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Written by Chris Tom
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Thursday, 28 February 2008 02:44 |
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PC Mag reviews the Gateway FX7020. It is their quad core Phenon 9600 based gaming desktop. Newegg has it here for $1,099.99 The FX7020 is built on the new AMD Phenom 9600 processor, one of AMD's first quad-cores for the consumer market. It runs at 2.3 GHz and is more than capable of speedy multimedia operations. The FX7020's discrete graphics card is the 512MB nVidia GeForce 8800 GT, a mid-level enthusiast card with good bang for the buck. A 500GB SATA hard drive and a dual-layer DVD burner with Labelflash (a disc-labeling feature similar to HP's LightScribe) round out the core hardware features. Labelflash is a bit clunky in that it lets you use only Labelflash-branded discs (since it's incompatible with LightScribe, you can't burn labels onto LightScribe discs). After you burn the data, you can use the bundled CyberLink LabelPrint utility to burn labels onto your CDs and DVDs.
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