Part of me finds it depressing that Gateway and the cow boxes have disappeared from our campuses. I sort of miss the every expanding CRT monitors that started to take over faculty and grad student ...

Last year, for the first time since 1985, PC sales fell. Gateway PC sales peaked at 5 million in 2000 but dropped to 3.5 million last year and 2 million so far this year, according to the company.

Gateway set us up with the FX6803 for this review. This system comes from the middle of the company's gaming desktop range, featuring an Intel i7 930 processor and an ATI HD 5850 graphics card.