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I haven't even turned it on before I looked inside, and got lets say, upset.
To say Gateway cut corners on this one would be the mother of all understatements.
First of all it has ONE whopping 80mm case fan, and another STANDARD 80mm case fan on a STANDARD heat-sync for the MUCH hotter AMD Phenom "Quad core"; note the quotation marks... I put those there for the fact that I just learned that the MB that is running the CPU was built for the dual cores and that thought this will run the quad, you will not get the full performance you should from a "gaming" PC. Then the fact that there is NO firewire hook up... none. it DOES have a totally useless dial-up modem (remember those?) taking up space though. The thing is all just glitz and glam, and will not be performing to what you could spend around the same price building yourself... don't be fooled on this one guys.]]>Jan 18th 2008 3:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/07/gateway-rolls-out-phenom-powered-fx7020-gaming-pc/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/07/gateway-rolls-out-phenom-powered-fx7020-gaming-pc/Jan 18th 2008 4:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/07/gateway-rolls-out-phenom-powered-fx7020-gaming-pc/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/07/gateway-rolls-out-phenom-powered-fx7020-gaming-pc/Jan 21st 2008 7:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/07/gateway-rolls-out-phenom-powered-fx7020-gaming-pc/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/07/gateway-rolls-out-phenom-powered-fx7020-gaming-pc/Jan 21st 2008 3:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/07/gateway-rolls-out-phenom-powered-fx7020-gaming-pc/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/07/gateway-rolls-out-phenom-powered-fx7020-gaming-pc/Jan 22nd 2008 10:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/07/gateway-rolls-out-phenom-powered-fx7020-gaming-pc/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/07/gateway-rolls-out-phenom-powered-fx7020-gaming-pc/
So - this may not be a high end gaming PC, but for the package price, there is no way I could significantly exceed the performance of this for the same money without doing a bunch of overclocking BS (trust me, most people don't want to mess with that crap). So, out of the box, this thing kicks butt for the $$ spent! That's my humble, but fairly well researched opinion. :)]]>Jan 25th 2008 8:58AM