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Also do you undervolt? Do you have separate profiles for AC and battery? It sounds like power is not being supplied enough somewhere. Skelo

Thermals pads are not really a necessity. The biggest thing to change to paste and apply the correct amount (try to mimic the video, only paste about the size of a small grain of rice, replace the heat sink level to the CPU/GPU chips for equal spreading). 99% leave the thermal pads alone. Skelo

The answer is simply that the more the laptop runs at full throttle (cryptomining requires heavy usage), life expectancy of the laptop will be reduced (due to heat). As for the link Sharanji posted, it is simply not worth it. These laptops are not designed for cryptomining. It would take 2-3 years of constant mining to…

The USB 3 on the left side of the laptop is powered on even on shutoff to allow device charging. As far as I know, there is no way to turn it off. Skelo

Remove the panels on the bottom of the laptop and replace them. Check and make sure the screws are all lightly tightened. The battery will not function when certain screws or bottom panels are not inserted correctly. Skelo

At the Acer factory, the Thermal paste is pre-applied to the heat sink, so it have been found that there is little to no improvement in sending it to Acer. There is also a MicroCenter in Cleveland, OH if you are in the northwest part of PA. Skelo

When looking for it in Acer store, it can be found under the G9-593. Skelo

How good is the clearance under your laptop? Do you use a laptop cooler? If you want to undervolt, please look in the sticky for the undervolting guide. Typically when undervolting we start at - 0.100. Skelo

According to Acer, only pre-production/sample models of the Helios 500 were available at that date, not the consumer grade laptops. That being said, any type of benchmarking is inaccurate due to many differences. Skelo

The M.2 that is used is a 3.3v. Skelo

1. For undervolt as asad said, start at -0.100 and see if crashes still occur. Then you can slightly raise it if they do not. If they do, try -0.080. 2. Don't worry about Speed Shift too much. It will have very little to zero affect on temperatures. Speed Shift more or less controls performance. So the trade off here would…

I already contacted Acer about it. Will let you know if I get an answer. Skelo

No Problem. If this is the case for the consumer models, then it is faulty in some way (they kinda mention this as well as theirs is a test sample). It SHOULD use turbo. It comes with turbo, and IDK why it did not use it. There is one thing I noticed here, and it is that he didn't mention any type of troubleshooting for…

I know. I remember you having the issue now that I think about it. I just edited my post. I just kind of woke up from a nap. Skelo

According to the review here: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Acer-Predator-Helios-500-GTX-1070-i7-8750H-Laptop-Review.308084.0.html, While playing Witcher 3 turbo was being used. Can you please share what reviews show the turbo not being used. You must remember, all 6 cores will not run at 4.2GHz. The i7-8750H when using 6…

Shoot. My page didn't refresh everything... Red-Sand is correct. Update BIOS and drivers first and see if that helps. Skelo

If you didn't get these temperature before, then the thermal paste job is bad. You don't repaste and it breaks the computer, it doesn't work like that. Either there is too much thermal paste or the heat sink is not sitting correctly. Skelo

Are you using 5GHz wifi? This issue has come up previously, and it is usually figured out that the network card in the laptop and the router are not completely compatible. Try using your laptop on a different wifi network and see if the latency is still there. Skelo

Sadly, that is one of the drawbacks about newer vs older technology. The newer technology has so much more ability to modify game play, that simple and older games suffer from it. However, a lot of these issues stem from these types of laptops, where you have a NVIDIA GPU and an Intel GPU. The past 2 years they have…

Model? However the helios 300 keyboard brightness cannot be change, only enabled or disabled. Skelo