iBUYPOWER Gaming PC Computer Desktop Element 9260 (Intel Core i7-9700F 3.0Ghz, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6GB, 16GB DDR4, 240GB SSD, 1TB HDD, Wi-Fi & Windows 10 Home) Black

With the Covid-19 pandemic my job pivoted on a dime and mandated telework for at least two months. The second day of working on my laptop I decided I needed a new monitor so I bought an ultra wide screen one. With such a nice monitor I figured I would buy a new non-laptop computer so the laptop could be used by my kids for their school work. I did my research and having not owned a gaming PC in almost two decades I wound up pick this machine up from IBuyPower which looks to be a family run company and not a huge worldwide company. Setting up the system was a breeze, I will give you that using Windows for the first time in decades it felt really Mac like in the configuration walk through. The instructions that come with the system are one page and can be summed up as: make sure nothing came loose inside, attach the Wi-Fi antenna, plug in power, keyboard, mouse and monitor, turn on. Easy enough although the antenna cable could be a little bit longer. Performance is top of the charts in every category. Maxed out setting in every game and plays smooth as butter. Bought a Vive VR setup and ran the performance test and maxed out in every category and boy is VR a lot of fun. I run my work environment in a window with the ultra wide monitor and the system just purrs. This was my first exposure to a SSD and man-oh-man what a speed difference. With the system powered down, pushing the power button results in a delay of seconds until the Windows sign in screen is shown. Man, I remember the days of watching the BIOS screen scrolling by and now it is so quick. Waking up the computer from sleep mode is nearly instantaneous. What else... the system is super quiet. The keyboard and mouse that come with the system are cool and work fine. I was getting 139MB/sec download speeds via the wi-fi antenna (I have the computer in the basement) but I ran a Cat-6 cable directly to the router and now am over 500mg/sec download which is nuts. Downsides: Came shipped in the IBuyPower packaging which would make it a steal target if you are not home. I would love a simple sheet of tech info on the system like what kind of RAM to buy, how many slots are available, etc. Video card only has one HDMI port which required me to buy a cable adaptor to get the Vive connected. There you have it. I have not had the chance to use tech support so I cannot comment. I am thrilled with the computer and would recommend it in a heartbeat to anyone who asked, I looks great, plays everything and handles everything I throw at it without breaking a sweat. It is nice to know I will get years of use from this machine without having to downgrade settings on games. Order it and sleep well with your purchase, you made the right choice.

Very nice PC for the money! Fast processor and excellent Nvidia graphics card. Very quiet fan operation. Plenty of fast USB3 ports, front and back. Cool looks. Mine came with Windows 10 pre-installed and fully functional, but no Windows 10 "activation code". So at first it seems that Windows 10 cannot be activated properly on this machine. I noticed that there is no Windows 10 documentation anywhere in the paperwork that came with my PC. When you go to the Microsoft web site to register it, it says the PC's serial number is not registered for Windows 10, and they send you to a site to pay $120 for a Windows 10 Home license. Also, a watermark is seen on the lower right corner of your screen telling you your Windows 10 is not activated. Lack of Windows activation has given me problems in getting Office 365 to work, since the machine is currently unlicensed according to Microsoft. The Amazon description claims it comes with Windows 10 Home - which is only partially true due to the above situation. In fact, it may be an un-licensed copy. Might have to buy that license at some point. EDIT : Found the Windows 10 Product key !! by opening PowerShell and typing this command : wmic path SoftwareLicensingService get OA3xOriginalProductKey and then pasting the long product key (make sure you write it down for future reference) into the PC Settings > Update>Activation window. All is good now !! EDIT 2 : I am looking for a memory upgrade, right now it comes with 8+8=16GB of DDR4 2666MHz 288pin ram. I plan to use two sticks of 32GB ram, for a total of 64GB. The memory I am looking at is : Crucial Ballistix 3200 MHz DDR4 DRAM Desktop Gaming Memory Kit (288pin) 64GB (32GBx2) CL16 BL2K32G32C16U4R (RED), or https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B083TRRT1N/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1 Hopefully that should work straight out of the box !

Hello, after a month of Covid issues and different computers to choose from, I finally decided to go with a different IbuyPower model PC. I started computer looking at May 5th 2020. I first started with Dell, getting an Alienware and it was supposed to arrive May 12-15th. Well it got delayed past June 15th due to Covid issues. So I then went to Best Buy in my area which I had never shopped at before and purchased a Monitor and IBuyPower PC with the same specs as this one but with a Nvidia GE Force RTX 2060 6 Super instead of the Nvidia Ge Force 1660 TI 6. I was very dissapointed with BestBuy because the store closed, and after multiple phone waits and calls over support they finally sent me the monitor but the desktop was backordered and out of stock and I was supposed to receive that up to June 5th. Well it didn't come and was out of the picture. I got refund and went to Amazon. Well I received it one day later and now finally can start this review. Don't mind all the other stuff. The desktop was wrapped very well in the box, no damage and I was happy to see that. All the parts were in their respective boxes, the instructions were laid out in plastic bags, and very neat. I switched keyboards with my old PC just due to preference because my wife preferred the new one and I loved my Logitech G15!!! I only had issues finding the HDMI slot on the back of the PC apparently I plugged it in the motherboard slot!!! Woops completely user issue there. I then fired up the PC, no noise I didn't even know if it was on! I saw the colors and looked inside everything was on there and working great! I also switched the mouse just due to prefernce of my wife and that has nothing to do with the review. So far I'm loving this PC. I will let you know more after I fire up games. I'm a gamer so I will be installing Steam, GTA 5, Deadspace 3, StarCraft 2, World of Warcraft, Call of Duty, and many others. Looking forward to trying this beast out! Ill let you know in a couple days, and thanks for the awesome PC!!! Edit. Update on December 20th 2020. Hello im back to give an update to this PC. First of all it runs all my games whether Xbox related or applications, music and anything you want to do perfectly. I have 0 issues with this except IBUYPOWER keyboard which after 2 replacements decided to stick with a mechanical Corsair one a coworker gave me. The computer is so good my wife stole it for Wow and plays everyday. So im using the old pc. However I would buy this machine again in a heartbeat. Great PC!! Edit again on Wednesday April 28th 2021. This computer is a beast. It handles all my games flawlessly, I can have many programs running, unlike alot of other reviewers who had issues on box transportation to issues with parts and start up,, we had zero problems. I love this computer so much we bought 2 of these computers exactly the same models and neither has had an issue since. I would highly, highly recommend!

So the reason I bought this PC is because I wanted an affordable gaming PC that was just plug & play. I received the PC. It was packaged well. I plugged it all in and it would not boot up. I went into the motherboard setting and tried both drives to boot up windows. It would not work. Looked at possible issues online. I literally took the pc apart. I checked that both drives were properly plugged in. I check the power source. I took them out, and made sure nothing was loose. Then I called Amazon tech support, after going back and forth with amazon tech support, they advised me to call ibuypower tech support. They informed me that most likely, windows was not installed. (although I suspect it was installed incorrectly, because I found the file afterwards, which I then replaced.) Tech support told me that I could either use another PC and download windows onto a hard drive or return the product. This is frustrating, because I expected to just plug in the PC and be ready to go. So I went onto my laptop and found a hard drive. Downloaded windows onto the hard drive and was able to download it into the PC that way. The license key was on the motherboard, so no issues there. Then once up and running. The wifi card was not active. I called tech support and he gave me the link for the correct driver. He said I needed to plug in the PC using an ethernet cable. I did not want to lug my PC to my router. So I just downloaded the driver to the hard drive and downloaded into the PC that way. After all that and a whole day gone, I had the PC running and everything working the way it should be. I was very frustrating experience, especially since they advertise that it's a plug & play experience. It definitely was not in my case. After contacting customer support, all they said was that I could just do it myself or return the product. I felt like I was on my own. They did not offer any sort of compensation for my headache. I had toiled away the whole day for something that I shouldn't have had to deal with in the first place. After that headache, I do have to say that the PC is running smoothly and it is very quick and responsive. I have run games on it on high setting and experienced zero lag. It is not a high end gaming pc, but it will handle pretty much anything you want. For the casual gamer and for someone who just wants a workhorse of a computer, this will handle the job no problem. The PC also looks great on my desk with it's glass enclosure and RGB lighting. Aside from setting up, I do enjoy the PC very much.

I bought this desktop when my custom built desktop broke. -It looks even better in person. -It’s incredibly quiet. -It’s powerful enough to run World of Warcraft on high settings and to stream to Twitch using OBS Streamlabs without lag. -Great stream quality. -Quick boot. -The keyboard is basically sitting on a shelf. It didn’t have two windows menu buttons, the right one was some sort of odd button that did nothing. The right one worked but I’m used to using the left one to tab out of my video games. -I use a gaming mouse with 12 buttons so I’m not using the mouse that came with the desktop. My boyfriend is using it and he loves it. The one thing I’d recommend is upgrading the power supply to a 750w supply. The one it comes with does work well but I just don’t think it’s large enough for long term use. I also want to mention, there wasn’t any packing material in my desktop upon deliver. I mean inside the case. I was under the impression from other reviews it’d have had some sort of material to protect the components from moving around. I had two problems with this desktop initially. 1. One of the front fans wasn’t lighting up. This was kind of simple to fix but I could see someone who doesn’t have experience with computers struggling to figure out how to fix this. 2. The video card was dislodged and the clip for it was jiggling around the case. This was scary and nerve wracking to fix. I had to look up YouTube videos on this, and man trying to fix without ruining a $1,000 product was terrifying. I’m someone who has good knowledge of installation and removal of video cards as this wasn’t my first time. It still was very difficult to get the card to sit correctly in its slot and fix the plastic clip that had fallen off. Delivery was a pain in the you know what. It was delayed by Amazon which was annoying because it was only 30 minutes away and I couldn’t just go pick it up the day it should have been delivered. Apparently you have to submit a request to pick the product up and wait for approval. No one at Amazon customer service could tell me how long this would take so I decided to wait out delivery. It’s also delivered literally in the box so if you’re not home at the time they deliver people driving by will know what the product is. In the end all is well, I love the product but the company should pack the computer better so there’s no so many component issues.

I have absolutely no complaints with this machine as it delivers and performs exactly how I need it to. As an artist and a person who plays the occasional MMO or FPS, I needed something that was capable of giving me that boost that my laptop couldn't. I had been eyeing this computer for quite some time but they go out of stock so quickly! If anyone is reading this and looking to make the purchase, I highly recommend you to get it ASAP. **IMPORTANT: If you turn the power on but don't see the fans running and you notice "loose cables" pay no mind, those are just extra connectors in case your GPU needs two additional ports, ours will not. Simply connect the power cable, make sure its nice and snug in there, and viola, your TUF symbol should light up and you're free to press the power button to make those pretty lights dance! ** Pros: Silent but potent. The CPU doesn't work so hard to compensate for the things I'm doing. (I'm constantly multitasking) Did not need to use the ASUS antenna it came with as it is highly capable of reading my Arris Surfboard just fine. Downloads and upload speeds are great! Windows is installed on the SSD. Other computers I've used in the past utilized the SSD space for everything else BUT Windows. It runs like a charm. Seamless and no long wait times for booting or updates. RGB is full customizable with the Aura App preinstalled in the system. NO BLOATWARE!! I was literally able to take it out of the box and effortlessly setup Windows and get into my OS without having to deal with a billion popups. Cons: This is more of a personal nuance, but there's no type-c port, which is fine since a lot of motherboards seem to ditch this feature or just not have it yet. I use to a Wacom Cintiq Pro 13in so I had to purchase a DP to Mini DP to make it work. I would have loved more USB connections on the top of the machine but that's not really something a hub can't fix, so it's not too big of a deal. Dealbreakers? Absolutely none. Thanks iBuyPower!

I purchased the Element 9260 desktop because the price point was very similar to what it would cost me to buy the parts and build my own entry level gaming rig, without all the work. To that end, the PC delivers. The CPU + GPU combo are quite powerful. The PC is also attractive with a nice glass case and good looking lighting features. That's where the good news ends. Right out of the box there were problems. First, upon initial start up the Windows 10 license was inactive. After numerous attempts to activate the license key, it was impossible. The only solution was to format the disk and reinstall Windows 10. A big inconvenience and not what you expect from a new $1000 desktop. Then the problems started. Every time the 1 TB optical drive would spin up from idle (you could hear it) the system would freeze for a 10 to 15 seconds. Annoying especially when it happens 10 times a day and you're trying to work. The 3.5mm audio out jacks (front and back) are inoperable. Nothing works. Reinstalled drivers, reinstalled windows (again), tried everything I found online. Nothing. No signal. The ports are dead. Then the WiFi issues started. Other devices right next to my desktop were achieving 150mbps downloads, the iBuyPower desktop won't go past 15-20mbps. All the time. Tried reinstalling drivers, troubleshooting, nothing works. It took me 2 days to get in touch with iBuyPower customer support. The day that I finally reached them I had to sit on hold for 53 minutes. Literally 53 minutes. The tech who answered the phone was flustered, clearly rushing through the call, and was not willing to troubleshoot the PC. The solution was to send the machine back and it would take a month to return it. Really? I need to be without a new PC for 30 days? I bought it because I need it. Why not send me a new one and a return label for the broken one? For the last week I've been going through a ridiculous multi-step process with iBuyPower to get a shipping label to send the dang thing back to them. It's literally the most nonsensical thing you've ever heard of. You have to call, wait on hold for an hour, get an RMA code, go to the website, fill out a form with that code, wait for an email which took 3 days, then you have to email or call them to get a shipping label. I've been emailing and calling for days, no response. Still have no way to send it to them. This is a joke. Morale of the story: You get what you pay for. Build your own PC or buy from a reputable company. There are clear quality control and hardware issues with these devices. The company clearly does not have robust QC measures in place nor does it have adequate support staff to respond to customer issues.

I had been looking for a system for a couple of weeks when I ran across this system on Amazon. It caught my attention because it was the configuration that I wanted at price that was a lot less than other brands and what it would cost me to build it myself. After doing some research on the key components to make sure they were decent I placed an order. The system was delivered in 3 days ( thank you Amazon Prime) and was packaged very well. The system itself was suspended between two foam inserts and the keyboard and mouse were in boxes. In general nothing was able to move around. There was a Quick Start Guide that worked with one minor variance. It said to take off the side panel and remove the protective packing foam from inside the system. In my case there was no foam which may account for one of the memory sticks not being fully locked down. As a result of the loose memory the system would not boot instead it would repeatedly turn on the fans and their RGB leds for 2 seconds then turn them off for 5 seconds. After seating and locking down the memory the system came up fine and allowed me to go through Windows Registration. The mother board in the system is an Asus TUF B365M-Plus, the Graphics card is a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6GB and the memory is Adata 2666MHz. The SSD is a Western Digital Green 240GB and the Hard Drive is a Western Digital Blue 1TB. I would have preferred better (gaming) drives but at the price point it didn't surprise me. Besides I will be adding a Samsung 970 EVO Plus M.2 drive as I am sure many others will do. The case is nice, it has tempered glass on the side and front and there are plenty of fans. I wasn't looking for the RGB lighting but it is growing on me. The case will support an additional SSD and Hard Drive but does not have a space for a DVD/Blu Ray. It does have plenty of USB 3.1 ports for an external drive. The system also comes with a Wi-Fi card with and external antenna that has magnets in its base. It is a nice touch if you are like me and keep knocking the antenna off the system. I was looking for a 9th gen I7 because of its 8 cores. The 9700F can't be overclocked and its base speed is a little lower that the 9700K but it also uses about 30 watts less power which means a third less heat. One additional note despite all the fans this system is extremely quiet and best of all no bloatware! For my needs this is a great system with the right mix of components at the right price. I would definitely recommend it.

Es mi primer acercamiento al PC GAMING y me parecio la mejor opcion para comenzar en ese mundo, la PC es muy rapida para conectar y comenzar a utilizar, los componentes son muy buenos y me permite jugar todos los juegos en calidad Alta , todo se ve de buena calidad, estoy totalmente satisfecho con el producto

It took a bit to get shipped to my home (and they made sure I signed for it) but it came in good, working order. This is an impressive, quiet-running gaming PC. Beautiful to look at as well. :) I have thrown benchmarking games at it and with almost all settings on high/epic they run smoothly. 1660 Ti is the way to go if you have the budget for it. Calling their support dept for assistance was also a pleasure, with a quick turn-around time for resolution to my OS problem. Highly recommended and would buy from this seller again!

Es una nave espacial!! el mejor CPU la entrega fue muy rapida y la forma en que cuidan el equipo en el empaquetado es lo mas profesional que eh visto. No duden en comprar esta marca.

I bought this awhile ago for my first gaming pc. No problems out of the box and still runs smoothly in the few months i've had it. Can run everything I play at high or higher with good frame rate. I recommend this to anyone looking for a pre-built pc. The keyboard it comes with isn't that great as a few buttons stopped working, but good to start off with if you don't have another one already.

Excelente computadora! Justo los que buscaba, muy buena pc para gaming