![]() ![]() It's easy enough for me to lift one-handed but fitting it into a backpack was a bit of a stretch, that's due to the 17.3-inch screen. It's a relatively chunky machine, but not to the point of taking over your desk. It's great for that panic moment when you realise you've been covering the exhausts and need to rectify the heat that's accumulated. It'll suddenly whir up to somewhere between 68–75 decibels, but lay your hand on the bottom for half a minute and you'll physically feel the chassis cool off. That's not at all bad, compared to the other laptops in that price range, and you can always slap the turbo button on the top left of the keyboard if you feel it getting a bit too hot. We're looking at a maximum CPU temperature of 85☌ and max GPU temps of less than 80☌. ![]() What is impressive, however, is that power doesn't translate into topping out on thermals. Sadly, the Core i7 12700H isn't the most efficient mobile CPU of Intel's 12th Gen lineup, and coupled with the 140W RTX 3060 it's left the battery life in a pretty terrible position-74 minutes is hardly enough time to get a round of gaming in unplugged, but that's the tradeoff we've grown to expect for a machine that ticks both the gaming and productivity boxes. When it comes to ray tracing, the Helios blows all three out of the water in the 3DMark Port Royal synthetic performance benchmark, nearly doubling the Razer Blade's score, though it falls behind the Legion in ray tracing tests. With a few tweaks it's easy to achieve frame rates in excess of 165 fps to make the most of the panel in a good deal of today's games, as long as you don't mind sacrificing some of that sweet fidelity. When it comes to slightly older games like F1 2020, it manages to break the 165 fps barrier even at ultra settings-only by a little, but that's when faced with a rainy-ass Vietnam circuit. The bottom line? Despite sitting neatly between the TUF and the Blade in terms of price, the Helios manages to slay all three in both synthetic and real-world GPU benchmarks, except for Metro Exodus where it sits almost on par with the TUF. Connectivity: 1x USB Type-A 3.2 Gen 1, 2x USB Type-A 3.2 Gen 2, 1x USB Type-C 3.2 Gen 2, 1x DisplayPort via Thunderbolt 4, 1x 3.5mm Combo Jack, built in mic ![]()
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