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Flashy looks aside, the Orion 3000’s core components leave it open to being outperformed
WEALTHY PC GAMERS may already be familiar with the Acer Predator Orion 9000: a titanic £4,000 dual-GPU desktop that’s so proudly and intentionally oversized, it comes with its own set of wheels so that you can drag it around like a suitcase instead of carrying it.
It sort of works as the computer equivalent of a concept car, but we’d never suggest actually buying one. There are, however, a couple of options for those who want the Orion 9000’s sci-fi styling in a more manageable (physically and financially) package: the Orion 5000 and the Orion 3000.
The Orion 3000 that we have on review is the cheapest in the entire range, comprising an Intel Core i5-8400 processor, 8GB of RAM, a 4GB GeForce GTX 1050 Ti graphics card and a 1TB hard disk with Intel Optane Memory. There are plenty of other specs, swapping in high-performance parts such as SSDs and GTX 1060 and even GTX 1070 graphics cards, but if you want the lowest entry point into the Orion range, you’re looking at it.
A GRAPHIC NATURE
This story is from the February 2018 edition of Computer Shopper.
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