Gaming Functioning

Over again, at that place's actually no surprises here when it comes to gaming functioning. The GTX 1060 performs basically exactly as expected, and there'south no existent difference betwixt the Helios 300 and a range of other laptops with the same hardware in new-ish titles. This is great news for those that want to relieve a few hundred dollars compared to other GTX 1060 gaming laptops: you're non sacrificing game performance.

The cooling solution is decent likewise, which surprised me a chip considering its single exhaust vent design. When playing a game like Watch Dogs 2, which hits the CPU and GPU pretty hard, the Helios 300 reached 84°C on the CPU and 74°C on the GPU. This is a respectable upshot that's well within the thermal limits of both parts, and allows the GPU in detail to hit its highest possible clock speeds for the longest time.

When punished under an AIDA64 stress examination, I saw the CPU climb as high as 91°C and the GPU hit nearly 80°C, merely this is a non-standard utilize case that'south not reflective of real-world gaming scenarios. And even though information technology'southward a torture test, the Helios 300 did surprisingly well here.

The great news is that it'south not outrageously loud to achieve these temperatures either. Information technology's not a silent laptop by whatsoever stretch, simply with some headphones or external speakers, it should be fairly piece of cake to drown out the white noise produced past the cooling solution. Laptops such as the Razer Blade are significantly louder nether full load.