Yes it runs hot, but the capacitors on the mobo would go from old age before it ever became an issue. For the price its AMAZING, my brother who also works in I.T. owns one as well and is just as pleased. Perfect blend of size/weight/power/quality.

It took me a long time to find the answer to the running hot issues, but I finally did so I will post it here. I was running at 98 most of the times with big games and the keyboard was so hot I couldn’t stand to touch it. The issue with mine turned out to be intel’s turbo boost technology..it needs to be disabled otherwise it will overclock your processes and run at those high temps. I disabled it and am now running in the 70s consitantly. I can’t share with you here how to disable it but if you search the internet you will find it. Now it’s just a fantastic machine for the price.

I want to give a five star review but the thermals are horrible! I’m on the brink of returning it because of this problem and I had the Dell G5 and it never overheated like this mess. Just go with the Dell G5 but avoid the Dell G7. i7 8750 is a thermal mess avoid this processor! I undervolted and it still gets hot temperatures honestly for the cost I shouldn’t have problems like this.

Good for game but not for other purposes it’s too heavy