This was the greatest gaming beast of its time

When I got this when it first came out, it was rated as being the best gaming laptop on the market. About a year of owning it, I upgraded it to 16gb ram and added a 1tb ssd and moved the 1tb hdd to its second drive bay. Five years later and it still runs like brand new and I have done quite a bit of heavy gaming on it and it can still run pretty much any game out there with mid to high graphics. The only issue I have with it didn't show until after owning it for four years which is this strange screen flicker that is related to movement of the lid. I opened up the screen and tightened the cable connecting the back of the screen and the flickering stopped and showed up again a few weeks later. I think the tape that is used to hold the cable in place is just wearing off and I should probably just replace the tape so this issue being as easily fixable as it is, does not change my opinion on this laptop. Literally the only real downside is how massive this and heavy this thing is but its performance and its amazing lifespan more than make up for it.