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

Very powerful laptop. I needed something for mobile gaming and also for productivity on my down time at work. The computer is very powerful and with the nvme ssd it is also fast. The stock storage is small but there is room for a sata ssd. The main downfall ids the battery life which under heavy load is just more than an hour. But with everything crammed in here it is expected. It does get hot when gaming and you can feel it through they keys but its not unbearable.

I bought the 7700 version and then i bought this, both of them are a really great machines and i really like the build quality & performance.

it gets warm playing games i have the marks on my legs to prove it and you cant upgrade without voiding the warranty but its a really good value and ive been really happy with it and you can upgrade after 2 years and i highly recommend the assurance insurance

Loved this laptop while it lasted but after 2.5 years it completely died in the middle of me working on orders. It’s been plugged in and after replacing the plug it still won’t shut on or even make noise. So dissatisfied after the price of the product and it’s longevity.

The screen has got grey overlay over a quarter of the screen after just 8 months of using it.

I was deployed for training for 6 months and needed a good laptop to handle anything I threw at it, including gaming. I have a desktop I built at home with high end components and wasn’t sure how the gtx1060 would fare in comparison. It’s able to play the same games I play on my duel gtx1070s and I’ve been able to keep the laptop relatively cool at around 77 degrees with settings on high or ultra. Screen is great, HD at 144hz and games run smooth. I see no screen tearing or any other issues.

outer seal has been broken!!!!

Yes, this model has overheating issues, when gaming at 120FPS. That said, I define overheating issues as getting close to the safe working temps defined by Intel (100 °C in the case of this laptop) minus a padding zone of 30 °C, this means reaching 70 °C for long periods of time. Which you will definitely notice since the keyboards starts getting hot in the 65 °C neighborhood. If you create a Gaming battery profile in which you limit the CPU to 99% usage, then you drop the frequency to 2.1 GHz on all cores but never go over 65 °C while only losing a couple of frames (I go from 90FPS consistently to 83-87FPS consistently in BO4 max settings). Another solution (tho a less effective one) is undervolting the CPU, but I found my specific laptop only dropped a few degrees, that is while barely giving away any performance. The keyboard is incredibly comfortable to use for the price point and the screen is great (again, given the price point). Battery life is what you might expect from a gaming laptop, tho again, a battery profile is always useful. In terms of power, it is more than I need then I let it run free, I can easily have a Linux VM using half the threads doing something intensive and have both the host OS and the VM show no signs of lag. The SSD is a bit small but has a great performance (FOR THE PRICE POINT [that seems to be the important thing to remember here]) and adding another drive was extremely easy. All this said, I am still considering repasting the CPU (since ACER is known for cheapening out on the application process and the thermal paste quality) and if I do Ill update the overheating issues.

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I was really excited to get the 144hz laptop up and running and it was fantastic!...... but after about 45 minutes of play I hit random drops in gameplay and performance. It wasnt lag (40ms) or FPS (144) since they never moved. No matter how hard I tried I could not find the reason for the dip in performance. I set Overwatch to low settings, 2 different Ethernet cables on 2 different networks and the fans set to max and still the laptop seemed like it just gives up and it happens at random times. Closed everything running in the background just to be sure and it still did not run as it should. Way too much work to get a 3 year old game to run on low settings so I returned it. Save your money and look elsewhere for a gaming laptop or just build a desktop.