Buying a pre-built gaming PC from a mass-manufacturer like Acer brings a few key benefits with it. For starters, you won’t need to shed any blood inside the case when you’re trying to bung your graphics card under the drive cages. Secondly, if anything goes wrong you can rest assured that your machine will be collected, repaired and returned in a minimal amount of time. Finally, it’s pretty safe to say that all of the components within have been stress-tested with each other, avoiding the rare bugs that sometimes crop up between components. On the flipside, you’re going to have to pay a rather higher price tag than doing it yourself, and you also won’t learn anything about building or troubleshooting your PC. With Acer’s new Predator series hitting Aussie shores, I was keen to see just how this fabled maker of laptops and office machines would manage the distinct requirements of a gaming box