With the advancement of technology and architecture, the gap between the performance of gaming notebooks and desktop computers has been getting smaller and smaller. Theoretically speaking, it is no longer a good idea to obtain a high-quality gaming experience, which is why many people still lack gaming notebooks. What about confidence? The main problem lies in the down-conversion problem caused by heat dissipation. For a long time, due to the space efficiency of notebooks, the cooling efficiency is poor. Therefore, the problem of strong CPU and GPU frequency reduction has always been an insurmountable gap for gaming notebook manufacturers. Is there a problem with no solution? Until the Acer Predator 1 7 came to Xiaobian with its removable thermal module, Xiao Bian got the answer.
Predator 17 is equipped with intel's latest Skylake i7 6700HQ CPU, GPU configuration GTX980M, no doubt the top-level configuration, and such as 16GB DDR4 memory, 256GB of PCIe SSD and 1TB mechanical hard drive, etc. are more logical to come together, Everything seems to be taken for granted.
As a flagship gaming notebook, the Predator 17 can be said to be awkward. In addition to the regular power supply and the three-pack voucher, the replacement module is no longer available. It can only be said to be sufficient, but it is not enough to force.
Power adapter body:
Power supply is 180w.
After the introduction of the license plate, we will take a look at the replaceable module of the Predator 17. We can see that the module is mainly replaced by the optical drive. Users can choose the cooling module or the optical drive module.
The cooling module is manufactured by Cooler Master. The overall workmanship is excellent. The filter mesh is made of metal material and red paint.
The side is the air inlet, with the Cooler Master logo on the right.
The module uses the same SATA interface as the optical drive and supports hot swap 
The A side of the Predator 17 uses a black skin-like material as a whole. It feels good, but unfortunately it is not resistant to dirt. Many sweat users pay attention.
The Predator 17 has a thickness of 39.7mm, which is also quite acceptable in the game. It is neither light nor heavy. At the same time, the two filters in front of it hide the speakers, which are both good in terms of position and appearance.
There is a Predator LOGO just above the A side, and the ID design is pretty cool.
A luminous effect under the luminous effect:
Looking at the Predator 17 from the side, you can see that the whole design is quite dynamic, and the black and red match is also in line with its game positioning. 
The left side of the Predator 17 is a type-c interface (supporting thunderbolt 3), two USB3.0 ports, one HDMI port, one RJ45 network cable interface, and one DP (G-SYNC support) interface from left to right.
The other side of the power interface, 2 USB3.0 interface, audio input, output, interface and multi-card reader, replaceable modules are also integrated here.
Users can replace the optical drive or cooling module through the switch on the bottom of the notebook. The overall replacement is more convenient.
There is an outlet on both the left and right ends of the tail, and its shape is very similar to that of the super-run exhaust cylinder.
D surface and A surface are consistent with the skin type material, feel good but stain resistance, the four corners are equipped with a rather high non-slip foot mats, in addition to non-slip can also make the air intake more adequate air volume. The red part is the subwoofer.
The screen border is made of matte plastic material, while the entire C surface continues to retain skin-like material. 
The screen border is thick, if you can make a narrow border, the visual impact will be a lot higher.
The top is a camera and a microphone, a mirror treatment
The C-surface also uses a skin-like coating, the keyboard has a numeric area and custom keys, and WASD and arrow keys, such as the game commonly used keys, use a red background black surface. There is a lock key on the right side of the touch pad, which locks the touch pad when pressed to prevent inadvertent touch.
The folding work is excellent, and the damping is good. The one-handed opening and closing is very comfortable and convenient, and the status indicator is integrated here. The user can conveniently see various settings of the computer.
C is directly above the power button with LED lighting effect, forcing full
Keyboard lighting effect display
The palm rest part of the C surface has i7, 980M and other types of hardware and function stickers. 
The software for the Xiaobian test was CalMAN 5 Home Theater. All tests were conducted at 100 nits and 6500k color temperatures.
The screen has a maximum brightness of 337.55 nits and a contrast ratio of 1131:1.
The color temperature is 6318k, very close to 6500k.
The average of the color test is 10.6, which is a bit slim. Overall, the data is not very good-looking.
The color gamut of the screen is 87% of sRGB, which is slightly lower than the display color gamut of other brands' flagships.
System Predator 17 is equipped with Windows 10 Home Edition, so our tests are based on Windows 10 Home Edition
Predator 17 comes with a software called PredatorSense to set the notebook's hardware, such as dual graphics mode, keyboard lighting, macro key customization and fan speed, but unfortunately can not adjust the CPU frequency, poor playability.
The keyboard has a lighting effect and supports partition management. Unfortunately, it is not RGB. The digital area is a color difference.
Macro key users can make various settings according to their preferences.
The Predator 17 comes with a variety of display modes that the user can adjust based on the environment of use.
Acer Care Center is a system management software. Users can use this software to perform such functions as garbage removal, hardware detection, drivers and system updates, process management, etc. Functionality and practicality are worthy of recognition.
System Overview
System detection
Adjustment
system update
Backup and restore
In terms of network cards, the Predator 17 uses the popular Killer network card. The overall interface is the Win8 Metro style. The overall operation is simple and easy to use. 
The Predator 17 uses the Intel Core i7-6700HQ 2.60GHz, 4 cores and 8 threads. The maximum core frequency is 3.5GHz. With the 14nm process and Skylake architecture, it can be said that the power consumption and performance are well balanced.
The GPU is equipped with the strongest GTX980M mobile graphics card (the strongest here does not include the GTX980 model with a desktop platform)
The Predator 17 uses two 128GB Toshiba SSDs to form a disk array. It has read and write advantages over regular SSDs. It also comes with a 7200rpm 32MB cache 1TB mechanical hard drive, which can be said to run and store space. Both are impeccable.
The SSD performance shows that only write performance is very brutal, but unfortunately the read performance is more general.
PCMark 8 Home conventional 3.0 scored 3276 
PCMark 8 Creative conventional 3.0 scored 3340 
PCMark 8 Work conventional 3.0 scored 3409 
3DMark scored 8389 for Fire Strike.
3DMark Run Fire Strike Extreme scored 4360
3DMark scored 2319 on Fire Strike Ultra
Stress test show:
Cinebench R15 test result, OpenGL is 102.3 fps, CPU is 652cb.
All tests were performed at room temperature around 25 degrees (notebook was set to performance mode).
Standby temperature is about 47 degrees
The temperature is 85 degrees at full load and the frequency is stable at 3.1 GHz.
The GPU is fully loaded at a temperature of 70 degrees and the frequency is maintained at 860 MHz.
In the case of full-load noise, it was 58.1 decibels. It was slightly moving. If you wear headphones, it's fine. Otherwise, the long-term buzzing sounds really loud.
The test is based on the performance mode, all game screen settings are the highest, and play through 30 minutes.
The average number of frames in Middle-earth reached 67 frames or so. It can be said that the performance of most desktop computers is stronger, and the minimum number of frames is 47. Overall, the highest image quality makes the game easy.
Game frames:
Batman Forrest Gump: Forrest Gump Knight has an average frame count of 47 frames. It is not easy to play sandbox games on the laptop. The minimum number of frames is also stable at the 29-frame watershed. Overall, the highest quality game is played. You can get a good experience and don't need to worry about Caton's problems.
Game frames:
Acer Predator 17 is a newcomer in the current top-level games, but although it is new, we can see its intentions. Custom shape molds, good lighting effects, relatively concentric hardware configurations, etc. In the same price range, for example, aliens, ROG and other big brothers are very prominent in cost performance, and its unique thermal module in the performance test there we also Can see its role, i7 6700HQ and 980M are maintained at a higher frequency, which is quite rare in the game. Of course, such as the incidental application is slightly tasteless, the keyboard keystrokes and feel normal, there is no custom lighting effect, etc. highlights the Acer Predator 17 as a new person. However, if you are looking for a game that looks quite individual, reasonably priced and top-notch, I believe that Acer Predator 17 will not disappoint you.