I highly recommend it, but make sure you create a recovery disc! That's actually one of the reasons I joined this forum. I installed Ubuntu and it wouldn't boot with UEFI and then it just went to heck from there. The special partition would no longer work either (the oneKey recovery button no longer works either because the partitions are all messed up). I have no overheating issues and my processor sometimes spikes when gaming. I can play Tomb Raider with almost max specs (the hair rendering really slows me down). Overall, I recommend the laptop. Just don't get SLI. Also did we necro this thread? It's rather old and the OP has probably already bought one or got something else... but in any case, this is my review of it. Sound rocks on it.