Acer Aspire GX-281 Delivers Gaming Power at a Wallet-Friendly Price

Acer announced the availability of the Acer Aspire GX-281 desktop PC. Powered by an AMD Ryzen™ 5 processor, it offers mainstream power, performance and pricing to customers wanting to enjoy gaming, movies, and other graphic-intensive applications within budget.

"The needs of gamers vary as widely as the games they choose to play,” said Frank Chang, Acer America senior director – stationary products. “Our newest gaming machine is built for those wanting ample power to fuel the latest game titles at a modest price. We’re confident these gamers will be delighted with the performance provided by AMD’s new Ryzen 5 processor and NVIDIA’s discreet graphics."

The new AMD Ryzen R5 1400 processor boasts four cores and 8 threads to deliver a max speed of 3.4GHz with Precision Boost and enough power to support up to a 4K resolution monitor for the ultimate in vibrant visuals or up to three monitors to deepen gaming immersion and enhance multi-tasking. Working in tandem with powerful NVIDIA® GeForce ® GTX 1050 graphics and 8GB DDR4 memory (upgradable to 64GB DDR4), the Acer Aspire GX-281 can take on the latest games.

The armor-shaped black chassis is highlighted with red arrow-like design features and red front LED lights for a commanding look and appeal. In addition, a 1TB hard drive1 offers lots of room for archiving files and apps, while an optical drive provides excellent storage backup as well as music and movie playback.