I have been using the same system for the past 13 years, and it was time to get a upgrade. I was tired of it taking over a hour to render a 10 min You Tube Video. This machine takes 10 min to render my videos. Being in IT I was going to just build a new machine, but for the price, parting it out and building was pretty close to just ordering this one pre-built. When you add on a 100$ Amazon card for opting for their credit card it brings the price down again, not to mention the 5% back on purchase. I did not need a gaming beast of a machine, but still wanted the option to play things on Steam with my son. The mother board having a option to expand the memory was a big plus, 4 slots vs some boards with only 2. The build could have come with more memory, with only one DIMM there is a potential for total failure. Redundancy is key in IT, The solid state drive for the O/S is a great upgrade to have out of the box. Along with the 1TB secondary drive this gave me all the space I need to do video edits, and keep all the files I need to store locally. LEDs are a nice touch but most of the time I just have them off. The case has tons of room and there hardware has a small footprint. This make sure that the gear inside is always well ventilated and keeps cool. The massive fans in the front keep cool air coming in and the rear has a large fan to push the hot air out.I would say the most impressive thing I found on this system was the wireless card. I was worried about network drop but this card screams bandwidth. My router is in the next room over and even through a wall this thing is getting over 200mbps.If you have not upgraded in a long time this mid level Game PC is one I would recommend.