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We have collected 2 reviews of the Gateway DX4320-45. Experts rate Gateway DX4320-45 6/10. Reviewsor.com helps you find reviews, best prices, user reviews of the Gateway DX4320-45 and Gateway Desktop computers.
The Gateway DX4320-45 ($899.99 list) exists as a middle child between the "lower end" small form factor (SFF) SX series, and the high-end gaming-oriented FX series. Like a stereotypical middle child, it's way too easy to look at this desktops shortcomings in comparison to its siblings, and that's the problem. The DX4320-45's black chassis looks a lot like the compact Gateway SX2850-33 ($549.99 list, 3.5 stars). In some ways, it's a larger version with the same design cues, like the overhanging lip on top toward the front, with embedded buttons, and power button just above it. However, since the DX4320-45 is larger, that same lip holds a digital media card reader and USB ports in addition to the photo frame button. The built-in tray on the top of the tower has a deeper indent, as well as two more USB ports for charging and syncing your MP3 player, external hard drive, or digital camera. The DX4320-45 some expansion room, but surprisingly not much more than an SFF desktop. There's space for only one PCI card and one PCIe x1 card. All four memory slots are full, though 8GB should be enough for most users these days.
Among the systems we've tested lately, three come within range of the Gateway DX4320-45 midsize-tower mainstream desktop. We're talking strictly about performance, though, because some of those competing systems drop out of the running due to their loadouts' being inferior to that of Gateway's $899 (as of January 13, 2011) machine. What's the bottom line? The DX4320-45 is a fine system from a performance vantage, but the total package suffers. One of AMD's newer chips, a Thuban-series Phenom II X6 1035T processor, lends its 2.6GHz of processing power to help the DX4320-45 achieve one of the higher benchmark scores on our mainstream-desktop chart. Note that I just said "one of the higher," not "highest." Even though Gateway's system comes with more than twice the DDR3 memory (8GB) of a machine like the $850 Lenovo ThinkCentre M90p (3GB), the latter pushed to a score of 129 on our WorldBench 6 benchmark suite, versus the Gateway's mark of 121. Before you tally a point for the Lenovo, however, consider that said system's paltry 500GB of storage pales in comparison with the DX4320-45's 1TB hard drive--that's not a bad trade-off for $50.