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Gateway FX541S Gaming Desktop PC
Screaming fast. Delivering raw power and maximum performance. And that's just for starters. Tackle demanding 3D apps, power through rich gaming environments and manage your high-def media library with the FX541 series, Gateway's flagship desktops. Heavy-hitting quad-core power breezes through power-hungry apps like high-end gaming, video editing and photo processing. The Gateway FX541 Series is nothing less than Gateway's greatest desktop—ever. This one definitely goes to 11. You've heard of dual core, right? Say hello to quad core. The end result is one of the fastest, most powerful desktops—ever. The FX541S comes loaded with a powerful quad-core processor, ample hard drive space and memory expandability up to 8GB. It's ideal for 3D gaming, managing intensive data and apps or as a media hub for regular and HD video, music and photos. Engineered for next-gen gaming and high-end apps, and optimized for HD media, the FX541 series delivers pure, raw quad-core power. Break on through with the FX-Series. It's a player. You will be too.
Features
- Internal Flash Media Reader
This convenient media reader provides fast digital transfer for CompactFlash, MicroDrive, MemoryStick, MemoryStick Pro, SmartMedia, xD, MultiMedia and SecureDigital cards.
- Front Firewire, USB and Audio Ports
Convenient front Firewire, USB ports and audio ports. The firewire ports are great for connecting to video cameras and external hard drives. The USB ports can be used for flash drives, hard drives, cameras, camcorders, and other USB devices. It also has one headphone/audio out jack and one MIC input/line in jack.
- Intel Core 2 Quad Processor
Whether you're creating multimedia, annihilating your gaming enemies or running multiple intensive applications at one time, quad-core processing will change the way you do everything.
- NVIDIA GeForce 8600GT Graphics (512MB)
With a revolutionary unified architecture and full support for DirectX 10 games, GeForce 8 series GPUs deliver unprecedented performance, extraordinarily detailed environments, and film-quality game effects.
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Detailed Features
A Closer Look
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Latest Owner Reviews
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| REVIEW BY: huggybear4 Reviewed
Nov 14, 2008 |
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| Wow! I've had this system for about a month and was pleasently suprised at the performance of this system. Just wish it had 64 bit OS for more ram. Jury is still out on vista.
Lots of room in the quality case for further upgrades. Great price. Thanks Tigerdirect. |
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| REVIEW BY: Anonymous Reviewed
Oct 19, 2008 |
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| great deal, lots of room for expansion,the only bad thing i can say about this computer is vista. |
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| REVIEW BY: DEMAYO Reviewed
Oct 12, 2008 |
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| Very good computer. |
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| REVIEW BY: Anonymous Reviewed
Oct 12, 2008 |
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| I have had this computer for 2 days. And BOY am I suprised for what $1300 gets me. Super performance, super value, not super features though, for Vista home. Always very cool (after hours of GTA Vice City. surfing, File coping and CD Burning). I just wish I had a GB more RAM |
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What You Should Know
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Even The Best Hard Drives Die.
Do You Back Up?
Businesses of all sizes
are witnessing an explosion in the volume of data they hold. Whether it is
the result of the Internet, email, or increasingly heavy and media-rich
application software, there is a massive growth in the volume of data all
around. Conservative estimates place data growth at approximately 80% per
year. Data is increasingly being recognized as one of the real assets of a
company, and losing this data would cause severe damage to any organization.
Data loss can be very costly, particularly for
organizations in the small and medium business (SMB) market where the
difference between survival and closure can rest on the ability to recover
from a disaster. At the very least, critical data loss will have a financial
impact on companies of all sizes:
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Data type |
Time to re-create 20 MB |
Cost |
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Sales and marketing |
19 days |
$17,000 |
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Accounting |
21 days |
$19,000 |
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Engineering |
42 days |
$98,000 |
The financial impact on a company is a combination
of loss of business, low productivity, legal action, and the cost of
re-creating data. A study showed that the cost of re-creating just 20 MB of
data can be extensive!
Your best solution, is an external drive as a
backup. You can have multiple drives, and it is much easier restore
from a portable external drive, as opposed to CDs or DVDs.
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Why Do I Have
Less Drive Space?
Your hard drive may show less space than the published specifications due to
a number of reasons.
- The way size is calculated and
displayed.
- Any "Partitions" on the disk will
change the total in a specific partition.
- Hidden files and folders decrease
available space.
- Compression increases the apparent
size, but not the physical size.
- Drives larger than the OS or Drivers
natively supports.
 First, the definition of a megabytes
(or gigabytes) is a unit of data storage capacity measured in 1,048,576
bytes (or 1024KB). The larger the numbers, the more apparent the size
difference will be when listing the size as megabytes (or gigabytes) versus
bytes. Actually, both numbers are correct. The noticeable difference is due
to the 1024KB definition of a megabyte. This is why a 95.3GB hard drive can
also be listed as having 102 billion bytes of total space. Just think
of it as "round off" In the screen shot at right:
The first number is the total number of bytes,
the second number is based on the number of megabytes or gigabytes.
Second, some computers have a
non-DOS hard drive partition that is used for features such as Save to Disk,
Hibernation, or Recovery. This partition is not normally reported by the
operating system, although it can be viewed using a disk partition utility.
This is very common on desktops and laptops. NOTE:
Partition information will be created or
formatted automatically during initial system setup and a system recovery.
Third, by default, all system files
are hidden and cannot be seen. This may adversely affect the reporting of
available hard drive space. You can set your Folder Options so you view
system and hidden files and folders, but do be careful as changes to system
files can adversely affect your system.
Fourth, if you turn on Compression
for a drive, it will increase reported free space and used space, but since
compression is based upon the actual contents, this number is not fixed, but
will change as files are added or changed.
Fifth, older operating systems did
not support some of today's larger drives, so the total space reported may
be much smaller than the drive specifications.
It is also worth noting that bad sectors
are corrected by your operating system and can change the total drive space,
free space, or used space as well.
So as long as a drive is reporting a value
approximately close to the specification value, you can be comfortable that
you received the right drive and that you are getting to correct data
storage. Of course, tuning of your drive's partitions and options can
yield optimal values, but this is not something for the average user to
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Got Enough
Memory? Bet You'll Need More!
Windows Vista and today's software
applications make much greater demands on your system's memory. Adding
peripherals, like webcams, USB hard drives, and complex Internet pages, all
take memory. Watching DVD movies, or watching videos on the web, or
playing PC based games demand increased memory. So take full
advantage of your system's potential, your operating system's enhancement
and entertainment capabilities, and your software's productivity by expanding
your system memory!The best time to
add more memory is when you buy your system! Get the memory that's
right for your computer, whether laptop, desktop, or All-In-One.
Click Here for our Memory Upgrade Options. » |
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Shared
Memory? Or Where Did My Memory Go?
Your computer uses memory to run your
Operating System, applications, peripherals, and to generate and display
graphics on your computer monitor. Video memory is a form of RAM, and is
either built into your motherboard; or on a graphics card (video card).
Depending on the motherboard's configuration, and that of the video card (if
separate or built-in to the motherboard), your computer may have to draw on
its own RAM memory to meet its video memory needs. This creates shared
memory, where your computer’s RAM will be shared between its own Processor
(CPU) and its graphics chip.
The result is that some systems will have
shared memory, some will not. If you have 2GB (for example) of system
memory installed, you may notice that your system reports significantly less
memory. This is because your system is using shared memory for your
video.
What can you do about this?
You can actually configure this shared memory through your computer’s BIOS
settings. However, this is a setting best left alone, since it is
typically optimized for display performance, and making changes may impact
display resolutions, and other video capabilities.
The simplest solution is usually to either:
increase your system memory; or to upgrade the video hardware. By
upgrading to a new video card with built-in video memory, then turning off
shared memory, you will free your system to use it's maximum potential
memory, and provide your system with much more robust video features.
Click Here for our Memory Options »
Click Here for the latest Video Cards » |
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How Much
Memory Do You Really Have?
When you look at the specifications for a computer, it will display the
installed memory, and typically the maximum memory that can be installed.
However, while these are real values, they represent a potential useable
memory. The actual useable memory may be different from these values.
The reason is simply that a computer may configured to use shared memory,
which reduces the amount of RAM that is available to the CPU by using
some of it for other purposes, such as for video memory. In some
cases, you can control the maximum useable memory through system settings,
and by upgrading to a video card that has internal onboard video memory.
But always
remember, that the amount of memory that your system reports, is not always
the amount of actual installed memory. If you find that you need more
memory, we suggest expanding your system memory, since this is the most
effective performance increase, and the one that is easiest to perform .
Click Here for our Memory Upgrade Options » |
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