Acer Predator Helios 300 Gaming Laptop | 12th Gen Intel i7-12700H | GeForce RTX 3060 GPU | 17.3 Full HD 144Hz 3ms IPS Display | 16GB DDR5 | 512GB Gen 4 SSD | Killer Wi-Fi 6E | PH317-56-70XJ

This laptop was fantastic except it’s GPU died after only 2 years of use. Pathetic quality.

Big waste of money.

after 12 months the fan keeps making lots of noise. I think the build quality is terrible. The fan is literally hitting the the laptop and is making very load noise. Cleaning the fans and laptop did not fix the issue. The issue is its build quality.

I decided to buy myself a gaming laptop and for the price, this one can not be beaten. The price is reasonable while being a very sturdy machine. Most games run on ultra or high setting. The only downside was the storage space but for an extra 70 bucks, you can expand it so not an issue at all.

This thing has juice, runs most games on either ultra, or high settings. I think it ran noisy when I got it, but just down load the nvidia setting, and turn on the quite setting, and life is good. Sometimes I use the turbo button but its loud, use headphones with it. So anyways a great machine.......I need to drop my stars sorry. The GPU crashes about 2 minutes into any game now. I loved this laptop. I had it 2 years. So I need advice against it.

Beside the loud fans its a pretty decent gaming laptop. Battery life is lower than expected (1-2hours).

Awesome Laptop! Pretty good price for what you get! But!! Check all the bundle options!!!! they seem to be a lot cheaper than just buying the Laptop only.. for ex: Laptop only 1500$ .. if you buy the bundle package which comes with Laptop and a mouse pad its 1180$!??! literally hundreds$$ cheaper and you get something else too.. when i bought this a few months back the bundles were actually more $$ which made sense.. but now you can get the backpack too and save money

Very pleased with this laptop in terms of speed, noise level, and features. There is a slight amount of light bleed around the edges of the screen, but I dont use it in a dark room so it really isnt a problem for me. One of the reasons I chose this model was for ease of access for a SSD addition as a secondary drive; very straightforward. (I didnt have to remove the motherboard like some competitors do.)

Despite the shining review score, this is not an ideal laptop for gaming, primarily because of the overheating. Even when paired with a cooling platform, it still overheats with games that really shouldnt be overdemanding to this gaming laptop. I dont know what the deal is since google delivers a million fixes for overheating, most of which make no sense. The games Ive played that overheat this machine include Raft, Terraria, Elder Scrolls Online, and Baldurs Gate 3. My second charger just died as a result of this (same as the original) - $50 down the drain, and another $50 for a third now. Whats the point of buying a $1200 gaming laptop if you cant play games on it?

Any qualms you might have about purchasing this machine, throw them out the window and click add to cart. Thank me later.