Customer Ratings & Reviews

The tower is quiet and the speed is awesome. It is a fantastic system for rendering and creating videos. The RAM memory uses two slots. This allows the owner to expand the RAM as they wish using the remaining two RAM slots. The ports on the front and the back of the tower are convenient and well placed. I would recommend this system to a friend, as a friend recommended I check out this system.

The main thing that made me gravitate toward this model was that I wanted a gaming PC that I could hook up to my television and run like I would a console. Having this boot up directly into Steam Big Picture mode accomplishes just that. This model has a such a sleek design that if I didn't tell you it was a computer sitting on my TV rack you would ask me "Hey what game system is that!?". Size - This think is barely the size of an original XBOX One. Its only 13in wide, like 9in deep and 3in thick. So as far as a full blown PC this thing is tiny. This is possible due to the power supply being entirely external and it using a half size graphics card. Heat - My first thing to be skeptical about on this unit was the amount of heat it would produce after playing games an extended period of time. Again, Ill use the term "incredible". After playing Shadow of War on Ultra for 6hrs+ the system is only warm to the touch and by no means considered hot. Sure the heat being expelled from the back of the video card is a little toasty but its doing all the work. This level of heat for the cpu and gpu are using the factory specified fan curve which keeps the unit almost silent. If I adjust the fans to kick up sooner and faster sure the system is cool to the touch but then its going to be louder then it needs to be. Itsall a matter of preference. With the default fans curve the CPU never hits above 75c (max on this cpu is 100), and GPU never touches 80c (max of 105). With the fans cranked up to like 70% and running loud as heck both were around 60-65c. Idle the CPU has been sub 40c. For the size and compact nature of the components the cooling is fantastic. Performance - The only game Ive really put a ton of time on this machine is Middle Earth Shadow of War Im playing on 1080p and with Ultra textures, every other setting on Ultra, AA at max, and Shaodws put to High (only thing not Ultra) and it still runs at 60fps+ which was surprising as most reviews I had read on the 6GB GTX 1060 was that it couldn't hit a consistent 60fps on Ultra on this game, and it does with flying colors. No dips or random drops either. Wonderful performance. Value - All in all while the price tag is pretty high, building a small form factor unit using a mini-ITX based mobo, even with a slower i5, 16g ram, 256gb m.2ssd, 1tb HDD, 6GB GTX 1060, case and power supply was still about $1200-1300 plus a copy of Win10. Sure you get off the shelf components with longer factory warranties but its not gonna look half as sleek and uniform as this little guy. Super happy with my purchase, added the 3YR Geek Squad Protection on it just encase there are any component failures in that time. Id buy it again and Id happily recommend this MSI unit to friends or family. The build quality is very nice.

Video is a bit grainy, considering all the power it has.