Breaking Acer Predator Orion 7000 Review

Acer knows what it's doing with this pre-built gaming PC, placing some top-end components in an enormous case and covering it with so many fans the CPU barely knows what heat is. It's expensive and, perhaps, ugly, but there's no denying it's got what it takes to extract blistering frame rates from the latest games.

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The big, black case of a proper tower PC—none of this SFF or fishtank nonsense—is a beautiful thing. It's heavy and awkward too, but that's the price you pay for having everything you need in a gaming PC as well as proper airflow. Acer's case for the 2025 Predator Orion 7000 is an excellent example of the type. It's big and roomy and weighs a ton, with enough glass to satisfy your curiosity about what's going on inside and three light-up fans on the front to look good.

There are three more fans at the top—the CPU is liquid cooled with an AIO—an intake at the back, and the GPU is vertically mounted so its cooling system is on display. This is a PC that wants to leave you in no doubt that it's on top of its heat dissipation.

The front of the PC is the part you'll see most often, and Acer has chosen to place a 3D Predator logo behind a transparent front panel that stands proud of the case itself, a mesh-sided extrusion that gives hot air somewhere to escape around the edges and has a good, deep power button on the top you can easily find while groping around beneath your desk.

It's a well-appointed case too, with a removable caddy for a second SSD that simply slips out of the top after you lift a latch (though you'll need a screwdriver to place your M2 drive in it) plus four USB ports up on top. And, thanks to the RTX 5080 GPU, there are enough video ports to drive four monitors.

1x Thunderbolt 4, 2x USB 3.2 Type-C, 4x USB 3.2 Type-A, 2x USB 2.0 Type-A, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort, 5x 3.5mm audio, 1x Ethernet

✅ You're willing to trade money for power at any cost: No, not like a tech billionaire, but like a PC gamer looking for high resolutions, smooth framerates and the ability to push games to ultra settings.

❌ You value subtlety and, perhaps, good value: You won't find much of the former here, and the latter isn't a consideration for a machine this dedicated to the art of keeping high-performance components as cool as possible.

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Source: PC Gamer