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

This computer is a scam. The components itself are good however theres constant framedrops randomly that render gaming useless. Lets say youre playing your favorite competitive game and you get a random framedrop from 100s to 15 for 15 second. This happens constantly and randomly. Its just not worth it

I planned to use this laptop for gaming, but the cooling in the laptop is not effective enough to cool all of the parts. I get frequent frame drops even in games like rocket league and counter strike go on modest settings. The specs at this price are too good to be true. Also, after a month of moderate use, one of the hinges used to open and close the laptop has come out of its framing, which wasn’t due to any dropping. I should’ve returned it when I could’ve.

DO NOT waste your money. I purchased this 5 months ago and I am currently in the process of having it shipped for repair under the warranty already. It died during gaming, nice job for a gaming laptop right? Acer support had me try battery resets before finally saying it needs repair. The shipping label took 3 days longer to be sent to me via email and I had to call support 3x. Also, the product must be packaged and shipped, with insurance on my dime, with no reimbursement or even FedEx credit from Acer. I inquired if this was available and was denied, all shipping costs and status is out of Acers hands. Trash company, save yourself the grief folks, dont buy acer.

Best Gaming PC - Best Price. Runs smoothly. Play Gears of War 4 daily.

After having this computer for 6 months I have now had to send it back twice for repairs. The computer shuts off by itself constantly in the middle of using it. I researched the computer before I bought it and it had excellent reviews. But as I have been looking more into the issue there are tons of reports online with people having similar issues. Acer will not replace my computer even though it’s only 6 months old. The repairs they are doing is to reload the operating system which does absolutely nothing to fix the issue it is having. My next step is to contact Amazon to see if there is anything they can do.

everything is great except this windows error ,

Ive always had good experiences with Acer products, especially laptop. I wanted a gaming laptop under $1000.

probably going to have to return after hours of getting apps downloaded and set up. cant even see the screen enough to check settings

The laptop screen quality is good. Its 144hz and videos and pictures looks nice on it. Gaming was also alright for it for the first year or so. It ran smoothly and didnt experience anything major. However, I started encountering heating issues after around 6 months. I even used turbo boost on the predator sense software and cleaned out the fans from dust. I would not recommend this laptop to anyone who is looking to use it for long term. It would randomly turn off when gaming and I tried everything from updating software, reseting windows, updating BIOS, etc. Now it just flickers on and off and doesnt even turn on anymore. It is quite disappointing especially considering that this cost $1,000+.

Everything is good minus one major issue. After 10 minutes of gameplay there is major heat throttling making it useless for gaming. The specs are great but you cant use them due to the horrible thermal issues this laptop has. I even tried some stuff I read from forums and nothing worked. I even bought a cooler for it and it did nothing. I will be returning this laptop and trying my luck with a different brand.