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Well the GPU I picked out required a new and larger PSU. Once I got that installed I picked up a second and better monitor as the old one was 1600x900. I also discovered just how bad the airflow was in the case so I replaced that as well. My fiance surprised me with the peripherals over time. I know this isn't really a new completed build, but the i7 860 is still handling most everything I do regularly very well so I'm putting off the CPU, motherboard, and other stuff until later. Maybe the end of this year. I just wanted to post something. I use this mostly for gaming and some very simple photo editing, no photoshop or anything. Right now, all I'm playing is DayZ mod, 7 Days To Die, and Dark Souls 2. CPU- from the original PC. Like I say, hasn't really given me a reason to upgrade yet. CPU Cooler- Thought it was a complete piece of junk before I changed to a case that it could get some cool air in. It is so much quieter and my temps are about 10 degrees cooler at idle and gaming.

Haven't ran any stress tests since i got the case, been working a lot lately. Motherboard- Basic H57 board that came with the old PC, nothing special. Ram- What came with my old PC, also nothing special. Storage- I considered going ahead and buying an ssd, but I decided I would just wait for the new build. Didn't think it would be worth it to migrate the OS to it. I stuck with the old 1TB WD Green, nothing wrong with it. GPU- This is a really good card.
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Case- I believe this is going to be the first build posted on here with this case. It's not the best and had it not been like $40 bucks off I would have went with something else like the Rosewill Blackhawk, or Nzxt Source 530. It's actually pretty nice though, enough room behind the motherboard to be sloppy, which I was. I figured why waste alot of time on the cables if I'm gonna take most of them out in a few more months. It has a 200mm fan mount in the top (only, no 120 or 140 options). I bought a nzxt 200mm fan to mount here, but apparently they made it just for a few of their cases and the mounts don't line up. I rigged one of the 120mm spectre fans that came with the case up there till I get something else. The spectres that came in the front were red, which I'm not crazy about so I just clipped the led wires on the one I'm using.Its Corsair, so I trust it. Monitor- I really like this monitor. It's an IPS panel so the colors are really great. I haven't had any problems playing the games I play on it.

Optical Drive- came from the old pc. Will probably keep it when I finish upgrade the rest. Case Fans- SickleFlows, using them as intake. They're pretty quiet and seem to move air pretty well. Wish the LEDs were a little brighter. Keyboard- Wasn't my first choice, I was gonna go with a logitech G105 or microsoft Sidewinder x4, but it was a gift and I actually really like it. Mouse- Another gift, I wasn't expecting a lot here for this price, but its actually Really nice. It's solid, has on the fly dpi switching, and a really nice braided cable. Feels much higher in quality than I was expecting. Headset- Nice for the price, it works well. Not the highest quality though, feels kind of cheap. I'm happy with it for now. I know I might get some hate for spending this much upgrading an old pc, so I just wanna stress that everything I've bought I'm using when I build this hopefully later this year. Sorry this was so long lol.The Gateway FX6801-03 ($1279.99 direct) is a quality, straightforward gaming system for under $1300.

A gaming rig is more than the sum of its parts; all a manufacturer has to do is give the system a fast CPU, intense graphics card, speedy RAM, and a hard drive with space and high throughput. All of these ingredients will get you a 5.9 on the Windows system index and ostensibly a very good gaming desktop. The difference lies in the extras that they throw in to push this system over the top. The Gateway FX is a very solid mix of design and power. Dell Studio XPS 435 HP Firebird with VoodooDNA 803 The FX6801-03 comes with a glossy black chassis with metallic orange/copper details. The flashy case looks like something that you would want to keep on top of the desk to show off, rather than keep it underneath. Another reason to keep it above the desk would be to make use of its two expandable storage bays on the front panel. You can slide in two SATA drives via the doors on the front panel without opening up the case. This makes for a quick upgrade if you are running out of space.

View All 9 Photos in Gallery These expandable drive bays and the 18X DVD+/-R/RW SuperMulti Drive are hidden behind three pop-out doors on the front of the machine. Unfortunately, these doors retain the cheap plastic feel they had on the last model. You could also expand your storage with an external drive and any one of the FX6801-03's 8 USB ports and two FireWire ports. The FX6801-03 is the next iteration of the Gateway FX6800-01e our current Editors' Choice for a budget gaming desktop, and Gateway decided not to mess with a good thing. The FX6800-01e was not the most exciting product, but got the job done nonetheless. Like the FX6800-01e, the FX6801-03 has an Intel Core i7 920 processor. This is a quad-core, 45nm CPU that is capable of using 8 processing streams simultaneously when running at full speed and multithreading. Although Gateway decided to keep the same CPU in this new FX, it made a major upgrade when it came to the graphics card. It replaced the 512MB ATI Radeon HD 4850 with a more powerful 896 MB Nvidia Geforce GTX 260.

The difference is, as expected, major, but more on that later. Gateway also increased the system memory from 3GB of DDR3 SDRAM to 9GB of DDR3 SDRAM. It perplexed us last year when the company put out a system with a full 64-bit operating system with only 3GB of RAM. The whole point of 64-bit computing is its ability to use more than 4GBs of RAM. The FX6801-03's 9GB of RAM allow it to take full advantage of its Windows Vista Home Premium (64-bit) operating system. Like many HP systems, the FX6801-03 comes with a desktop full of "extras". The Norton Anti-Virus is useful for the novice user but once your free trial runs out, it's very hard to get rid of. There are also Microsoft works and Office demos along the left side of the desktop. I also didn't like the Ebay bloatware that HP included. Gateway does include one "extra" I did like: a one-year parts and labor warranty with free telephone tech support. The FX6801-03's GPU upgrade definitely shows on our gaming tests. On 3DMark Vantage (at 1024 by 768 resolution), the FX6801-03 scored 28,178, which easily bested the FX6800-01e's still respectable score of 21,787.

At 1,920 by 1,200 on 3DMark Vantage (1920 x 1200) it scored 4,197, double that of the FX6800-01e's 2,692. When I played the resource-hogging Crysis at 1,280 by 1,024 resolution, the FX6801-03 performed very well, scoring 72 frames per second (fps), easily beating the FX6800-01e's 58 fps. It also scored higher than the Polywell Poly 790GX3 and the Editors' Choice Dell Studio XPS 435. On our Multimedia test suite the FX6801-03 also held its own, its scores of :39 seconds in our Windows Media Encoder test and 15,891 on Cinebench R10, besting the HP Firebird with VoodooDNA 803's 45 seconds and the Gateway FX6800-01e's14, 274 respectively. The FX6801-03 is a solid system for the gamer who is looking to spend about $1,200 and would rather buy than build. It is a bare-bones gaming desktop that gets the job done fairly well on high-end games that tax a processor and a GPU. BENCHMARK TEST RESULTS: Check out the test scores for the • Velocity Micro Vector Campus Edition (2016)• Asus VivoStick PC (TS10)• Lenovo Ideacentre Stick 300• Asus VivoMini VC65-G042Z• Lenovo IdeaCentre 300s• more