The machine itself came quicker than I expected. I worked at HP back in the early 2000's, and I was familiar with the line tests etc. As soon as I got it, I upgraded the memory to the maximum possible, and started looking into adding an extra drive for longterm storage. The lights are probably a draw to some people, but I really am unmoved. It's quiet, and definitely runs some games I wanted to play. My machine was 15 years old but still played BG3 and other games. I'd built it from scratch. This was the first real OEM box purchase I've ever made. I'm a student at GATech and a teacher now, the discount and the black friday free shipping, with headphone gift were very nice. An xmas gift of a gaming mouse and hyperX keyboard have made my office change tone a bit. kindof distracting...ngl :)
Got this at a Black Friday sale with an additional 10% off coupon. My geek friend thinks just get the components would cost him a lot more. Runs cool and quiet. I use it primarily for creating electronic music that uses wave files, midi devices, virtual instruments, effects, and sophisticated software. I added an internal 8TB HDD for additional storage.
PC is great hasn’t had any problems, only thing that is kind of weird is it seems like there’s less mb left until the graphics card is maxed out than my old 2090Ti when I have the settings the way I usually place them