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.
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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
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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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I just did '4k optimized' and got 12054/12980 (on predator sense 'balanced' setting)
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.
1080P (Performance) = 10392
1080P (Turbo) = 10342
4k Opt (Performance) = 13771
4k Opt (Turbo) = 13130
1080P (Performance) = 10392
1080P (Turbo) = 10342
4k Opt (Performance) = 13771
4k Opt (Turbo) = 13130
1080P Extreme (Turbo): 9104
4k Optimized (Turbo): 12622
Confused
1080P Extreme (Turbo): 9104
4k Optimized (Turbo): 12622
Confused
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.
1080P Extreme (Turbo): 9104
4k Optimized (Turbo): 12622
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$50 more than the predator and I'll just tote the 4070 back with me when I travel between the two locations x.x
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$50 more than the predator and I'll just tote the 4070 back with me when I travel between the two locations x.x
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Is the Asus a better deal than the Acer
I am in the same boat, waiting for the return label
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