By the look of the things they are trying to shift the buggy Phenom off the shelves by adding a few extras.
Heat with the AMD's is still and issue, so come summer it'll be baking.
The AMD might have more memory, but it's slower.
The lack of any spec for the motherboard on the Gateway also has me worried, a good way of cutting corners is to throw a cheap arsed motherboard in there.
In saying that though iBUYPOWER has followed the same principle and stuck a cheap motherboard in theirs too.
And that's the biggest worry for me with both of them.
What I've seen time after time with these type of machines is that the PSU and/or motherboard fails a couple of years down the line.
A new PSU is easily and cheaply replaced, but you are hard pushed to find a motherboard by that time and even if you do get one you don't know what else it's fried when it blew and you are left with a case, a couple of optical drives, some oldish memory and a gfx card if you are lucky.
The Asus P5K does get a good name though and should prove reliable, but it's a Micro-ATX with only two memory slots and (again usual for these type of machines) leaves no scope for upgrade since the memory fitted is the fastest it will ever support, it also has an integrated graphics chip which screams 'cheap'.
I suspect that with both of these rigs it's downhill all the way.
Food for thought mate..
