Reasonable question for desktop cyber monday 2013

Reasonable question, for the price what kind of performance can you expect? Out of the box (with no upgrades), I have thus far gotten good mid to low high level performance on several titles (have tested about 100 games thus far in the last month). L4D2 runs flawlessly at highest settings (though Valve has done a good job on performance and compatibility with their titles). Get very good performance on Borderlands, Fallout NV, Bioshock 2, Homefront, etc. Acceptable performance on newer graphic intensive games such as Alan Wake, Skyrim & Dark Souls. The included graphics card (GeForce GT 610) works as a decent out of the box low tier card. RAM (8gb), HD (1TB) & Processors make this a good base model to build on out of the box (maybe costing an extra $100 compared to building it yourself). Tower is large and spacey, lots of room with no components shoved together. It is also very well ventilated in the front, top and rear. The front and rear case fans keep the system running at a very cool temperature even during the most demanding system chores. 6x USB slots are about the minimal acceptable amount IMHO, they get used up fast. Included is one USB 3.0 port, which was not mentioned in the product description when I purchased the system, so this was a welcome surprise. The only two upgrades IMHO that are really needed to make the system fly are 16gb of RAM, and a good mid-high tier graphics card. Once upgraded the system should serve as a viable high-end platform for most gaming needs. UPDATE 11-21-12: Just wished to post an update after a few months, upgraded the system with an HD Radeon 7850 2gb card & 16gb RAM. The system now handles nearly any game I throw at it on max settings. Excellent FPS rates on all recent titles I have tried, including a few dozen graphics mods added to Skyrim, which would bring a lesser machine to its knees performance wise. 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