Customer Ratings & Reviews

The first thing I noticed when opening this out of the box was the design of the PC. The front and side panels are glass with the standard powder coated metal for the rest of the chassis. There’s a funnel design element for the fans in the front that give it a nice aesthetic. The fan on the CPU cooler is also RGB to illuminate from behind the glass panel, as well as the exhaust. The case front I/O has 3 USB type A ports and 1 USB type C port which is nice to quickly plug and unplug any accessories. There’s a recessed vent at the top which promotes throwing things like flash drives in but I wouldn’t recommend covering this up as it helps exhaust some of the heat. As for performance, I’ve been playing COD, Apex, and New World, all at max settings. COD averaged around 72 FPS at 4K on max settings. Although I was getting closer to 112 FPS at 2k max settings which is more ideal with a higher refresh rate monitor. New World, a game in my opinion you want the higher resolution for better visuals, averaged around 65-75 FPS at max settings at 4k resolution. I only saw frames drop when I was in town and there were a lot of other players on screen. You could probably tone down some of the settings and prevent this. Otherwise, out in the open world, it played great. I’m not a great Apex player but the story is the same, max settings, averaged around 110FPS. The 3080 in this system is where you’re going to see all of the gaming advantages. The card in this system has 3 fans which seems to carry the best cooling. I didn’t see temps above 73 degrees when playing games. There is a bit of headroom for overclocking if you’re into that, but I didn’t feel the need to. As for CPU performance, the 12700f checks the box. It’s not super powerful like the enthusiast grade CPUs that are out there, but the 1st generation E core and P core design outputs some impressive performance and remained cool the whole time doing it. I think this is a great balance if you’re main goal is gaming and don’t plan on doing any type of heavy video editing or CAD design. Although, I do think it’ll still handle those tasks, but you’ll have to be patient with it. Also worth noting it comes with the stock intel air cooler from what I can tell. Since there’s no overclocking this type of cooler is plenty enough. The system comes with 3 RGB case fans and a CPU fan. All of these can be controlled in the predator sense app. The main menu of the app offers a quick glance at temperatures, profile settings, and quick fan selection. You can then use the menu on the left to set custom profiles to lighting, cooling, as well as a system monitor to see system voltage, usage, as well as temperatures. Storage has a great balance of 1TB SDD and 2 TB HDD. You can put your steam library on the 2TB HDD and move you’re commonly played games onto the 1TB NVMe drive for a bit faster load times. RAM is 2 8 TB DDR5 sticks. The CAS latency comes in at 36 which is pretty good for DDR5 but 16GB is the bare minimum in my opinion for gaming, but it doesn’t diminish the experience. There’s a really neat hard drive dock that plugs the drives into a stationary SATA and molex so hot swapping the drives should be very easy to do. What makes it easy is you can quick release the glass side panel with a lever on the back to go in swap hard drives and upgrade components. Also I noticed a slot for another M.2 SSD if you have one to slot in. However, I didn’t see a hold down screw included, hopefully you’re drive came with one. It's easy to get to as well, located just off the side of the motherboard. I/O for the motherboard is pretty good. You get a 2.5 GB ethernet which is nice to see along with 5 type A and a type C USB ports. Also if you prefer to use Wi-Fi or in a part of your house where you can wire it to a router, it connects at 2.5gb if you’re router supports it. All together that’s 8 USB type A and 2 type C you can connect. Beyond that there’s not much else. I would have liked to have seen an optical audio out but by no means a deal breaker. There’s also a keyboard and mouse that comes with this system. They’re both wired and RGB. The mouse has two extra buttons on the left that can be used and a center button behind the scroll wheel that switches RGB color. I wouldn’t say there’s anything special about either but it’s nice to see them included. Really just a TV or monitor would be all that’s needed to get you gaming out of the box. I would say most people have a TV and an HDMI cable to get started, Acer will include the mouse and keyboard on their end. Overall I think this is a great gaming machine. It’s a nice replacement for what I had before and there’s a path of upgradability if you want a better processor, add RAM, or need to hot swap out hard drives. I’m happy to see it’s taken everything I’ve thrown at it and I look forward to using it as my daily driver for years to come.

This acer gaming PC is still a great value as far as price to performance is concerned. 12th gen i7 paired with a 3080 plus 4400mhz ddr5 ram and a gen 4 predator branded nvme plus an extra 2tb HDD(game Drive). All the parts still give you great gaming performance with hard to run titles like warzone, resident evil, metro exodus and the like. At 1440p this is a beast. And at 4K it’s still plenty worth it especially if you use dlss. The motherboard is an acer branded h670. With solid port options and nicely build. Although this board can not be upgraded to 13th gen Intel and the Ram is locked to 4400mhz speeds. Minor disappointment but this is a prebuilt and it’s understandable. The cpu cooler is nice and pretty, even. But it’s not built to keep hot Intel chips super cool unfortunately. You will hit higher temps but you can always upgrade the cooler to a 240mm radiator up top on the case( you will need a o remove the motherboard from the case) be careful not no! Acer was smart to make the top vent part easy to remove to install a Rad. Fans are a rifle bearing style fan and work great they allow a lot of air in and are very quiet. The case is a huge selling point for most people i believe as this case is very nice looking. And built solid. I love the design. The power supply is an 800 watt lite on brand. This will allow for upgrades to the gpu if you want to get a 40 series card. The WiFi is built into the case and is super fast and never loses connection. RGB software works better than many RGB programs. Easy to change setting to fans,keyboard,mouse and even the RGB included on the motherboard itself. This will light up the whole room lol. I’m loving this pc. And I can not wait for acer to release their new prebuilts with the newer generation parts. They definitely build quality gaming PCs. I recommend as the newer gen parts are imo very expensive so last gen is a smart bet.

The Predator Orion 5000 gaming desktop is a powerhouse of a machine that performs great in current games and delivers a customizable RGB experience in a sleek simple case. It comes with four of Acer’s new Frostblade 2.0 fans at 140mm, two front intake fans, one rear exhaust fan, and one fan for cpu cooler. The cpu heatsink is mounted horizontally with the fan in a push configuration to move cooler air across the heatsink, which also helps to blow air across the other motherboard components like the RAM and VRAM. Boot times are lightning fast thanks to the 12th gen intel processor, m.2 solid state boot drive, and the 16GB of DDR5 RAM, which clocks at a blistering 4400 MHz. The RAM sticks don’t come with any kind of heat sink, but for gaming applications and with the top down cpu cooler fan, you won’t see any thermal throttling. The 2TB hard drive comes with plenty of space for lower demand games and any document storage needed as well as an empty bay for storage expansion. There is also another m.2 drive. I partitioned off part of the m.2 drive for games with high loading demands such as Baldur’s Gate 3. For the NVIDIA 3080 I did some testing at 1080p and the game consistently runs above 100fps, with CPU temps maxing at 88* and GPU temps at 75*. I checked the Predator Sense fan settings and they ship at the “Auto” setting, which is likely designed to keep the hardware below a preset danger zone. The software comes with a “Gaming” mode which just cranks the case and GPU fans to max. This is efficient, but noisy, immediately knocking 10* off the CPU temp and 20* from the GPU. I recommend setting a custom fan curve to balance your personal noise preferences against efficient cooling. The software also comes with a fully customizable RGB suite with a large variety of effects and colors for both the Frostblade 2.0 fans and the integrated motherboard lighting. You can turn off individual zones to create your own custom lighting profile. The graphics card has an LED logo on the side, but doesn’t come with addressable RGB that I could see. It does have a white band around the back of the PCB that catches and reflects the ambient lighting from the rest of the case. The GPU is also mounted to an internal support bracket that spans the length of the case so you get absolutely zero sag. An important note about the motherboard is that it is not a full size board. It’s cut down and only has one PCIE slot so you won’t be able to add additional hardware like a stream card. Overall I highly recommend this gaming desktop for the casual and enthusiast gamer.

Don't want to build your own rig...then this is your solution. Out of the box you get the beautiful RGB rig, the RGB keyboard and mouse. The case is really nice looking and loaded with fans. Once Windows is set up there is little fluff software to remove. The predatorsense app allows you to adjust the colors and the fan speeds. It's a real sweet app and allows for plenty of variety in the controls. This rig gave me zero issues with anything I threw at it. The keyboard and mouse are basic but decent enough to use. Everything looks beautiful on this machine, even the machine. I think the pre built market has nailed it lately, not only affordable but good looking and fast machines. It stayed plenty cool enough being fanned cooled but I didn't notice the app adjusting fan speeds, maybe it was so slight and quiet that I just couldn't tell. Did I mention the 2 hard drives for plenty of storage, 1TB SD and a 2TB HD. For the average gamer this is a great out of the box system, it's inexpensive for the quality and the great looking case. I think most people will be satisfied with this computer and have happy times gaming until its time to upgrade.