Stefan Mileschin

As part of their pre-Computex Global Press Conference, Acer today has unveiled a pair of new SKUs for their Orion Series of Gaming Desktops, filling out the series with the new 3000 and 5000 series machines. The 5000 series Acer says is designed for gamers who require superior performance and an adaptable chassis for future expansion. Meanwhile the mid-range 3000 series sports the same design and slightly different hardware inside. Acer’s goal was to provide a “…full lineup of gaming desktops able to cater to a wide range of needs.”



The new Predator Orion 5000 series gaming desktops will use up to an 8th Gen Intel Core i7+ 8700K processor riding on an Intel Z370 chipset based board as well as supporting up to 2-way SLI and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080Ti video cards. In these maxed-out configurations Acer is going after 4K gaming as well as VR gaming, both of which can easily put such a high-end video card to use

The Orion 5000 series allows up to 64GB of dual-channel DDR4-2666 MHz memory and supports Intel Optane Memory. On the storage front, users are able to select up to a 3TB 3.5-inch HDD or up to a 512 GB PCIe NVMe based M.2 SSD for plenty of mass and fast storage options. For networking, both the 5000 and 3000 series will use Killer brand components with the Killer Ethernet 2400 for wired Gigabit Ethernet and a Killer 802.11ac wireless adapter running 2Tx2R and supporting Bluetooth 4.2LE (ed: Acer hasn't specified the exact model adapter they're using). Audio duties are handled by the Creative Sound BlasterX 720° audio engine.

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