1 00:00:03,679 --> 00:00:13,759 so what could be more appropriate at a playground than an unboxing of the 2 00:00:09,320 --> 00:00:15,639 latest gaming desktop from Acer the 3 00:00:13,759 --> 00:00:20,199 Predator actually that's a totally inappropriate joke but whatever you guys 4 00:00:17,720 --> 00:00:25,679 so this is the Predator G Series which is not quite like the original Predator 5 00:00:22,279 --> 00:00:28,560 where it aimed to be sort of a super 6 00:00:25,679 --> 00:00:33,399 extreme extreme Enthusiast machine with all the sort of crazy stuff going on 7 00:00:31,080 --> 00:00:37,879 this is more like if someone sort of walked up to me and said hey for a 8 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:41,760 reasonable price what components would you put in a gaming rig and this is a 9 00:00:40,239 --> 00:00:47,160 list that I could very conceivably come up with so in terms of specs we've got a 10 00:00:43,760 --> 00:00:48,680 core I 73770 no that's not a k processor 11 00:00:47,160 --> 00:00:54,039 it's not an unlocked processor it's not four overclocking this is not an 12 00:00:51,399 --> 00:00:59,199 overclocking machine for the graphics card we've got an 8760 so it is a 2 gig 13 00:00:57,120 --> 00:01:05,159 card however it should be noted that when it comes to to those more mid-range 14 00:01:01,719 --> 00:01:07,360 cards the the actual vram the the the 15 00:01:05,159 --> 00:01:11,080 memory buffer is less of a factor and it's more about the GPU itself now I've 16 00:01:09,759 --> 00:01:16,240 never had the pleasure of testing an 8760 so I'm excited to kind of check 17 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:19,520 that out it's got 32 gigs of DDR3 memory 18 00:01:16,240 --> 00:01:22,159 which makes it a rockar of a sort of 19 00:01:19,520 --> 00:01:25,799 video editing or workstation platform which is really cool and then it's also 20 00:01:23,960 --> 00:01:31,000 got a Blu-ray Drive making it a media Powerhouse and a 2 TB hard drive with a 21 00:01:27,960 --> 00:01:33,439 16 gig solid state cache it is so rare 22 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:38,479 that we see Intel's smart response technology implemented on a desktop and 23 00:01:35,960 --> 00:01:42,680 yet I don't understand why it makes a lot of sense it does make a difference 24 00:01:40,759 --> 00:01:46,360 it does make the computer perform better and it's not that expensive so there you 25 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:50,040 go you got some little sort of how to use Windows 8 sort of documentation 26 00:01:48,079 --> 00:01:54,759 included I'm going to ask broll my camera operator today to come over here 27 00:01:52,159 --> 00:01:59,360 and check this out while we open up the box here so we've got an included 28 00:01:56,360 --> 00:02:01,280 keyboard which quite frankly doesn't 29 00:01:59,360 --> 00:02:04,920 really feel like anything special at the moment here let's go ahead and uh 30 00:02:03,520 --> 00:02:10,080 there's a couple pieces of tape holding it on but I mean what do you really 31 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:11,920 expect from a tier one system chicklet 32 00:02:10,080 --> 00:02:16,280 keyboard okay people like chicklet keyboards so there you have it just your 33 00:02:14,360 --> 00:02:19,360 standard USB keyboard bit of a funny layout actually so there's a number pad 34 00:02:18,239 --> 00:02:25,160 and then what they've done is they've rearranged these to make it a little bit of a shorter keyboard they've rearranged 35 00:02:23,160 --> 00:02:28,480 the delete insert home end page up and page down and they've compressed 36 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:33,440 everything together a little bit it is a bilingual layout and person I prefer 37 00:02:31,120 --> 00:02:36,680 monolingual layouts but it's a Canadian version so that explains it so there's a 38 00:02:35,319 --> 00:02:40,319 short shift on the left and a short enter on the right and would prefer to 39 00:02:38,440 --> 00:02:43,400 see a long shift and a long enter but for our American viewers or quite 40 00:02:41,959 --> 00:02:46,760 frankly anyone in almost any other territory you probably won't get one 41 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:51,440 that looks like that so I wouldn't worry about it too much and inside oh hold on 42 00:02:49,879 --> 00:02:56,560 first we've got more accessories I have no idea how we're going to put this back together we're in the middle of a 43 00:02:53,720 --> 00:03:02,159 playground we actually are and uh I have created some work for myself here so 44 00:02:59,480 --> 00:03:06,599 document M mentation wise we've got uh adding a hard dis oh cool they 45 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:10,799 include a little like uh little tutorials for how to upgrade your system 46 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:14,920 and do maintenance on it that's nice Optical Mouse Okay Your Standard 47 00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:18,680 Optical mouse that you'd expect to be included with a tier one system DVI to 48 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:22,920 VGA adapter just in case you're still using a VGA monitor a couple of Wireless 49 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:29,360 antennas uh presumably for dual band 50 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:33,640 power cable also included and last but not least the system itself now the 51 00:03:31,439 --> 00:03:38,439 original Predator had kind of an out there look to it it was pretty uh it was 52 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:43,080 pretty different from everything else and this one takes some cues from the 53 00:03:40,640 --> 00:03:47,760 old Predator but keeps things a little bit more uh well a little bit less 54 00:03:45,799 --> 00:03:51,840 polarizing in terms of the look sizewise The Predator G Series is about what 55 00:03:49,360 --> 00:03:56,799 you'd expect from an matx Tower so you can tell from the back what the actual 56 00:03:55,040 --> 00:04:00,159 form factor is so there's a standard matx motherboard for expansion slots I'm 57 00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:06,720 going to open it up so we can check it out you've got a standard ATX power supply 92mm cooling fan there's your 58 00:04:04,599 --> 00:04:13,000 video card it's nice to see a proper like dual slot like proper video card in 59 00:04:10,079 --> 00:04:17,000 a you know an oem sort of tier one type machine that you'd actually buy at a big 60 00:04:14,599 --> 00:04:20,120 box store because for the I mean not everyone is comfortable building their 61 00:04:18,199 --> 00:04:23,960 own computer for all of those of you watching my videos yes I know this is a 62 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:29,039 pre-built machine yes you don't have to like it but at the end of the day most 63 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:32,479 people buy a pre-built computer okay and let that sink in for for a moment so 64 00:04:31,280 --> 00:04:36,759 it's nice that they at least have an option that has a real video card in it because how many times have you had 65 00:04:35,280 --> 00:04:42,160 people go oh I want to upgrade the graphics card in my yeah you can't so 66 00:04:39,639 --> 00:04:46,600 yeah anyway so 3770 as we mentioned before 32 gigs RAM you know what we've 67 00:04:44,120 --> 00:04:49,919 covered all this um BL Bluetooth is included so that's probably what that 68 00:04:47,840 --> 00:04:53,440 secondary antenna is for I mentioned before that it took some styling cues 69 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:58,160 from the older Predator so you can see that's where this orange trim comes in 70 00:04:55,520 --> 00:05:03,880 as well as the sort of nice stamped logo on the side other than that it kind of 71 00:05:00,400 --> 00:05:06,280 looks like a classier version of what 72 00:05:03,880 --> 00:05:10,919 you'd expect to see for a tier one box at a big box store so it's got a card 73 00:05:08,840 --> 00:05:14,240 reader which is a nice inclusion I wish more uh I wish more aftermarket cases 74 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:21,440 included this kind of stuff it does XD micro well look at that it has a dedicated micro SD slot um Regular SD 75 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:26,280 memory stick Pro and then compact flash as well as front USB 3 front USB 2 and 76 00:05:24,240 --> 00:05:29,759 front headphones and microphone ports power buttons got a nice Chrome sort of 77 00:05:28,080 --> 00:05:33,240 finish on it here and then you've got kind of like a performance stripey 78 00:05:31,639 --> 00:05:36,520 looking thing going on on the top as well as a handle here so you can carry 79 00:05:35,080 --> 00:05:40,720 the thing around as a land box it actually wouldn't be that bad much like 80 00:05:38,080 --> 00:05:44,280 any other sort of microatx system so I want to get you guys like sort of a nice 81 00:05:42,240 --> 00:05:50,160 look at the G on the front as well as the orange trim here your drives are 82 00:05:46,639 --> 00:05:52,479 accessed through these um guys right 83 00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:57,440 here so it looks like oh cool look at that hot swapable hard drive 84 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:59,759 cage oh I guess if IID looked at the instructions that they included for how 85 00:05:58,680 --> 00:06:05,440 to upgrade the hard drive I would would have already known about this but that's awesome um even just as like sort of 86 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:09,120 swappable storage it's got a toolless installation so you can just go ahead 87 00:06:07,400 --> 00:06:12,840 and uh pop that bad boy in there and then shut it down and then this top one 88 00:06:11,280 --> 00:06:18,400 has the Blu-ray Drive so the eject buttons are actually over 89 00:06:16,039 --> 00:06:22,120 here on the other side we find ventilation which also has another sort 90 00:06:20,080 --> 00:06:26,160 of gstyle logo as well as another Predator stamp on the side and then on 91 00:06:24,319 --> 00:06:30,560 the bottom we find what looks like sort of your standard chassis so let's go 92 00:06:28,840 --> 00:06:35,919 ahead and open it up and see what we see I guess there's one more thing we can cover here on the back dedicated PS2 93 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:40,199 keyboard and mouse ports the Onboard video is disabled because it does have a 94 00:06:37,759 --> 00:06:44,880 dedicated graphics card four USB 2.0 ports two USB 3.0 ports 5.1 audio and 95 00:06:43,080 --> 00:06:48,639 gigabit Ethernet if there was something I was going to complain about back here 96 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:53,080 it would be I wish they had dedicated 5.1 slots I've had people tell me that 97 00:06:50,680 --> 00:06:57,039 this isn't 5.1 audio actually it is the ports are configurable so you can change 98 00:06:55,440 --> 00:07:01,360 what they output to but I'd like to see the full Bank of six so we're going to 99 00:06:58,879 --> 00:07:05,240 go back to the lab or we're going to go get a screwdriver and then we'll open it 100 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:09,400 up I guess this is the problem with sending your system to uh this is 101 00:07:07,879 --> 00:07:13,639 actually I just realized as we were leaving the park where we unboxed the 102 00:07:11,479 --> 00:07:18,080 Predator um I just realized that this was the first time that I've ever 103 00:07:15,759 --> 00:07:21,000 unboxed and done a Showcase of like a tier one system before like a pre-built 104 00:07:19,759 --> 00:07:29,080 system so anyway I guess this is the problem with sending it to someone like me is I'm going to open it up and have a 105 00:07:24,759 --> 00:07:31,000 look at what they have done inside so 106 00:07:29,080 --> 00:07:34,639 check this out so 80 plus bronze power supply which is nice to see you don't 107 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:39,240 have to implement an 80 plus bronze power supply in a system like this but 108 00:07:36,199 --> 00:07:41,960 they have it is a 500 wat power supply 109 00:07:39,240 --> 00:07:49,000 that has it looks like three 12volt rails capable of 14 16 and 18 amps I 110 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:51,280 don't have any clear indication of which 111 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:56,319 connectors are uh being supplied by which 12vt rails so unfortunately I 112 00:07:53,960 --> 00:08:01,520 can't really give any guidance there it looks again like I said it's a standard 113 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:02,720 ATX power supply so it's non- modular 114 00:08:01,520 --> 00:08:07,800 however what they've done in terms of cable management to keep things clean is 115 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:12,879 we've got one let's see what kind of fan is that in front let's go ahead and uh 116 00:08:09,960 --> 00:08:18,199 let's pop this bad boy off take off the front bezel there we go see how this 117 00:08:16,159 --> 00:08:23,360 comes apart here there we go so we've got oh look at 118 00:08:21,440 --> 00:08:30,080 that okay so there's no cooling fan in the front there's just a vent so it 119 00:08:25,840 --> 00:08:32,760 looks like we are relying on Cooling 120 00:08:30,080 --> 00:08:36,599 from the power supply itself so there's an 80 mm fan in the power supply so 121 00:08:34,800 --> 00:08:40,360 that's going to drw air up here and that 92mm fan in the back to do all the 122 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:45,120 cooling for the system so it's going to draw air in through the front here 123 00:08:42,640 --> 00:08:48,160 that's the main intake presumably AC oh yeah more exhaust from the video card so 124 00:08:46,720 --> 00:08:53,120 it'll be a negative air pressure situation inside the case and then all 125 00:08:50,440 --> 00:08:58,519 of that will be exhausted here here and here the cooler for the CPU itself is an 126 00:08:55,240 --> 00:09:00,680 oem Affair so it's looks like an 80 mm 127 00:08:58,519 --> 00:09:05,279 cooler could also be 92 it looks like it looks like a 92mm fan with 80 mm holes 128 00:09:03,519 --> 00:09:09,360 is what it actually looks like on a fairly standard looking Intel OEM dudad 129 00:09:08,040 --> 00:09:13,600 here let's go ahead and pull the RAM and find out what we got here so these are 8 130 00:09:11,160 --> 00:09:19,120 gig sticks of Kingston memory so you can tell from the Kingston branding on the 131 00:09:15,200 --> 00:09:22,440 chips themselves so this is um 132 00:09:19,120 --> 00:09:25,720 acr16 D3 so they've put two 16 gig kits 133 00:09:22,440 --> 00:09:28,839 that look like a custom Acer skew from 134 00:09:25,720 --> 00:09:30,440 Kingston um nice to see them shipping 135 00:09:28,839 --> 00:09:34,040 this system a ton of memory especially given the way that memory prices have 136 00:09:32,040 --> 00:09:37,720 been increasing lately this is a fairly unique little deal right here I've never 137 00:09:35,880 --> 00:09:45,160 seen one of these before so it's a little tiny SSD that mounts on some kind 138 00:09:42,160 --> 00:09:47,680 of I have no idea what standard that is 139 00:09:45,160 --> 00:09:52,360 some kind of thing it's just a bare PCB so it's 16 gigs it looks like it's a 140 00:09:49,720 --> 00:09:56,640 SanDisk yeah SanDisk and then it uses standard desktop SATA mounting hardware 141 00:09:55,279 --> 00:10:00,480 so there you go you just plug that in right there the hard drive itself is a 142 00:09:58,480 --> 00:10:07,040 Seagate barracuda to 2 terab which is a good choice um and then there's this 143 00:10:03,839 --> 00:10:10,000 video card which 8760 what in the heck 144 00:10:07,040 --> 00:10:13,959 is an 8760 uh in terms of additional expansion you've got one more PCI 145 00:10:11,760 --> 00:10:18,399 Express 1X down there in the very bottom it's a custom Acer motherboard in here 146 00:10:16,279 --> 00:10:22,839 although it kind of baffles me why they need to implement a uh a custom board it 147 00:10:21,200 --> 00:10:26,399 really does look custom like sometimes you'll see a a branded board but you 148 00:10:25,200 --> 00:10:31,079 kind of look at it and you go oh yeah that's an ASUS whatever the model is um 149 00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:35,079 whereas this actually just doesn't look like anything that uh that I've seen 150 00:10:32,920 --> 00:10:37,880 before so let's go ahead and pull this video card out maybe we should throw 151 00:10:36,320 --> 00:10:41,480 this on our uh on our standard test bench and find out how it performs in 152 00:10:39,920 --> 00:10:46,519 terms of expansion right this is the other thing I wanted to talk about because these OEM systems you got a 500 153 00:10:44,720 --> 00:10:52,360 wat power supply which means you could conceivably Chuck a GTX 680 in here 154 00:10:49,399 --> 00:10:57,320 you've got a 6 plus 6 plus 2 so that's six and8 pin PCI E power which is nice 155 00:10:55,079 --> 00:11:03,639 to see you've got room for an additional two SATA connectors Al I think one of 156 00:11:00,839 --> 00:11:07,399 those okay Rumble uh one of those is probably run up here as like a uh okay 157 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:10,160 so there's one going to the hot swap one going to Blu-ray one going to the hard 158 00:11:08,800 --> 00:11:17,120 drive and one going to the SSD so you got two more available um what else in 159 00:11:13,440 --> 00:11:19,600 terms of expans expansion Standard 24 160 00:11:17,120 --> 00:11:23,800 pin not quite seated all the way give that a little push uh I think that's 161 00:11:22,279 --> 00:11:27,959 pretty much it so here's this graphics card what the heck is this thing model 162 00:11:26,399 --> 00:11:33,360 8762 gig so look like a it's a standard sort 163 00:11:30,800 --> 00:11:38,800 of OEM looking radon part and I think that's pretty much it 164 00:11:35,920 --> 00:11:42,760 so single six pin thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the 165 00:11:40,600 --> 00:11:46,360 Acer Predator G Series don't forget to subscribe to lus Tech tips for more 166 00:11:44,200 --> 00:11:49,040 unboxings reviews and other computer videos