A:Answer I work at Best Buy and if you're looking to do gaming, heavy video editing or heavy photoshop this will do it just fine. It has a 6th gen quad core i5, paired with 8 GB of DDR4, and a terabyte of storage. As well as a 4GB graphics card. An i7 is not needed in desktop gaming due to the quad core of a desktop i5. The RAM is DDR4 while most have DDR3, and the graphics card has plenty of dedicated video memory. I would recommend this for high performance use or gaming. I am a big fan of Asus. They make motherboards, monitors, tablets, phones, laptops and more. I am very pleased with their products. Give it a shot!