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Just bought a Acer Helios 300. What parameters are recommended to check to see it's not a lemon? Software suggestions are definitely welcome.

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Best way to start imo is just using it. When playing games, what frame rate is it getting, and then compare to others online and see if its matching what is advertised. Steam has a built in fps counter that you can turn on. What work load are you primarily focusing on? What was the reason for buying the laptop?

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It will be used mostly for gaming. Probably some creative works as well.

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6 hours ago, Delnith said:

Best way to start imo is just using it. When playing games, what frame rate is it getting, and then compare to others online and see if its matching what is advertised. Steam has a built in fps counter that you can turn on. What work load are you primarily focusing on? What was the reason for buying the laptop?

You can run some benchmarks to evaluate the performance of the components.

Cinebench for CPU, 3Dmark for GPU and CPU (it's a gaming benchmarks with multiple tests, which test both CPU and GPU performance).

 

Otherwise, PCMark has a battery test, you can  run a stress test to see thermal performance... It just kind of depends on what you want to test 

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9 hours ago, Minibois said:

You can run some benchmarks to evaluate the performance of the components.

Cinebench for CPU, 3Dmark for GPU and CPU (it's a gaming benchmarks with multiple tests, which test both CPU and GPU performance).

 

Otherwise, PCMark has a battery test, you can  run a stress test to see thermal performance... It just kind of depends on what you want to test 

Just what I was looking for! Thanks!

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