Customer Ratings & Reviews

* It is critical to know that this review was done when RAM and SSD prices were ludicrously overpriced. Where when I compared my Desktop PC’s RAM and that same ram now it was increased by 468%. As for the SSD I bought it is increased by 308%. How that is legal, I’m not sure. But that’s another discussion. * With the above said, its hard to not feel like I’ve been robbed. As, a machine at this price point, and their “halo tier” product should be coming with probably a top-of-the-line 2 – 4 TB Gen 4x4 SSD (7,000 Write and 6,000 Read with DRAM cache). Instead, you get a middle of the road Gen 4x4 SSD (4,900 Read, 4,000 write WITHOUT DRAM cache). It should come with 64 GB of DDR5 RAM at 5600. Instead you get 32 GB. Last, a 5080 or 5090 laptop variant graphics card. Instead you get a 5070 TI laptop varaint. Which previously would cost about $1,200 – $2,000. But that is the cost of doing business right now. Now with that said, this is still an awesome machine that, that offers extremely good performance for the specs, and also comes with a lot of really nice things that help “justify” the inflated cost. And if this comes down to a more reasonable price in the future is an easy yes. The rest of the review I’ll try and avoid these two asterisks and just judge it based on current specs for the most part ignoring the price. At a normal price I’d give this an easy 5/5. But with the current price and hit you’re taking due to the market I think 4/5 is more reasonable. SCREEN 10/10: Is awesome. It’s pretty hard for me to use those words these days. But this is by far the best OLED screen I’ve seen on a laptop. It is colorful, bright, with punchy colors. The text is very crisp and easy to read. I kept brightness around 30 – 70%. Usually I have to have it at 70 – 100% (usually 100) with my other OLED screens. HDR content had great highlights and very accurate colors. It looks like I’m looking through a window instead of a screen (all the time). Seriously, its like I can reach out and touch it with a 3D effect. Usually due to the pixel layout OLED screens aren’t as sharp for reading text. But this is phenomenal. Super sharp with excellent contrast. Also, gaming with this is a real treat. As you have very low input lag and latency. If you haven’t tried OLED for gaming, it’s a game changer. Especially, at 240 Hz. Which is variable if you want. TRACKPAD 5/10: Not a fan. It’s a diving board style, not glass or haptic. My finger sticks to the material, making fine adjustments difficult. It’s also rather small, though that might be to avoid palm touches while gaming. Gestures and clicks work fine, but it lacks a premium feel. KEYBOARD 9.5/10: I actually love this keyboard. I think it is the best one I’ve tried on a laptop period. As it feels like a mechanical keyboard with low profile keycaps. Which I think it actually might be. As this has a unique feature where it supports 1,000 Hz (where most other laptop keyboards are 250 Hz). Which makes it a lot more responsive for gaming (which I noticed when playing on it). Spacing is good, each key is full size (or nearly). The arrow keys are almost full size. Shortcut keys are well thought out. Has FN lock. Also, when you press FN it highlights those keys with secondary actions which I like a lot. Even if the lighting is turned off. Each key is RGB. Which is accurate, bright, uniform. But not the “best” I’ve seen. It comes in bright, dim, off mode. Num Lock, Power, Caps, FN all have a dedicated light to notify you they are on (which stay on even if keyboard lights are off. It also feels like PBT doubleshot plastic. With good grip and I haven’t noticed any grease or anything on the keycaps themselves. Making me think they should wear well. It also has a numpad attached. This paired with the OLED screen makes for writing essays, doing research, and doing actual work very pleasurable. Along with elevating gaming. If only they nailed the trackpad!!!! Speakers 10/10: This actually shocked me. These speakers are surprisingly good. Like almost on par with my MacBook Pro 14”. Where it trades blows. Which is a massive compliment. It is easy to understand people talking, music sounds pretty good (that’s probably where it struggles the most), and gets plenty loud. Can hear them over the fans. GAMING/PERFORMANCE 10/10: Put simply. This thing is a beast that performed really really well. The Intel Core I9 290 HX Plus is a monster. Essentially a desktop CPU in a laptop. Which also means it runs kind of hot. As it is meant to essentially go up to it’s thermal limit (105C). I was averaging about 90 – 100C in most “demanding” tasks. That was with the fans going hard (which is loud, about 53 – 70 dB. Which turn on semi-often regardless of what you’re doing. If just doing light work web browsing, emails, writing, watching videos they are usually off). The 5070 TI is actually a great sweet spot. Where it still gives you a lot of performance, but at less power and heat. It actually outperformed my older gaming laptop with a 4080 laptop variant in it and 13900HX CPU across the board. The 5070 TI laptop variant was usually like 60 – 80 C. The overall combo (CPU, GPU, RAM, OLED screen, cooling) all allow for essentially maximum performance of anything you’ll throw at it. Gaming at High to Ultra settings (with DLSS) at 1600p (which is the laptops resolution) at greater than 60 fps for pretty much every single game out there. Probably closer to 100 fps. Along with most games at 4K at greater than 60 fps as well. And when I was doing normal work and floating between things everything was very responsive and quick. I didn’t notice any hang ups at all or where it felt like it was lagging. Which I typically do as I use keyboard shortcuts for things all the time. * All games tested at max settings, DLSS OFF, Ray Tracing OFF unless specified. Format: FPS (CPU Temp / GPU Temp) Laptop Display 2560x1600: Escape From Tarkov: 92 fps (87/61) Halo Infinite MP: 155 fps (83/73) Halo Infinite SP: 155 fps (92/71) Stalker 2: 89 fps (81/73) Witcher 3: 83 fps (88/78) Resident Evil Requiem: 90 fps (83/79) Cyberpunk 2077: 124 fps (91/76). Full Path Tracing: 39 fps (83/80). External Monitor 3840x2160 (Note: External monitors boost frames): Escape From Tarkov: 73 fps (95/69) Halo Infinite MP: 116 fps (79/70) Halo Infinite SP: 121 fps (97/70) Stalker 2: 146 fps (95/68) Stellar Blade: 54 fps (100/70). DLSS: 76 fps (85/70). DLSS Perf: 100 fps. Apex Legends: 116 fps (86/68) GTA V Enhanced: 161 fps (78/68) Cinebench 2026 (10 min Performance Mode): GPU: 75,372 | CPU Multi: 8,454 | CPU Single: 555 Network Testing (WiFi 7 network/router, 2500 Mbps plan): Ethernet: 2369 Down / 2363 Up WiFi 5G: 1459 Down / 1678 Up WiFi 6G: 1989 Down / 1989 Up BATTERY LIFE/WEIGHT/PORTABILITY 3/10: This is a laptop you buy to always be plugged in. As this thing is HEAVY. At like 6.5 lb. It’s also thick. And it vents on the bottom to uptake air that it pushes out the side and back. It’s not meant to be used on your lap or be highly portable. But with that said I got about 3.2 hours with “balanced” profile. And with me trying to save as much battery life as possible (screen 30%, speakers 30%, low profile mode, 5070 TI off) doing web work, emails, writing. I got about 4.8 hours. Which actually is pretty terrific considering the power of this machine and it not being built for that. For reference, during my while plugged in GPU was pulling 140 watts and CPU up to 100 watts. The MacBook Pro pulls between 5 – 25 watts for most tasks on battery. Which means there will be a decrease in performance while on battery or else you would have like 30 minutes of battery life. It also decreases your SSD speed. STORAGE 5/10: As mentioned, this comes with a middle of the road Gen 4x4 SSD that clocks in at 4,900 MB/s Read and 4,000 MB/s Write and comes without a DRAM cache. Which is disappointing. However, it comes with 2 upgradable SSD slots that support Gen 5x5 (due to the intel processor). I did upgrade both my primary slot and my secondary slot. And I would rate difficulty at 10/10. As you need to remove the back cover (easy). Then you need to remove the shield (moderate, just simply because there are a ton of screws and being afraid you’re removing something important). Then you need to remove the entire fan and cooling of the PC to get to the primary SSD slot. Which means you also need to reinstall thermal compound to the GPU and CPU (hard). Like what?! Thankfully, I was able to kind of slide it out without taking the cooler off. Just kind of moved the fan a bit. The second SSD slot is very easy to get to (just under the shroud). So is easy to upgrade. But I’m not sure what they were thinking with the first slot being UNDER the cooling. RAM 7.5/10: As mentioned, this comes with 32 GB of DDR5 RAM at 5600 MT/s. Which is the highest speeds that are stable for RAM. As astonishingly this is removable (which limits speeds), which means, it is upgradable (2 user-upgradeable SODIMM slots). Which means while I was complaining about not getting 64 GB due to pricing, in the future when RAM is back to being a reasonable price, you can upgrade this machine. I do think that 32 GB is the sweet spot. As 16 GB for a premium gaming/editing machine is too low. While 64 GB would rarely be used except for niche cases (editing, photo editing, 4K gaming while doing other things, AI workloads, etc.). In all my testing (mainly gaming) I was constantly >16 GB of RAM and got up to about 28 GB. CONCLUSION: This is an awesome laptop. I like it a lot. I really look forward to getting on it and just doing things on it. As it is a very pleasurable experience as holistically, they nailed this device. Great performance, great screen, great keyboard, great sound, great appearance. And while the current pricing due to the market is egregious. Once I’m using the machine, I tend to forget about that.

I was incredibly excited to check out this Omen HyperX system. It has insane specs from top to bottom. This is a machine that's truly set up for gaming and HP didn't hold back on what they've included. If you want a portable gaming system (or an overly competent general laptop), you would be doing yourself a favor by considering this amazing machine. Where to begin... Let's start with the display. This is a 2K OLED display with a gloss finish that makes colors just absolutely beautiful. The depth of color is really unbelievable. The contrast levels are ridiculous with blacks being absolute and shadows letting you still see what's waiting in them. It's also capable of up to a 240Hz refresh rate that makes first person shooters like DOOM The Dark Ages play as smooth as butter. I don't think I've played on a more amazing display. I know some people prefer a more matte finish on a display to keep the reflections down, but I've always been a huge fan of the gloss displays. The colors just pop so much more, and I tend to play in a dimmed room anyway, so reflections aren't a problem for me. Resident Evil Requiem looks nothing short of phenomenal. All the shadow effects combined with the flashlight beam is really amazing. The shadows and lighting effects give this game a truly creepy feel. Of course a lot of this is also due to the Geforce RTX 5070 Ti graphics card. This is a card that can handle all the video and display options on high! Seriously, I went into the DOOM display settings, and whatever wasn't already maxed out, I maxed out. The game still played fast and smooth. I noticed no tearing or glitching or studdering at all. This card comes with 12GB of onboard RAM and had no trouble at all living up to my expectations for the video quality of this machine. This is an air cooled system and the fans made me think I was going to see guy start hovering off the desk. The fans spin up to ridiculous speeds. At that point, the HyperX is not at all quiet, but if it was I'd be suspicious. The air flow through this case is powerful. You'll feel it blowing out the back and both sides. I really like that the case is quite raised up to allow for adequate air flow. I think a lot of other machines fail in that respect. But the HyperX has a significant amount of space underneath it, which is where the fans draw from. The Intel Core Ultra 9 processor is about as good as it gets. I don't think anyone will have any issues running any game with this beast. This machine is fast! What helps out in the speed department is the 32GB of DDR5 memory. So many machines come with a standard 16GB these days, it was really refreshing to see the HyperX came with 32. I'm not sure if it's possible to upgrade the amount of memory even higher. There doesn't seem to be any provision for a user to be able to do that. No access door underneath, but I can only imagine a scenario or two where you may want more. Heavy video editing maybe or building code. But this is a a gaming machine first and foremost and what it comes with is plenty for even the most demanding games. If I was forced to pick something that could be improved on, I guess I would have to say that it would have been nice to include a 2 or even a 4TB drive. But now I'm getting into the wish list category. The included 1TB drive is sufficient. As far as the deck is concerned, I like the keyboard, the keys are short throw and responsive. The track pad is large but the left and right buttons suffer from the same mushiness as most track pads do. It's not a big deal and if you like to play games with a mouse (as I do), it really isn't a concern. Each key is has a really nice translucent border that shows it's outline without the annoying inconsistent light bleed that most keyboards suffer from when you look at them from different angles. Each key can be individually color controlled so you can setup different key highlights for different games and save the setup in different profiles. You also have control of the light strip under the front edge of the machine which is a cool look. You can monkey around with fan settings and overclocking right from the Omen Gaming Hub as well. As far as the connectivity is concerned, you have the dedicated power entry on the back, along with an HDMI 2.1 jack and an Ethernet (RJ-45) jack. There are two 10Gbs USB-A jacks. One on the right and one on the left. There's two Thunderbolt type 4 jacks on the left side (with 40Gbps rate and USB PD 3.1 capability). And last but not least, a combo audio jack. You also get a 1080p front facing camera and decent sound system (although I've never really raved about the sound quality on any laptop I've used), but these are adequate. All in all, this guy is an absolute beast and a joy to game on. With machines like this, you pretty much get what you pay for and the price tag on this machine will not be for the faint of heart, but quality specs come at a price. And if you're considering a machine of this caliber, the price won't shock you. And make no mistake, this is guy will not show up in the “bargain” section. It's built for serious gamers who can justify spending money for a quality build. A beautiful machine, no question about it.

The HP HyperX is a total beast that can handle basically anything you throw at it, from heavy gaming to running complex AI models. HP is now using the HyperX name for all their gaming gear, which helps separate these high-end machines from their basic office laptops. It’s definitely a top-tier gaming rig, but with the full number pad on the keyboard, it could also work as a main computer for anyone, really. Just keep in mind that all that power comes with a few trade-offs. The i9 processor is fast, the 5070 Ti GPU is impressively fast, come with 32GB of RAM, and only a 1tb ssd. You can certainly add/change the ram and storage,but thanks to the AI mania, components are expensive right now. I’m impressed with the new cooling system—it keeps the laptop from overheating, and the fans stay surprisingly quiet even during full-tilt gaming. You can play for hours without any lag, though you’ll want to make sure you don’t block the air vents on the bottom if it’s sitting directly on your lap. The 16-inch OLED screen looks incredible, and the 240Hz refresh rate ensures that gaming feels fluid and smooth. It’s bright and colorful, but the screen is very glossy and reflects a lot of light, which makes it tough to use if you’re near a window or outside. As for the battery, it’s exactly what you’d expect from a gaming laptop: you can get a few hours of web browsing, but if you start gaming without the charger plugged in, the battery dies pretty fast. Since this is a serious gaming machine, it’s quite heavy, and of course, the power brick is huge. I like the design details, like the backlit keyboard and LED bar on the front. There's an HDMI port and power plug on the back, though I wish it had a DisplayPort too. You also get an ethernet port and some USB ports, but it feels a bit light on connectivity if you’re planning to use this to replace a desktop. The keyboard and mouse situation is a bit hit-or-miss. The keys feel great to type on, and the lighting is bright and easy to customize. However, because they squeezed in a number pad, the main part of the keyboard is off-center. This isn't a surprise for a gaming machine, but for super-fast typing, you will probably make more mistakes than you are used to until you adjust to the crowded array of keys. The speakers are probably the worst part of the laptop—they sound thin and quiet, so you’ll definitely want to use headphones (yes it has a headphone jack still). The trackpad is also a letdown. It’s made of plastic and feels a bit cheap compared to the glass ones on other laptops, and it’s impossible to click if your finger is near the top of the pad. A haptic trackpad would be very much appreciated on a machine of this caliber and price. In the end, even with the mediocre speakers and trackpad, I’d still recommend it if you need raw power. It’s a nice machine that does exactly what it promises, even if the price is a bit high for the specs right now (June 2026). I would easily recommend it and plan on keeping it for many years to come!

So just to get it out of the way I’m going to start off with the few complaints I have with this laptop. The first one that kind of irritated me the most was some of the preloaded software that came installed out of the box. Nowadays I feel that just configuring the laptop to use Microsoft’s defender for antivirus is miles better than what they did here which was install “McAfee” which will only work for 30 days until it starts asking you to pay them money. On a laptop at this price point I think that was kind of a bad decision on HyperX’s (Omen / HP) part. Luckily, I was able to easily remove that software without much hassle so it’s not the end of the world but for someone who may not be as tech savvy it’s not great. My only other real complaint is that even at this price point they only include a 1tb hard drive with this build. I would have also liked to see 64gb of ram, but it only has 32. The ram is workable and not “bad” but only having a 1tb hard drive especially on a machine that is meant for gaming is kind of insane especially in the day where modern AAA games can take up as much as 200gb or more of disk space. You can add a second hard drive (there is an open M.2 slot at least in this configuration) but be warned, getting the bottom off to get to that area is a bit of a challenge. Now all that said this review is during a period where both Ram and SSD prices are very high so I understand that plays into the configuration a bit but still at this price point I wish they would have at least gone with a 2tb SSD instead of the 1tb. Alright now with the complaints out of the way let’s talk about all the other stuff. So, this configuration I have is a 5070-ti laptop GPU and the intel core ultra 9 290hx plus CPU and let’s just say I will be using this as my daily gaming machine for the foreseeable future. Even not having the ultra-top end 5090 mobile version I was able to play most of the games I play at decently high settings. I think being able to use the most recent versions of Nvidia’s DLSS also helps in that regard. Performance is very good in a decently sized laptop. It’s not the most portable or thin, but I intend to use it as a desktop replacement so for me it works great. I also don’t mind the extra thickness because it allows them to provide a cooling system that can keep the system cooler than most “thin” laptops I’ve used that are less performant than this one. The fans can get a bit loud when under heavy use but that's most laptops these days, and if your using headphones it's almost not noticeable so I feel it is acceptable. Now for the physical and visual stuff. For a laptop keyboard it is actually pretty good. It feels good to type on, and the backlighting is great. It's also nice to have a number pad and normal sized arrow keys. The display being an OLED is great. It’s a great resolution and its super clear and crips and the colors look amazing. If I had one thing about the input and visual stuff that I’m not as big of a fan of is the touch/track pad. I feel there is enough room in the chassis that they could have included a slightly larger trackpad. As far as using the trackpad and click and that sort of thing is fine, I just wish it was slightly larger. On another follow up note. If you do attempt to put in a second SSD and manage to get past the final boss, that is the bottom case lid, it was nice to see that everything inside is labeled. This made it super easy to know which screws I needed to remove and where I needed to look to put the second SSD, also it’s nice that if in the future I wanted to purchase upgraded ram (let's say if the prices came back down) both slots are easily accessible so I can swap out what’s in the laptop now with something new fairly easily. That’s a nice touch nowadays where most systems are starting to come with non-upgradable soldered on ram. Overall, I think the system is maybe a bit pricy, but part of that is the market for memory (both ram and SSD) right now and it’s possible it could be cheaper in the future so I’m not really going to hold that against it in my overall rating. The performance and build quality are great and I believe this will be a laptop that will last me a decent amount of time before I get the itch to upgrade to something new.