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Predator 17 x, gaming laptop with i7 skylake and gtx 980

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Acer has not forgotten the gamers during the Acer Global Press Conference 2016 event and has unveiled a new laptop especially designed for gamers, the Predator 17 X, which comes with the new generation of Intel Skylake processors and a brand new graphics card. Nvidia GTX 980.

Predator 17 X with Nvidia G-Sync display

As expected by the name of Predator 17 X, this "gaming" laptop comes with a 17.3-inch screen with a resolution that will depend on the model we choose, the first one has a resolution capacity of 1920 × 1080 FullHD while The second most expensive option brings a UHD 4K IPS screen of 3840 × 2160 pixels. Both displays are compatible with the Nvidia G-Sync technology that eliminates the "tearing" effect of the image in certain video games, something similar to what AMD offers with FreeSync and which is becoming popular in LED monitors.

Predator 17 X raw power for virtual reality

The Predator 17 X hides the magic of this "gaming" laptop, with a powerful Intel Core i7-6820HK processor that can be overclocked up to 4GHz without many inconveniences with the air cooling chosen in this laptop. The graphics card is an Nvidia GTX 980 with three cooler cooling that also supports secure overclocking up to 1, 310Mhz on the GPU. The amount of Ram memory is a generous 64GB of DDR4 RAM and three SSDs in RAID mode for storage.

According to Acer itself, the Predator 17 X is prepared for virtual reality and devices such as Oculus, HTC Vive, OSVR and StarVR.

The price of this beast is 2, 799 dollars for the 4K version, 2, 480 euros to change being available for the month of June.

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