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

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.

Failed first week

Hello: just bought this.. Had it for 8 days. Install a second hard drive a Samsung SSD (1 T) very easy install. Comes with a Intel 256 GB M2 SSD that reads at 1070 MB /second. Fastest drive I have ever seen. No seriously ..It is impresivelly fast. I am old enough to remember hard drives that read 2MB/sec and were consider fast (LOL, ;) ) .. From boot to desktop in 9-10 second including the time it takes to put the pin number in. Comes with Win 10 64 bit Home edition. Had usual Microsoft Games bloatware ..had those uninstall from the start. Has Trial version of Norton antivirus and Office 365 (also got uninstall) took crap Fake news MSNBC out (uninstall) put Norton (my own) and Office 2016. Needed to do Win 10 upgrade to latest version, that took some time. Install latest drivers (Nvidia and others). Install Pinnacle 22, Photoshop elements 10 and Steam (with some of my favorites games). Itunes and transfer my music and move the main folders pictures, documents video and music to Samsung SSD (runs at 300-340 MB/sec) and now fully set up. Games play great.. Very High and some in Ultra High. Monitor is 144 hrz but most games run at 60 hrz max, of my Games only Call Of Duty World at War runs at 144 hrz. Frame rate is constantly 60-70 frames/min Monitor is very good but not great (weakest point up to now). Very good investment for the dollar. Durability will be discussed in 4-5 months. Will revisit...If I dont revisit means is good..

After 2 months of using the laptop the NVIDIA GTX 1060 card stopped working! Saw many reviews while troubleshooting the problem and found many other people with the same problem.

I order this and it was running very rough even though I did all updates and drivers and it didn’t even have the cable inside the laptop to plug in an extra ssd I returned it and am getting another laptop

decent laptop for the price if it worked the way it should. Im not sure if its this model but getting a constant 15-25 fps on Farcry 3 on LOW settings is absurd. Constantly above 90 temp and constant thermal throttling due to that. Im in the military and chose this laptop because I thought it would be pretty decent to game with on the side while not working but boy was I wrong. Atleast 1-2 hours a week is spent looking up how to fix these issues with nothing working for me. I wish I went with a better brand if it meant the quality would be better,

The laptop is fine and all but the lid at certain angles, will hit the hibernation button causing the computer to go fully into hibernation. Doesnt sound too bad except it happens often and can take 5 to 10 seconds to get back into what you are doing.

Great value and quality for $999. I have upgraded the storage and RAM, this thing is a powerhouse that can run the top games at medium-high settings. 144hz screen looks amazing. The laptop does get hot when playing certain games or running at full capacity, but I used XTU to turn down the throttles a bit. I also purchased some thermal compound to improve the heat reduction. Perfect for mobile gaming, first Acer purchase, will likely purchase again.

I love my predator

Its a heavy laptop but its a beast. Fast and powerful.