Acer has revealed the Predator Orion 9000 desktop sporting some of the most powerful hardware you can buy for home use.
The Predator Orion 9000 comes equipped with Intel’s Core i9-7980XE 18-core, 36-thread Extreme Edition CPU. Intel doesn’t offer a more powerful CPU for the consumer market right now.
Acer didn’t say anything about the CPU being overclocked, but the Extreme Edition CPUs are unlocked, so you should be able to do it, if doesn’t shipping OC’d. Predator Orion 9000 packs a liquid cooler to keep the CPU temperature low, and the case Acer chose features the company’s IceTunnel 2.0 airflow management system, which divides the internal space into multiple airflow zones with independent tunnels to expel the heat.
Acer didn’t say which motherboard it chose for the Predator Orion 9000, but it’s a full-featured option. The Predator Orion 9000 supports up to 128GB of quad channel DDR4 memory and up to three M.2 SSDs. You can even configure the system with up to four AMD RX Vega, or two Nvidia GTX 1080Ti graphics cards. The motherboard also packs 12 USB ports, including USB 3.1 Gen 1 and Gen 2 Type-C and Type-A ports, and a pair of USB 2.0 ports.
The Predator Orion 9000 features a full tower case with a black and silver “spacecraft-like” motif and controllable RGB lighting on the sides of the front panel. Acer said you could also add up to five 120mm controllable RGB fans to enhance the lighting effect. The tower case includes a large window so you can see your components and wheels so you can move the system around with ease, plus handles so you can carry it to car as head off to a LAN party.
Acer said the Predator Orion 9000 Series gaming desktops would be available overseas in November for €1,999 and would be available stateside in December for $1,999.
