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Gateway 5310
If you're looking for a cheap, brass-tacks home PC, you could certainly do worse than Gateway's 5310S. Its main drawback is its lack of a viable graphics upgrade path, but if gaming's not on your radar, you'll find most of the core specs you've come to expect.
Gateway's low-cost 5310S
The midrange PC in Gateway's current home PC line, the Gateway 5310 series is mostly unremarkable, but that mediocrity helps keep the price down. Starting at $530 for the most bare-bones configuration with no monitor and a 90-day warranty, you can tweak the configs to create reasonably well-powered, home-oriented workhorses. The biggest limitation is the lack of a PCI Express graphics card slot on the motherboard. This absence prevents a Gateway 5310-series PC from competing as a modern gaming PC, and it also limits nongaming capabilities, such as multiple monitor support. Still, if you're looking for a capable, basic home desktop and you know your needs won't come to require 3D graphics processing, we think you'll be satisfied with the configuration and workmanship of our 5310-series review system. It gives you a fair amount of capability for less than $1,000, and it even has room for some nongaming upgrades.
The midrange PC in Gateway's current home PC line, the Gateway 5310 series is mostly unremarkable, but that mediocrity helps keep the price down. Starting at $530 for the most bare-bones configuration with no monitor and a 90-day warranty, you can tweak the configs to create reasonably well-powered, home-oriented workhorses. The biggest limitation is the lack of a PCI Express graphics card slot on the motherboard. This absence prevents a Gateway 5310-series PC from competing as a modern gaming PC, and it also limits nongaming capabilities, such as multiple monitor support. Still, if you're looking for a capable, basic home desktop and you know your needs won't come to require 3D graphics processing, we think you'll be satisfied with the configuration and workmanship of our 5310-series review system. It gives you a fair amount of capability for less than $1,000, and it even has room for some nongaming upgrades.
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