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    should i buy Gateway P-6831FX

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by haix714, May 9, 2008.

  1. haix714

    haix714 Notebook Guru

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    I was originally going to buy the p6860fx from best buy for about $1450... but i saw a lot of people saying that the cpu will bottleneck the gpu when playing games.
    So i was going to buy the p6860fx and upgrade to a t9300 cpu(because a lot of people seemed to recommend this)... that would cost about $1700 or so total...

    I am now looking at the Gateway P-6831FX at bestbuy.com for $1366 and thinkin about upgrading to the t9300 cpu.

    My question is... should i just buy the 6831 since im going to upgrade the cpu anyways? and could i buy a lower cpu such as the t7500 and not have to worry about bottlenecking?

    thanks
     
    haix714, May 9, 2008
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    Charles P. Jefferies, May 10, 2008
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