Personal experience with respect to Gateway computers:

They are decent computers (I have three in fact), but I recently bought the
1.2 gHz AMD Gateway with the GeForce 2 Ultra and SB Live cards in it, and EQ
would totally lock up every time I played. I could not re-boot, turn off the
PC, or anything, but had to actually unplug the power cord, wait, and then
plug it back in to even get the computer to work. I had to download a bunch
of tweaks and drivers from Via, NVidia, Microsoft, etc. (none of the Gateway
stock drivers are now on the computer, including the motherboard chipset
driver), and now it works fine, but I was ready to send it back to Gateway
at first.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Su" <suceress@...>
To: <EverQuest@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 11:35 PM
Subject: Re: [EverQuest] Great EQ Computer?

>
> My dad got an HP with a 1Ghz processor and some type of Nvidia card.
Nvidia
> bought 3dfx so their cards are more likely to be compatible with EQ-- the
> later ones that is.
> The voodoo 5 works pretty well. I recommend a 32bit rather than 16bit.
> There's a sound card.. live audio or something-- I have to ask what it was
> again. it sound really really cool.
> I hear Gateway is good if you buy during the right time in the season.
> luv,
> -Su