Gateway FX6800-05 @ MSRP $2,999.99 sounds overpriced for what it's got, which is a strangely configured high-end system. The selling point seems to be the new series Intel CPU; but developers aren't really developing anything yet to take advantage of Nahalem's strengths and it'll probably be a couple years at least before they start to do so. There are two other major hardware brags in the system that cost lots of money: the 80GB no-name unbranded SSD which is as yet unproven (I don't want everything written to one sector on an SSD - for now, fast, high quality, huge HDD's are just fine for high-end desktops) and the best retail, desktop GPU on the market nowadays in the outrageous ATI 4870 X2. Gateway needs to reconsider this mass-market build to optimize quality of this ferocious GPU. I'll wait til they replace the Intel CPU with an AMD 9950 Quad Core, push the RAM to a minimum of 8GB RAM, replace the SDD and go with a minimum of 2 TB HDD in RAID 0 for gamers and add mega-tons of far more serious system cooling. That system is available right now from the system builders for far less than half this MSRP and better utilizes the unique strengths of the GPU. Remember that Gateway's going to weld everything to the mobo anyway, making the system un-upgradeable. So, yes, I like the GPU and the BR drive, but that's about it.
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Gateway FX6800-05 @ MSRP $2,999.99 sounds overpriced for what it's got, which is a strangely configured high-end system. The selling point seems to be the new series Intel CPU; but developers aren't really developing anything yet to take advantage of Nahalem's strengths and it'll probably be a couple years at least before they start to do so. There are two other major hardware brags in the system that cost lots of money: the 80GB no-name unbranded SSD which is as yet unproven (I don't want everything written to one sector on an SSD - for now, fast, high quality, huge HDD's are just fine for high-end desktops) and the best retail, desktop GPU on the market nowadays in the outrageous ATI 4870 X2. Gateway needs to reconsider this mass-market build to optimize quality of this ferocious GPU. I'll wait til they replace the Intel CPU with an AMD 9950 Quad Core, push the RAM to a minimum of 8GB RAM, replace the SDD and go with a minimum of 2 TB HDD in RAID 0 for gamers and add mega-tons of far more serious system cooling. That system is available right now from the system builders for far less than half this MSRP and better utilizes the unique strengths of the GPU. Remember that Gateway's going to weld everything to the mobo anyway, making the system un-upgradeable. So, yes, I like the GPU and the BR drive, but that's about it.