If you are a hard core gamer then the only thing you are looking for in a desktop is one that has a lot of RAM and a kick ass video card. With this in mind we would like to introduce the Gateway FX6801-03.

The Gateway FX6801-03 which has a list price of $1279.99 is a high quality, straightforward, no-nonsense gaming system for under $1300.

The FX6801-03’s GPU upgrade definitely shows on our gaming tests. On 3DMark Vantage (at 1024 by 768 resolution), the FX6801-03 scored 28,178, which has beaten the FX6800-01e’s still respectable score of 21,787. At 1,920 by 1,200 on 3DMark Vantage (1920 x 1200) it scored 4,197, double that of the FX6800-01e’s 2,692. When I played the resource-eating Crysis at 1,280 by 1,024 resolution, the FX6801-03 performed very well, scoring 72 frames per second (fps), easily beating the FX6800-01e’s 58 fps. It also scored higher than the Polywell Poly 790GX3 and the Editors’ Choice Dell Studio XPS 435. On our Multimedia test suite the FX6801-03 also held its own, its scores of :39 seconds in our Windows Media Encoder test and 15,891 on Cinebench R10, besting the HP Firebird with VoodooDNA 803’s 45 seconds and the Gateway FX6800-01e’s14, 274 respectively.

The FX6801-03 is a very good system that gamers will definitely love, its bundled in all the right gaming specs. You can play whatever game you like and it will not give up on you. This system is a bang on gaming desktop nothing else, however if you do decide to use it for something else, you will pleasantly surprised that it can.