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)

4

Memory Slot (Available)

2

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

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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