ASUS Essentio CS5111

price, usability

100% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

Compact with nice specs

Total ownership = 3 days. Ship back for RMA = 4 times. Nothing is good on this recertified Asus desktop. Had too many computers in my lifetime, this is the worse ever made

Super fast and compact. Love the HDMI. Had lots of potential when I opened the box

Hard drive crashed 95 days in. Newegg has a 30 day replacement warranty and ASUS has a 90 day warranty. Both told me I was out of luck. ASUS told me thats what I get for buying refurbished

Worked well out of the box for a day. It is a nice looking computer, I like the form factor and it is peppy enough to do what I need it to do in my garage

System requires modification to work well due to overheating issues. The 1403 bios limits fan speed to under 2krpm on fans capable of running at 4800rpm each flowing ~13.39cfm ; System started getting unstable when used with 1080p monitor over VGA...

A lot of features for a little computer ; Beautiful not a scratch on it

Heat and I wish it had Windows 7

Fast ; Quiet ; No problems

A couple scuffs on the outer case, but it was refurbished and cheap so I can't complain

I ordered this but received the CS5111-AP008 model, which seems to be the same but w/ a E5200 (2.5GHz) cpu instead of the E2200 (2.2GHz). I've already opened it up and replaced the CPU w/ an E8400 that I had lying around ; FYI: For those concerned...

This PC has a strange PC/laptop hybrid mobo ; There are no PCI expansion slots. You cannot add any cards into this system ; There's no power supply to speak of - the components for that are all on the mobo ; There's one power connection for the HDD...

Great puter!! really fast ,,love the 64 bit platform. Plays all of my games ! Needed the upgrade , the old puter was really loud and maxed out the ram. got it befor the price went up :) loads up web-sites fast

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Compact

NO SOUND,have tried everything,<If it does not have internal speakers,the copy should say so,if external speakers are req'd ,it should be inclided in the specs

very good pc im using it primarily for media apps and as the primary family pc very fast boot up usually on the desktop in less than 10 sec after pushing power button

newegg needs to keep the price sub 250.00 also dvd drive is kinda noisy in the vertical position

Nice looking, relatively small HTPC. Came with keyboard, mouse, power supply, software and PC. Loaded Win7 Home Premium Upgrade by blowing away the partition and starting from scratch. No problems so far ; Works well as a NES/SNES/MAME, etc emulator...

Wi-Fi light lights up when HDD is accessed. Probably just a wire plugged into the wrong place ; Runs a little hot, or at least the sensors claim so. CPU idles around 55C and a couple other sensors are claiming 58C, 65C and 128C. I seriously doubt...