I am sad that this is under review by Amazon. I too purchased this for 1049 and haven't had any issues with the machine. I have a few practical plans to make this one of the most powerful and affordable 4K editing machines I could find.First things first - After watching and reading reviews, this compact system runs warm. It's a small plastic case with a full desktop processor and full length gaming graphics card crammed in it. I have never hit 100C but before first boot I cleaned off the old compound and put Arctic Silver 5 compound on the CPU. Extreme stress testing gives high temps (high 80's to low 90's) but idle is 34C, Motherboard hovers at 45C, and storage drives seem nicely isolated for lower temps, all things considered. Ambient temps in my non-AC cooled apartment are 75F or 24C. This isn't bad at all.A couple of things to speed this system up more for editing. - I removed the 1TB spinning drive and put it an external enclosure for backups of projects. - I put a 500GB SSD in it's place for media - I plan to replace the M.2 with a NVMe 960 EVO or PRO 500GB or 1TB - I put in a 120GB SSD for a scratch and cache drive (upgrade to 240GB or 500GB planned) - Eventually I will upgrade to 32GB of RAM so I can have additional programs up and running while editing (I like to multitask)Pros - Room for three drives (5 if you install WD Black2 Dual 1TB/120GB combo drives) - Fairly slim and compact - 5 USB 3.0 and 2 USB 3.1 (1 - Type A, and 1 Type C w/ Thunderbolt 3!) - GTX 1070 is awesome! - i7-6700K blasts through all tasks I throw at itCons - Only 1 M.2 SSD slot - Even the smaller Brix VR has room for 2 NVMe's and 2 - 2.5" SATA III drives - Front USB seems to randomly switch to USB 2.0 speeds. I have a wireless keyboard that requires a USB dongle and it seems to confuse the USB controller from time to time. When this happens, I unplug the keyboard USB dongle, plug in my USB card reader or SSD and then plug the keyboard. The only really annoying this is that this happens after each resume from sleep or reboot. - No SD reader on the front. I can dream right? - Not really a con but the computer gave me options to revert back to Win 7 and was installed with what appears to be a UK license. Did Gigabyte get a great deal on unused Win 7 UK OEM codes or something? I thought this would be setup for US if it is sold in the US. - There is an option to add additional power to the system via an external brick. Since we can, why can't we overclock and under volt? This should be added. We know it is "at your own risk". Having an unlocked processor that you cannot do anything with is a little odd.Despite the odd choices of how Windows was installed, that the front USB ports get confused, and we cannot overclock the system - For the price, you cannot touch building this system for the same price. This has allowed me to use the money I saved to make it fit my needs better than if I built a comparable system myself. That wasn't always the case, but this time it is... and I love it.I'll edit this review in the future to update on the reliability.