Avatar Gaming FX8365

Really fast, runs games great and just about anything else a great computer would do

When I booted it up for the intial setup i would get an error message that kept telling me window has unexpectedly shutdown click ok to restart the computer and restart the installation. It would keep doing that over and over again but finally was able...

Boots fast ; Plays almost all of my games on High-Ultra settings (Skyrim, Hitman: Absolution, Tomb Raider 2013, WoW, SCII, D3) ; The computer is relatively quiet at idle, but does get louder under load ; The system came in perfect condition, no damage...

GPU fans are incredibly noisy ; Windows 8/Metro takes some getting used to (especially for someone like me that's used Ubuntu for the past few years) ; The included keyboard and mouse are kind of "meh ; The motherboard, while very stable, is "older"...

It looks like a good computer .... that's about it

Worked for 3 days, then started randomly restarted and claiming temp issues. this happens randomly, would happen after being turned on for about 5 minutes or would go days without issues ..... went through a month of the computer being at manufacturer...

Extremely fast, I rendered a frame in lightwave that took 10-15 minutes before and now I can render in about 2 minutes ; Solid case ; Extremely quiet, I initially thought the power supply was bad but no, it's just a very quiet running machine with an...

Windows 8 isn't a con so much as it is just annoying.. I'm not ready for it yet so I popped in my Windows 7 DVD but that's where I had issues... it wouldn't boot the DVD! .. I went into the bios and changed the boot priority to cd rom first, then first...

computer was in good tight packaging, has all cd's and documentations, set up super easy and runs like a marathon runner! I am getting 100 fps in skyrim no hiccups, playing tomb raider on max settings no lag great machine

only thing that could be better so far is if there was a mesh screen over the top vent to keep dust out but not enough of a con to dock an egg