Customer Ratings & Reviews

Out of the box you can tell that this is well built and quality product. A lot of effort went into the design to make it look stunning as well as having an amazing lighting scheme through the fans inside the case. The computer comes with a very basic wired keyboard and mouse. I still don’t understand why companies design these amazing looking gaming PC’s and then include very basic mice and keyboards that a gamer would never use. This is clearly designed from the ground up as a mid-level gaming PC. It has the new GeForce RTX 5060Ti with 16GB of memory. The computer also has 16GB of DDR5 RAM. I would definitely at least double that RAM. But if you are looking to get the same chips that are already in there, you won’t be able to because they are proprietary designed just for HP and aren’t currently for sale (I contacted them and that is what I was told). It also has a Ryzen 7 8700F Processor. It has an internal 1TB NVMe SSD hard drive, and there is also a second slot on the motherboard for another NVMe SSD. There are only 2 SATA ports on the motherboard, so if you wanted to add more drives than that, you won’t be able to. Not to mention if you want to add more than one, you will need to get a power cable splitter since there is only one power connector on the power supply for a SATA drive. For 1080P and even 1440P games you will probably be very satisfied with this machine. I loaded up a few games. Starting with Assassin’s Creed Mirage at the ultra high settings. I was comfortably getting in the 90s for my frame rates. I also tried Horizon Forbidden West on the very high settings and was getting in the 60s for my frame rates. Lastly, I loaded up Cyberpunk 2077 on the ultra settings and was getting frame rates in the 70’s. So its definitely a very capable gaming machine. If you are looking for only a machine to do gaming on and other basic light tasks like surfing the web, watching videos, writing documents and things like that, this is a great choice for you! Now lets get into the bad parts about this machine. If you are someone who uses your computer for not only gaming, but also things like content creating, video editing, video up-scaling and things of that nature, you will probably be very disappointed in this machine. I was shocked when I went to do some up-scaling of videos from 1080p to 4K or even just editing some 4K videos. The render times were horrible. My 3 year old PC with a RTX 4060Ti and an Intel processor renders videos roughly 2-3 times faster than this brand new machine does. When you have videos to render that take 12+ hours, that can make a HUGE difference. I tried the same video on each machine and it took an hour and 25 minutes on my old machine and on this one it took 3 hours and 10 minutes. I thought maybe it was because it only had 16GB of RAM that it was slow. So I added 64GB of 6000Mhz DDR 5 ram and it didn’t help at all. So, I think I will continue to use my older computer. With all that said, if you use your computer primarily for gaming and basic tasks, this will be a great machine for you and I would definitely recommend it. If you are someone who uses your computer for not only gaming but any kind of video editing, up-scaling, any kind of 3D modeling or after effects or anything like that, you will probably want to stay far away from this machine!

Not sure what the issue was, but I would often get a blue screen. It didn’t matter what game was played, it I barely started up the PC, the blue screen would appear at least once a week. Also, a fan within the first week started ringing constantly. I tried this model and the 5060 35L. I went through 4 omen PCs total, won’t try another again. Pricing is great, but the quality just isn’t.