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

If you dont want to manually turn up the fans to full when gaming, get Throttlestop and undervolt it a LITTLE and itll drop temps and only barely effect framerates. Highly recommend this laptop for the price. It cant be beat!

Running off battery was tops 2.5hrs that’s including limiting CPU to 5%, turning off usb and pcie and running off of the integrated gpu and cutting off the 1060. It cannot run sc2 at a full 120fps at ultra or even high. Gotta be on low. Not worth it.

Used this laptop for less than a week then blue screened. Only played Overwatch, a small games on steam and did homework. Price seemed too good to be true and I wasnt wrong

I bought this for a mid level gaming laptop and to stream from xbox with it. In the 1st to weeks it had the famous BSOD which it couldnt recover from and was starting to have heating issues. Sent it to Acer repair. Pretty quick turn around with a reset computer. Seemed fine for about a week then another BSOD that it recovered from. Started getting hot again so I checked the temps and cpu % a few times when fans started running at full speed. Temp spikes over 200 with cpu not exceeding 40%. This laptop that is advertised for gaming cant play a 7 year old game on High graphics without over heating and throttling. When streaming my xbox I run the xbox through a capture card into the laptop. With that, Streamlabs and my bot it generally run around 190 degrees with 30% CPU useage. This brand new laptop cant even do what my 7 year old MacBook with an i5 can do. I should have read the reviews. This is gonna nd up being a $1200 word processor for my wife while I spend another $1500 to get what this should have easily done. This will be the last Acer product in my house. BTW, My Microsoft Surface Book will run the same game this laptop struggled with and at higher settings.

Amazing laptop

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

cant get acer to get predator sense to work on my pc. had already sent in for repairs first week because of bad motherboard. could not get it to run after repair because bad product key. acer wanted it returned for repair. amazon thankfully sent me new win 10 and got laptop working. works good now but cant use gpu control program and acer wanted unit sent back. not going to wait 5 weeks for software install. cant you send me program on a thumb drive?

The thing about this laptop is it really is great but there is always a new issue with sound or audio. I have had multiple times when other people can not hear me through anything on this laptop.

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

It’s huge af . U need a 16” case