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(More customer reviews)Overall this appears to be a great computer with lots of functionality such as multiple ports on the front and back, the integrated sound is great. The front of the computer even has a microSD card -great for many cell phones which use micro cards (you won't find included on many computers). This is a decent machine for gaming and obviously will do all the normal stuff (internet, Microsoft office, email, etc). I also appreciate the fact that the computer is pretty quiet. The only thing I usually ever hear is some minor hard drive noise.
I think the computer is pretty attractive. It does seem to collect dust on the glossy polished areas. The tray on top and in the middle is great for tossing a wallet/keys, etc. I usually shut my computer off every night because I cannot the "sleep light" that flashes on and off and is way too bright. The hard drive does reserve a partition which has all the software to do a complete backup. I would also recommend burning this to a disk using the "gateway backup" program as NO disks are included with the purchase. It uses 3 DVD's to create a backup.
As far as a performance computer goes I don't think you can find a better deal for what is inside.
I have several gripes about the computer though.
1. ) Boot-up time seems slow to become usable. Such that you login to windows and it takes a while for things to actually work when you click them. I think it is just a slow hard drive issue as it spends the first 2 minutes or so just loading stuff to RAM.
2. ) If I turn my monitor off and my computer goes to sleep I can't get the monitor to wake back up when the computer resumes. I'm not sure if this is a monitor issue or a computer issue.
3. ) The computer seriously needs a solid state hard drive (SSD) -read below
The computer REALLY needs a solid state hard drive because the regular mechanical hard drive that comes standard (on this computer and most computers) can absolutely not even start to keep up with the speed of this computer. You can really tell once things when a program has to touch the hard drive as it is much slower to process. You can try to max out the CPU but in reality you're just maxing out the speed the cpu can write to the hard drive and you won't get even half of the CPU used. The hard drive is a bottleneck.
The amount of RAM on this computer is way overkill. I haven't used over maybe 3 Gigs at any one time. It's like they should have saved the cash on the ram and the terabit hard drive and just thrown a small solid state drive to load the operating system and programs with a cheap mechanical hard drive to house the music and whatnot. It would be a better computer for it.
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Gateway DX4831: Multimedia Powerhouse Unleash powerful multimedia at home with the Gateway DX4831-05 desktop PC, which offers the accelerated performance of the latest dual-core Intel Core i5 processor, NVIDIA GeForce G310 discrete graphics card, and a Super-Multi drive that enables you to create your own DVDs and CDs. Enjoy the next generation of video playback with the HDMI output, which allows a single cable to transmit uncompressed high-definition video and audio to your digital TV or capable external monitor.
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