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Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Gateway's New Desktop PCs with AMD Phenom Processors

Gateway GT5662 Desktop PC

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The PC manufacturer introduces two new GM and GT series mainstream desktop PCs with AMD Phenom processors on board.

Today Gateway introduced two new GM and GT series mainstream desktop PCs. The first is the GM5664, a video-oriented PC with a "Hybrid-SuperMulti" optical drive that can read both HD-DVD and Blu-ray movie discs as well as read and burn CDs and standard-def DVDs. The GM5664 comes with a NTSC/ATSC (HDTV) tuner, a quad-core AMD Phenom 9600 processor running at 2.3GHz, and 3GB of DDR2 memory. These performance parts and the system's 1TB drive firmly plant the system in the "multimedia enthusiast" camp. The GM5664 sells for $1,149.99 at major retailers such as Best Buy, Circuit City, J&R, and Amazon.com.

The Gateway GT5662 is the slightly cheaper little brother to the GM5664. It's priced at $749.99 and comes with a lower power (but still quad-core) AMD Phenom 9500 proccessor (2.2GHz), a 500GB drive, DVD burner, and eschews the TV tuner. Think of the GT5662 as a beginner multimedia system for the person who needs more power than the standard $400-500 dual core basic PC.

Both systems come with an ATI Radeon HD 2400XT 3D graphics card with HDMI support and Windows Vista Home Premium.

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