Right, I'll start by saying that this should've taken a month plus to get here, but it took 1 week, which I am more than pleased about.



The computer is really fast. Comes with 4GB ram, Hexacore 2.80GHz processor (which can easily be overclocked to 3.50GHz), and a decent graphics card.



That being said, there is/was a few issues. The computer is amazing for the price, but there are some things that could easily be fixed, in order to make things better.



1) The graphics card was not fitted correctly.

This machine HAS 100% been custom-made (I'll get to how I know that later), which I have no problem with; but pull out a simple program to make sure everything is working correctly. If someone buys this machine, and they have no computer experience, they're going to believe the whole machine is broken, when really all they need to do is open the side panels and give the graphics card a hard push into the sockets. This may-not be the same for everyone, cause' as I said, it's custom-made, but this could/might be done with any other component to anybody else.



2) Terrible Packaging.

I know the machine is custom-made due to when opening the box to get to my new PC, I find that the ONLY protection my new PC has is the boxes for the processor, ram, CPU, graphics card, power supply and some cellophane. Which brings up 2 issues really. One is that it states NO-WHERE on this page that this is custom-built (which again, I have no issues with, but it's something that should be listed, obvious or not). Secondly, and most importantly, that the machine could have been broken, when travelling from Germany. It needs polystyrene or something to keep it safe. Luckily my PC was is tip-top shape when it got here, but something else needs to be used to ensure protection of the system.



3) Issue with the HDD.

This is the most important, and you need to read this if buying this machine, as it could save you some hassle (and yes, I do still recommend buying this machine). You MAY have the issue I had with the hard-drive, which is fixable. The first day I had this machine, I got a blue-screen-of-death (which is where the machine crashes so much so, that it cannot even force itself to reboot. There are many different reasons for them, however). I thought nothing of it, as 1-2 a year is nothing, it can just be that the machine is handling to much at once, or it's been on for to long, and therefore needs to be rebooted. But then the next day it happened again, twice in that one day. Which is when I started to worry. I left it again, as it was only happening once every 7 hours or so, I believed I was still just over-powering the machine, pushing it to far. The next day it did it again, except this time it would not re-boot at all. Left the machine for about an hour and it finally rebooted. So, I don't know what the error is in which was causing the machine to do this, but it's somehow linked to the hard-drive.



To fix it: Go to My Computer, right click C:, properties, tools and setup a error check WITH automatic file fixing and scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors. That should fix the issue, IF you are having it as well. For some reason the machine was doing so because of a error on the drive. However, I've not had a blue-screen-of-death in 4 days now since I've done it. When before hand it was twice a day. (It takes around 4 hours for the process to complete. This should almost certainly fix that issue if you cross it)



Even with all the negatives about this machine, it's well worth the money and the time fixing the issues it has. And once you have, you have a very reliable and fast machine in-front of you. And for gamer's, this is also perfect. I've played GTA4, Brink, Portal 2, Borderlands and they all run fine with full FPS and settings. The machine does run a little loud, but that's no issue at all really. *IF you do have a issue with that, buy a custom fan, they are around £16, and do the job nicely. Easy to fit to).



Using a program, I viewed the heat within the machine, it runs at 37c low usage, and at high around 55c, which is nothing for high usage. (70c is fine, 80c is pushing it, 90c is normally when machines shut themselves down).



Overall, this machine is a delight once a few issues are fixed. Runs any game (even while recording it), opens programs in a mini-second, boot-time is fast, boosts internet speeds due to a decent network card and converts files quickly. A few things could be done by this company to make me happier when I got it, but I'm still real happy I bought it overall.