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Commodore Gaming Commodore Gaming GX

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Pros
Personalized artwork for case design
Custom air-cooling system
Cons
Unimpressive benchmark scores
No RAID configuration

Performance: Good: 75
Features: Fair: 66
Design: Very Good: 84

Find out how these scores, and their relative weights, combine to produce the PC World Rating.

Performance
Adobe Photoshop CS2	546
Autodesk 3ds max 8.0 SP-3 DirectX	370
Autodesk 3ds max 8.0 SP-3 Rendering	385
Firefox 2	253
Microsoft Office 2003 with SP-1	357
Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 9.0	227
Nero 7 Ultra Edition	441
Overall Graphics Score	Very Good
Roxio VideoWave Movie Creator 1.5	222
Winzip Computing WinZip 10.0	364
WorldBench 6 Score	97
WorldBench 6 Word Score	Good

WorldBench 6 Tests
Multitasking	286

What You Should Know about the Commodore Gaming GX

Good Amount of RAM for Running Multiple Apps at Once

This computer includes between 1GB and 3GB of RAM, our recommended level for a new PC. This much memory lets you run any modern operating system and comfortably work with quite a few applications open. The more installed memory your PC has, the more programs you can run smoothly at once, and the better the system will perform. Upgrading memory in a desktop after you purchase the PC is a breeze, but usually it's worthwhile to buy the amount of memory you want preinstalled with the system.

To use more than 4GB of memory on your PC, you need the 64-bit version of Windows XP or Windows Vista. The PCs that you see equipped with 3GB of memory (instead of 4GB) tend to use the 32-bit versions of Windows that are limited to 4GB of addressable memory, the top portion of which is addressed by the various hardware devices on the system.