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Gateway GT5662

Gateway GT5662
Tower, Keyboard and Mouse Tower Front Keyboard and Mouse

REVIEW

New in Gateway's line of "retail-model" PCs, the Gateway GT5662 ($750 direct) is available online and in big-box stores as a nonconfigurable, take-it-out-of-the-box-and-use-it PC. It's part of the growing category of midrange PCs that used to run around $1,500 four or five years ago and now have dropped to sub-$800 price levels. Yet you still get one of the latest processors, a large hard drive, and a discrete graphics card. This is a good step up for the user whose needs are expanding but who still wants a reasonably priced system.

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Company

Gateway Inc

http://www.gateway.com

Spec Data
  • Price as Tested: $750.00 Direct
  • Type: General Purpose, Media
  • Processor Family: AMD Phenom
  • RAM: 3 GB
  • Storage Capacity: 500 GB
  • RAID: No
  • Graphics Card: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2400XT
  • Primary Optical Drive: Dual-Layer DVD+/-RW

Bottom Line

Quad-core makes the Gateway GT5662 a more capable system. If gaming isn't that important to you but everything else is (music, video, photos, and the like), this is a good choice.

Pros

$750 price for a quad-core. Multimedia hard drive bay. DX10 and HD support on graphics card. 3GB of memory.

Cons

Removable hard drive uses proprietary USB cable. Bloatware. Norton Internet Security 60-day trial subscription. Labelflash optical-disc labeling is incompatible with LightScribe technology.

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