It appears that Acer has decided to pick up the gloves and enter the gaming PC market with its brand new Predator gaming PC line. First out is the G7700, but we'd expect more models to follow, considering that even the basic model isn't going to come cheap.

The case has a very distinct design and it comes in orange and black, which is an unusual combination for a PC case, although it doesn't look too bad in the pictures. The front door folds up onto the top of the case and reveals two 5.25-inch drives and a front-mounted card reader and there's a pop-up module at the top of the case that houses the front-mounted connectors.

The system specifications are quite interesting and we're wondering about some of the choices Acer has made. First of all, the motherboard uses the Nvidia 780i chipset and we have a feeling that Acer might've managed to snap up a few motherboards based on it fairly cheap. There's support for a wide range of Intel dual and quad-core processors with bus speeds of up to 1,333MHz, but Acer hasn't provided any specific details.

Acer will offer up to 8GB of DDR2 800 or 1,066MHz memory and up to 4TB of storage fitted to front accessible hot-swappable drive cages (under supported RAID modes). Options such as a Blu-ray drive, TV-tuner card and even an X-Fi Platinum is part of the spec.

On the graphics card side of things, it appears that even the most basic system will ship with a pair of 8800GT cards in SLI, with higher-end models coming with two or three 9800GTX cards in SLI. Other optional accessories included the Logitech G11 gaming keyboard and the G5 gaming mouse alongside various Acer displays, speakers and a remote control.

No retail price or availability date has been announced, but you can find out more details here