Review ID: 85002

Review Text: Gaming desktop with lots of power, nice features. I've used a laptop for the last several years, mainly for the portability and the fact that most laptops are cheaper than desktops (especially gaming desktops). I also wasn't gaming much on my computer, instead opting to use my Xbox. Since my current laptop is getting older, I decided to get another gaming desktop and use the laptop strictly for when I travel. I have owned various Asus products over the years and had no problems with any of them. So far, this desktop is looking to be the same. Being a gaming desktop, it has colored lighting effects on the front and inside (which you can see because one side has a clear panel). It comes with Armoury Crate and Aura Creator, which let you monitor the computer's temperature and adjust lighting, fans, etc. For the most part the computer is quiet, except when under heavy load additional fans turn on. It has a couple of nice features, a handle on the top of the tower to make for easy transport and a headphone clip that folds out so you can hang your headphones on the tower. It comes with Windows 11 64-bit, which has some small differences from Windows 10, some of which can be switched back if you prefer. I was surprised the computer didn't come with any anti-virus software (other than Microsoft's Defender), but when I looked in the MyAsus program, it does include a trial for McAfee, if you care to use it. The computer comes with an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060, which so far seems to do very well with the computer games I've tried (Borderlands 2 & 3, Halo Infinite). The computer has a 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 and comes with 16GB of RAM. Storage is something of an issue. It comes with a Micron NVMe 500GB SSD for the main drive and a 1TB Toshiba hard drive for the backup drive. Since these will fill up quickly, eventually I'll have to either change out one or both of the drives, plus add some external storage. Connections are plentiful, with lots of USB ports (including new USB-C ports) and HDMI ports.

Gold Attribute: {'Graphics': 'nvidia geforce rtx 3060', 'Brand': 'asus', 'Processor Brand': 'intel', 'GPU Brand': 'nvidia', 'Model Version': 'RTX 3060', 'System Memory (RAM)': '16 gigabytes'}

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