Tech guy should be here today.... going to update later to see if this machine even works with new everything.... if not im ganna cry myself in a hole.

thanks for the tips, I read that somewhere where that fixes some crashes in games... but yea im downloading a game to try out that's pretty demanding... the witcher.... but yea be back to report if any more failures =/

*update* so tech guy came put in a new mobo and switched out the harddrive with a new one... then tried to start the pc and it said please connected the pcie power supply to the gfx card, however the harddrive he got didn't have windows installed on it so we went back to the harddrive that was in it before.... booted up system and it loaded up fine... now im about to attempt to play some games and see if I have any failure after basically getting new hardware installed globally on the new motherboard. so lets hope and  pray it works now otherwise I smell a full refund... however I would prefer if it just worked for the money I put into it.... shame if it don't work... but I will be back to update....

if you have any other performance issues try this..

Go to BIOS and under integrated devices and switch pci-e gen 3 to disable.  

appears to be working as intended now, mobo was the true problem... lets hope it continues to work as it should

that sucks, but the mobo should fix it, mines still working great, cept the only problem i have now is that the lighting goes out sometimes. its a great machine as long as the parts dont mess up... i can max out like every game.

I should have a person coming out tomorrow to replace the motherboard like you. It seems what (1 out 4) tech support said that not many are experiencing problems with the X51 R2 like me is just plain wrong. Haven't had a day yet that it hasn't crashed/reset or just fell into a loop where nothing but the fan is whirring up.

well its been about 10 days... and guess what this piece <ADMIN NOTE: Substitute character removed as per TOU> is shutting off on its own again... gg

getting a new system sent to me in a couple weeks or so... will update even further if this system is just a f ail

while running some tests on the x51, i found that the system is great, but lacks cooling inside the unit for those high demanding gfx on some  games... i used msi afterburnger to adjust the fan speed to stay at 80% while running.... and guess what... not one shut down yet.... but still waiting to see if this is not the case... the default settings on the card are horrible specing, the card would reach  88c and wouldnt use the fan like its suppose to... the fan would at most go to around 68% fan speed give or take, which isnt enough to cool it sufficently

wish I would of saw this before I spent as well. I mean all the reviews are pretty good they must be planted. Digging into the forums and the plethora of topics when search on the same issue? What a bummer.