This computer is wicked powerful even in gaming at 1080p medium on Beamng.drive with a gtx 1050, it runs 60 fps, and I could do so many thing all at once, my only confusion was the hard drive sleds, they are flexible and dont actually screw into the HDDs but have posts that stick out to hold them in place. The packaging was very excellent with the box being lined with plastic, filled with fill in foam, then covered the computer, then poured the foam on top, then taped up and sent to me in an enormous box( it was great ) the processor may not run at the highest GHz but it has 8 cores and 16 threads to do just about anything you want on it. The ventilation is wonderful, the temps on my GPU are great, comes with a single 6 pin GPU connector, 600 watts PSU, I haven't found a use for the firewire port yet, but eventually I will.... The I/O on the rear is great coming at 6 total USB out of the motherboard, and supports many extra PCIe slots. Now, I'm kinda mixed emotions about the dual channel ( 2 sticks of 16GB ) RAM for a Server CPU ( intel Xeon e5-2650 v2 )which I'm sure would perform better under all slots loaded with 4GB each slot ( there are 8 slots). The inside was very clean and tidy, the wires weren't all over the place, and the cooler isnt the Asetech watercooler for this thing but uses a chungus heatsink. The well-aware-of-before-arrival scratches are VERY visible, but I knew and dont care about them- they dont effect performance. And the side panel has an E-Peen handle that makes a sound while coming off that would excite any computer nerd or IT technician. ( just saying). All fans and parts internally were in great condition. I recommend this computer to anyone on a budget for performance!
Great platform for high-performance gaming machine
Great platform for building a high-performance workstation. I ordered it bare bones, with nothing extra added. I configured it with an Intel Xeon E5-2667 processor, I'm using a LEPA closed-loop liquid cooler with 240mm radiator and push/pull fans. 800 watt 3rd party PSU, 32 GB 1600 RAM, EVGA GTX 1080ti Graphics Card, a secondary drive - M.2 NVMe SSD on a PCIe card, and a Soundblaster sound card. Its a screamer. Here's the finished product. Note the Acrylic panel with two exhaust fans.