Hands-on with the Acer Predator Orion 9000: Power to spare!

Every year at IFA, Acer rolls out some ridiculous gaming PC. Last year saw the introduction of the ludicrous Acer Predator 21X "laptop", and 2017 brings us the new Predator Orion 9000 — a desktop rig with power to spare.

The Predator Orion 9000 is being billed as the kind of PC a serious PC gamer would build, but you can buy it ready-to-go from Acer. It was designed with expansion, customization, power, and ventilation in mind, with even a slight nod to portability thrown in for good measure.

The design of the Orion 9000 is unmistakably gaming PC, but without being too in-your-face like many are. Perhaps that's aided by the blue lighting instead of the intense red we often see (though the strips of lighting on the inside can be customized to whatever color you want) Most of the case is see-through in one form or another, from the glass panel on the left to the mesh vents on the front. A mix of metal, plastic, and carbon fiber parts give the Orion 9000 some visual interest, solidity, and no small amount of heft.

That heft comes in part because this thing is massive (after all, it has wheels on the back so you can more easily tote it about). Inside you'll find an 18-core Intel Core i9 CPU, four PCIE slots for up to four high-end graphics cards (available in AMD or NVIDIA configurations), four RAM slots that can hold a combined 128GB of RAM (4x32GB), and enough SSD slots and hard drive bays for a total of 44TB of storage space.

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