Acer Aspire Predator G7750
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Date: 22/01/2018

Acer Aspire Predator G7750

If visions of paisley-printed portables dance in your head when you hear the words Acer Aspire, then the Aspire Predator is here to shake up your preconceived notions about the brand. Sure, Acer is well-known for its notebooks and netbooks, but the company sells plenty of desktop towers and all-in-ones as well. The $1,999, gaming-centric Acer Aspire Predator G7750, with its intimidating orange-on-black exterior, is certainly one of the most striking systems in Acer's lineup. But despite its impressive internals and strong productivity performance, this machine doesn't deliver gaming results as stellar as other systems in this price range. It's still a very capable gaming rig, but if you're after maximum frame rates and features for the price, there are better options available.

For instance, iBuypower’s LAN Warrior II, also $2,000 in our test configuration, ships with the same Intel Core i7-930 processor as the Predator, but only half the memory (6GB) of the Predator's slightly insane 12GB. We can see where iBuyPower hit the $2,000 mark with its speedy 64GB SSD, 1TB hard drive, and Blu-ray drive. The Predator's primary differentiators are a spacious 1.5TB hard drive, the aforementioned 12GB of memory, and, of course, the Predator case itself. You won't find a Blu-ray drive or SSD here. The LAN Warrior, on the other hand, is clad in a comparatively mundane NZXT Vulcan case.

In the graphics arena, Acer opts for a roughly $300 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 card with 1.2GB of memory, rather than Nvidia's pricier flagship GeForce GTX 480. IBuyPower instead opted for ATI's ultra-high-end, dual-graphics-chip-packing Radeon HD 5970, a card that sold for upwards of $600 at the time of this review. Looking at the disparity between the components in these two systems, it quickly becomes obvious that you're paying quite the premium for the Predator's audacious aesthetics.

Of course, that's nothing new. Dell's Alienware gaming rigs (like the Aurora ALX, with its motorized fan "gills" and battery powered interior LED lighting, over $4,000 in our test configuration) certainly carry their own price premium over what companies like iBuyPower can put together with off-the-shelf parts. But what really matters here is how well the Predator can handle demanding games. And in testing, the Predator was impressive, but far from dominant compared to the Lan Warrior II.

First off, to test the system's ability to handle cutting-edge games, we ran the Heaven DirectX 11 (DX11) benchmark. The bulk of DX11 games have yet to hit the market, but the Heaven benchmark runs on a DX11 gaming engine that will be used on future games. It's also the most demanding test we run, often pushing the limits of even the beefiest graphics cards at high resolutions.  
Of course, that's nothing new. Dell's Alienware gaming rigs (like the Aurora ALX, with its motorized fan "gills" and battery powered interior LED lighting, over $4,000 in our test configuration) certainly carry their own price premium over what companies like iBuyPower can put together with off-the-shelf parts. But what really matters here is how well the Predator can handle demanding games. And in testing, the Predator was impressive, but far from dominant compared to the Lan Warrior II.

First off, to test the system's ability to handle cutting-edge games, we ran the Heaven DirectX 11 (DX11) benchmark. The bulk of DX11 games have yet to hit the market, but the Heaven benchmark runs on a DX11 gaming engine that will be used on future games. It's also the most demanding test we run, often pushing the limits of even the beefiest graphics cards at high resolutions.  

151.2fps, it's clear that, while the Predator is a capable gaming rig, if it's raw performance you're after (which will matter much more down the line when games become more demanding), the LAN Warrior II is a smarter investment. Stepping up to the 30-inch-screen resolution of 2,560x1,600, the Predator's store of 59.9fps was significantly outpaced by the LAN Warrior's showing of 93.1fps on the same test.

In our CPU-centric productivity suite, consisting of Windows Media Encoder, Cinebench 10, and an iTunes MP3-to-AAC conversion routine, the two machines performed nearly identically, which is to be expected, given that they're running the same processor. Both machines are stellar at productivity systems, but the extra 6GB of RAM in the Predator doesn't seem to do it many (or any) favors here. In FutureMark’s PCMark Vantage, a holistic test that measures overall system performance, the Predator flat-out faltered with a score of 8,228 to the LAN Warrior II’s somewhat more heroic 13,124.

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