Predator Helios 16

Purchased a $2000 Acer Predator Helios 16 with an i9 13900HX and an RTX 4080. It had shitty thermal design that caused constant overheating under minimal stress because they decided to cut corners on the cooling pipes(no vapor chamber), and worse, they never released a microcode update for the dying

If you're after a laptop just stay away from ACER. Support is a joke and as previously mentioned they locked all bios from 2023 onwards, so no undervolting. Their liquid metal application is bad and so people have replaced with PTM7590. You will need a good laptop cooler to fight the throttle. It's

honest, owner of the Acer Predator helios 16 with rtx4070, i9 13th HX. it heats a lot, even if you max out fans for that price you can get a PC twice the performance trust me, laptop gpus are 2x weaker than PC GPUs, do some research before buying. unavailability of components, if any case its mother

The issue with ACER is the fact it's locked it's bios so you can't undervolt but seen posts on using SREP that lets you change some settings but you still can't undervolt, not sure if Throttle stop works. Also, prices now are ridiculous for both laptops and desk tops due certain companies giving the

It's possible, but not on my Acer Predator Helios 16 AI laptop. Both the higher frame rate and resolution patches cause constant crashing. Only stable way to play is with the Bloodborne Enhanced and Vertex Explosion mods. Even then, the shader cache has to be cleared before every start or it crashes