Great PC, needs better cooling. I actually took the parts out and used a different case, power supply, RAM, and added a better cooler. I didn’t need to because this prebuilt is actually great out of the box, I didn’t do any thermal testing but a 120mm AIO with an i7-11700 is just not enough. If you decide to get this, upgrade cooler and you’re set. The MSI case is actually really cool and I want to do a built in it.

Review after 6 months: this is a good machine overall. It runs fast, has a great gpu, better components than the vast majority of prebuilts and very nice aesthetics with the mystic lighting. As long as gpu's remain unavailability to ordinary consumers, the Aegis line is a great value. However, the aesthetics are a poor tradeoff for MSI's subpar house-brand AIO, which is loud enough to be distracting even when the computer is idle. Frankly, this cooler is an absolute joke compared to the six year old Corsair h100i that is still running nicely, and reasonably quietly, in my old 6600k/gtx1070 build. I am mainly posting this review to confirm that a Noctua NH-D15S, with chromax heatsink covers, fits just fine in this machine, runs dead quiet and looks pretty clean. (See image.) I wish I had made this change months ago instead of grinding my teeth listening to the MSI AIO for so long. For reference, the hardest part of swapping out the MSI cooler is carefully cutting a couple of zip ties and gently prying off the stock MSI cooler backplate, which is affixed with a pair of adhesive strips. I recommend that anyone who buys this, or any other MSI machine that includes an MSI cooler, budget for a new cooler. AIO's look cool, but these days, the good air cooler's are quieter and seemingly more effective. MSI's bios is also a far cry from what I was used to with prior Asus boards. Go in with low expectations on this front, and disappointment is avoidable.

If you’re someone who’s looking to refresh their entire PC setup, this is definitely one of the least painful options you can choose in the current PC component market. Out of the box should satisfy the needs of most people who buy this, but there are some choice upgrades you can add to really maximize performance. I dropped in a Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 3600 MhZ RAM kit, replaced the standard AIO with a top mounted MSI MAG Series CORELIQUID 240R AIO, replaced the standard thermal pase with Arctic MX-5, and added a couple of HDDs to suppliment the 1TB SSD. With all those upgrades, I was able to overclock the entire system to meet the 3600 Mhz RAM speed and push the i7 11700KF to max speeds with thermals never breaking 50 degrees celsius under strenuous gaming sessions.

My first PC ever! Quality components and clean wiring as other comments already mentioned without additional costs. Only complain was CPU running 70c idle and 100c on load, thought was due to insufficient cooling provided by a 120 aio or bad thermal paste application. Replaced with a new Msi mag 240r aio and now it hardly reaches 70c under load! 3080 lhr is ok for me given the crazy market and I’m not mining, it’s running around 70 under load which is ok, maybe I’ll replace the thermal pads in the future. This card is powerful enough to handle triple 2k monitors with around 100fps for sim racings which is a surprise to me! Oh for the out of box high cpu temperature, I found the protection sticker on the water block was not even removed before applying the thermal paste, which is totally ridiculous! And the back plate is glued to the mobo it took me some time to remove it. Another thing is it came with 2 drives and 700 GB allocated to the C drive, it took me some time to redo this. In general I spent sometime tweaking it but I love this build so far!

Overall, I was impressed with the design, parts, and performance of this machine. Bought this mostly just to get something with an Nvidia RTX 3080 (impossible to get, costs nearly as much standalone from scalpers). Parts are all premium mid-to-high end stuff rather than bargain/budget components like many prebuilts. I replaced the original 120mm cooler with a 240mm, I like my CPU to be nice and chilly, and here's why I knock a star off: when I removed the original cooler and bracket, the thermal paste was only in contact with about 70% of the CPU (see pic). The installer had obviously put a blob of paste off-center and then didn't install the CPU heat block evenly. When I removed the backplate for the new cooler, one of the two foam tape strips still had plastic backing on it. Besides those obvious mistakes, nothing else has been an issue at all. I added a 2 TB NVME 2nd drive, and fully wiped it to eliminate bloatware. Runs everything like a dream, CPU temps around 70 max with a Corsair iCue H100i 240mm all-in-one cooler. GPU hits around 75 max with full benchmark loads, memory junction around 90 (some other RTX 3080s hit 100+ on mem junction, so this MSI card is pretty good). Idle temps are amazing and the fans are very quiet on idle: 30 CPU, 35 GPU. Benchmarks with no overclocking: Firestrike: 28548 Timespy: 16032 Port Royal: 11145 One final note, when the fans are all kicking up under load, they aren't super loud, and just sound like rushing air, I don't hear any coil whine or high pitched annoying sounds at all.