Compaq GX5000Z Desktop Review

Compaq steps up to the plate with their new GX5000Z gaming PC featuring dual Western Digital hard drives in a RAID array and an AMD Athlon 64 FX-53 CPU.

Quote from the review at Designtechnica:

“Compaq has developed a formidable contender with their X series gaming systems. The GX5000Z system we reviewed proved to be both fast and reliable. We love the fact that Compaq is using OEM parts from major manufacturers like MSI, Samsung and Creative Labs. This separates the Compaq X series apart from others such as Gateway and Dell because it allows their system to be upgraded with extreme ease. In essence, Compaq has built you a system using the same off-the-shelf parts that you can purchase yourself. They build the system for you, test it and then sell it for a few hundred dollars less than you would pay building the system yourself. Top it off with a one-year warranty through Compaq, and you are good to go.”

As you can tell from the quote, this is a pretty killer system. The only thing that needed to be fixed was the HP CD/DVD combo drive that came with the system. But truth-be-told we have never been a big fan of HP’s CD or DVD drives, they seem to be pretty inconsistent. Other than that, Compaq is on their way to compete with the likes of VoodooPC and Falcon Northwest if they keep this up! 

Read Designtechnica’s review