Acer brings beastly GeForce RTX 20-series cards to Predator Orion PCs

PC manufacturers are coming out of the woodwork to announce refreshed gaming rigs at present that NVIDIA'south new RTX 20-serial graphics cards are official. Acer is the latest to pause embrace, announcing an across-the-board refresh to its Predator Orion series, each of which tin can be equipped with a range of RTX GPUs.

From Acer:

The new NVIDIA GeForce RTX GPUs have reinvented graphics and fix a new bar for functioning. Powered past the new NVIDIA Turing GPU architecture and the revolutionary NVIDIA RTX platform, the new graphics cards bring together real-time ray tracing, artificial intelligence, and programmable shading.

At the peak end, the Predator Orion 9000 desktop can pack upwards to an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti — one of the best graphics carte options available — and Intel's Core i9 Extreme Edition processor with eighteen cores. That's a heck of a lot of ability, and it looks good too. The case sports a huge side window so you can view all of the PC's guts at whatsoever time, along with a pattern that acts to keep electromagnetic interference to a minimum.

The Predator Orion 5000, meanwhile, can include upward to a GeForce RTX 2080 GPU, and up to an 8th Gen Intel Core i7+ 8700K processor. Stepping things downwards a bit is the Predator Orion 3000, which includes a GeForce RTX 2070 cart and up to an 8th Gen Intel Core i7+ processor.

All three options tin be equipped with plenty of RAM and storage (depending on how deep your pockets are), and each features the usual array of customizable RGB lighting.

Pricing and availability are a mystery for now, but we should learn much more about what's on deck when the new graphics cards launch next month.

Xbox legend Shannon Loftis retires from Microsoft after 29 years

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Xbox legend Shannon Loftis retires from Microsoft later on 29 years

Shannon Loftis appear her retirement from Microsoft today, later on 29 years with the company. Loftis has been with Xbox for decades, having congenital franchises like Fable, Banjo Kazooie, and many more, and recently revived Historic period of Empires from its long slumber.