I bought this laptop about 5 months ago and it runs like a dream. When in silent mode it is a perfect work laptop that produces absolutrly no noise and is still a completely functional gaming machine albeit with notice performance drop. When is turbo mode with cpu on ultimate this machine is an absolute unit. It easily outperforms most standalone PC's and cam run anything and everything on max settings with ease. Easley running high-end new games such as helldivers (when helldivers doesn't crash) at around 110 frames a second consistently. Would ansolutrly recommend