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

It took me a long time to find the answer to the running hot issues, but I finally did so I will post it here. I was running at 98 most of the times with big games and the keyboard was so hot I couldn’t stand to touch it. The issue with mine turned out to be intel’s turbo boost technology..it needs to be disabled otherwise it will overclock your processes and run at those high temps. I disabled it and am now running in the 70s consitantly. I can’t share with you here how to disable it but if you search the internet you will find it. Now it’s just a fantastic machine for the price.

I received this laptop just 3 days ago expecting to have an all around strong system that could withstand high settings (not ultra) when gaming. I quickly found out that the cooling system couldn’t not keep the CPU under 90 degrees Celsius with the fans on max settings, a 5-fan cooling pad, and a circulation fan on my desk. Additionally the computer crashed the first day I got it as well as constantly restarting due to “DCP WATCHDOG VIOLATION”- a driver issue. I was highly disappointed in the laptop’s performance and already returned it. Amazon was very helpful with that transaction. However, I don’t recommend this laptop as it seems very spotty in customer experience. I’m going to listen to what I’ve heard from the beginning and build a tower instead. I’m not one to place bad reviews but if I can save someone else from the trouble then it was worth it.

It likes to thermal throttle. I changed out the paste to kryonaut and now it hovers around 90 when gaming before it would peg at 98c 99c. Its a terrible product if you think you can just go and game like it should but if you put in a little bit of time and fix its issues its a great runner.

If this computer came in a better frame/case or better cooling solution, this would be perfect.

Its a really great laptop for the price and the specs .. its really fast and has an almost 6 hours battery life not 8 ... gaming w it is really great but its worst problem is that the higher the graphics the hotter the laptop gets but rather than that Im having a really great experience .

I really like this beast..

This computer works so well that Ive been using it for about two years and it runs games so smoothly that the home is my ideal computer.

my daughters computer and she likes it .... does all she needs plus more for college

This laptop is replacing a budget laptop from 2011, so it cant help but blow it away. Even so ...

Love the look and portability of the laptop. There a few twerking in the setting and graphic so game can run smoothly but overall it was a nice update from my outdated desktop to this laptop. Little tip, dont let nvidia experience optimize your game. It was this program that took make me a whole week wondering why even low end game skip frame and literally after uninstalling it(after updating the drive) it drop cpu temp by 10 degree while gaming which was hitting 80 degree on game like maplestory 2 with it on. I had to reinstall it to upgrade the driver but didnt let it optimize the game. Overall it a great laptop for that price.