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

Ive only had it for a few days, but so far I love it. I can actually play Dead by Daylight without any lag. I just installed an HDD and for some reason it didnt come with the screws to mount the caddy to the HDD, so I do have to order those (which is mildly annoying). Ill update this review as I use the laptop more and download the rest of my games.

Wouldn’t recommend. Got this laptop paid 1200! For it all it does is over heat. Fast forward 6 months later GPU just randomly stops working. Not only that not even a month after I brought this one the newer Model comes out for same price and this models price drops significantly. Waste of money. Don’t get me wrong it’s a beast of a laptop with amazing specs but you better have this thing being cooled by a radiator it just produces way too much heat which degrades components over time.

I mostly use this laptop for graphic intensive games and desigining on unity and blender. The quality is fantastic and the render speeds are incredible. I have had no problems with it and would definitely recommend this laptop. Something to note is that the battery does die faster than expected but thats why you have a charger right?

I bought this laptop after my PC stopped working and right out of the box the computer looked really nice. It was working fine until I tried to play Counter Strike which is where I started to see the problems. Randomly while playing my FPS would drop to 10-30 and then go back up. It was happening more often than it should sometimes 10 times per game. I checked the temperature of the computer to make sure it wasnt over heating and everything checked out so I decided to look up what was happening. I saw on the Acer forums that I wasnt the only one who was having this problem and that it has been happening to these computer for quite some time now without a solution. I contacted Acer and they gave me some things to try but nothing was working so I decided to return it. Other than that issue the computer ran games pretty well (besides when it was dropping FPS). Now you have to keep in mind this doesn’t happen to all the laptops. In fact I have a friend that has the same one and he says it runs just fine. So if you get one that work its work the money, but if you get unlucky and get one that doesn’t run well its a major hassle to try and get it fixed/return the item.

Im sure that I just happened to get a dud, but I barely have used it since I got it because the screen flickers whenever I run anything on it. I can only game for 20 minutes at a time.

The laptop screen quality is good. Its 144hz and videos and pictures looks nice on it. Gaming was also alright for it for the first year or so. It ran smoothly and didnt experience anything major. However, I started encountering heating issues after around 6 months. I even used turbo boost on the predator sense software and cleaned out the fans from dust. I would not recommend this laptop to anyone who is looking to use it for long term. It would randomly turn off when gaming and I tried everything from updating software, reseting windows, updating BIOS, etc. Now it just flickers on and off and doesnt even turn on anymore. It is quite disappointing especially considering that this cost $1,000+.

I really wanted to like this laptop, on paper it looks good but the battery on it is horrible! I havent even begun to to do any gaming, this was just with light web browsing. Also storage is an issue. The standard SSD it comes with is not enough.

Looks Nice and burshed metal surface on top looks premium but on underside plastic feels cheap. From price point of view regarding hardware its a good buy.

Overall great computer, can run all the games i wabt to play. The battery life us short, but its a gaming laptop so its meant to be plugged in. The SSD that it comes with is very small, but it has slots for upgrades to that and memory. Overall good gaming laptop on a budget.

It only has one video output. It is impossible to have two external monitors, not even with usb adapters.