I bought this to replace an older desktop that was showing signs of age and some hard drive instability. Setup was easy, access to the inside is easy to put in second hard drive (old hard drive from other computer to facilitate file transfer). Everything was going very well. The boot up time is a little slower that I expected from a brand new computer, but that is not a big deal. It runs smoothly once it boots up. It is used mostly for bookkeeping, MS Office, and email, though I do some occasional video editing. As I was setting up the computer and copying files, everything was nice and quiet. I almost didn't even hear the fan. However, I was doing some video processing this afternoon and the fan kicked into high gear (it is still going strong now). It is very noisy, especially in the small space where the box is sitting. Other than the noise of the fans, it seems to be a very nice system.

I do not recommend purchasing this particular machine, I'm not sure if the high level version of this one is any better, but I've already swapped mine out for the exact same model just in case the first one I purchased was faulty. Unfortunately, for some reason these machines are extremely buggy. Mine is prone to spontaneously freezing at random periods of low to moderate use. The USB ports also have an issue with the wireless adapters for mouse/keyboard that causes it to stop functioning completely, which requires me to remove them from the port and re-insert them every time. There is no reliability or consistency in how this machine runs, and as a result everything I work on is continuously backed up to Google Drive, One Drive, and an 8 TB external HD (Overkill, right? Still worth it to me.) Aside from the overwhelming bad issues, the speed and performance is actually really amazing. Bearing in mind that I use mine for work, programming, writing, etc... Now, why did I decide to keep it? Well, the price point was really great at the time and I have developed my own work arounds that prevent me from losing any data in the event of a failure. I also invested in a quality SSD, which mitigates the number and frequency of crashes and freezing I experience. I love Dell, but I will probably upgrade to a different model at some point.

OMG, so happy I picked this little gem up. I was really worried about getting a low end CPU and GPU, but AMD has always surprised me. This is no exception! Had a little issue with the fan noise. When it’s cranked up, it’s definitly very loud, but I found that it seems to be more of a software issue than it actually needing to run that high. I restarted the computer and then gamed it up with no issues. Whisper quite while playing Witcher 3. Got the setting on high with all the post processing effects turned up. At 1080p we’re just over 30-35 FPS consistently. It’s Great! Sure it’s not 4K at 60, but it cost a lot more than $500 bucks to do that!

Picked this computer up considering I could not build a PC with anything near what's included for the price. Got it home and first thing I did was add a 120gb ssd and install Windows 10 to it and set as boot drive. Then cleared the 1tb drive. I wanted it to be as OEM as possible. Dell has always made a good computer. But now it's even better. SSD upgrade and no bloat ware installed. Plays some basic games and outs to 3 monitors just fine. Worth the price I paid! And the Geeksquad warranty is always a plus over building one piece by piece.

I've had this PC for about 2 months now, and so far, it's still usable. There are only two things that make me nervous: the HDD and the GPU. I can hear the HDD very clearly, and I don't think I'm supposed to. But I haven't had any performance issues with it. No errors, and it hovers around 3-15 ms response time on idle. I've also been playing games on it, such as CODMWRemastered and World of Warships, with no issues. The GPU has a habit of becoming extremely hot to the touch, but I haven't been able to find any good software to measure its temperature, so all I can do is hope it's not going to fry. The main reason I'm concerned about the GPU is that sometimes when I turn the computer on, the Dell emblem appears, and Windows continues the boot process, but the PC stops sending a signal to my monitor. I don't think the monitor is the issue. But the only thing I've found that works is unplugging the cable connected to the PC and plugging it in again, and that seems to work temporarily. And then I don't have any problems for a couple of days. I'm using the HDMI output which is adapted to VGA. CODMWRemastered can be choppy sometimes on this PC. Although this GPU has GDDR5 memory, it only has 2 GB, which is not enough for most newer games. I wish the PC came with the 4 GB version. But World of Warships works great. Fortnite also works very well on this PC. I play it with 2nd highest settings. One thing to be aware of is that the PSU is only 460W, so if you want to upgrade the GPU, you're probably going to have to replace that, too. One other problem that I've been experiencing is random freezing. It's getting really annoying. The thing is that I'm not sure if it's due to the PC or Windows 10, but I'm guessing Windows 10 is behind the freezing, if not also the random absence of a signal when I turn it on, as the Dell emblem appears, so it's probably not the hardware. Outside of that, it's a great computer for just about anything. And if you want to run a VM on it, that'll work great, too. And for the price, I can't really complain.