Question 1

Can you put a graphics card in it?

Accepted Answer

After I added a new power supply (600 Watt), then put in a EVGA GTX 460, this is a roughly 10 inch double wide card.  The mother board also had room for 4 sticks of memory.  I added 2 more for 24 gigs.  These were easy mods, done one at a time after testing the machine at each step.  The power supply is the key element because underpowered riggs run hotter, and heat kills - I would have replaced the power supply even without the other upgrades.

Question 2

The Desktop looks great, great specs for quite a low price, but my question is what about the cooling system? Does it have it installed or does the case have it automatically installed? And does the computer overheat easily or it takes time?

Accepted Answer

The only modification I have made to the computer is a RAM upgrade to 24GB. The rest of the components are stock. I use the computer for flow simulations and have run the computer at 100% CPU for 8-12 hours dozens of times. The computer has never overheated. The stock cooler is sufficient for all purposes unless you intend to do extreme overclocking (which I believe will require a different motherboard).

Question 3

Does this have the free Windows 10 Upgrade included like my other Asus computer did?
And I find it hard to believe but is it true that if the back of the case is opened (like to added memory or my (data) hard drive, etc) that by do so  it "VOIDS" the 1 year warranty?

Accepted Answer

I called Asus support and the tech said to me I could upgrade the video card without voided the warranty but I would call the number myself and double check. There is a tag that does say you will voice the warranty.
Windows 10 upgrades are free to any PC that has windows 7 pr 8 or 8.1. I bought 7 of these machines and all the updates to windows 10 went smoothly. Just make an iso or a flash drive image before you begin the upgrade process.

Regards,

Frank

Question 4

This seems like a pretty good system, but 1x1TB HDD, if I crack the case to add another 1TB for RAID1 and another 8GB of memory, warranty go poof?  Been building systems since 386's, so really doubt I am going to "damage" anything.

Accepted Answer

The one I got had a bad systemboard (motherboard) so I had to return it for repair before I could use it. Their instructions for return say that they won't return anything extra added to it. They say the warranty might  be void if we write on the case. Yeah, that sounds strange to me. Hopefully you won't need to return the new system.

If you need help with the system on the weekend and their customer support can't help then submit a ticket online and they will get back to you Sunday night (probably Monday morning in China). It is difficult to get details of exactly what this model has and looks like, not even their customer support people can find that.

Question 5

what type of MS office can run on this PC?

Accepted Answer

You can run Office 2007 on without an issue.

Question 6

What is the maximum amount of memory this machine will support?

Accepted Answer

32 Gigs of Memory. It is occupying on 1 slot.  You have 3 empty slots. It really is a nice machine only paid 450 with shipping.

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