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Gateway SX2800-01 – Fast & Inexpensive for your Home or Office

September 15th, 2009 | Author: Jeremy Ashburn

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If you’re scouting for a fast & inexpensive desktop for your home, office, or living room take a close look at the Gateway SX2800-01. The best aspect about this PC is the price for the overall power – for $500 you get an system that has Intel Quad Core (2.33GHz), 4GB RAM (800MHz DDR2), and a respectful 640GB (7,200rpm) Hard drive. The SX2800 is all contained with a slim tower design that’s only 4″ thick. Excellent.

PCMAG says the SX2800′s video card (GMA X4500HD) is a good choice to support high-definition video via the built-in HDMI port. Web HD video playback was smooth and jitter-free thanks to the quad-core processor. The system is quiet, a plus for media PCs. You can add a blue ray driver a later date. See it on Gateway’s website.

Review Summaries

The SX2800-01 out performed almost every other system in CNET’s budget retail PC roundup. The iTunes test shows that the SX2800-01 loses a few steps when single-core clock speed matters most, but overall its well-rounded performance allows us to recommend this Gateway to anyone shopping for a budget PC for mainstream tasks.

PCMAG says the SX2800-01 excels at performance, particularly for a $500 system. Its quad-core processor and 4GB of RAM help it get a 48-second score at Windows Media Encoder and 1:39 at PhotoShop CS4. The SX2800-01 even runs our Crysis and World in Conflict 3D gaming tests. This is a system built for photo editing and video hobby work on the cheap. In terms of expandability and performance, the SX2800-01 blows both the Dell Inspiron 537s and HP Slimline s5120f out of the water. While all three systems come with 4GB of memory, only the SX2800-01 allows you to expand to 8GB.

User Summaries

The SX2800 currently has a rating of 5 eggs on Newegg.com with a 7 total reviews. Here’s some the recent user reviews.

• “Not a bad little package. Except for graphics, it gets a 5.9 on the Vista Experience rating. I’m not using it for any gaming or graphics intensive work, so it’s fine. I have it connected via HDMI to a 32 inch Samsung LCD TV running Vista at 1920×1080.”

• “This is an elegant and slim machine. Really very quite and quite fast. I purchased it after having built two nice gaming machines and wanted a third, capable, but smaller scale machine. After deciding on a price range, this machine was well outfitted with the exception of having limited on board graphics.”

• “For the price it’s definitely a solid desktop. Not high end, but certainly better than average.”

Video Review

Prices

Google Products: 9 venders have the SX2800

Cnet Shopper: available at 4 online stores

Amazon: 5 mercents sell the SX2800

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