Pros: Pros: it's a decent "starter" gaming computer for its price works well, has decent room for upgeades, never had mine overheat, and never had to replace any parts

Cons: Cons: my DVD drive doesn't work. i'm not sure if it just won't load movies or if it doesn't work at all. i just know for a fact that it will not play any movies. and i also found out the reason 2 of my USB ports don't work is because my motherboard is faulty. if it's turned off and anything is plugged into either of those two ports, the computer will start to boot and then freeze after it gets to the windows 8 logo

Overall Review: there's always a risk when buying a new computer or any computer part. but given that there's always a risk and with the problems i got after i bought mine. i would still buy it again and would recommend others buy this computer. it's still a pretty good computer for its price

Pros: even with the cons i'm having with it, it' still an upgrade from my previous board

Cons: i've only had it for a couple of days so this review won't be too accurate but so far this board doesn't come with any 3 pin case fan connectors which is unfortunate because now i can't use my rear fan. i don't know if i just didn't see it listed anywhere on the specs page or if it just wasn't listed at all, it's eating 100mb of my ram for whatever reason which i don't like, granted it's only 100mb but that's still 100mb i could be using for something else. i have a problem where my taskbar freezes on almost every boot-up and my programs i have set to load at startup don't load (sometimes they do sometimes they don't) i don't know if that's a problem with the board itself or if it's due to the fact that i can't use my update disc or install any windows updates (power cable for cd drive isn't long enough and i've yet to reinstall windows to reuse my product key or upgrade to windows 10 and use my windows 10 product key, nothing to do with the board itself) but if that taskbar and program startup issue does have something to do with the board itself then i've no idea how to fix it.

Overall Review: assuming i had a functioning cd drive or simply had a usb cd drive so i could do all of my updates, i would certainly buy this again