Friday, February 25, 2011

Gateway SX2851-41

We're moreover anticipating that the new era of Intel CPUs will bring more strong motherboards to these low-end PCs. The final couple of iterations of Gateway's SX-Series mainboard have unhappy in conditions of their outmost connectivity options. We acquire the HDMI outlay on this PC, as always, given that creates it a versatile Personal Computer in the living room together with the office. We moreover similar to that Gateway has enclosed a wireless networking card at this price. Otherwise the connection options are paltry to USB 2.0 jacks, a VGA video out, 5.1 analog audio output, and a span of PS/2 ports for bequest mice and keyboards. FireWire, eSATA, and digital audio outputs are all sorely missing. While nothing of those features are precisely major for a light-duty consumer PC, they're moreover not badly outlandish extras, either.

If our reviews of the Sandy Bridge gaming PCs are any indication, you can moreover design improved power effectiveness when Intel's new chips turn more mainstream. The power pull in this difficulty isn't awful now, and you'll hardly observe the Gateway SX2851-41 on your power bill from month to month. Still, you acquire any technology that can lower even medium power consumption, and the Core i3 200-series of Sandy Bridge CPUs promises to supply that type of efficiency.

Gateway gives you a year of parts-and-labor coverage is to SX2851-41 along with 24-7 toll-free phone service and a accumulation of help resources existing online. The network moreover comes with a couple of evidence apps to help you guard the position of assorted components yourself.

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System configurations:
Apple Mac Mini (Spring 2010)
Mac OS X 10.6.3; 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo; 2GB 1,067MHz DDR3 SDRAM; 256MB Nvidia GeForce 320M; 320GB, 5,400rpm hard drive

Gateway SX2850-03
Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit); 3.2GHz Intel Core i3 550; 4GB 800MHZ DDR3 SDRAM; 64MB (shared) Intel GMA X4500 HD integrated graphics chip; 640GB, 7,200rpm hard drive

Gateway SX2851-41
Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit); 3.2GHz Intel Core i3 550; 4GB 800MHZ DDR3 SDRAM; 64MB (shared) Intel GMA X4500 HD integrated graphics chip; 1TB, 7,200rpm hard drive

HP Pavilion Slimline s5660f
Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit); 3.2GHz Intel Core i3 550; 4GB 800MHZ DDR3 SDRAM; 64MB (shared) Intel GMA X4500 HD integrated graphics chip; 640GB, 7,200rpm hard drive

Lenovo H320 40411FU
Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit); 3.2GHz Intel Core i5 650; 6GB 1,066MHZ DDR3 SDRAM; 512MB Nvidia GeForce 310; 640GB, 7,200rpm hard drive

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