Well, it's not exactly new... I picked up a refurb Gateway FX 6801. It has a Core i7 920, 8 gig of DDR3, Seagate 1TB hard drive, and a generic looking 750 watt power supply, but it came with a weak ATI HD4350. It has two front hot swap hard drive bays on rails, a pop-up top panel that houses a 19-in-1 media reader and 2 USB ports, and a pop-out front panel with headphone plugs and a firewire port. The price? $649 Canadian. To that I added a 2 gig Sapphire ATI HD5870 for $520, and an OEM copy of Win7 Home Premium 64 bit. The Gateway BIOS is VERY limited.... no way to do any overclocking whatsoever. But all the same, I cannot WAIT to see what this beast will do in AH!!
To put it in perspective, my last puter had an Athlon 64 3500 (socket 939), 1 gig of DDR400, a 250 gig hard drive, Soundblaster Live!Platinum, and a 256 meg GeForce 6800 Ultra. It started out with much humbler specs, but I slowly upgraded over a number of years, until I hit the dreaded end of upgrade path. It still ran AH ok, but with no eye candy and pretty low-res.
The new puter looks like this one:
For any curious Canadians, this can be had at The Source by Circuit City, but they're not on display. You have to ask if they have any in stock. My local store in Woodstock NB still has 3 more.
