Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

We picked this up recently. Unfortunately, there isn't already a lot of information out there yet. I'll try to convey as much as I can in this review. First, and most importantly, this is an *awesome* machine. Gaming, I've maxed out the video on all the games I've installed, and still get over 60fps. There are some limitations though. If you want to plug it in, and play, it's perfect. Do it. It's fast and pretty. If you want to add stuff, there are limitations. 1) There is only one PCIe slot to expand with. It is occupied by the wifi card. If you're on a wired network, you could swap it for a M.2 card. [Edit 12-Feb-2020: There are physically two PCIe X1 slots. Slot PCIEX1_1 one is blocked by the video card. PCIEX1_2 has the wifi adapter card. You might be able to use a ribbon cable PCIe extender, if you're really creative. It doesn't look like the PCIe M.2 adapter card would work for a SSD. Photos of both added.] 2) There's only one M.2 card slot. If you want to add storage, it'll be SATA, unless you ditch the wifi card. 3) There are 4 SATA ports, and plenty of power connections. The only place to put drives are under the power supply shroud. There are 4 screw holes, but you won't screw down a mechanical 3.5" SATA drive there. It would probably work for SATA SSD drives. I wanted bulk storage, so I attached a 2TB black there, and didn't screw it down. You'll have to get *really* creative to put 4 drives in. It looks like there are provisions for a removable drive frame to hold 2 or 3 drives, but it doesn't come with it. I haven't found a listing for just that item anywhere. It would have been nice if it was included. 4) There's nowhere to put an optical drive. At least not in the case. You'd need to get a USB case for it. 5) There are only 2 memory slots. They have two 8GB DDR4 2666 (PC4 21300) installed. I'm fine with 16GB right now. You can upgrade to 32GB (2x16) and 3200MHz for pretty cheap. I'd only need more to support VMs, but I'm not doing that right now. Any modern games will play fine within that. [Edit 12-Feb-2020: If you upgrade memory to DDR4 3200, you may have to manually set the speed in the BIOS. We upgraded to Crucial Ballistix DDR4-3200 2x16 The BIOS set speed needs to be half the advertised speed, because of DDR4 math. It didn't give a noticeable change in performance, other than having more memory.] There are 4 USB 3.2 gen1 and 2 USB 3.2 gen 2 on the back, and two USB 3.2 gen1 on the front/top. There's also a combo audio jack on the front/top. There is another USB header inside, so you could (probably) stick a few more in a slot cover slot. Or reconsider some of your life choices, if you need more than 10 USB things going at once. The pretty selling features are all there. ASUS configurable lighting. Metal side, and a replacement Lexan side with offset screws. I like the Lexan, but don't really care about the lighting. It allegedly has a modified ASUS Prime B450M-K motherboard. The model isn't actually written anywhere that I can see, but I didn't pull the motherboard. ... yet. I didn't compare features, but I found it elsewhere, and it looks right. [Edit 12-Feb-2020: The board is branded with the model "GL10DH", as shown in the added picture.] I'm only not a verified purchase, because we bought it elsewhere for a few bucks more. Oops. I'm not a paid reviewer, but I'll take any offers if you're giving away hardware. :) [Edit 12-Feb-2020: I still love this machine. It was totally worth buying. I have no regrets.]