Colours aren’t the best and a little more washed out especially compared to the Triton 900. With 144Hz refresh rate, G-SYNC, and 3 ms response, you can definitely enjoy smooth gaming with minimal delay. The 17.3-inch IPS display on the Acer Predator Helios 700 gaming laptop is great for gaming. Just keep in mind that the 4th Gen AeroBlade 3D fans can get a bit loud. Running temperature is great and the sliding keyboard concept actually works. You should consider it more of a desktop replacement rather than a laptop you’d bring anywhere. The Acer Predator Helios 700 is monstrous in both strength and size. As for the difference in results with the ROG Mothership, I feel that if you put similar RAMs in both ( 16GB x 4), both will perform more evenly with each other. Personally, would prefer to have an additional 1TB HDD storage given its asking price and slight worries of the storage’s lifespan. With a 9th Gen Intel Core i9-9980HK, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080, 32GB DDR4 RAM, and two Intel NVMe SSDs in RAID 0 configuration, that’s a lot of firepower. Seeing the results of the benchmark, you should definitely know how powerful the Acer Predator Helios 700 is. Despite the hefty 70Wh battery, I only got about 2 hours+ of battery life on a mixture of internet browsing, word processing, YouTube, and light Photoshop work. You can definitely game with ease without worries of sudden frame drops here.īattery life on any gaming laptop is bound to be bad given the high performance parts. There’s no thermal throttling throughout the tests but the fan does get rather loud at times. CPU rarely goes above 80☌ and GPU is usually around 64☌ when gaming. As to why Final Fantasy XV was also ran in 4K, the test had it as a setting so I figured it would be worth trying.Īs for running temperature with the keyboard slid out, it’s actually great. It made me wish the screen was a slightly higher resolution like 1440p. In Full HD, it was basically capable of running everything at its highest settings very smoothly. On the matter of gaming, the Acer Predator Helios 700 is definitely one powerful beast. The top three machine here aren’t too far apart but the top 2 are the only ones that surpassed the 6,000 mark. It became the second machine in our benchmark tests to surpass the 10,000 mark.Īs for 3DMark’s Port Royal ray-tracing test, it performed admirably and once again secured its position as the 2nd highest. Moving on to 3DMark’s Time Spy and the difference between the Acer Predator Helios 700 and the ROG Mothership becomes smaller. It’s interesting that the Triton 900 did not perform too differently in this benchmark. Regardless, it’s still a very high score, that’s for sure. In UNIGINE Superposition, the results are similar. I believe the difference is because of the RAM and power supply (Mothership utilizes two power bricks). What’s interesting is that there’s a notable difference with the ROG Mothership, which uses the same CPU. It’s no surprise given the Intel Core i9-9980HK that’s powering it. In Cinebench R15, it managed to be our second highest score of all the devices we’ve tested thus far for both Multi Core and Single Core tests. You can definitely expect zippy boot-up / loading speeds, that’s for sure. It’s a 1TB SSD consisting of two 512GB NVMe SSDs in RAID 0 configuration after all. In CrystalDiskMark, you can see that the speeds are pretty good. HyperDrift keyboard with MagForce WASD Keys, Per-Key RGBħ0Wh 4-cell Li-Ion Battery, 330W Power Adapter They did right with the backlighting of the glass panel, which I feel was lacking on the Triton 900 as it was dim on that one. However, it’s a completely different story when it’s powered on as the all the colourful lights make it truly seem like it’s coming to life. Overall, the Acer Predator Helios 700 looks a little bland when it’s powered off. You have a clear view of 12 screws here, but you don’t have to unscrew all to get to a good portion of the internals. On the bottom, you have four rubber stands, some stickers with fine details listed, and slits for air ventilation as well as speakers. All three are situated between the two rear air vents. On the back, you have the proprietary charging port, a DisplayPort, and a HDMI port. On the right side, you have a USB-A port, a couple of USB-C ports, an air vent, and a Kensington Lock. On the left side, you have an air vent, an RJ45 LAN port, a couple of USB-A ports, a microphone jack, and a combo audio jack.
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