iBUYPOWER Gamer Extreme NE731i Desktop PC Intel Core i5 3570k(3.40GHz) 8GB DDR3 500GB HDD Capacity NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 2GB Windows 8

Pros: Great gaming graphics with high performance, Windows 8 is fine once I got used to it

Cons: Didn't work with VGA cable (HDMI worked fine), mouse was subpar but a decent freebie

Other Thoughts: Bought this about 2 months ago and it's worked excellently so far. Plays Skyrim, Crysis, etc on very high settings with hardly any issues.

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We want to thank you for being a customer of iBUYPOWER and we appreciate you take the time to send your feedback and will continue to strive to make our products better. If you have any questions about your products please feel free to contact newegg@ibuypower.com, we will answer all your questions in a timely matter. Thanks again.

Pros: wow... most my games diable3 and games requires high quality... use this desktop

Cons: great construct for gaming

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Pros: Plays CS:GO on high with over 150/fps, CSS on high with over 300/fps. Plays F1 racing on high no problem. Multi-tasking is a breeze. Computer comes looking very clean and elegant. Lots of room for upgrades.

Cons: Somewhat noisy compared to other models I've used. Windows is tricky to get used to without using a windows 7 template.

Other Thoughts: The computer is amazing. Right out of the box everything was perfect. Everything started up fine and it has been running consistently well for over 4 months now. I play games while listening to youtube, searching google and checking facebook. The computer has no problems. I've even done a bit of video editing and it seemed to power through it all, even with such large uncompressed files. Over all, this is an amazing budget style computer. You get more than the price which is nice, I have no complaints other than the jet engine sound when it first boots up. Great computer! Thanks newegg and Ibuy!

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Pros: Very fast computer if it works. fast shipping. newegg is excellent i always purchase any computer stuff from them.

Cons: I bought an ibuypower computer for my brother who lives else where and the computer arrived on time but the first 10mins the computer started to freeze up...did windows 8 updates and seemed to be working fine. tryed to install a game and soon as the game boots up the computer restarts it self...so i called Ibuypower today (horrible support) all they could tell my brother is to download the Nvidia graphics card update and if that doesnt work call newegg.

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Dear valued iBUYPOWER customer,

Please kindly E-mail me your contact information and I will contact you directly regarding the issues you are experiencing. Can you also please register your product on http://www.ibuypower.com/retail.aspx to speed up the process if a RMA is needed. If you have any additional questions please email us at newegg@ibuypower.com. We will be more than gladly to help you out. Thanks again for choosing iBUYPOWER!

Pros: Starts up fast

Cons: Everytime i launch a game the computer freezes and reboots? its always freezing from the minute i got it and its been one day. Called tech support put me in a Q and then i got no call back...called them back and they where closed.
Any help please?

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Dear valued iBUYPOWER customer,

Please kindly E-mail me your contact information and I will contact you directly regarding the issues you are experiencing. Can you also please register your product on http://www.ibuypower.com/retail.aspx to speed up the process if a RMA is needed. If you have any additional questions please email us at newegg@ibuypower.com. We will be more than gladly to help you out. Thanks again for choosing iBUYPOWER!

Pros: The only good thing that came from this was actually being able to play a few games that my old computer couldn't..

Cons: As soon as I got this lump of parts it wouldn't work with my old monitor. Telling me that it couldn't read the connection. Thinking my monitor was just ancient I went out and bought a new monitor only to come to the same problem. After taking it in to the local office depot they hooked me up with a converter and it got the monitor to display every thing it should have at the start. After that the same problem occurred when I tried to start up certain games. For example planetside 2 when it was booting up in full screen it would switch over to "Cannot read connection" this upset me yet again but I blew it off. But this is the last straw the computer told me to restart to fix a broken driver and as I type this out it's still on a black screen. (I'm typing this review on my laptop) So if I were you I'd order the parts my self and build the pc so you know it's put together right.

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Dear valued iBUYPOWER customer,

Please kindly call our customer service department at 888-462-3899 and we will do our best to resolve your issues. Can you also please register your product on http://www.ibuypower.com/retail.aspx to speed up the process if a RMA is needed. If you have any additional questions please email us at newegg@ibuypower.com. We will be more than gladly to help you out. Thanks again for choosing iBUYPOWER!

Pros: Very fast, I can run all my favorite games at ulta (Rift, planetside 2, counter-strike: global offensive, Dota 2)

Cons: Not a big deal, but only has one extra PCI-e slot, so after I installed my wireless adapter I am left with 0. Not a big deal though, it has pretty much everything you need already installed.

Other Thoughts: Awesome! Would definitely reccommend

Manufacturer Response:

Dear Valued iBUYPOWER Customer,

We want to thank you for being a customer of iBUYPOWER and we appreciate you taking the time to send your feedback and will continue to strive to make our products better. If you have any questions about your product please feel free to contact newegg@ibuypower.com. We will answer all your questions in a timely matter. Thanks again.

Pros: Great to Excellent performance on all recent to modern games, with the exception of GTA4 maxed out on every slider, where it will average about 20-40 FPS in normally busy area with lots of shadows, and Metro 2033 completely maxed out (DX11, Very High, tessellation enabled)

Windows 8 is actually not bad at all. It's significantly faster than 7, and feels overall more fluid.

Cons: I had two blue screens (although in Windows 8, they seem to be sad faces) for two strange reasons. The first one occured when I was downloading a game, the PC went into standby mode, and when I came back, it had crashed due to a memory error. The second was probably my fault, and crashed the new driver I was using because I forced 32xCSAA onto an old game and tried to open the Task Manager.

The keyboard is uneven. For some reason, you can solve this problem by putting the keyboard wire under the left support piece.

The front headphone/mic ports are SEVERELY broken and not working correctly, giving screeching audio.

The HDMI and Analog ports DID NOT WORK with my brand new monitor, with the monitor recognizing that an HDMI cable was plugged in but the screen was always black. Fortunately, the DVI port worked fine, but only when I switched to a different, older monitor that supported DVI. When I used my newer monitor on my older PC that had HDMI/Analog input, it worked! Something is wrong with the pieces of this computer.

Other Thoughts: I got my problems solved enough for me to the point where I can just enjoy this new PC, but unfortunately, I have to wonder how a company can just send a PC to a customer in the state like it is. How can you say, "thorough stress testing for safety and performance" when pieces of it still don't even work? It's silly.

Manufacturer Response:

Dear Valued iBUYPOWER Customer,

We want to thank you for being a customer of iBUYPOWER and we appreciate you taking the time to send your feedback and will continue to strive to make our products better. If you have any questions about your product please feel free to contact newegg@ibuypower.com. We will answer all your questions in a timely matter. Thanks again.

Pros: I've only just recently purchased this product, previously using a laptop for all my gaming needs. Though as the years passed my laptop fell behind for todays demands of a gaming device, so I turned to this. It works great with the current games I have tried on it. Though they weren't games my old laptop couldn't handle.

I don't really understand the fuss, but I really like Windows 8. The start menu allows me to keep my desktop nice and clean of icons.

I like the keyboard, it's nice and thin and every keystroke feels satisfying, however I do wish it was backlit.

Cons: It comes with the bare minimum. As soon as I received the device, there was not much I could do with it and I still can't. I first had to go out and buy a DVI cable seeing as none is included.

No ability to connect wirelessly to the internet. I went over to another online vendor to buy a wireless adapter, so until that comes, I can't really play any online games or even surf the web. This stings the most seeing as I have been dying to play Hawken and Planetside 2 on this device. Those two games being some of the main reasons I bought this desktop.

The mouse feels cheap and hollow, luckily I had my own mouse and just gave this one to a friend.

Manufacturer Response:

Dear Valued iBUYPOWER Customer,

We want to thank you for being a customer of iBUYPOWER and we appreciate you taking the time to send your feedback and will continue to strive to make our products better. If you have any questions about your product please feel free to contact newegg@ibuypower.com. We will answer all your questions in a timely matter. Thanks again.

Pros: Very quiet, very powerful. I've been running everything I throw at it on max settings. WoW, BF3, CoD Black Ops 2, Planetside 2. Very excited to see how this handles FF14 ARR.

Cons: I ordered 2 of these beasts. (One for myself, and one for my roommate who didnt have a credit card) While mine had absolutely no issues, my roomates prompted for a driver update after a day. I'm not sure if he accidently downloaded the wrong driver but after reseting the computer there was no video after the MOBO Logo. After using the option to "Reset your mobo" everything booted up fine, just needed to reinstall the drivers and its been working great ever since.

The mouse that comes with this computer is extremely flimsy. I'm using my old G5 and had the intention of giving this mouse to my other roomate who was buying my old PC. I dropped it and it shattered into about 15 peices.

While I havnt had any issues with W8, it wont allow me to edit video.scr for Dead Island so I can run it on a second monitor.

Manufacturer Response:

Dear Valued iBUYPOWER Customer,

We want to thank you for being a customer of iBUYPOWER and we appreciate you taking the time to send your feedback and will continue to strive to make our products better. If you have any questions about your product please feel free to contact newegg@ibuypower.com. We will answer all your questions in a timely matter. Thanks again.