Gateway FX542XT Gaming PC

danybagpc Says:

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cesarsony124 Says:

Sep 14, 2009 - lol my pc has only 3gb of ram,probably gonna upgrade to 4 gb since ram is cheap

smartass23t Says:

Sep 16, 2009 - Alienware just got bought out by Dell from what I've been reading so there's another reason to STAY AWAY! I bought the gateway fx542s which isn't the greatest but since I didn't have time to build myself, this was the next best thing. It has a q6600 @2.4 on a 680i mobo, 9600 gt, 4 gigs of ram, 700 watt power supply, 640 gig hard drive, two dvd drives, all for $700 shipped. That was last year just before Christmas. Really not a bad deal at all despite being a prebuilt system..

Renzeko Says:

Sep 16, 2009 - That's actually pretty decent, but I just get great satisfaction out of building my own computer =D Especially because then I can brag about it =P And then sell it for 1.3x more than I built it for =D lol

smartass23t Says:

Sep 17, 2009 - As of right now I'm running 8 gigs of ram, and two 9600 gt's. I'm still not happy with sli and am looking to get a gtx 275 or more. I will build my next system myself. This gateway is the best computer I've ever had but I could build my own for the same price and it would blow this one away. I just need to do my homework before I jump in. I've never built my own system before and need to research untill my eyes bleed so everythings compatible, lol.

Renzeko Says:

Sep 18, 2009 - Everything goes hand in hand really. Your CPU has to be the same socket type as the Motherboard (And make sure the CPU doesn't exceed the allowed socket wattage) RAM has to be either DDR2/3 (Whichever your board supports, most Asus boards come with a qualified vendors list for ease. Any graphics card will work (I suggest a single card config [The new ATI 5xxx series is out this month] Hard Drive and DVD Drive should be SATA As long as yur PSU has enough watts and amps 4 your GPU, you're all good

ElPeruanoUFO Says:

Sep 18, 2009 - I didn't like the air circulation sistem, better to have the air going somewhere else then the 2 chipsets and mem, but it doesn't matter if u got water cooling plus I can't image how mentally illnation can that computer be wiht all that noise, I'm getting a water cooling for my next video editing PC, with studio 12 or vegas and I will live longer

smartass23t Says:

Sep 18, 2009 - Thanks for the info renzeko. Doesn't sound so bad. I'm familiar with everything you mentioned so I should be set.

Renzeko Says:

Sep 18, 2009 - No prob, I didn't have enough space to type a full message, but make sure the video card is PCI-E (They pretty much all are nowadays anyways) If you need more info, there's tutorials all around the internet, and if you need opinions on a setup once you get all the parts you think you want to put in, head over to the guru3d forums and post something in the general forum like; "Would all these parts work together?" or something like that good luck

panamanian911 Says:

Sep 19, 2009 - have you had any problems with it? ive read reviews about gateway and they're 50% awesome, and 50% awful.. i guess its just back luck.. but how did yours work out?

smartass23t Says:

Sep 19, 2009 - Well, I had to send mine in to get fixed. It was a pain in the ass but I'm glad I did it. Basically, I didn't know it wasn't fully functional UNTIL I tried to add a second GPU and 4 more gigs of ram. Turned out the MOBO had a faulty memory slot as well as the second PCI x16 slot. I had to talk to people with India accents who basically read their little paper to "troubleshoot" what my problem is. When my computer finally came back to me 3 weeks later, it worked perfectly...finally.

smartass23t Says:

Sep 19, 2009 - Now I'm thinking of getting a new case and possibly an evga 750i mobo. My current mobo doesn't allow any kind of overclocks. Nothing stable above 2.5ghz and the q6600 is known to be a good overclocker. This mobo won't allow it. POS ECS, lol. I think thats what the video above uses as well.

senad54 Says:

Sep 20, 2009 - wow this pc is a monster.

787blaze Says:

Oct 2, 2009 - this pc is better than dell gaming pc!!!specs speaks for its self!!3.0 ghz wowowowo!!why you need to overclock that!!!that can run two crysis games at the same time!!!also the gaming gateway laptop is great!!!

TheMusicMaker001 Says:

Oct 7, 2009 - you can put 16 gig ram max i that pc :p

e4g1e1 Says:

Oct 17, 2009 - i sense carcasim

rancidrain Says:

Oct 21, 2009 - bad cable management

ChaoSXDemon Says:

Oct 28, 2009 - wow...lame graphics.... NVidia 9000 series are the worse series of NVIDIA. Not to mention that 9800 is already a SLI 8800....and SLI that = 4X8800 and yet not 4 times the performance of 8800. That is why SLI or Crossfire are useless unless you are running multi-mornitor :)

silas232003 Says:

Nov 2, 2009 - the best idea for all you guys is to build your own system or get a friend who knows how. Give him 20 bucks to help you do it and you will be amazed how much money you save.

xXcynicalMINDXx Says:

Nov 6, 2009 - i have a gate FX6800-01e its very similar to this

fat0obob Says:

Nov 7, 2009 - lol, the dell xps is far better than this

thirsokewl Says:

Nov 14, 2009 - Build your own.

55virgilio Says:

Nov 18, 2009 - my dream pc

masterchopy Says:

Nov 22, 2009 - this video was uploaded last year

slaykill57 Says:

Nov 23, 2009 - i Bought this on sale for 800usd$ :P