![]() The Helios 700 is made entirely out of plastic. At a price of $2500 some users might have expected metal surfaces. These devices have been included in our comparison tables.Īcer could have chosen better material quality for its high-range gamer. The competitors of the Helios 700 are other 17-inch gamers equipped with Nvidia's strongest Turing GPU such as the MSI GE75 9SG, the MSI GT76 9SG, the HP Omen 17, the Schenker XMG Ultra 17 and the Alienware Area 51m. Our test unit, which includes the Core i7-9750H, the GeForce RTX 2080, 32 GB of RAM and two 512-GB SSDs, is currently available for around $2500. The display remains the same in all configurations: A matte 144-Hz IPS panel with G-Sync (which means that the device does not support the graphics-switching technology Optimus). ![]() It is equipped with between 32 and 64 GB of DDR4 RAM and between 512 GB and 4 TB of storage (SSD, SSD RAID, or a combination of SSD and HDD). The processor is either a Core i7-9750H (six cores) or a Core i9-9980HK (eight cores), both from Intel. Depending on the configuration, it runs on either a GeForce RTX 2070 or an RTX 2080 as its graphics solution. Microsoft Windows 10 Home (64-bit) 2.The Predator Helios 700 is clearly directed at passionate gamers who don't want to make any compromises in terms of performance, connectivity and features. Microsoft Windows 10 Home (64-bit) 3.6GHz Intel Core i9-9900K 16GB DDR4 SDRAM3GHz 8GB Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 500GB SSD + 2TB HDD Microsoft Windows 10 Home (64-bit) 2.2GHz Intel Core i7-8750H 32GB DDR4 SDRAM 2,666MHz 8GB Nvidia GeForce GTX 2080 with Max-Q Design 512GB SSD Microsoft Windows 10 Pro (64-bit) 2.2GHz Intel Core i7-8750H 24GB DDR4 SDRAM 2,666MHz 8GB Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 with Max-Q Design 1TB SSD Microsoft Windows 10 Home (64-bit) 3.2GHz Intel Core i9-9900K 32GB DDR4 SDRAM 2,400MHz 8GB Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 1TB SSD + 1TB HDD 5,200 RPM Microsoft Windows 10 Home (64-bit) 2.6GHz Intel Core i7-9750H 32GB DDR4 SDRAM 2,666MHz 8GB Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 1TB SSD Microsoft Windows 10 Home (1909) 2.4GHz Intel Core i9-9980HK 32GB DDR4 SDRAM 2,666MHz 8GB Nvidia GeForce GTX 2080 1TB SSD ![]() You do have the option of using different overclocking settings for the CPU and GPU. (At its maximum overclocking in the Helios, the processor draws about 107 watts.) But you don't really gain much by running in Extreme mode for gaming - the biggest boost seems to be on RTX ray tracing (as measured by 3DMark Port Royal), and that's only about 10%. Speaking of speed, the Helios 700 is the zippiest we've tested with the exception of i9-9900K-based models no surprise given that the laptop H series processors have a lower power envelope than their desktop analogs. Unfortunately, that one tops out at an i7-9750H and isn't quite as fast if you also need the speed. It's also a lot more striking looking, compensating a bit for the old-fashioned wide bezels that make the Helios 700 look dated and clunky. More its rotating display is a lot more flexible, not to mention better (this one's a run-of-the-mill 144Hz IPS G-sync model with a sub-sRGB color gamut). It also means that when it's running hot, it's not transmitting heat up through the keyboard, although the Predator's rubbery keycaps prevent them from getting hot as well.įor a big, heavy 17-inch laptop with a similarly innovative design, I prefer the On one hand, pulling out the keyboard makes it feel a lot more like a real standalone model with a slanted wrist wrest, which makes it more comfortable than most laptops for long typing sessions. The loudest fans I think I've ever heard, necessitating that I raise the volume in my headphones to hear dialog. Exposing the fans also means they get loud when maxxing out. That allows the system to remove a lot more heat from inside the system and is necessary for the Extreme CPU and GPU overclocking modes. In most ways it's a generic Predator design, with one big exception: the entire keyboard deck slides toward you, tilting the wrist rest/touchpad section down and revealing the dual fans. Killer Wi-Fi 6 AX1650x, Bluetooth 5.0, Gigabit Ethernet 2 x USB-C (1 x Thunderbolt), 3 x USB-A, 1 x HDMI 2.0b, 1 x DisplayPort 1.4, headphone, mic
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