Review on 💻 Powerful Acer Aspire TC-885-ACCFLi5 Desktop: Intel Core i5-8400, 12GB DDR4, 2TB HDD, 8X DVD, WiFi, Windows 10 Home by Aaron Leburu

The starting point was an affordable, professional-looking computer that could handle 24-megapixel photos, rendering, and simple games for the whole family. I only wanted this for the Coffee Lake processor, RAM, motherboard, case, and Windows 10. My experience requires an additional 3D graphics card, a better PSU to power the card, and an M.2 drive that is sold separately. Aftermarket GPU Installation Full-size dual-slot graphics card with fan or dual-fan fits tightly, but there's ample room for cooling and cables. If you are using two fans blowing air into the rear case, you need one fan. This is not the case with a fan card that pulls outwards. The power supply needs to be replaced, which is a bit confusing. Removing the front drive basket does the trick. It's also a way to find the hidden M.2 slot. Bronze 500W pushes this and is a good 1060 when stress tested under maximum load. The stock Intel UHD graphics are gross for 3D, but anything that does 2D and the 2 monitor ports on the stock graphics are a nice touch. It's also good if you have a workload that's taxing your extra GPU and causing video stuttering. Switching the port to internal graphics fixes this and allows you to do other things. Decent WIFI antenna included Many cheap cars have terrible WIFI reception and no antenna to speak of. It has a separate antenna built into the back of the front of the plastic case, giving you a good signal and fewer dropped packets. Its readings are 150 Mbit / s, so there is no multi-channel speed, but there are both 2.4 and 5 GHz. Much better than the car he replaced. Thermals/Noise With my secondary GPU and stock CPU running at max when rendering, I expected the stock cooler without a case fan to eventually overheat and stall. In room 70F 21C the processor stabilized at 175-180F 79-82C. Although it scares me, Coffee-Lake is legal and doesn't throttle to 212F 100C. If I were to use this for regular rendering I'd put in a case fan, but other than that the stock unit seems good enough for the worst you can do with it. Even at unreasonable maximum loads, it's quieter than other machines I've used. At a more reasonable 98% bursts of high photo processing load it drops to around 140-150F 60-65C and is very quiet. It might take a very hot room to make him cry, but I don't know. Inside there is enough space for cables and airflow. M.2 YOU WILL NEED A SMALL LAPTOP SIZED M.2 SCREW IF IT IS NOT SUPPLIED WITH YOUR DRIVE. Mine had a stand but no screw included and it's not a regular case size screw. Adding any M.2 drive is almost a must. Without them, loading takes forever, and launching or closing multiple applications can make everything work very quickly. That's the nature of hard drives. With cheap M.2 installed AND Windows booted from it, I can copy files over LAN at over 60MB per second, filter and view photos at 98% CPU on all six cores, upload a file, print and surf the web without too stutter. Windows cold starts as fast or faster than it can be exited from suspend mode. The multitasking ability of this thing is impressive. Don't be afraid to license or port Windows. FINALLY it's that easy. No disk mirroring or dealing with broken drivers. Just download Win10 and install it on M.2. Windows automatically claims to have found the product key in the hardware. Coffee Lake's odd RAM configuration seems to handle mismatched RAM sizes well, and the documentation claims that full-speed dual-channel works in this configuration. It's nice to have a little over 8 gigs. Too bad you only have 2 slots, but at least they aren't soldered. ports and more. 4 USB 2.0 and 2 USB 3.0 on the back for a total of six, just enough for the extra stuff. The DVD burner is a really cheap laptop version, but it works. No worries, because who uses them anymore anyway. If it's something you use every day, maybe you should swap it out for something better. Compact flash, small and large USB ports on the front, and headphone and microphone on the front and back. 3 in total with 1 additional SATA connector. 16x PCI with 2 slots for graphics and 1x PCI for something else. What else can I say? On first impressions I'm happy with the car as long as it lasts.