Best Gaming PC: Gateway 700XL

Gateway's got game with this monster PC that will handle anything you throw at it. The Best Stuff crew uses the new Gateway 700XL series for serious game testing. When not busy gaming, it can chew its way through the most demanding jobs (like video editing, music making and other power hungry projects) without missing a beat.

Today’s video games push a PC to the max, and to get the best audio and video you need a really powerful machine with the latest graphics and sound cards, the fastest processor and the most memory you can afford. The new Gateway 700XL is outfitted with the Intel Pentium P4 3.2 GHz hyper-threading processor and the Intel 875P chipset. It also comes with two separate serial 250 GB ATA hard drives and over a gigabyte of memory. For a video card, it sports a 256MB NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900G Ultra AGP graphics accelerator with both digital TV and DVI outputs. Despite all the horsepower, Gateway machines are noticeably quieter than other brands. This may not sound like much, but to buyers of these machines those extra decibels can spoil the broth. You got to pay to play as the 700XL costs around $3,500/without monitor. www.gateway.com