HP Pavilion Elite e9290f Tests (Media Center)

I bought a refurb of this model. I was conflicted because of all of the negative reviews, but the price was so reasonable I decided to jump in. I had my fingers crossed, assuming I'd return it under a 30-day return policy and eat the shipping costs if...

Stable, fast, no problems whatsoever

None so far

So far I haven't ran into any issues like the majority of the other people were having, but its just day 1 so far so good and I'm enjoying the fast pace of speed. The computer runs through applications like butter and still begs for more, I do a little...

9GB DDR3 1066, NVIDIA Geforce GTX 260 graphics card with 1.8 GB dedicated graphics memory, 2 DVI ports and support for Microsoft DirectX 10. Intel Core i7-920 2.66GHz

minor bloatware

It's the fastest computer I've ever owned or used, it can handle multiple applications with out even trying, it can run "Crises" at high quality with no slowdowns. Seting up the multiple monitors was a breeze with Win 7, fast wi fi

Only comes with 1 hard drive, could use a few more usb ports even though it has 7, Windows 7 has some irritating password requiments for its wireless internet set up