✓ VERIFIED

Gateway 2000 4DX2-66V

1993 · desktop

Specifications

Cpu: Intel 486DX2, 66 MHz, with an empty OverDrive upgrade socket on the board
Gpu: ATI Mach32-based VLB card, 1 MB (sources vary between Graphics Ultra Pro and OEM Mach32 boards)
Ram: max: 64 MB via four 72-pin FPM SIMM sockets · base: 8 MB (64 KB cache), often ordered with 16 MB
Ports: Serial · Parallel · AT keyboard (DIN) · Dual local-bus IDE · ISA 16-bit x8 (two doubling as VESA Local Bus)
Display: Bundled 15" Gateway CrystalScan monitor
Storage: base: 340-420 MB IDE hard drive depending on order date, plus dual floppies (1.2 MB 5.25" and 1.44 MB 3.5") · options: 2x SCSI CD-ROM (Toshiba, Gateway bezel)
Os Support: latest: Windows 95 (runs, community-tested on 486DX2 systems) · shipped: MS-DOS 6.x with Windows 3.1
Release Price: $2,995

Variants

Revisions

Desktop caseSame spec sheet in a horizontal desktop chassis

Tower caseVertical mini-tower chassis, the configuration most collectors associate with the cow-spot box era

Upgrade paths

RAM

64 MB via four 72-pin FPM SIMM sockets · Standard 72-pin SIMMs, sockets accessible without removing drive cages.

EASY

CPU

Intel OverDrive / Pentium OverDrive via the unpopulated upgrade socket · The board shipped with an empty OverDrive socket, a documented selling point of Gateway's 486 line.

MODERATE