Does this look like an ok computer?

12 Nov. 2009 04:26am

Gateway DX4822-01 Desktop with Intel® Pentium® Processor & 20" LCD Monitor

Tech Specks under specifications. Thinking of buying it as a christmas gift for myself.

Thought I would get a second opinion. Any opinion is welcomed.

12 Nov. 2009 04:55am

Yea it looks like a nice computer

**Crank** · 12 Nov. 2009 04:58am

Depends what you are using it for. Overall its a great computer, especially for the price. BTW check up on the graphics card. It not the classic Nvidia or ATI series ones.

**Zeth** · 12 Nov. 2009 05:00am

It has a Pentium Processor, which I don't like. But, it has a nice bit of hard drive space, and good memory. I say get it, because that price tag is great!

**C0FFINCASE** · 12 Nov. 2009 05:00am

Lol, A Gateway be nice.

**HTML** · 12 Nov. 2009 05:02am

Ask torian ;P

**Elliot** · 12 Nov. 2009 05:11am

Get a Quadcore. Go on newegg and build your own. For the same money you can get a computer that is 2x better. And don't get less than 4Gb of ram. or 500Gb HD

**Torian** · 12 Nov. 2009 05:31am

If it's for gaming? No, you're better off making your own computer. If you're deadset on 500$ budget, here's a rig that'll have you playing crysis if you wanted to:

Case: Newegg.com - COOLER MASTER Centurion 5 CAC-T05-UB Black /Blue Aluminum Bezel , SECC Chassis ATX Mid Tower Computer Case - Computer Cases
HD: Newegg.com - Western Digital Caviar Blue WD3200AAKS 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
MB: Newegg.com - MSI NF750-G55 AM3 NVIDIA nForce 750a SLI HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard - AMD Motherboards
VC: Newegg.com - XFX PVT98GYDLH GeForce 9800 GT 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card - Desktop Graphics / Video Cards
PSU: Newegg.com - OCZ ModXStream Pro OCZ600MXSP 600W ATX12V V2.2 / EPS12V SLI Certified CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply compatible with core i7 - Power Supplies
DDR3 RAM: Newegg.com - Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10600) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model BL2KIT12864BA1336 - Desktop Memory
Processor: Newegg.com - AMD Athlon II X3 425 2.7GHz Socket AM3 95W Triple-Core Processor - Processors - Desktops

Total is just under 500$, plenty of room to breath, pretty futureproof and will play current gen games fine, most likely last a good few years before you needa upgrade a part or two. But the best thing about building your own PC is that you just need to buy the parts and not the whole rig again.

**Elliot** · 12 Nov. 2009 05:35am

Originally Posted by Torian

If it's for gaming? No, you're better off making your own computer. If you're deadset on 500$ budget, here's a rig that'll have you playing crysis if you wanted to:

Case: Newegg.com - COOLER MASTER Centurion 5 CAC-T05-UB Black /Blue Aluminum Bezel , SECC Chassis ATX Mid Tower Computer Case - Computer Cases
HD: Newegg.com - Western Digital Caviar Blue WD3200AAKS 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
MB: Newegg.com - MSI NF750-G55 AM3 NVIDIA nForce 750a SLI HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard - AMD Motherboards
VC: Newegg.com - XFX PVT98GYDLH GeForce 9800 GT 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card - Desktop Graphics / Video Cards
PSU: Newegg.com - OCZ ModXStream Pro OCZ600MXSP 600W ATX12V V2.2 / EPS12V SLI Certified CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply compatible with core i7 - Power Supplies
DDR3 RAM: Newegg.com - Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10600) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model BL2KIT12864BA1336 - Desktop Memory
Processor: Newegg.com - AMD Athlon II X3 425 2.7GHz Socket AM3 95W Triple-Core Processor - Processors - Desktops

Total is just under 500$, plenty of room to breath, pretty futureproof and will play current gen games fine, most likely last a good few years before you needa upgrade a part or two. But the best thing about building your own PC is that you just need to buy the parts and not the whole rig again.

Yes that is good. But if i where you i would get better video card. ATI cards are better. And get a Phenom x3 then you can unlock the 4th core in the bios.

**Torian** · 12 Nov. 2009 05:39am

Originally Posted by Thomas

Yes that is good. But if i where you i would get better video card. ATI cards are better. And get a Phenom x3 then you can unlock the 4th core in the bios.

True, that was just something I threw together from past experience with that build. What I mainly was trying to get at is that it's ALWAYS cheaper to just build your own computer and still over perform at the price you pay.

**Vash** · 12 Nov. 2009 06:04am

Well I would advise getting something other than a gateway and I uaually go more towards nvidia than ATI for graphics and you will need a quad core that processor is so obsolete, if not you will have to upgrade your processor in a couple of months at the most one year, sadly there is no information on the motherboard or your power supply I can't fully judge but I would rate it as a fair computer. I will agree that your RAM and your memory is good but it would be better to have two 500gb hard drives instead of one so you can use the other as a slave drive. I've never used Windows 7 either I still run on XP mainly because i still have the installation disk which is discontinued

13 Nov. 2009 02:04am

Originally Posted by Torian

If it's for gaming? No, you're better off making your own computer. If you're deadset on 500$ budget, here's a rig that'll have you playing crysis if you wanted to:

Case: Newegg.com - COOLER MASTER Centurion 5 CAC-T05-UB Black /Blue Aluminum Bezel , SECC Chassis ATX Mid Tower Computer Case - Computer Cases
HD: Newegg.com - Western Digital Caviar Blue WD3200AAKS 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
MB: Newegg.com - MSI NF750-G55 AM3 NVIDIA nForce 750a SLI HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard - AMD Motherboards
VC: Newegg.com - XFX PVT98GYDLH GeForce 9800 GT 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card - Desktop Graphics / Video Cards
PSU: Newegg.com - OCZ ModXStream Pro OCZ600MXSP 600W ATX12V V2.2 / EPS12V SLI Certified CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply compatible with core i7 - Power Supplies
DDR3 RAM: Newegg.com - Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10600) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model BL2KIT12864BA1336 - Desktop Memory
Processor: Newegg.com - AMD Athlon II X3 425 2.7GHz Socket AM3 95W Triple-Core Processor - Processors - Desktops

Total is just under 500$, plenty of room to breath, pretty futureproof and will play current gen games fine, most likely last a good few years before you needa upgrade a part or two. But the best thing about building your own PC is that you just need to buy the parts and not the whole rig again.

Woah nice list. I will probably buy these things and build it. Thanks.

So all these parts will work together right? My computer won't set on fire or anything when I plug it in. XP (Horror Story I heard over the internet)

Originally Posted by Thomas

Yes that is good. But if i where you i would get better video card. ATI cards are better. And get a Phenom x3 then you can unlock the 4th core in the bios.

Ok. I will check it out. Thanks

Originally Posted by Vash

Well I would advise getting something other than a gateway and I uaually go more towards nvidia than ATI for graphics and you will need a quad core that processor is so obsolete, if not you will have to upgrade your processor in a couple of months at the most one year, sadly there is no information on the motherboard or your power supply I can't fully judge but I would rate it as a fair computer. I will agree that your RAM and your memory is good but it would be better to have two 500gb hard drives instead of one so you can use the other as a slave drive. I've never used Windows 7 either I still run on XP mainly because i still have the installation disk which is discontinued

So you basically suggest building one also.

I don't have a problem with window seven yet. But I have heard it is horrible. (Heard it was horribly glitchy).

**Vash** · 13 Nov. 2009 05:43am

Originally Posted by Eternal Darkness

So you basically suggest building one also.

I don't have a problem with window seven yet. But I have heard it is horrible. (Heard it was horribly glitchy).

Yeah pretty much it's way better to build your own and as for Windows 7 Ill try and look more into it but Im still sticking with xp since everything still runs fine

**PunkRock482** · 13 Nov. 2009 07:32am

yeah the looks nice
i want it too

13 Nov. 2009 11:42pm

Originally Posted by Vash

Yeah pretty much it's way better to build your own and as for Windows 7 Ill try and look more into it but Im still sticking with xp since everything still runs fine

I also heard it runs great now. :/ Mixed reviews.

**Plobby** · 13 Nov. 2009 11:52pm

Its looks pretty good

**Confide** · 13 Nov. 2009 11:53pm

Windows 7 is Excellent. Im using 64bit version, the interface took a little getting to use to but its not much change. It's running ALOT smoother than when I was using XP.

**frkydude** · 14 Nov. 2009 04:28am

Windows 7 is very good, and that Gateway system is good too, but with the graphics card and processor you won't get much performance out of it. Torain's is alright too, and i'll see if i can suggest a system later.

The ATI 5000 series is pretty good, but you might want to wait until Nvidia releases the GTX 300 before making a final decision on the video card.

**pringles** · 14 Nov. 2009 05:49am

it looks like an ok computer why?

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