Pros: I picked this up on sale for $320, figuring it wouldn't take much to make a middle of the road gaming machine out of it. I used the 250 GB drive it came with as a clean boot drive and put in a 2 TB drive I had hanging around for everything else. The graphics card was replaced with a GTX 1050 ti (4GB) which is allowing high/ultra graphics on most titles at 1080p (tested on Just Cause 3 with no issues as well as Skyrim with full texture mods). As others have said, the PSU only has a 6-pin connector (75 watts plus the 75 from the pci slot) available, so selecting a graphics card with lower power draw (150 or less) is a must. Either that, or you have to Frankenstein an 8-pin power connector out of the 6 pin and Molex, which seems risky. The 1050 ti comes in both a pci power only version, which I chose, and an overclocked version that also takes the 6 pin power connector and has slightly higher speeds. I figure I can get 2 or 3 years out of the card before an upgrade, at which point I'll have to do a reassessment of how much life the CPU has left in it anyway. I haven't upgraded the RAM yet, as it has yet to bottleneck me. I assume it will become necessary at some point in the future, but for now 8GB is enough for my games (though probably too little to get the full potential out of the CPU). Fot the curious, the RAM mine shipped with was SK HYNIX 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 1600 Memory HMT451U6AFR8A-PB PC3-12800E. One of the bays had a cooling fan, but the other did not. Awkwardly, the memory was also secured in place with a dot of hot glue (I assume to prevent it from walking out over time with repeated hot/cold cycles). This seems unnecessary and messy. If I want to glue components (no thanks) , I can do it myself rather than having to carefully clean up somebody else's mess. I guess you accept some oddities and clean up with a refurbished machine.

Cons: Windows 10 install appeared to be the old install from the last user, rather than fresh. It was password protected. Reset to factory and performed a fresh one myself. Older PSU with 6 pin GPU connector. This means you'll have to select a more power-friendly card and avoid SLI/Crossfire unless you're comfortable with bodging together something with adapter cables. And the PSU looks difficult to replace unless you really, really want to get into custom wiring work. Loud on startup, but becomes quiet within 30 seconds. Glued-in RAM.

Overall Review: Overall, I'm pleased with the computer as a starting point to build on. The GPU and HDD obviously need an upgrade, regardless of what type of work you're doing with the machine. However, the bones of it are sound. You're not going to save yourself any effort buying this and upgrading over purchasing individual components and starting from scratch though. You almost have to view this as a components (and OS) bundle, rather than a desktop computer that's workable right out of the box. If the price is right for those components, then consider buying this.

Pros: I have this installed on my mid-tier gaming computer. It's fast enough that it's never the bottleneck component for performance, and I get windows boot times of under 10 seconds. Unlike others have reported, I have no heat issues, probably because I'm using a full tower case with lots of fans. I have had no crashes using the drive for the 6 months I've owned it.

Cons: This drive didn't come with mounting screws. If you don't have the right screw hanging around (hopefully it came with your motherboard), you'll have to get it separately.