Reviewed on August 5, 2010The new Asus Essentio CG1330-05 has a more polished appearance than Asus' previous desktop efforts, but that's one of its only selling points. You get reasonable gaming performance for the price, but its overall value falls short compared with competing systems on either end of the price spectrum.TAGS:ASUS, Dell Studio, Gateway Inc., Dell, AMD, 64-bit, Nvidia GeForce, CPU, PC
Reviewed on July 26, 2010Its newly designed tower, HDMI port, and generous hard-drive capacity aren't enough to make the Asus Essentio CM5671-05 stand out next to the HP Pavilion p6510y, a similarly priced system with a faster quad-core processor and built-in Wi-Fi. The Asus system is no slouch, and we recommend it to shoppers who are concerned with storage capacity rather than speed, but even amateur media editors will benefit from the HP p6510y's extra speed.TAGS:chassis, ASUS, HP Pavilion SlimLine, HP Pavilion, graphics chip, Ethernet LAN, Gateway Inc., optical drive, HP, 64-bit, Ethernet, LAN, AMD
Reviewed on August 6, 2010The unique-looking Gateway FX6840-03e offers respectable productivity speed, but it's relatively limited in gaming and multimedia, which is ironic considering its flashy appearance. Gateway's FX line offers some strong configurations, but this isn't one of them, and you should look for more-complete PCs in this price range.TAGS:Gateway Inc., Dell Studio, IEEE 802.11n, configuration, DVD burner, Blu-ray, networking, ASUS, Dell, 64-bit, games, AMD, CPU, DVD, PC, hard drive