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Jul 11, 2024 4:40 AM

Acer Helios 16 Laptop: i9 13900HX, 16" QHD+ 240Hz, 32GB RAM, RTX 4080 (Refurb)

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Acer via eBay has Acer Predator Helios 16 Gaming Laptop (PH16-71-948L; Certified Refurbished) on sale for $1399.99 - 9% off when added to cart = $1273.99. Shipping is free.

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Specs/Key Features
  • Intel i9 13900HX 24-Core/32-Threads 5.4GHz Processor (13th Gen)
  • 16" QHD+ (2560x1600, WQXGA+) 16:10.
    • 240Hz 3ms, 500-nits Peak Brightness, 100% DCI-P3, DisplayHDR, NVIDIA Advanced Optimus & G-SYNC, IPS Display
  • 1TB M.2 PCIe 4.0 NVMe Solid State Drive SSD
  • 32GB (2x16GB) SO-DIMM DDR5 Memory
  • NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12GB GDDR6 GPU
  • Intel Killer WiFi 6E AX1675 + Bluetooth 5.1
  • Lithium Ion Battery (90W)
  • RGB Backlit Keyboard w/ Precision Corning Gorilla Glass Touchpad
  • 90Whr Battery
  • Windows 11 Home
    • Ports:
      • 2x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C (w/ DisplayPort, Thunderbolt 4, USB charging 5 V)
      • 2x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A
      • 1x USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A
      • 1x HDMI 2.1 with HDCP Support
      • 1x RJ-45
      • 1 x Headphone/Microphone Combo Jack

Editor's Notes

Written by citan359 | Staff
  • About this deal:
    • Please see the original post for additional details & give the WIKI and additional forum comments a read for helpful discussion.
  • About this product:
    • 2-year warranty serviced by Allstate
    • This item is Certified Refurbished. It has been professionally restored by an Acer approved vendor. Units are usually cosmetically indistinguishable from New products, but some may show signs of light use. Functionally, these units are equivalent to New. Certified Refurbished units will be shipped in a New Brown Box
  • About this store:
    • Seller Acer has a 97.3% Positive feedback rating w/ over 436,000 items sold
  • Additional Note:

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Written by CoolCalculator4006
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Acer via eBay has Acer Predator Helios 16 Gaming Laptop (PH16-71-948L; Certified Refurbished) on sale for $1399.99 - 9% off when added to cart = $1273.99. Shipping is free.

Thanks to community member CoolCalculator4006 for finding this deal.

Specs/Key Features
  • Intel i9 13900HX 24-Core/32-Threads 5.4GHz Processor (13th Gen)
  • 16" QHD+ (2560x1600, WQXGA+) 16:10.
    • 240Hz 3ms, 500-nits Peak Brightness, 100% DCI-P3, DisplayHDR, NVIDIA Advanced Optimus & G-SYNC, IPS Display
  • 1TB M.2 PCIe 4.0 NVMe Solid State Drive SSD
  • 32GB (2x16GB) SO-DIMM DDR5 Memory
  • NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12GB GDDR6 GPU
  • Intel Killer WiFi 6E AX1675 + Bluetooth 5.1
  • Lithium Ion Battery (90W)
  • RGB Backlit Keyboard w/ Precision Corning Gorilla Glass Touchpad
  • 90Whr Battery
  • Windows 11 Home
    • Ports:
      • 2x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C (w/ DisplayPort, Thunderbolt 4, USB charging 5 V)
      • 2x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A
      • 1x USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A
      • 1x HDMI 2.1 with HDCP Support
      • 1x RJ-45
      • 1 x Headphone/Microphone Combo Jack

Editor's Notes

Written by citan359 | Staff
  • About this deal:
    • Please see the original post for additional details & give the WIKI and additional forum comments a read for helpful discussion.
  • About this product:
    • 2-year warranty serviced by Allstate
    • This item is Certified Refurbished. It has been professionally restored by an Acer approved vendor. Units are usually cosmetically indistinguishable from New products, but some may show signs of light use. Functionally, these units are equivalent to New. Certified Refurbished units will be shipped in a New Brown Box
  • About this store:
    • Seller Acer has a 97.3% Positive feedback rating w/ over 436,000 items sold
  • Additional Note:

Original Post

Written by CoolCalculator4006

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Eltorito
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Wow, amazing price! Great deal OP! Best price I've seen by far. Wish I could justify spending this much on a laptop when I barely game anymore Frown
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RealDealMonkey
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Great deal, but also a case of getting what you pay for.

That ridiculously low price for an rtx 4080 laptop that doesn't skimp out too hard on stuff like ram etc mostly makes this very slick.

I was reading/watching a few reviews and the takeaways are that even amongst other hot and noisy rtx 4080 gaming laptops, this Acer underperforms (GPU runs about ~15-25 watts below Nvidia spec) and is still crazy loud (60dB+). Even if you do not tweak voltage boost pl1 & pl2 etc settings to get the laptop performing in a manner more comparable to the 4080 competition, throttling is inevitable because the cooling simply can't keep up (no vapor chamber).

Basically you're getting roughly desktop 4060ti performance but with 12GB vram, decent screen, good cpu and ram, decent keyboard that has numpad, and a lot of your time spent tweaking this thing so you can enjoy using it for (AAA) gaming without insane noise and/or throttling.

For the price, definitely a good deal worth considering. I'm tempted but nah.
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Jul 16, 2024 6:00 PM
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PeteyTheStrikerJul 16, 2024 6:00 PM
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Quote from NGed72 View quoted comment :
What Superposition settings did you select?

I just did '4k optimized' and got 12054/12980 (on predator sense 'balanced' setting)
I did 1080 extreme, 4k optimized, and 8k optimized. The 10K result I quoted earlier was the 1080 extreme, using turbo setting, and also switched in the nvidia panel to only use the nvidia GPU.

If I recall correctly before I did my driver update, the 4k optimized also gave me a higher score which I find to be really weird.
Last edited by PeteyTheStriker July 16, 2024 at 12:11 PM.
Jul 16, 2024 6:20 PM
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NGed72Jul 16, 2024 6:20 PM
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Quote from PeteyTheStriker View quoted comment :
I did 1080 extreme, 4k optimized, and 8k optimized. The 10K result I quoted earlier was the 1080 extreme, using turbo setting, and also switched in the nvidia panel to only use the nvidia GPU.
Perf, I just did

1080P (Performance) = 10392
1080P (Turbo) = 10342
4k Opt (Performance) = 13771
4k Opt (Turbo) = 13130
Jul 16, 2024 7:03 PM
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PeteyTheStrikerJul 16, 2024 7:03 PM
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Quote from NGed72 View quoted comment :
Perf, I just did

1080P (Performance) = 10392
1080P (Turbo) = 10342
4k Opt (Performance) = 13771
4k Opt (Turbo) = 13130
Rerun them at least once you should see a change, but its weird that Performance is doing better than Turbo, it should be the other way around, unless the card is getting throttled on Turbo... When I get home I will post my for comparison, I also do not understand how a higher resolution does better than 1080 it should be inverse as the higher resolution is more demanding.
Jul 16, 2024 8:32 PM
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NGed72Jul 16, 2024 8:32 PM
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Quote from PeteyTheStriker View quoted comment :
Rerun them at least once you should see a change, but its weird that Performance is doing better than Turbo, it should be the other way around, unless the card is getting throttled on Turbo... When I get home I will post my for comparison, I also do not understand how a higher resolution does better than 1080 it should be inverse as the higher resolution is more demanding.
It is super weird. Just reran it


1080P Extreme (Turbo): 9104
4k Optimized (Turbo): 12622

Confused
Jul 16, 2024 8:58 PM
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PeteyTheStrikerJul 16, 2024 8:58 PM
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Quote from NGed72 View quoted comment :
It is super weird. Just reran it


1080P Extreme (Turbo): 9104
4k Optimized (Turbo): 12622

Confused
Numbers always going to flux a certain amount depending on many factors, such as programs running in background and cooling, thats why you usually like I did have to rerun the test a few times to get that margin of error for the individual computer, mine was +-400 points on average around the 10K mark your is a bit steeper of a drop.

That 9100 would be around a 20% drop for me compared to my 3080 desktop which as I mentioned averaged around 11K so paying $1400 for that type of lower performance, was not acceptable to me.

Ill give you the rest of my numbers in a few hours, still not home yet.
Jul 16, 2024 10:19 PM
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PeteyTheStrikerJul 16, 2024 10:19 PM
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Quote from NGed72 View quoted comment :
It is super weird. Just reran it


1080P Extreme (Turbo): 9104
4k Optimized (Turbo): 12622

Confused
NVM I didnt back up the results to my desktop and the laptop is already wiped so scratch the other numbers, sorry.
Jul 17, 2024 12:00 AM
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NGed72Jul 17, 2024 12:00 AM
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Quote from PeteyTheStriker View quoted comment :
NVM I didnt back up the results to my desktop and the laptop is already wiped so scratch the other numbers, sorry.
Im honestly just debating on building a micro atx when I get to my location and leaving it there since that's where I go usually for a week or two at a time lol; cheaper and better perf

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Jul 17, 2024 12:06 PM
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Deal-R-DashJul 17, 2024 12:06 PM
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Quote from trooper1414 View quoted comment :
Just received the laptop, ran windows for a bit and got a drive degrade error from windows. Ran crystal disk and it shows bad hdd.
I just opened mine and it immediately ran a Windows repair on first boot. It booted into Windows finally but suspect I have the same issue. Who else hates the engine roar/swoosh on startup? Pretty cheesy and annoying if you boot in a quiet area.
Jul 17, 2024 8:54 PM
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NGed72Jul 17, 2024 8:54 PM
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Quote from PeteyTheStriker View quoted comment :
NVM I didnt back up the results to my desktop and the laptop is already wiped so scratch the other numbers, sorry.
Yep, returning the 4080 Predator and 4060 Zephyrus and getting this:

https://slickdeals.net/f/17622579-cyberpowerpc-gamer-supreme-ryzen-7-7800x3d-rtx-4070-super-32gb-ddr5-2tb-ssd-1499-99?page=4&src=SiteSearch&prop=&attrsrc=#comments

$50 more than the predator and I'll just tote the 4070 back with me when I travel between the two locations x.x
Jul 18, 2024 3:05 AM
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armitageJul 18, 2024 3:05 AM
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Quote from NGed72 View quoted comment :
Yep, returning the 4080 Predator and 4060 Zephyrus and getting this:

https://slickdeals.net/f/17622579-cyberpowerpc-gamer-supreme-ryzen-7-7800x3d-rtx-4070-super-32gb-ddr...

$50 more than the predator and I'll just tote the 4070 back with me when I travel between the two locations x.x
I bought the Acer from this deal for $1274. Thinking to return and the below:

https://slickdeals.net/f/17622246-asus-tuf-a16-laptop-16-1200p-165hz-ryzen-7-7735hs-rx-7700s-16gb-ram-512gb-ssd-680-free-shipping?page=6#commentsHeader

Is the Asus a better deal than the Acer
Jul 18, 2024 4:49 PM
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Deal-R-DashJul 18, 2024 4:49 PM
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Has anyone heard back from Acer from starting their return? Two days and crickets...
Jul 24, 2024 8:24 PM
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armitageJul 24, 2024 8:24 PM
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Quote from Deal-R-Dash View quoted comment :
Has anyone heard back from Acer from starting their return? Two days and crickets...
Did Acer get back on your return.
I am in the same boat, waiting for the return label
Jul 24, 2024 11:49 PM
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Deal-R-DashJul 24, 2024 11:49 PM
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Yes finally heard back over the weekend that it would be another 24 hours and then Monday they sent the label. While I am greatful for free returns not thrilled with their communication. I also noticed that the B&H website indicated that this model with IPS had been discontinued so that further reinforced the need for the return in addition to the thermals and HDD issues on boot.
Aug 7, 2024 12:15 AM
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Deal-R-DashAug 7, 2024 12:15 AM
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Just another update. They have had the return for 7 days and still no refund. This company absolutely one of the worst Ebay sellers I have dealt with. Glad I did the return.

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