ASUS Essentio CS5111

29 reviews

Apr, 2024

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alaTest has collected and analyzed 29 reviews of ASUS Essentio CS5111. The average rating for this product is 3.9/5, compared to an average rating of 4.1/5 for other Desktops for all reviews. Reviewers are impressed by the usability. The price is also appreciated.

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We analyzed user and expert ratings, product age and more factors. Compared to other Desktops the ASUS Essentio CS5111 is awarded an overall alaScore™ of 78/100 = Good quality.

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alaTest has collected and analyzed 5 user reviews of ASUS Essentio CS5111 from Amazon.com. The average user rating for this product is 4.4/5, compared to an average user rating of 4.0/5 for other Desktops on Amazon.com. People are impressed by the usability. The price also gets good feedback.

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100% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

Apr, 2024

Consumer review (newegg.com)

Worse experience ever on a brand named desktop

Compact with nice specs

Total ownership = 3 days. Ship back for RMA = 4 times. Nothing is good on this recertified Asus desktop. Had too many computers in my lifetime, this is the worse ever made

Feb, 2011

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Consumer review (newegg.com)

Paperweight

This was my first Newegg purchase and needless to say I am dissatisfied. I will not purchase here again.

Super fast and compact. Love the HDMI. Had lots of potential when I opened the box

Hard drive crashed 95 days in. Newegg has a 30 day replacement warranty and ASUS has a 90 day warranty. Both told me I was out of luck. ASUS told me thats what I get for buying refurbished

Jan, 2011

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Consumer review (newegg.com)

I like mine, but it is far from perfect.

My system has been reliable as a garage computer in 60-70*F temperatures for some weeks now. I replaced the thermal paste with some fancy Antec stuff from the office supply store also here on Newegg. I did this for both the CPU and chipset, each has a...

Worked well out of the box for a day. It is a nice looking computer, I like the form factor and it is peppy enough to do what I need it to do in my garage

System requires modification to work well due to overheating issues. The 1403 bios limits fan speed to under 2krpm on fans capable of running at 4800rpm each flowing ~13.39cfm ; System started getting unstable when used with 1080p monitor over VGA...

Oct, 2010

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Consumer review (newegg.com)

Second one

The first turned out to be a E2200, not Neweggs fault it was mismarked by the manufacturer, it did not show up until I looked at WEI. Newegg could have told me to take it up with Asus but to their credit stepped right up and fixed Asus' mistake. They...

A lot of features for a little computer ; Beautiful not a scratch on it

Heat and I wish it had Windows 7

Oct, 2010

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Consumer review (newegg.com)

Great Computer!

I would definitely recommend this computer. It has worked flawlessly for me. If you are looking for a cheap computer that can easily handle everyday tasks (browsing the web, word processing, etc), then this is the computer for you.

Fast ; Quiet ; No problems

A couple scuffs on the outer case, but it was refurbished and cheap so I can't complain

Oct, 2010

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Consumer review (newegg.com)

ASUS Essentio CS5111-AP007 Pentium dual-core E2200(2.20GHz) 4GB DDR2 640GB Intel GMA X3500 Windows Vista Home Premium

The HDD is a full size 3 1/2" Seagate 640GB 7200.11 drive. It is connected via a SATA cable to the sole SATA connector on the motherboard. It looks like it would be fairly easy to replace the drive with something larger or an SSD to improve speed and...

I ordered this but received the CS5111-AP008 model, which seems to be the same but w/ a E5200 (2.5GHz) cpu instead of the E2200 (2.2GHz). I've already opened it up and replaced the CPU w/ an E8400 that I had lying around ; FYI: For those concerned...

This PC has a strange PC/laptop hybrid mobo ; There are no PCI expansion slots. You cannot add any cards into this system ; There's no power supply to speak of - the components for that are all on the mobo ; There's one power connection for the HDD...

Oct, 2010

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Consumer review (newegg.com)

ASUS Essentio CS5111-AP008 Pentium dual-core E5200(2.50GHz) 4GB DDR2 640GB Intel GMA X3500 Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit

Great puter!! really fast ,,love the 64 bit platform. Plays all of my games ! Needed the upgrade , the old puter was really loud and maxed out the ram. got it befor the price went up :) loads up web-sites fast

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Oct, 2010

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Consumer review (newegg.com)

PROBLEM

runs very hot!

Compact

NO SOUND,have tried everything,<If it does not have internal speakers,the copy should say so,if external speakers are req'd ,it should be inclided in the specs

Oct, 2010

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Consumer review (newegg.com)

very good pc

I don't even know the brand of my last case, but compared to that this one is amazing. Maybe if I were used to high end Antec/Cooler Master cases this one would seem cheap, but for 50$ including shipping one really can't complain. Also I have not...

very good pc im using it primarily for media apps and as the primary family pc very fast boot up usually on the desktop in less than 10 sec after pushing power button

newegg needs to keep the price sub 250.00 also dvd drive is kinda noisy in the vertical position

Sep, 2010

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Consumer review (newegg.com)

Good HTPC

Re: previous poster who said graphics no higher than 1024x768 - I have mine hooked up to my 42"LG HDTV running at 1920x1080. I did have to adjust the aspect ratio settings down to 60% in the video card settings to get it to fit on screen.

Nice looking, relatively small HTPC. Came with keyboard, mouse, power supply, software and PC. Loaded Win7 Home Premium Upgrade by blowing away the partition and starting from scratch. No problems so far ; Works well as a NES/SNES/MAME, etc emulator...

Wi-Fi light lights up when HDD is accessed. Probably just a wire plugged into the wrong place ; Runs a little hot, or at least the sensors claim so. CPU idles around 55C and a couple other sensors are claiming 58C, 65C and 128C. I seriously doubt...

Sep, 2010

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