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>I was looking at a Gateway system which features the Intel QX9650 CPU. It
>has a
> 1.5Tb hard drive, 8Gb RAM, Blue-ray burner and all sorts of bells and
> whistles.
> Selling for $1,500. I've bulit my last three or four systems and been
> happy with
> them, but this seems to be a decent buy for the price. Especially since my
> reasearch into this Intel chip shows it alone selling for around $1,000,
> This is
> what makes me skeptical. What is the reputation of Gateway, and also,
> what's the
> scopp on this chip? I was reading a few buyers reviews on it over at
> NewEgg and
> they were very critical. Thanks for any opinions or comments.
>



Is this the Gateway model you found?
http://www.compusa.com/applications/...?Sku=G180-1009

It is spectacularly well specified and future-proofed for the price you
found it at. It's end of range, so discounted - it's a bargain!
Including the 1.5tb HDD (Which is 2 x 750gb SATA drives) and
Blu-ray burner and plenty of RAM you listed, it has a very good
graphics card - NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT PCI-Express with it's
own dedicated 512mb of memory, 2 x DVI, and the sonics are
supplied by a Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi soundcard.
Of the 4 PCI Express slots, two in use and two available for
expansion (Thats future-proofing).
Just read it's spec's, and Gateway are established.
Why are you asking the numbskulls of this group and reading
dopey "buyers" reviews at NewEgg, Buy it!

wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Feb 2009 21:05:51 -0000, "Curious" <> wrote:
>
>> <> wrote in message
>> news:...
>>> I was looking at a Gateway system which features the Intel QX9650 CPU. It
>>> has a
>>> 1.5Tb hard drive, 8Gb RAM, Blue-ray burner and all sorts of bells and
>>> whistles.
>>> Selling for $1,500. I've bulit my last three or four systems and been
>>> happy with
>>> them, but this seems to be a decent buy for the price. Especially since my
>>> reasearch into this Intel chip shows it alone selling for around $1,000,
>>> This is
>>> what makes me skeptical. What is the reputation of Gateway, and also,
>>> what's the
>>> scopp on this chip? I was reading a few buyers reviews on it over at
>>> NewEgg and
>>> they were very critical. Thanks for any opinions or comments.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Is this the Gateway model you found?
>> http://www.compusa.com/applications/...?Sku=G180-1009
>>
>> It is spectacularly well specified and future-proofed for the price you
>> found it at. It's end of range, so discounted - it's a bargain!
>> Including the 1.5tb HDD (Which is 2 x 750gb SATA drives) and
>> Blu-ray burner and plenty of RAM you listed, it has a very good
>> graphics card - NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT PCI-Express with it's
>> own dedicated 512mb of memory, 2 x DVI, and the sonics are
>> supplied by a Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi soundcard.
>> Of the 4 PCI Express slots, two in use and two available for
>> expansion (Thats future-proofing).
>> Just read it's spec's, and Gateway are established.
>> Why are you asking the numbskulls of this group and reading
>> dopey "buyers" reviews at NewEgg, Buy it!
>>
>
> Yep, that's the one I was looking at. And it sure is pretty well equipped. No on
> board video or graphics. My current system, which is four or five years old this
> month, is a P-4 3.2 Ghz, with 2Gb RAM, a Radeon 9550 video card with digital
> connection to the monitor, Soundblaster sound card, in short, and two SATA
> drives, one 200Gb and a 500Gb.Fairly well equipped. I'm not a gamer but do
> websites and a lot of music and graphics. So I'm probably well set now. But I
> just wondered about this Gateway machine. If I wanted to build a new box with
> one of these QX9650 CPU's the CPU itself would cost me nearly what the whole
> system did four years ago. Go figure.
>>
>
Yeah sure whatever.......look just *buy* something...you'll help the
economy.
****, tell you what, you can buy *me* one and help the economy and the
unemployed!

^_^



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