Acer’s Custom Liquid-Cooled 4090 - thermals, acoustics & more

When we first got hands-on with Acer’s Predator Orion X prebuilt system and found out that not only does it use a custom-made RTX 4090, but one that is actually liquid cooled with a built-in pump and radiator… well, you just know we had to take a closer look! We go over everything you need to know about this card today. We never offer affiliate links or take percentages of product sales. If we say the product is good or bad we mean it. Our Editor in Chief wrote about why you should value this and how the industry is rife with fake reviews from ’influencers’ - read here 00:00 Intro 01:01 How to get this GPU… 01:51 Design overview 03:20 PCB cooler analysis 05:03 Test setup and a note on comparison data… 06:55 Game benchmarks 07;23 Clock speed behaviour 07:55 GPU memory thermals 09:36 Noise levels 10:01 Noise-normalised thermals (with some thermal-throttling…) 11:43 Overclocking 12:27 Closing thoughts PC test system supp