First of admittedly I own quite a few pc's. The one I use the most is my desktop because it's where I start the day in the morning and end in the evening. A caveat is that my old PC was 6 years old and was a total slow poak. This computer is so fast and performs like the pc's I have at work or maybe even better. I read the complaints that it comes smelling awful and looks damaged, etc. Maybe I got lucky. I am so happy with this pc. What they sent me has a dvd rom I will never use instead of a write-able but I gave up dvds about 5 years ago. I have know idea how it works with games, I'm not a gamer. For using it as an average to slightly above average user you will love it.  Mine came package in a cool bubble rap and looks brand new. I'm excited to put the old pc in the closet in a few days and retire it. Writing the review I've only had it set up for about 5 hours and it's just working great. Very happy with the purchase.