Acer Predator Helios 300 PH315-54-760S Gaming Laptop | Intel i7-11800H | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GPU | 15.6 FHD 144Hz 3ms IPS Display | 16GB DDR4 | 512GB SSD | Killer WiFi 6 | RGB Keyboard

The laptop did not come in the original packaging and was missing some attachments as I have seen in product reviews, but that is fine. I purchased the unit used for under $800, so I figured the laptop was an open box. No scratches or dents in perfect working condition, so I got a steal. The only downside is, the laptop is for my son, however since it’s used I was not able to add insurance. I can hold my own when it comes to PC/laptop repairs so not a deal breaker. I did notice that upon setup, I had to plug the laptop into an Ethernet for setup. WI-FI was a greyed-out option until Windows 11 booted, then I was able to disable airplane mode. My hard work paid off.

Everything of the laptop almost look perfect to me except a hardware defective. So the issue I had with my laptop is when I plugged in my headphone into the jack, the left side is always not working (apple headphone has no sound while Acrux just has buzzing sound and both headphones work fine on my other laptop) while bluetooth mode fully works. After several hours of research and talking to multiple Acer technician on chat and on phone, we went through several debugging processes like reinstalling the audio drive, checking the balance setting and other properties of headphone, resetting the power and so on. And the final conclusion is there is hardware issue and I need to send the laptop to their repair center (shipping fee is covered, but I have to buy packing materials myself and meanwhile this process might take like 10 days). Though this is not a big hardware defect, it is super inconvenient that I cant use my wired headphone on it.

Its annoying but the storage in the computer didnt work, this took a long time to figure out, and caused a lot of hassle. I ordered a new storage device that should work, but one has to wonder why they ship computers with defective memory?

a fan does not work. play high, only 1 fan works.

I use this puppy for some cpu intensive music production and it handles it like a champ. Just make sure its plugged in when putting it through its steps. It drains pretty fast but thats to be expected.

This laptop usually comes stock with Windows 10 but it seems someone decided to upgrade these to Windows 11. This means that you cant roll it back to 10 by the time you get it (because obviously the 10 days have expired) and if you try to do a clean install of Windows 11, the touchpad will stop working. What fixed this for me was going into optional updates and something being there that said to download if youre experiencing certain issues with devices and such. I hate what they did as the customer should have got to choose whether or not to do the free upgrade and not have this preinstalled.

Received this laptop as a birthday gift from my wife. Wanted to get something that would allow me to play the latest games without lag and replace my old laptop that had a failing keyboard. I use my computers for hours on end and have put this through its paces. For the price (especially considering the cost of things going up) this has been great.

First time buying a gaming laptop. 512gb isnt too much but luckily, theres a second sdd slot so just slap a 1tb sdd in and your set. 16gb of ram has been sufficient for my gaming. I usually just play warzone alot and it runs smoothly.

I play phasmophobia and indie games and it runs perfectly. I’ve tried apex on it and it ran cooler than I expected so that was great. The only time I had an issue with heat is when I tried gaming and streaming on it at the same time which is unsurprising. It’s not a PC but in my case the portability is worth it

My son loves this gaming laptop, everything about it.