Acer unveiled the Predator Orion 7000 earlier in the month, but today, the company has unveiled a smaller desktop PC under the same line to Malaysia, the Predator Orion X. Alongside it are three monitors and a controller under its premium gaming sub-brand, as well as a mostly identical controller under the Nitro series instead.
But starting with the Predator Orion X, we’re looking at a 15.4l chassis that houses either an Intel Core i7-14700F, or a Core i5-14400F processor, at least for the local market. Graphics is handled by an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 Super, with the rig also coming with 16GB of RAM and 512GB of PCIe4 SSD, the former of which can be upgraded up to 64GB. With the difference between the two available configs being the CPU only, these are priced at RM10,999 and RM12,999 for the Core i5 and Core i7 models, respectively.
Moving on to the monitors, we’ll first talk about the Predator XB323QU M3 and XB273U V3. As their names suggest, these are 32- and 27-inch monitors respectively, but they otherwise share pretty similar spec sheets. Off the top is the 2,560 x 1,440 resolution, and a 0.5ms GtG response time, AMD FreeSync Premium support and DCI-P3 95% colour gamut coverage. As for their prices, you can get them for RM1,299 and RM899 respectively.
Then there’s the Predator X49 V, a 1800R curved, 5,120 x 1,440 monitor with a 32:9 aspect ratio, or to put it in another way, two 2,560 x 1,440 monitors slammed together. This means it better supports multi-window applications, as well as a Picture-by-Picture mode to allow you to do the same with games. Other spec sheet items include a 144Hz refresh rate, a 0,03ms GtG response time, DCI-P3 99% coverage, and AMD FreeSync Premium. The beefier spec sheet also means an equivalent increase in price, at RM4,699. It’s also the only one that’s not immediately available, and instead is up for pre-order until 22 September.
And finally, we get to the two controllers. As mentioned, one is Predator-branded, called the PGR300, while the other is the Nitro NGR300. There is really only one real difference between the two, which is the former has a wireless dongle to go with it. Both support Bluetooth and wired connectivity, Hall effect joysticks, and analogue triggers. Though it’s a significant enough difference, as you can tell from their price tags of RM399 and RM199 respectively.
