Gateway 700 Series Gamer Desktop + 19.0 CRT (2.66GHz Pentium 4, 512 MB RAM, 120GB hard drive)

by Gateway

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 11 x 1.8 inches ; 5.3 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 125 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B00007EMSC
• Item model number: AmazonGamerDT
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #21,503 in Computers & Accessories (See Top 100 in Computers & Accessories)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: November 21, 2002

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Some computer users demand nothing less than the pinnacle of performance and cutting-edge technology that enables functions such as digital video and digital photo editing. If you identify strongly with this group, the Gateway 700X desktop PC should be high on your short list.

The 700X’s spiffy silver and black tower CPU houses a 2.533 GHz Intel Pentium 4 processor with 512 KB of L2 advanced transfer cache that--combined with 256 MB of 266 MHz DDR SDRAM, upgradable to 2 GB--enables you to smoothly run multiple applications simultaneously. An 80 GB hard drive offers vast storage.

The system includes an 18-inch analog/digital LCD flat-panel display that combines with a 128 MB nVidia GeForce4 MX440G graphics chip with TV-out and DVI graphics accelerator to provide large, sharp, bright images. The 700X includes a five-piece Boston Acoustics BA745 subwoofer satellite speaker system and a SoundBlaster Audigy audio card with a FireWire interface for streaming digital video directly into the computer at lightning speed.

A combination DVD-ROM/-R/CD-RW drive (48x/40x/12x CD, 16x DVD) allows you to watch and edit DVD movies, listen to and create audio CDs, back up data quickly on CD, and play CD-ROM-based games.

The 700X offers five PCI expansion slots and a 3.5-inch floppy disk drive, an accelerated graphics port, an integrated 10/100Base-T Ethernet, and a 56K modem. Ports include six USB interfaces (two USB 2.0 on the front, and two USB 2.0 and two USB 1.1 on the back), parallel and serial interfaces, a VGA output interface, and two PS/2 mouse and keyboard connectors. The 700X includes a multifunction keyboard and Logitech USB Optical Wheel mouse.

Bundled software includes Windows XP Home Edition, Microsoft Works Suite 2003 (including Microsoft Word and Encarta), and a Norton AntiVirus 90-day introductory offer.

Customer Reviews

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30 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Numbers Don't Tell the Story, February 7, 2003

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Martin Asiner (jersey city, nj United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gateway 700 Series Gamer Desktop + 19.0 CRT (2.66GHz Pentium 4, 512 MB RAM, 120GB hard drive) (Personal Computers)

Most people who buy a pc do so for predictable uses: wordprocessing, games, internet, and off the shelf software. Even for those who deem themselves power users often find that one pc is pretty much like the other. The tiebreaker in the decision to buy is often a function of price and aesthetic appeal. The GATEWAY 700X desktop is a harmonious blend of the very best qualities that one could seek in a computer. I have a Master's in Computer Technology so I already knew its potential before I bought it, but when I had a chance to put it through it paces over an extended period of time, I was enormously impressed. First the obvious: it did whatever I asked it to in quick time. Whenever a potential buyer checks out computers, he most often looks at the CPU speed as a barometer of how fast the CPU works. This GATEWAY 700X boasts a 2.533 GHz Intel Pentium 4 processor, but it is not for that which invests it with lightning. Of equal importance to the CPU numbers is the less recognized internal bus speed. A modest bus number is 133. The GATEWAY 700X hums along at 266, a number sufficiently quick to make even jaded power users smile. When I go online, from the time I start to the time that I am ready to chat is measured in seconds. On my previous Compaq Presario, I had to wait nearly four full minutes for that. Computer salesman like to trump the size of a pc's hard disk storage. When I first bought a pc more than 10 years ago, it had 10 GB for storage, and I never came close to using it all. This GATEWAY has 80 GB, so it's nice to know that if you plan to input a database of several million items, you need not worry about exceeding your hard drive's capacity. The 18 inch LCD flat-panel monitor presents both text and visuals with crystal clarity--no eyestrain here! The speakers are far more sensitive to nuances in sound than you might be used to. The CD/DVD combo works quite well. The numbers bandied about for such devices (48x/40x/12x for the CD and 16x for the DVD) simply mean that what you see on the screen is about a clear as you can get. Not many users care about such arcane concepts as expansion slots. I'll be willing to bet that most do not even know what an expansion slot is, but for those readers of this review who do, rest assured that this pc can be bulked up to rival Colossus in THE FORBIN PROJECT. Further, for those with digital video on the mind, the GATEWAY 700X is a sterling, reliable performer. Finally, the GATEWAY 700X even looks good. Its ergonomic appeal is not unlike the feeling that you might have felt the first time you slipped behind the wheel of your first Corvette. What all the numbers in the salesman's brochures boil down to is this: you can probably find any number of computers that are comparable, but only a few can often first rate performance and reliability at a price that won't bust your wallet. The GATEWAY 700X is just such a computer.