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, 64-bit, AMD, Nvidia GeForce, PC, CPU
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, ASUS, 64-bit, Blu-ray, networking, Dell, AMD, games, CPU, DVD, PC, hard drive