Inside Acer Predator Helios 300 (17-inch, PH317-51) – disassembly, internal photos and upgrade options

The 17-inch Helios 300 has exactly the same construction as the 15-inch model and offers easy access to all of the internals. There are also two service lids for a faster upgrade if needed.

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1. Removing the bottom plate

For anything other than the HDD and RAM slots, you will have to remove the whole bottom. Remove all the screws around the bottom piece and the once located under the service lids.


2. Storage

One of the service lids gives access to the 2.5-inch bay, which in our case is taken by a WD Blue 1TB HDD but if you want to access the M.2 SSD slot, it can be found under the bottom plate and it’s placed right next to the memory slots. The SSD we found in our unit is 512GB Micron M.2 SATA SSD (2280).


3. Memory, battery and Wi-Fi

The smaller service cover holds the two RAM chip slots supporting up to 32GB (2x 16GB) DDR4-2400. Our unit, on the other hand, came with two 8GB SK Hynix chips.

The Wi-Fi module can be found right next to one of the cooling fans and it’s Intel 7265NGW.

The battery is rated at 48.9Wh and provides decent battery runtimes according to our tests.


4. Cooling system

Unfortunately, the weak spot of this laptop is the cooling design. The 15-inch model has exactly the same issue – both cooling fans are stuck together and struggle to keep the internals cool under load. The heat pipes run across both heat sinks and share the heat.

The full review of the Acer Predator Helios 300 (17-inch, PH317-51) can be found here.

You can find the available configurations here: http://amzn.to/2vdR4yP

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rafael
rafael
6 années il y a un an

since there’s already an HDD pre installed on this slot? is there a second slot for the 2nd drive? ive seen videos that there’s still nothing on the inside on the 2nd slot. thanks

maxiskt
5 années il y a un an

Is there any possible way of improving the air flow in the cooling system?

Bob.Omb
Bob.Omb
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Répondre à  maxiskt

You can order the 3d metal fans (Acer AeroBlade) and with minimal modifications they will fit. It is custom work though and you will need to remove the heatsink to install them… which means you will need to re-apply thermal paste.. I installed them in my predator 300 g3-571 15 inch. 35% better airflow. I recommend using Kryonaut thermal paste as it is the best non-metal paste on the market today. (1g is barely enough but it is enough)

seb
seb
5 années il y a un an

Hello, I need to replace the keyboard of my helios 300 because it is a German version in QWERTZ and I want it in French AZERTY. Can you help me since you opened yours? Should it remove the motherboard to access the keyboard? Thank you

Alex
Alex
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Répondre à  seb

What?NO.Carefully pop the key up not to brake the hinge to replace it with the key that you need (I payed 30 bucks to get them from USA) and just download the language pack and keyboard layout and that its.

ante
ante
4 années il y a un an

hi there ! i need info about a chip that got burnt it i need to know what type it is so i can replace it .my laptop is a ph 317-52

Aqib nawaz
Aqib nawaz
2 années il y a un an

i reset my laptop from the button near to the battery , showing in the picture , and after that graphic card gtx 1060 is not showing in the task manger even i installed its driver from original website , plz help ,