Customer Ratings & Reviews

This is a really nice space saving gaming desktop that looks fantastic and comes with LED accents that are fully customizeable, and great hardware specs right out of the box. Those who choose to, can easily upgrade or add components as they see fit thanks to the removable glass side panel Starting with the case, the model I have is all black. This case and hardware can be fully customized on the hp website, or you can pick a solid starter system like this one and add any components you like at a later time. I really like that the black finish is matte, it helps to make the name badge on the front panel pop. It also highlights the internal lighting. All the LEDs can be individually customized by choosing color and intensity. This is all set up through the hp Omen Gaming Hub app (conveniently located as an icon in the taskbar, so you don't have to hunt around for it). The Gaming Hub is also where you can control the fan and cooling profile. You won't be short on I/O with this machine. It comes with a wide variety of USB ports (both on the rear and on top). There's the standard green, blue, pink audio jacks on the back and a headset jack on top. I set my green/blue/pink audio jacks up for 5.1 which you can do by loading the Realtek Audio Console. There's an RJ-45 standard Ethernet jack and the Nvidia RTX 5070 comes with three DisplayPort jacks and an HDMI jack. This case is the 35L size (liters?), and is a pretty good Goldilocks size. It can fit either under or on top of your desk or even out in the common areas of your home and still look good. As I've mentioned, hp has a lot of different Omen styles to choose from on their website, and they make both a 45L size and a 25L size so you can pretty much get any size that fits your environment, and customize until your hearts' content. Out of the box, this machine functions very well with intense games. You get an Intel Core i7 CPU with 16GB of DDR5 RAM, a 1TB M.2 SSD, and an Nvidia RTX 5070 graphics card. While these components are all on the higher mid level, they will certainly perform well for the vast majority of gamers. This machine is quite fast as it is, and will do very well in most cases. Those that play a lot of high speed first person shooters won't be disappointed, and playing Doom: The Dark Ages was smooth and beautiful. In trying to set up the graphics card in the Doom settings, I was getting very mixed results with trying different settings. I eventually looked up the best settings for this game with the hardware it came with and was pleasantly surprised with how fast and detailed the video quality was. I do think the machine would benefit from an additional 16GB of memory and maybe an additional M.2 SSD (which I do plan to upgrade), but if you're a “casual” gamer, I still say you won't be disappointed. The max memory you can install is 64GB (4x16GB sticks). There are two M.2 slots for SSDs. One is already populated with the 1TB drive. The additional slot is unfortunately under the graphics card, so it looks like that will need to come out in order to install an additional drive. But the option to do so is there. Also, even though there is no “hard drive” included, it does have a bay to put one in. I would encourage anyone interested in upgrading parts to download the hp Omen User Guide. Lots of good information in there. As for the Power Mode and thermal control settings, I found that if I left the Power Mode setting on “balanced”, playing Doom really heated the machine up. The Thermal Control I left on the “Auto” setting. I'm still playing around with the different settings but you can choose a “performance” mode for Power and also set the Thermal control to manual, thereby forcing a higher level of cooling. Leaving the Thermal Control on Auto, I never really heard the fan speed kick up and the machine remained quite warn (hot even). Switching to Manual kept the machine a lot cooler, so just something to be aware of. I've had similar experiences with other machines as well. There's also an Extreme power mode setting that you'll need to go into the bios to enable. For power gamers, there are overclocking features in the bios if you care to play around with them. I personally don't alter these settings at all. My machine just has air cooling (via a CPU fan). No CPU water cooling unfortunately. I think the fans that are included are adequate however, especially if you play with the speed settings in the Omen Gaming Hub. All in all this is a beautiful machine out of the box that lets you add and customize as you need. The only thing I thought was a little on the skimpy side was the amount of memory. 32GB would have been very welcome. Games seem to be real hogs lately and having the extra memory would mean you wouldn't have to worry about how well the machine would run no matter what game you threw at it. But I'm certainly not complaining, even with 16GB the machine performed very well. The RTX 5070 card is nothing short of a monster, and looks fantastic on the games I played. The Core i7 processor has become pretty standard on gaming machines and it ran very smoothly. The Omen 35L is a really strong foundation for building a fast gaming system. I'm really enjoying it.

HP has been knocking it out of the park with their HP OMEN series. When I was able to get my hands on this years refresh I was ecstatic. My wife has been using last year's model so I knew what kind of quality to expect. Judging by the spec sheet, this rig has a lot going for it, with one exception. As far as game performance, it can run most, if not all, modern AAA titles smoothly at high to ultra settings. I noticed my frame rates were excellent with minimal stutter, especially in fast-paced competitive games like COD and Apex Legends. And turning on frame-gen can push that even higher. The RTX 5070 is the biggest draw for me personally in this rig. Nvidia has been my preferred GPU so I couldn't wait to get my hands on the 50 series and push it to its limit. I tried ray tracing, dlss, all the bells and whistles and it was outstanding to play cyberpunk without any prior limitations. 4k ultra settings with 90 plus fps was the average and I couldn't be happier. In practical use, this machine can handle all the multitasking and daily use programs you'd come to expect. But it can also hold its own in the gaming space and even excel in most cases. Build quality exceeded expectations and the system sustained performance in all areas. Even during demanding sessions, everything was cool and fans were quiet as a mouse. Where the system becomes more difficult to justify is in its current pricepoint. The included 16GB of ram is the only area where I feel expansion is necessary sooner than later. That said, it’s worth acknowledging that current market conditions have pushed memory prices higher than expected. Just keep that in mind for future titles and heavier multitasking workloads, that may require an upgrade. Unboxing was quick and easy with minimal packaging. I love the all black design and the RGB customizations are solid. The chassis is clean and gives plenty of air flow. The system is ready to go, right out of the box. As always, initial updates may be necessary. The case fits everything and gives some breathing room, there's room for 3 extra RAM sticks as well to make upgrading the memory issue easy. All in all, the HP OMEN 35L delivers excellent gaming performance thanks to the wonderful 5070. While the 16GB ram can be a pain point, I'd still recommend the 35L gaming desktop. It's a perfect mid to high tier option.

I'm usually not one to purchase a pre-built computer, especially for gaming but I've always wanted to try out the HP Omen. I do have an Omen 14 laptop that is a solid performer in a compact size so that should translate to a very good pre-built gaming desktop. For the most part, yes, although I did have some initial issues that I've since corrected. The Omen 35L comes in a couple of configurations with CPU, GPU, SSD and memory upgrades from the base unit. The one I received is has the Intel Core i7-14700F, 1TB SSD, RTX-5070 GPU and a single 16GB stick of DDR5-6000 (which was causing my intial issues). Out of the box the intial setup was easy but when I tried to play games graphics would studder and frame rates were horrible and then lock up the computer completely. I was able to determine the issue and finally got it stable but it was not painless. Details on the setup issue is as follows: I thought maybe it was a driver issue so I updated nVidia drivers but there was no improvement. I reinstalled Windows and reinstalled Steam and tried to play a game and got the same results. I cleared CMOS (which was a bit of a pain where the clear CMOS jumper is located almost under the graphics card. No improvement. I booted into the BIOS and noticed that the DDR5-6000 ram was set to run at 4400MT instead of the rated 6000MT. I enabled HP XMP and the system wouldn't post at all. I tried swapping for another set of RAM I had with same result regardless if 4400 or 6000 with XMP. I reset CMOS and booted to BIOS and made sure it was back at 4400MT, I booted into Windows and ran through driver updates with no improvement. Finally I found the culprit, the system needed a BIOS update. Once the BIOS update was installed the system became stable, then I went in and enabled XMP to get the most out of the memory speed and now it's rock solid with good frame rates. Since then I added a spare 1TB SSD I had as my game drive but it really would have been great to have a second stick of 16GB for a total of 32GB of memory. Microsoft recently came out and said that 32GB should be considered a minimum for an optimal gaming configuration as of May 2026. I had 2 16GB sticks of DDR5-6000 that timings were not compatible with the Omen so I'm stuck with 16GB for now, especially with the current pricing of DDR5 memory. Omen Hub software makes it easy to optimize your game settings to play at their best possible frames and level of detail. The software will scour your hard drives to find any installed games and then provide a link to load the optimized game. You can also control the RGB lights and search for system updates... kinda an all in one stop for controlling games and system settings. At the end of the day I'm getting a good playable experience with several games that have a high level of graphic detail. As a tip that might save you some headache is checking Omen Hub and install all updates, including BIOS as soon as you have it setup. I'm giving it 4 stars as a decent starter or mid level gaming setup, losing one star only because of my initial setup problems.