I've never bought a renewed/refurbished computer before and was a little skeptical, but my laptop was becoming more unusable each day (taking up to 10 minutes just to boot up!) so I started looking for desktop computer sales. Most were far out of my budget for the specs I wanted. I came across this machine and it had most of the minimum specs I was looking for, at a very reasonable price.I use this for light PC gaming, documents, email, surfing and occasionally streaming and so far I have not had a single issue with this. It boots up VERY fast, runs smooth and quiet. I have no more lagging issues, no system issues and the games I play run nice and smooth.(Note: I give this a 3 for gaming because I think if anyone wanted to use it for high intensity and graphics gaming, it may not run as smooth. It's definitely not built to be a gaming PC but for light gaming and emulators like I use, it's been fine!)I had been looking for a mini tower for my small space, and this one came up within the other mini towers, and from the photo I thought it was a mini - so slight disappointment that it is full size (and my fault for not reading tower dimensions, but I had been looking at dozens by that point) but very happy with its performance so far!