The Acer Predator Trident 700 Gaming Laptop Review: A Powerful and Sleek Machine

The Acer Predator Trident 700 is a gaming laptop that has been put through a series of rigorous tests to determine its performance, power consumption, and overall value. In this review, we will delve into the details of the Trident 700's hardware and software, as well as our hands-on experience with the device.

The Trident 700 features a 7th Gen Intel Core i7-7700HQ processor, which is paired with up to 32GB of DDR4 RAM and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q graphics. The laptop also boasts a 120Hz G-Sync display, making it an ideal choice for gamers who want fast refresh rates and smooth gameplay.

We started by testing the Trident 700 using the electrical benchmark, which revealed decent results despite being above 200 FPS even with all settings maxed out. In this test, the Trident 700 showed a remarkable performance that exceeded expectations.

Another popular game, Rainbow Six Siege, was also tested with the built-in benchmark and even with ultra settings, the 1-lows were above the 120Hz refresh rate of the display. This indicates that the Trident 700 is running very well perfectly smooth with no issues, even when maxed out.

Far Cry 5 was another game that was tested with a built-in benchmark, and the results are fairly good for this specific test, averaging around 60 FPS in terms of one percent lows at ultra settings. The dips in performance were not too low, which suggests that the Trident 700 is capable of delivering smooth gameplay even in demanding titles.

The Assassin's Creed Origins game was also tested with a built-in benchmark, and once more, the frame rates in this game are pretty good for comparison at ultra settings, averaging around 35% better than the Helios 300 laptop that we recently tested. This suggests that the Trident 700 is a strong contender in terms of performance.

On the other hand, Dota 2 was actually performing worse than the Helios 300, which may be due to its faster 8th Gen CPU. However, these results should not be considered representative of real-world gameplay.

The laptop was also tested with various benchmarking tools, including Heaven Valley and Superposition from Unigine, as well as Fire Strike Time Spy and VR Mark from 3DMark. The results were impressive, showing that the Trident 700 is capable of delivering high frame rates even at high settings.

When it comes to gaming performance, the Trident 700's graphics card proved to be a significant factor in determining overall performance. In most games, the graphics usually make a larger difference to performance, especially at higher settings or higher resolutions. However, many games were able to get fairly high frame rates, making the Trident 700 an attractive option for gamers.

To further optimize performance, the laptop's cooling system was also tested, and it showed that the Trident 700 can be overclocked without any issues. In a test with Shadow of the Tomb Raider, the overclocked results were slightly better than running at stock speeds, indicating that the GPU is capable of delivering improved performance when pushed to its limits.

Finally, we tested the laptop's storage, using CrystalDiskMark to evaluate its read and write speeds. The Trident 700's 512GB RAID 0 array consisting of two M.2 NVMe SSDs performed exceptionally well, showing excellent read and write speeds.

In terms of pricing, the Acer Predator Trident 700 is a premium product that comes with a price tag to match. In Australia, it costs around $3,800, while in the US, it goes for around $2,600. Compared to other thin and light laptops, the Trident 700 is priced similarly to the Razer Blade, which has a new 8th Gen CPU.

Overall, the Acer Predator Trident 700 is a powerful and sleek gaming laptop that offers impressive performance, power consumption, and value. Despite being a premium product, it is an attractive option for gamers who want fast refresh rates, smooth gameplay, and high frame rates. With its cooling system, storage, and graphics capabilities, the Trident 700 is well-equipped to handle demanding games and applications.

While there are some minor drawbacks to the laptop, including lower battery life and lower profile mechanical keyswitches, these issues do not detract from the overall experience of using the Trident 700. The laptop's design keeps the heat up the back, but this can be mitigated with proper cooling solutions. Additionally, the placement of the touchpad may take some getting used to.

In conclusion, the Acer Predator Trident 700 is a solid gaming laptop that offers impressive performance and power consumption. Its 120Hz G-Sync display, powerful graphics card, and robust cooling system make it an attractive option for gamers who want fast refresh rates and smooth gameplay.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthe acer predator triton 700 is a thin and powerful gaming laptop it's been out for a while now but is still a great machine that a lot of you have requested i check out so let's get started with the specs my unit has an intel i7 7700 hq cpu so four cores eight threads with a 3.8 gigahertz single core turbo and 3.4 gigahertz all-core turbo boost i've got gig of memory running it ddr4 2400 in dual channel for the storage it's got two m.2 drives both with nvme support in my configuration there are two 256 gig ssds in a raid zero array giving us fast speeds and 512gb of usable storage no room for a 2.5 inch drive here though for the graphics there's an nvidia 1080 max q a powerful laptop gpu it's similar to a desktop 1080 in terms of cuda cores and memory but it's got a lower tdp and lower clock speeds and it's this which powers the 15.6 inch 1080p 120hz ips panel for network connectivity there's a gigabit ethernet port support for 802.11 ac wi-fi and bluetooth the trident 700 features a solid metal build making it feel very premium both the lid and interior are the same matte black aluminium the metal edges are a little sharp but due to the lower keyboard placement this wasn't really an issue while using it the dimensions of the laptop are 39.4 centimeters in width 26.7 centimeters in depth and just under 1.9 centimeters in height so quite thin for a gaming laptop with these specs testing the weight my unit came in just under 2.4 kilos with the 230 watt power brick and cables for charging the total weight increases to around 3.5 kilos as mentioned it's got a 15.6 inch 1080p 120 hertz ips panel with g-sync the viewing angles were good colors looked clear to me on any angle side to side or up and down i've measured the current color gamut using the spider 5 pro and my results returned 97 of srgb 67 of ntsc and 73 of adobe rgb so not too bad for a gaming laptop at 100 brightness i measured the panel at 286 nits in the center and with a 680 to 1 contrast ratio overall i thought it looked pretty good while playing games i've taken a long exposure photo in a dark room as a worst case backlight bleed test it looked pretty good to my eyes but the camera does pick up a little bleed although this will vary between laptops anyway the screen was fairly sturdy while trying to flex it owing to the metal lid and hinges found out towards the far corners it could also just be opened with one finger it's got a fairly even weight distribution with the battery up the front which helps weigh it down above the display in the center is a 720p camera i found both the camera and microphone fairly average in terms of quality but you'll be able to judge both for yourself as you've probably noticed by now the keyboard is right down the front where the touchpad would usually be by doing this acer are able to put all the heat generating components right up the back keeping this area cool the keyboard has individual key rgb backlighting and there are a number of effects available through acer's predator sense software the lighting color of the fan on the left hand side under the glass can also be customized through here too the keyboard is apparently mechanical and although it definitely sounds like one it doesn't quite feel this way to me the keys felt a little strange as they bottomed out quickly here's how it sounds to give you an idea there was minimal keyboard flex while pushing down fairly hard it was quite sturdy thanks to the metal body the touchpad is found in the center of the glass so right up the back i found it pretty difficult to use especially when swapping between it and the keyboard it worked alright but i definitely prefer to use a mouse to the right hand side of the touchpad there's also an air intake vent for the fan right below it the two speakers are found towards the front left and right corners on either side of the keyboard they sound pretty decent for laptop speakers quite clear to begin with but at higher volumes the body of the laptop did make some vibration sounds speaking of sounds like some other acer laptops it plays this sound on boot by default luckily this can be disabled through the bios for the i o on the left there's a kensington lock a usb 2.0 type a port hidden behind the square plastic cover two usb 3 type a ports and separate 3.5 millimeter microphone headphone jacks on the right there's the power button usb type c thunderbolt 3 port third usb 3 type a port and gigabit ethernet the ethernet port did seem poorly placed to me if you're right-handed and using a mouse it can get in the way on the back there's a full size display port and hdmi 2.0 output as well as the power input and air exhaust vents towards the corners there's nothing at all on the front just smooth metal on the back of the matte black metallic lid there's the predator logo in the center with the silver brushed finish fingerprints show up quite easily on the metallic interior glass and lid but they're easy to wipe away as it's all smooth surfaces underneath there's some rubber feet which did well at preventing sliding as well as air intakes toward the back the laptop can be opened up easily with the phillips head screwdriver once the screws underneath removed the panel on top can be removed just be careful to remove the two ribbon cables that connect the keyboard to the motherboard from left to right we get easy access to the wi-fi card two m.2 slots which are covered with a metal heat spreader the battery and two memory slots powering the laptop is a three cell 54 watt hour battery and with a full charge and just watching youtube videos with the screen on half brightness keyboard lighting off and background apps disabled i was able to use it for 2 hours and 2 minutes although that was with g-sync enabled even with g-sync disabled however the discrete nvidia graphics were still in use it didn't appear possible to make use of the integrated intel graphics which would probably last a lot longer while playing the witcher 3 with medium settings and nvidia's battery boost set to 30 fps the battery lasted for an hour longer and was able to sit at 30 fps the entire test without dipping while gaming battery life was all right as that task makes use of the discreet graphics anyway but outside of gaming the overall battery life was fairly poor thermal testing was completed with an ambient room temperature of 19 degrees celsius so expect warmer temperatures in a warmer environment starting towards the bottom of the graph in light blue at idle the cpu was actually quite warm probably as the fan was running quietly as you'll hear later moving up to gaming in the green bar the temperatures were still acceptable and this was after temperatures had stabilized from an hour of playing after manually maxing out the fans in yellow the cpu and gpu temperatures both drop back a bit with the cpu under vaulted by -0.150 volts but the fans back on default the cpu temperature was a little cooler than by just maxing out the fans only shown in orange with the cpu wondervolt and max fans combined we get the best temperatures yet shown in red the stress tests were done by running ada64 and the heaven benchmark at the same time in order to attempt to fully utilize both the processor and graphics moving up in the graph and starting with the dark red bar the cpu peaked at 87. honestly not too bad for extended load especially considering how thin the laptop is by maxing out the fan and applying under vaulting shown in the pink purple and dark blue bars the temperatures get significantly better these are the average clock speeds for the same temperature tests just shown not really much to show here as there was no thermal or power limit throttling the 7700 hq was able to boost to its 3.4 gigahertz all-core turbo speed without any problems even in these stress tests i've got some cinebench cpu benchmarks here i was getting the same results with or without the cpu wonder vault applied as shown earlier there was no throttling at all here so no problems getting full performance with the out of the box configuration just for reference or comparison i've also noted the score of the newer i5 8300h the quad core laptop cpu from the newer 8th generation although the performance doesn't change the undervolt can still be used to drop the temperatures as shown previously here are the gpu only clock speeds while under a graphical only stress test ace's predator sense software lets you apply gpu overclocks easily in two different levels known as faster and turbo the faster profile overclocks the gpu core by 75 megahertz and the memory by 200 megahertz while the turbo profile doubles this to 150 megahertz on the core and 400 megahertz on the memory i was able to get a little further improvement by manually overclocking it with msi afterburner up to 200 megahertz on the core and 800 megahertz on the memory as shown in red but this may vary between laptops as it depends on the particular chip as for the external temperatures where you'll actually be putting your hands at idle the body was sitting in the low 30s quite cool while gaming we can see that only the rear of the laptop warms up to around 50 degrees as that's where the cpu and gpu are located the keyboard area stays cool though fairly similar results with the stress tests running and then with the fans manually maxed out and cpu under vaulted the external temperatures lower by a few degrees as for the fan noise produced by the laptop i'll let you have a listen to some of these tests at idle it was fairly quiet and while gaming it was about as loud as any other gaming laptop i've tested under stress test this rose a little and with the fans manually maxed out it gets quite loud you've got the option of controlling the fan speeds of the cpu or graphics independently through acer's predecessor and software so that should help in finding a good balance between temperatures and fan noise overall the temperatures and performance were pretty impressive when you consider the thin body of the laptop i expected it to run hotter with the 1080 max-q graphics but for the most part the 7th gen cpus seem to run cooler than the newer and faster 8th gen options finally let's take a look at some gaming benchmarks all games run at 1080p with the latest windows updates and these nvidia drivers fortnite was tested using the replay feature and it was performing very well even with max settings over 100 fps on the averages and the one percent lows aren't that terrible while at lower settings the 1 lows are around the refresh rate of the 120hz panel so it played very smoothly overwatch was tested playing in the training area and again very good frame rates at all setting levels the game caps at 300 fps and were able to reach this at low and medium settings while ultra settings still resulted in one percent lows above the refresh rate of the panel so again very smooth gameplay shadow of the tomb raider was tested with the built-in benchmark i've only just recently added this game to my testing so i'm not too sure how well it compares to other specked laptops but the frame rates look pretty good pubg was tested using the replay feature and despite this being an unoptimized and poorly performing game we're still able to average above 100 frames per second at ultra settings pretty good results and still above 60 fps for the one percent low cs go was tested using the electrical benchmark and the results are pretty decent in this test while above 200 fps even with all settings maxed out rainbow six siege was tested with the built-in benchmark and even with ultra settings the 1 lows are above the 120 hertz refresh rate of the display so even maxed out it's running very well perfectly smooth with no issues far cry 5 was also tested with the built-in benchmark and the results are fairly good for this specific test averaging above 60 fps in terms of one percent lows at ultra which aren't too far behind the average frame rates so the dips in performance aren't too low assassin's creed origins was another game that was tested with a built-in benchmark and once more the frame rates in this game are pretty good for comparison at ultra the averages are about 35 percent better than the helios 300 that i recently tested dota 2 on the other hand was actually performing worse than the helios 300 which i suspect is because it has a faster 8th gen cpu in any case these the results with the trident 700 keep in mind it's an intensive replay that does not represent real world gameplay this is a worst case scenario test ghost recon was tested with the built-in benchmark and is another resource demanding game still playable at ultra settings but it was noticeably better at just about any other setting level watchdogs 2 was also a pretty resource demanding game but it was running well even with ultra settings averaging above 60 fps although there wasn't much practical difference between ultra and high settings the witcher 3 was averaging around 100 fps at ultra settings it was running quite well although the 1 low result was quite a bit lower although this could be improved quite a bit by lowering the settings i've got a few more games covered in the dedicated gaming benchmark video if you're interested now for the benchmarking tools i've tested heaven valley and superposition from unigine as well as fire strike time spy and vr mark from 3dmark just pause the video if you want a detailed look at these results despite the triton 700 featuring the slightly older intel 7700hq which isn't even as good as the 8th gen i5 cpu the results in all games tested are still very good owing to the 1080 max q graphics the cpu was still pretty good for gaming in any case but in most games the graphics usually make a larger difference to performance especially at higher settings or higher resolutions many games were able to get fairly high frame rates a great combination for the 120hz g-sync display which could actually be utilized well as we saw earlier we've got the option of overclocking the graphics so let's see how this actually helps improve gaming performance i didn't bother undervaulting the cpu here as there was no difference as no throttling was taking place shadow of the tomb raider was tested with a built-in benchmark and at the highest settings the overclocks were just getting us a small 6 performance improvement to the average frame rates fortnite was tested using the replay feature and in this test the overclocked results are slightly better 8.5 percent faster than running at stock speeds when running maxed out at epic settings so there was a little improvement with the gpu overclock applied but it will vary between game and settings as for storage in crystal disk mark the 512 gig raid 0 array which is made up of 2 m.2 nvme ssds was performing quite well excellent read and write speeds for updated pricing you can check the links in the description at the time of recording here in australia this model goes for around 3 800 australian dollars while in the us it goes for around 2 600 us dollars compared to other thin and light laptops it's about the same price of the razer blade which has a new 8th gen cpu although slightly lower 1070 max-q graphics either way not cheap so what do you guys think about the acer predator triton 700 overall it's a very nice gaming laptop quite thin and powerful specs although this combination is always associated with a higher price despite the thinner body there was absolutely no throttling of any kind in any of my tests and it performed well in all games tested especially when combined with the 120hz display with g-sync the only things i personally didn't like was the lower battery life outside of gaming low profile mechanical keyswitches and the strange placement of the touchpad i get that the design keeps the heat up the back but i found it difficult to use i'd always want to stick to using a proper mouse let me know what you guys thought down in the comments and leave a like to let me know if you found the review useful thanks for watching and don't forget to subscribe for future tech videos like this onethe acer predator triton 700 is a thin and powerful gaming laptop it's been out for a while now but is still a great machine that a lot of you have requested i check out so let's get started with the specs my unit has an intel i7 7700 hq cpu so four cores eight threads with a 3.8 gigahertz single core turbo and 3.4 gigahertz all-core turbo boost i've got gig of memory running it ddr4 2400 in dual channel for the storage it's got two m.2 drives both with nvme support in my configuration there are two 256 gig ssds in a raid zero array giving us fast speeds and 512gb of usable storage no room for a 2.5 inch drive here though for the graphics there's an nvidia 1080 max q a powerful laptop gpu it's similar to a desktop 1080 in terms of cuda cores and memory but it's got a lower tdp and lower clock speeds and it's this which powers the 15.6 inch 1080p 120hz ips panel for network connectivity there's a gigabit ethernet port support for 802.11 ac wi-fi and bluetooth the trident 700 features a solid metal build making it feel very premium both the lid and interior are the same matte black aluminium the metal edges are a little sharp but due to the lower keyboard placement this wasn't really an issue while using it the dimensions of the laptop are 39.4 centimeters in width 26.7 centimeters in depth and just under 1.9 centimeters in height so quite thin for a gaming laptop with these specs testing the weight my unit came in just under 2.4 kilos with the 230 watt power brick and cables for charging the total weight increases to around 3.5 kilos as mentioned it's got a 15.6 inch 1080p 120 hertz ips panel with g-sync the viewing angles were good colors looked clear to me on any angle side to side or up and down i've measured the current color gamut using the spider 5 pro and my results returned 97 of srgb 67 of ntsc and 73 of adobe rgb so not too bad for a gaming laptop at 100 brightness i measured the panel at 286 nits in the center and with a 680 to 1 contrast ratio overall i thought it looked pretty good while playing games i've taken a long exposure photo in a dark room as a worst case backlight bleed test it looked pretty good to my eyes but the camera does pick up a little bleed although this will vary between laptops anyway the screen was fairly sturdy while trying to flex it owing to the metal lid and hinges found out towards the far corners it could also just be opened with one finger it's got a fairly even weight distribution with the battery up the front which helps weigh it down above the display in the center is a 720p camera i found both the camera and microphone fairly average in terms of quality but you'll be able to judge both for yourself as you've probably noticed by now the keyboard is right down the front where the touchpad would usually be by doing this acer are able to put all the heat generating components right up the back keeping this area cool the keyboard has individual key rgb backlighting and there are a number of effects available through acer's predator sense software the lighting color of the fan on the left hand side under the glass can also be customized through here too the keyboard is apparently mechanical and although it definitely sounds like one it doesn't quite feel this way to me the keys felt a little strange as they bottomed out quickly here's how it sounds to give you an idea there was minimal keyboard flex while pushing down fairly hard it was quite sturdy thanks to the metal body the touchpad is found in the center of the glass so right up the back i found it pretty difficult to use especially when swapping between it and the keyboard it worked alright but i definitely prefer to use a mouse to the right hand side of the touchpad there's also an air intake vent for the fan right below it the two speakers are found towards the front left and right corners on either side of the keyboard they sound pretty decent for laptop speakers quite clear to begin with but at higher volumes the body of the laptop did make some vibration sounds speaking of sounds like some other acer laptops it plays this sound on boot by default luckily this can be disabled through the bios for the i o on the left there's a kensington lock a usb 2.0 type a port hidden behind the square plastic cover two usb 3 type a ports and separate 3.5 millimeter microphone headphone jacks on the right there's the power button usb type c thunderbolt 3 port third usb 3 type a port and gigabit ethernet the ethernet port did seem poorly placed to me if you're right-handed and using a mouse it can get in the way on the back there's a full size display port and hdmi 2.0 output as well as the power input and air exhaust vents towards the corners there's nothing at all on the front just smooth metal on the back of the matte black metallic lid there's the predator logo in the center with the silver brushed finish fingerprints show up quite easily on the metallic interior glass and lid but they're easy to wipe away as it's all smooth surfaces underneath there's some rubber feet which did well at preventing sliding as well as air intakes toward the back the laptop can be opened up easily with the phillips head screwdriver once the screws underneath removed the panel on top can be removed just be careful to remove the two ribbon cables that connect the keyboard to the motherboard from left to right we get easy access to the wi-fi card two m.2 slots which are covered with a metal heat spreader the battery and two memory slots powering the laptop is a three cell 54 watt hour battery and with a full charge and just watching youtube videos with the screen on half brightness keyboard lighting off and background apps disabled i was able to use it for 2 hours and 2 minutes although that was with g-sync enabled even with g-sync disabled however the discrete nvidia graphics were still in use it didn't appear possible to make use of the integrated intel graphics which would probably last a lot longer while playing the witcher 3 with medium settings and nvidia's battery boost set to 30 fps the battery lasted for an hour longer and was able to sit at 30 fps the entire test without dipping while gaming battery life was all right as that task makes use of the discreet graphics anyway but outside of gaming the overall battery life was fairly poor thermal testing was completed with an ambient room temperature of 19 degrees celsius so expect warmer temperatures in a warmer environment starting towards the bottom of the graph in light blue at idle the cpu was actually quite warm probably as the fan was running quietly as you'll hear later moving up to gaming in the green bar the temperatures were still acceptable and this was after temperatures had stabilized from an hour of playing after manually maxing out the fans in yellow the cpu and gpu temperatures both drop back a bit with the cpu under vaulted by -0.150 volts but the fans back on default the cpu temperature was a little cooler than by just maxing out the fans only shown in orange with the cpu wondervolt and max fans combined we get the best temperatures yet shown in red the stress tests were done by running ada64 and the heaven benchmark at the same time in order to attempt to fully utilize both the processor and graphics moving up in the graph and starting with the dark red bar the cpu peaked at 87. honestly not too bad for extended load especially considering how thin the laptop is by maxing out the fan and applying under vaulting shown in the pink purple and dark blue bars the temperatures get significantly better these are the average clock speeds for the same temperature tests just shown not really much to show here as there was no thermal or power limit throttling the 7700 hq was able to boost to its 3.4 gigahertz all-core turbo speed without any problems even in these stress tests i've got some cinebench cpu benchmarks here i was getting the same results with or without the cpu wonder vault applied as shown earlier there was no throttling at all here so no problems getting full performance with the out of the box configuration just for reference or comparison i've also noted the score of the newer i5 8300h the quad core laptop cpu from the newer 8th generation although the performance doesn't change the undervolt can still be used to drop the temperatures as shown previously here are the gpu only clock speeds while under a graphical only stress test ace's predator sense software lets you apply gpu overclocks easily in two different levels known as faster and turbo the faster profile overclocks the gpu core by 75 megahertz and the memory by 200 megahertz while the turbo profile doubles this to 150 megahertz on the core and 400 megahertz on the memory i was able to get a little further improvement by manually overclocking it with msi afterburner up to 200 megahertz on the core and 800 megahertz on the memory as shown in red but this may vary between laptops as it depends on the particular chip as for the external temperatures where you'll actually be putting your hands at idle the body was sitting in the low 30s quite cool while gaming we can see that only the rear of the laptop warms up to around 50 degrees as that's where the cpu and gpu are located the keyboard area stays cool though fairly similar results with the stress tests running and then with the fans manually maxed out and cpu under vaulted the external temperatures lower by a few degrees as for the fan noise produced by the laptop i'll let you have a listen to some of these tests at idle it was fairly quiet and while gaming it was about as loud as any other gaming laptop i've tested under stress test this rose a little and with the fans manually maxed out it gets quite loud you've got the option of controlling the fan speeds of the cpu or graphics independently through acer's predecessor and software so that should help in finding a good balance between temperatures and fan noise overall the temperatures and performance were pretty impressive when you consider the thin body of the laptop i expected it to run hotter with the 1080 max-q graphics but for the most part the 7th gen cpus seem to run cooler than the newer and faster 8th gen options finally let's take a look at some gaming benchmarks all games run at 1080p with the latest windows updates and these nvidia drivers fortnite was tested using the replay feature and it was performing very well even with max settings over 100 fps on the averages and the one percent lows aren't that terrible while at lower settings the 1 lows are around the refresh rate of the 120hz panel so it played very smoothly overwatch was tested playing in the training area and again very good frame rates at all setting levels the game caps at 300 fps and were able to reach this at low and medium settings while ultra settings still resulted in one percent lows above the refresh rate of the panel so again very smooth gameplay shadow of the tomb raider was tested with the built-in benchmark i've only just recently added this game to my testing so i'm not too sure how well it compares to other specked laptops but the frame rates look pretty good pubg was tested using the replay feature and despite this being an unoptimized and poorly performing game we're still able to average above 100 frames per second at ultra settings pretty good results and still above 60 fps for the one percent low cs go was tested using the electrical benchmark and the results are pretty decent in this test while above 200 fps even with all settings maxed out rainbow six siege was tested with the built-in benchmark and even with ultra settings the 1 lows are above the 120 hertz refresh rate of the display so even maxed out it's running very well perfectly smooth with no issues far cry 5 was also tested with the built-in benchmark and the results are fairly good for this specific test averaging above 60 fps in terms of one percent lows at ultra which aren't too far behind the average frame rates so the dips in performance aren't too low assassin's creed origins was another game that was tested with a built-in benchmark and once more the frame rates in this game are pretty good for comparison at ultra the averages are about 35 percent better than the helios 300 that i recently tested dota 2 on the other hand was actually performing worse than the helios 300 which i suspect is because it has a faster 8th gen cpu in any case these the results with the trident 700 keep in mind it's an intensive replay that does not represent real world gameplay this is a worst case scenario test ghost recon was tested with the built-in benchmark and is another resource demanding game still playable at ultra settings but it was noticeably better at just about any other setting level watchdogs 2 was also a pretty resource demanding game but it was running well even with ultra settings averaging above 60 fps although there wasn't much practical difference between ultra and high settings the witcher 3 was averaging around 100 fps at ultra settings it was running quite well although the 1 low result was quite a bit lower although this could be improved quite a bit by lowering the settings i've got a few more games covered in the dedicated gaming benchmark video if you're interested now for the benchmarking tools i've tested heaven valley and superposition from unigine as well as fire strike time spy and vr mark from 3dmark just pause the video if you want a detailed look at these results despite the triton 700 featuring the slightly older intel 7700hq which isn't even as good as the 8th gen i5 cpu the results in all games tested are still very good owing to the 1080 max q graphics the cpu was still pretty good for gaming in any case but in most games the graphics usually make a larger difference to performance especially at higher settings or higher resolutions many games were able to get fairly high frame rates a great combination for the 120hz g-sync display which could actually be utilized well as we saw earlier we've got the option of overclocking the graphics so let's see how this actually helps improve gaming performance i didn't bother undervaulting the cpu here as there was no difference as no throttling was taking place shadow of the tomb raider was tested with a built-in benchmark and at the highest settings the overclocks were just getting us a small 6 performance improvement to the average frame rates fortnite was tested using the replay feature and in this test the overclocked results are slightly better 8.5 percent faster than running at stock speeds when running maxed out at epic settings so there was a little improvement with the gpu overclock applied but it will vary between game and settings as for storage in crystal disk mark the 512 gig raid 0 array which is made up of 2 m.2 nvme ssds was performing quite well excellent read and write speeds for updated pricing you can check the links in the description at the time of recording here in australia this model goes for around 3 800 australian dollars while in the us it goes for around 2 600 us dollars compared to other thin and light laptops it's about the same price of the razer blade which has a new 8th gen cpu although slightly lower 1070 max-q graphics either way not cheap so what do you guys think about the acer predator triton 700 overall it's a very nice gaming laptop quite thin and powerful specs although this combination is always associated with a higher price despite the thinner body there was absolutely no throttling of any kind in any of my tests and it performed well in all games tested especially when combined with the 120hz display with g-sync the only things i personally didn't like was the lower battery life outside of gaming low profile mechanical keyswitches and the strange placement of the touchpad i get that the design keeps the heat up the back but i found it difficult to use i'd always want to stick to using a proper mouse let me know what you guys thought down in the comments and leave a like to let me know if you found the review useful thanks for watching and don't forget to subscribe for future tech videos like this one\n"