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

Lovely

Pros: Does all it claims to do. Highly advise buying a 1tb or higher sd drive as the 128 included fills very fast.

The monitor is fantastic. The 144hz refresh rate is amazing for gaming. The imaging is very smooth and noticeably better than 60hz on my tv.

Left in love

The heat issue is very real. Playing a game for a few hours and started getting very uncomfortable holding down the W key.

The laptop meets the performance expectations however it tends to spike up to 95-100 Celsius. This is primarily occurs in actual gameplay and not benchmarking or stress testing software. This occurs with fans set to max output using Predator Sense and using Coolboost enabled. Attempted to use Intel XTU to undervolt the CPU however this has minimal effect and the CPU will still hit above 90 and throttling is still experienced. Suspect this is primarily due to bad thermal pasting job, which I refused to do as it would immediately void both the Amazon and Acer warranty. Its a shame since Acer put a lot of work into adding additional cooling features only to have it negated by poor build/assembly. I will most likely return this and pay a little extra for another laptop with better build quality.

Good! But the number 2 key popped off before it got here

Before buying this laptop I couldnt play solitare. My previous laptop was an hp stream with an apple sticker on the back for some reason. Its version of windows was very strange and called the hp a MacBook air I didnt know what it meant, and I was angry that I couldnt play Microsoft solitare. Once I installed an app called solitare on its app store I was disappointed it wasnt solitare for Microsoft windows. Youre probably saying Its just solitare Its not just solitare…. Its solitare for Microsoft windows. When I was tired of this hp stream, I let my dog use it as a chew toy, but then he got electrocuted. It was a good chew toy for about 4 minutes. I went online to search for a new laptop, thinking to myself I could really use some solitare for Microsoft windows right now. Then I found this laptop, it was marketed as a gaming laptop. So I knew it would have to have solitare for Microsoft windows. When it came I was hooked on the design and feel. Backlit keyboard and such. I searched solitare in the start menu and there it was! Solitare for Microsoft windows! I played it and fell in love with this laptop. My niece wanted to play fortnite on it once, but I told him, its suppose to play solitare for Microsoft windows! He scoffed and turned away. This laptop is awesome playing solitare for Microsoft windows. Would recommend for anyone in the market for a laptop that can play solitare for Microsoft windows.

Awesome laptop I love it

An excellent gaming laptop with reasonable price, as good as I expected. It does have overheating problem, but mine is solved by undervolting -125mV.