Customers appreciate the Aegis RS Gaming Desktop's high performance and excellent graphics card, frequently praising its ease of setup and ability to run games smoothly at high frame rates. Many also highlight the speed of the SSD. While some users mentioned issues with the included mouse and storage capacity, the overall feedback points to a positive user experience.
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Performance
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Good but just missed great.
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So overall it’s an awesome computer. It’s a reasonably clean build. ( a little more support for the GPU would be nice) It’s incredibly fast and a breeze to setup. I do have one issue and it may seem small but hey this isn’t a cheep build. The MSI RTX 2070 Super that’s installed in my computer either has bad RBG or none at all. There are some visual indications that this may not be a new out of the box GPU. To me it’s like buying a new car and the fog lights don’t work. Will it effect how the car drives, no but I paid for the lights and I want the darn things to work. I will be in touch with Best Buy and MSI to get the issue resolved.
I would recommend this to a friend
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Performance
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Great Plug and Play
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Posted . Owned for 2 months when reviewed.
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Excellent plug and play machine. I was new to the PC world and this blew my expectations out of the water. Ive had it for about 2 months now. Quiet, Fast, and RGB lights. Ive played World of Warcraft, Call of Duty, Fortnite, League of legends, CS:GO, plus many others and its handled everyone i have thrown at it so far. High settings with high FPS. 10/10 would recommend
I would recommend this to a friend
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Performance
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Great Computer
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Posted . Owned for 1 week when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Great computer for the money. The combo of an I7 and the RTX 2070 Super make this a very efficient computer. The components are of good quality and the computer is fast enough for my needs. I work from home with three monitors, do some video editing, and my son and I also use it for gaming. So far, we have had ZERO issues with this computer. It runs all of our games very smoothly. Even MSFS 2020 on ultra settings, which is a very tough game on computers. I have yet to do any editing with this computer, but I don't anticipate any issues. The one complaint I saw before buying this computer was an issue of the graphics card sagging from the weight. This was an easy fix, I just order a support bar from Amazon and installed it when I received the computer. Simple fix. The keyboard and mouse are good quality for being included. Overall, this is a good efficient gaming mid-range gaming computer.
I would recommend this to a friend
Rated 3 out of 5 stars
I Expected A Bit More From MSI
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Posted . Owned for less than 1 week when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Overall I was satisfied with my purchase of the MSI Aegis RS but there were several things that I found when looking the unit over that were anywhere from a bit disappointing to downright confusing.
First off, after receiving a brand new computer, your first action shouldn't be to go buy upgraded parts and accessories because your brand new unit falls short. My original plan was to build my own but finding a GPU that isn't being sold by a scalper is nearly impossible right now so a prebuilt was my only choice. I wanted the 2070 Super at a minimum which is what this computer comes with. The MSI Geforce RTX 2070 Super looks great and performs as it should. One thing I would absolutely recommend if you're going to buy this is to go ahead and locate/purchase a GPU support bracket or stand. After about two minutes of standing upright on the initial startup, the sag was completely evident and, honestly, a little terrifying. I was very disappointed that such a reputable company that makes parts as a business wouldn't have shored this monster up. It's obviously going to sag and obviously going to stress the board to failure at some point which is why I currently have it laying down on its side until the support bracket arrives in a few days.
I was happy with the 10th gen Intel Core i7-10700 processor and was honestly surprised to find a computer with a 2070 super and a 10700 at this price. I wanted the i7 at a minimum for future proofing so that part is great but the cooler that is on it is a monster. I will be replacing it with something much more compact and cleaner in the future. The cooler is also so large and intrusive that it has to be removed to install an SSD in the m.2 slot and maybe even to expand to four sticks of ram. I already have thermal paste on the way to replace the paste that I'm going to take off when I remove the cooler to add the m.2 drive later this week to replace the odd storage choice of a partitioned 1 TB SSD.
The SSD that comes with the unit is an off-brand 1 TB 2.5" SSD that is partitioned in to two separate drives. A 550 GB boot drive and a 350 GB D:\ partition. I'm not sure why the boot drive is so large and the second is so small, I personally would have flipped the two.
The system seems to have plenty of cooling with the three fans pulling air in the front and the one in the back pushing it out. There is a large open area on top with a removable mesh filter for passive airflow and three fans on the GPU that are positioned on the bottom making the second PCI slot completely useless.
The system looks nice and the RGB is very customizable but I would have readily traded all of the RGB for a little bit of performance. This computer performed very well on benchmarks and seems to be a great machine for the money, there were just some places MSI cut corners that feel cheap and unnecessary. For an extra $75 we could have had proper support for the GPU, a real SSD (m.2 or, at the very least, a known brand SSD) and, surely, a basic liquid cooler over this clunky 5 tube heat sink boat anchor.
They keyboard and mouse that come with it work fine but if you're a gamer looking for a mechanical click, you'll want to upgrade. Likewise, if you're looking to use the computer primarily for work, you'll probably want to go with one that has a better feel to it.
In the end, my focus was getting the 2070 Super that I will be putting in a custom build down the road and this was the best option I could find for getting the GPU I wanted. I guess I expected more from a known, reputable brand which is why it's only 3 stars.
I would recommend this to a friend
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Performance
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
So far, so good!!
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Posted . Owned for less than 1 week when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
The picture is slightly misleading, the CPU cooler mine came with is pretty huge, which is a good thing, but it totally blocks one of the NVME slots if you want to add one later. That being said, I opened everything up, plugged everything in and haven't had one single hickup with the thing. Fires up super fast and has run everything I can throw at it with ease. For the money (got it 10% off with a rewards coupon) I don't think you're gonna get much better.
I would recommend this to a friend
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Performance
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Much better then my I5, 970 set up.
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Posted . Owned for less than 1 week when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Im really enjoying this pc! I was able to get it for 1350 total because I had a 10 percent promo code so that was a huge bonus! I havnt had an issue once with the pc. It was super simple to set it all up. I don’t recommend dragon center though. Garbage application. If you wanna set a fan curve or over clock, download msi afterburner. Also download GeForce experience for your gpu driver.
This pc can run warzone and bf5 with ultra setting and RTX at 1440p at solid 60 FPS. So that’s a win for me.
I would recommend this to a friend
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Performance
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Its a beast for video editing, streaming, gaming
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Posted . Owned for 1 week when reviewed.
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If can get this computer. I found it was on backorder a lot, but I got lucky.
So I've used this for video editing, live streaming, and lots of games. CyberPunk, Phasmobia, all in all, it's killer.
I have nothing to say, but it's killer!
You be the judge on my highlight live streaming, link below. :)
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/882639517
I would recommend this to a friend
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Ease of use
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Could not be any easier
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Posted . Owned for 1 week when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Hi guys so this is my first gaming pc. This could not be any easier to set up and start downloading all the games I play. I first got the wrong monitor it was a free sync. Exchanged it for a MSI optix 27 inch curved monitor and WOW it looks great also all of the interface for the monitor was on the back with the joystick. This pc was so simple plug and play. Yes it took time to update and yes Windows was being Windows that to had to update. So simple.
I would recommend this to a friend
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Performance
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Great computer with an awesome GPU
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Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Bang for buck, great purchase. Might upgrade the power supply but overall super happy with this purchase (520w bronze). Runs most games on high or ultra quality no problems. Airflow isn’t bad, but might also ad a liquid cooler when going to stream. Air cooling has been mint for the mean time.
I would recommend this to a friend
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Performance
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Aegis R not an Aegis RS
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Posted . Owned for less than 1 week when reviewed.
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Owned a previous Aegis RS Model and been running strong for an year now.
However Best Buy is advertising this Aegis R as an Aegis RS. I will be returning for an better model.
I would recommend this to a friend
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Ease of use
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Overall good PC
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Only problem with I’ve had with it was 1 dead usb 2.0 port on the back, totally VR ready ran half life Alyx with no problems, battlefront2 ran at max no problems as well and so does gta 5. It’s easy to setup
The heat sync is kinda different from the one on the picture but overall it’s a good build the motherboard is also good.
I would recommend this to a friend
Rated 3 out of 5 stars
Good but could’ve gotten WAY better
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Posted . Owned for more than 2 years when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Mid end gaming PC I’ve had it for a few years now and has treated me well and has been very reliable. Good but could’ve gotten WAY better for the $1700 price tag I paid for it at the time
No, I would not recommend this to a friend
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Ease of use
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Tje best place to buy computer s
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Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
We are set n it up today .the buy and stuff was awsome and easy and they had exactly what i wanted for my sons computer .thank u yall made my day and a boys Christmas ..i will continue to go to Springfield s best buy
I would recommend this to a friend
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Graphics card
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
It’s great
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Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Actually really good and on top of that easy to upgrade to a higher graphic card with out changing anything else also you can overdock it 160 core mghtz and 1000 memory for a higher frame rate
I would recommend this to a friend
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Great bang for your buck!
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Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
This PC is a monster. Plays games at very high FPS, maxing out my monitors 144HZ refresh rate easily in most games. You have a bit of leeway too with the settings, this card is very capable and can run very nice/quality graphics settings. There is a bit of coil whine (not detrimental to the computer at all, and it happens in most cards) with this particular rendition of the 2070 Super but like I said it’s normal. It’s pretty quiet, does get a bit warm behind it. Seems very upgradeable as well, with a very nice motherboard installed. Overall a wonderful gaming rig, and it performs exactly as I expected it to. It’s very well built and cable managed as well. One of the fans stopped spinning, but after jiggling the cables a little bit it was fixed.
I would recommend this to a friend
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Performance
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
VR Ready and look good
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Posted . Owned for less than 1 week when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
For the people interested in this computer I have created a parts list of the components. This computer has played every game I've asked it to with excellent response and stays cool.
I would recommend this to a friend
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Performance
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Buy It!!
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Posted . Owned for less than 1 week when reviewed.
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Great computer! Handles my games perfectly. Would deff recommend!
I would recommend this to a friend
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
1440p Gaming Beast
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Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
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Many Prebuilts At This Price Offer This Level Of Hardware That’s In This Machine I Would Of Made My Own Custom Gaming Pc But This Pc Had Everything I Needed For A Cheaper Price. The Faults Included Cable Management, The Motherboard Not Allowing The Ram To Run At Full Speed (Even With XMP On) But Those Issues Aren’t Gamebreaking And I Can Now Run Every Game With More Than 60 FPS Though In Most Games I Can Hit Over 144 FPS Except In Quake 2 RTX but 1440p Gaming On This Pc As Well As Light 1080p Editing, Overall Great Product From MSI, Would Recommend
I would recommend this to a friend
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Performance
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Very happy
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Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Amazing value with quality parts, it runs pretty much everything on high with when optimized. RGB is Great looking.
I would recommend this to a friend
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Performance
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Great pc
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Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Works great full ultra on american truck simulator never skips a beat