Gateway DX4200-UB001A

Best overall system in its price range; 64-bit Windows Vista aids memory efficiency; largest hard drive at this price

More RAM than is immediately worthwhile.

We can forgive Gateway for cramming the DX4200 with more memory than it needs simply because its specs and overall performance are the best in its price class. Of the various do-it-all lower midrange PCs out there, this one gets our nod.

I think this computer was well worth my money... 

can play World of Warcraft really well, has tons of memory for Autocad programs, has a fast enough processor to be good for a few years

graphics could be better mainly in fps games (it won't play Crysis very good so don't buy it for that)

221 ntdll.dll bad? cannot recover yet after ... 

cheap system, $650circity, 6gb ram, amd 9550 phenom, 600gb hard drive

blue screen of death after ripping some cd's, uploading to 1gb mp3 sandisk? is it the hardware or just Microsoft software or both?

I had some trepidation about the AMD quad cor... 

Memory to spare. Gobs of HD space. Quiet and cool. Little or no Crapware. Get to support AMD as opposed to the "other evil empire"

Vista - SUCKS. Rather have 64-bit XP. There was no optical (or coax) digital audio output.