Tech Advisor – October 2019

OCTOBER 2019 • TECH ADVISOR 11

REVIEW

benchmarks rarely push the CPU hard, we also ran

Cinebench using four threads to see how much

performance suffered. Cinebench results were

consistent,andafterfivehourstheGPU’sclock

speedsremained consistent.

We then let the Predator Helios 300 continue to

loop Heaven overnight. In the morning we checked

the GPU clocks and Cinebench results, and we found

nothing had changed.

Does this mean the that some of the user

experiences are invalid? No, but it means our particular

unit had no overheating issues. We will say that this

isn’t the end of the story. The CPU did occasionally

hit its a power limit throttle and thermal limit throttle.

Power throttling keeps the CPU within its thermal limit,

We ran the Acer Predator
Helios 300 for five hours
and continued on for
another 19 hours without
‘overheating’ issues