Friends don’t let friends drive drunk, and friends don’t let friends get screwed out of their hard earned cash buying a “gaming rig” like this. While Derek Kessler of Windows Central thinks this is the “most impressive production gaming PC” he has ever seen, I take issue with that. First, let’s start with the fact that no “gaming rig” needs nor in fact wants an Intel Core i9 processor with 10 to 18 cores. You know as well as I do that all those cores do dick for you in gaming, and also give you a slower clock than what you would get with a healthy, and much less expensive 7700K. He also talks about installing four NVIDIA or AMD GPUs for this “gaming rig.” What a bunch of horseshit. Those configs are not even supported in gaming nowadays. Hell, RX Vega drivers currently do not even support CrossFire, much less getting into a discussion about how CrossFire and SLI seem to be moving to the gallows when we talk about support and scaling. And of course we all know we need up to 128GB of RAM for those hardcore gaming sessions. All that said, the Acer Predator 9000 specs are off the charts, but it is NOT a gaming PC. If you buy it for PC gaming, you should be kicked in the nuts, along with Acer marketing, and along with Derek Kessler for what comes across to me as a paid advertisement.

Intel tried this same line of marketing in 2011 with its Core i7-3960X. We called it horse shit then (and Intel cut us off for the first time after that), and this type of marketing is horse shit now. Hell of a workstation or rendering farm though!



Oh, and Alienware called, they want their case back! Of course Alienware never had a “faraday cage.” And come on, we were putting wheels on our LAN rigs back when my beard was not gray. Thanks to cageymaru for the linkage. And of course…epeen.

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