While this machine performs flawlessly as a "home computer", and does acceptably at rendering games, when I first turned it on, the HDD is RIDICULOUSLY loud.  Reminded me of the 80's HDDs.  Every head movement was a rattle-cage.I finally bought a SSD and cloned the HDD.  Now everything is perfect, and I have an extra disk for media storage!  Can't beat the value, but make susre you're prepared to get a SSD to fix the sound issue.