Gateway DX4860-UR28

Gateway DX Series Intel Core i5 8GB DDR3 1TB HDD Capacity Desktop PC Windows 8 64-bit DX4860-UR28(DT.GE0AA.004)

I was a bit concerned about buying a Gateway. I have been using computers long enough to have seen the brand erosion of the Gateway years ago. I found that Acer had purchased Gateway and this machine in particular was rated as a best buy in several of the computer magazines.

The size is a bit daunting. I have gotten away from the monster towers of yesteryear but this is still substantially larger than the Aspire it replaces it. I am a Swiss Army knife kind of guy and I do a lot of different things on my computer so I wanted a desktop rather than another laptop. This machine has good solid middle of the road specifications. It's performance has been good and it has expansion capabilities.

When I have gotten everything working the way I want, I plan on cloning the hard drive and adding an SSD drive to improve the overall performance. Supposedly the front accessible bay has a cage but I couldn't find it on the Gateway site. I do miss having a button on the DVD drive to open and close it. The mouse is a bit cheesy and the keyboard is nothing to write home about. I do like the alt-f4 command that lets you close those darn Windows 8.1 open screens.

Gateway did a nice job on providing many USB ports and some are actually conveniently located on the top and front. In addition they top of the tower has a "tray" where you can plug in USB devices for charging. A totally useless but none the less cool lighted logo rounds out a very solid, reasonably priced desktop.

General Spec

Brand

Gateway

Series

DX Series

Model

DX4860-UR28(DT.GE0AA.004)

Type

Student/Home office

Form Factor

Micro Tower

Usage

Consumer

Colors

Black

Processor

Intel Core i5-3330 3.0GHz

Processor Main Features

64 bit Quad-Core Processor

Cache Per Processor

6MB L3 Cache

Memory

8GB DDR3 1600

Hard Drive

1TB SATA 7200RPM

Optical Drive 1

16X DVD+-R/RW SuperMulti Drive

Graphics

Intel HD Graphics 2500

Ethernet

Gigabit Ethernet

Power Supply

300W

Operating System

Windows 8 64-bit

Motherboard

Chipset

Intel H67

CPU

CPU Type

Intel Core i5

CPU Speed

3330(3.00GHz)

L3 Cache Per CPU

6MB

CPU Socket Type

LGA 1155

CPU Main Features

64 bit Quad-Core Processor
Max Turbo Frequency 3.2 GHz

Graphics

GPU/VPU Type

Intel HD Graphics 2500

Graphics Interface

Integrated video

Memory

Memory Capacity

8GB DDR3

Memory Speed

DDR3 1600

Memory Spec

4GB x 2

Memory Slot (Total)

Memory Slot (Available)

Maximum Memory Supported

16GB

Hard Drive

HDD Capacity

1TB

HDD Interface

SATA

HDD RPM

7200rpm

Optical Drive

Optical Drive Type

DVD Super Multi

Optical Drive Spec

16X DVD+/-R/RW SuperMulti Drive

Audio

Audio Features

High-Definition Audio with 5.1-channel Surround Sound Support

Communications

LAN Speed

10/100/1000Mbps

WLAN

802.11a/b/g/n Wireless LAN

Bluetooth

Bluetooth 4.0+HS

Front Panel Ports

Front USB

2 x USB 2.0 (Front)
2 x USB 2.0 (Top)

Front Audio Ports

1 x Headphone Jack
1 x Microphone Jack

Card Reader

Digital Media Card Reader - Secure Digital (SD) Card

Back Panel Ports

PS/2

Video Ports

1 VGA, 1 HDMI

Rear USB

2 x USB 3.0
6 x USB 2.0

RJ45

1 port

Rear Audio Ports

3 ports

Expansion

PCI Slots (Available/Total)

(2/3) PCI-E x1
(1/1) PCI-E x16

Physical Spec

Dimensions

15.82" x 14.92" x 7.09"

Weight

23 lbs.

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