Nathan Shandy
I bought this because I wanted an update with a better video card to replace my now 7 year-old PC for running World of Warcraft. Oh the problems I had with this. I had some issues hooking it up to my monitor, but that was on me. The real issues started when the wifi wouldnt work. And before people start pointing out you should use an ethernet cable instead of wifi for gaming, let us point out two things: the PC advertises itself as having internal wifi as part of its package, and I am running World of Warcraft, not the newest Call of Duty or whatnot. Im not asking for Ultra settings on a wifi card, just for reasonable FPS and playable latency. I cannot run an ethernet cable to my computer in my home and well leave it at that. I, at the very least, expected it to connect to my wifi. The wifi dongle was indeed inside the case, but it didnt work. At all. I had to physically open the case and hold it about three inches from its position just to get a signal, and even then it would frequently drop it the second I opened an internet application. Im not sure if it was an issue with the cord or the dongle itself (which was very cheap), but whatever. I tried a third party USB for wifi. That worked about ten times better than the factory one, but the computer would frequently drop the signal which meant I could go about five minutes in a game before it would disconnect and Id have to wait for the computer to recognize that yes, I am in fact in range of a wifi network and that it should connect, even though it was supposed to automatically reconnect. My older computer never had this issue whatsoever with the same third party wifi dongle, so Im inclined to believe it was the computer as my phone and laptop could keep a signal with no interruption. The other issue is the processor seemed very, very slow at times. Sometimes computer operations would be lagged a worrying amount of time when trying to navigate the PCs programs, and not just with the internet. It was infuriating and frustrating. I probably wasted ten hours troubleshooting this hunk of junk before banishing it back whence it came.
