I use this for garden variety computing, did not purchase for gaming, bought it for specs, and it does not disappoint. What was most surprising to me was the variance in form factor of the SSD. I have been out of cracking open computers for a couple of years, so, opening this box and not finding a classic 3.5 or 2.5 inch HDD or SSD was concerning. Went back to specs found the M.2 designation, looked it up.. holy smokes.. the thought of having 512G right on the MB. No Idea of the architecture, but obviously parallel processing.This thing rocks.