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If you are not living under a rock, then you know about the Acer Aspire Predator. He was won the market with her mother in engineering, the strange features, all wrapped in one of the sexiest boxes, known to mankind. Underhood It comes with all the benefits of unified hardware and none of the disadvantages that Acer will allow fans to overclock or change the parts without damage to the warranty. This is the console PC without a limp.

So how do you reference a PC pre-built? It’s not like there are a large number of high-performance computers pre-built there. In fact the only machine worth mentioning others would be Alienware, but try to get one of those for examinations is almost impossible. It was decided that the Predator should be contrasted against our Intel and AMD test benches to get some clarity.

The Predator has impressive features. The review model came with an Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550, 8GB DDR2 800, 2x 9800GTX and a total of 1TB of hard drive space. Combine all this with a DVD burner, a Blu Ray player / burner, a Creative X-Fi Platinum, and most notable cases and one has the impression that the predator is not a machine to be taken lightly .

The entire package also comes with a Logitech G5 Laser Gaming Mouse and Keyboard Logitech G 11 which shows that Acer cut corners exactly zero.

The predator is also fine, when in fact a high quality plastic, the case is functional as well as being attractive. The radiator fan is quiet 120mm ninja rank and no longer able to keep the configuration modest water cooling envelope. Acer has integrated a hot swappable hard drives for the OS drive clearly labeled that will keep the noobs to harm their operating system while allowing the rest of us frantically copy of Linux distributions at the next LAN. These drives are hidden behind a small door that is worrying low and causes fears of plastic broke and tears. The optical drive bays have doors like claws that look very impressive while the biggest throwback to the machines of the same name, an exotic butt ugly.

This is all covered by the main door that opens Lamborghini style. There is also a multi card reader with USB 2.0, and if your USB flash drive is not too large, then it will easily fit behind the door. On top of housing are USB, FireWire and eSATA – just in case your Lambo door is closed.

The accompanying Acer G24 24 “LCD is a story of his own. Worthy of a separate investigation, he regularly draws oohs and ahh all those who have seen it. With its burnt orange bezel Acer G24 n ‘ not only the appearance of accompanying the Predator has also image quality to do justice to Predator.

But we can not forget our benchmarks. Our test AMD comes dressed in a Lian Li PC-P80 Armorsuit AMD had customized with a Spider / theme Crossfire. This case has a custom price over $ 700, which most of us to swallow should also be taken into account in your final conclusion. AMD even went so far as to green and red cold cathode fluorescent lamps equipped. AMD Phenom X4 combined its 9950 Black Edition with a Gigabyte GA-MA790GP-DS4H, 4 GB DDR2-800 data, and to top it off with a Sapphire HD4870X2.

The rig Intel is much older and less impressive on the air side. It has a chassis Raidmax Aztec but we broke into a processor recent review in the form of the amazing Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9770 to compensate. Intel threw their board of directors and D975XBX2 2GB DDR3-1066. The system comes from a 8800GT but we swopped it with a 8800GTX we had around. The value of the AMD system is a cycle of Nice $ 2,100 while the Intel platform in mind when making a $ 2,600, and these two platforms are about half the price of the Acer Predator, for an interesting comparison.

Predators greatest strength was that it was a gladiator in the round, each component has been first class and that is exactly why we setup our best platforms in a single department. Our tests included a 1.5 mod SuperPi 1M run, a run Cinebench rl0 Core 4, part of the H264 encoding, 3DMark Vantage, 3DMark 06, and of course Crysis and World in Conflict. The results were far from shocking. All CPU benchmarks were in favor of Intel with the Predator coming in a close second, while all the tests given the skewed GPU AMD released the top with the second Predator.

What we have learned that the Phenom X4 9950 BE can really his system down, and the results tend to demonstrate once again that if AMD wants to have a chance to have an impact on the market for high performance desktop there must be a very smart top and soon. Skip most powerful GPU in the Intel AMD would probably tear a new predator, but that much should already be too obvious. The Predator seems to be the ideal middle ground in terms of performance and convenience, but it is beyond madness prices and most fans to make fun of spending so much on a fairly good pre-built

For much less, it is possible to build a water cooling system with much more than a quad core mid-range and two previous generation processors. Why the Predator does not come with at least two GTX 260 is a mystery, it’s not like the Predator has been installed two years ago, in fact, the test unit was manufacturing labels as of recently in August 2008. The Predator looks impressive, and once you find how to remove the side panel and you see inside you realize how much effort has been passed by Acer. The Predator is a nice PC, it looks good, it performs well, but it is not worth the asking price of $ 4000. The AMD and Intel machines are test platforms powerful beyond budget Average Joe’s, but still half the price of the predator.

Acer designed the Predator to be the ultimate solution for non-enthusiasts to experience this experience that enthusiasts and for this we salute them, but unfortunately they were taken to be an experience enthusiasts only one rich experience alone.