R**K
A terrific pre-built gaming PC
I've had this for 4 days. There were no reviews when I bought it so I was taking a chance... on an HP pre-built no less. I'm glad I did! Here are some thoughts that will hopefully be helpful...Coming from someone who's built gaming and business PC's, I'm overall impressed with the Omen 30L and its performance. It's also extremely attractive and very well built.The Omen 30L doesn't have all the fine-tuning options as with a custom-built PC, but it performs as it should, and ultimately that's what matters. Performance is on par with benchmarks you'll find online for a 10900K and RTX 3080 combo.Besides having no options in the bios to really fine-tune this rig, my only criticism would be the volume of the fans under load when gaming and the slightly high temps. This is simply because the case is very compact and the three fans (120mm front, 92mm back and 120mm radiator at the top) can only do so much. That said, RTX 3080 temps in the mid-70's and 10900K temps around 80 in Warzone at 4k with all the eye candy turned on is acceptable. I'm planning on replacing the radiator fan with a Noctua NF-A12x25 to hopefully lower CPU temps and volume under load. At idle, it's pretty quiet.The RTX 3080 is custom for this PC. It has three fans with a curve that shuts them all off when at roughly 30 degrees or below. The middle fan runs by itself at 30% when just above that temp. You can definitely hear all three fans when under load, but nothing out of the ordinary or annoying.Any overclocking is performed from the Omen Command Center, not within the bios. The memory is already running at the only option you can choose above stock (@ 3200). So really with the temps being where they are, there's nothing more to accomplish with overclocking. This is a gaming PC for someone that wants the latest high-end tech in a no-frills package running at stock speeds. Just turn it on, load your games and enjoy!Gamers and content creators wanting to plug-and-play will be very pleased with this computer. Tweakers who wish to spend hours squeezing every ounce out if it for maximum performance might be disappointed. But to me, the difference between 123 fps on this attractive pre-built machine at stock and 128 fps on a custom-built PC that's perfectly dialed in doesn't justify spending all the time and money for those extra 5 frames.I've now had four full days on this computer... no hiccups... no stutters... just great performance that feels "right". I'm honestly surprised. HP can thank the 3080 shortage for my purchase. Well done, HP!... and did I mention it looks great?!
J**.
Gaming Beast!!
I got the Intel i9-10900K and GeForce RTX 3080 combo and OH MY GOODNESS. This thing just screams. It's actually so awesome that it's making me upgrade my monitor, lol. I currently game on a 2560x1600 60Hz panel and it just doesn't do this system any justice so I'm upgrading to a 3840x1600 160Hz UltraWide display because now I have enough horsepower to finally do it!! See my screenshots for out of the box performance, the benchmarks don't lie, this thing is very fast. With this much power it definitely puts out some heat but take the side panel off and that resolves that issue. All of the components are top shelf from the 10900K cpu to the RTX 3080, Western Digital Black NVMe drive, Kingston HyperX Fury memory, and even the CoolerMaster 750w 80+ PLATINUM power supply! I mean, what other pre-built system uses Platinum rated name brand power supplies?? There's not much on the market for factory built systems that can beat this, that's for sure.
J**T
buyer be ware
Its been a year since buying this. The only way to get the card to run is to open the sode with a blower pointed at it. This is gaming, editing, mining, anything when that thing is running. 2. Windows will not play some video files, and will make you login to download a codec for h.265 for ... ready ... 1$. They literally want your card, name , etc. 3. Data jam. This pig comes with a toy 1 tb ssd. It was 2021, this supposed to be a gaming pc wheres the 10 tb sata? 4. Ram. 32 gigs isnt enough, why bother? So this isnt a gaming pc. It needs more ram, memory. Be careful with windows. The setting to do a quick format that says keep files an programs, yea it will DELETE all non microsoft applications. Thats your web browser and its uuid. Its infuriating to try and play a video file with the best graphics card money can by because the operwting system wants to play format wars. This is a over 2 decades old nerd war, and the BS can stop. Windows has also disabled, or limited the zip function. The days of compressing large files for storage are gone, gee i wonder why? Losing my browser cost me a online wallet. Computer companies that use kicrosofts os, should get together and bench test their software, and reject it. Windows explorer keeps freezing up, despite not having a full hd. This is some windows process running in the background. Windows 98, it sucked. Same problems. 20 or more years later and the conputational power of a desktops gone up 10-100 times. And the effing software still wont play videos smoothly. Not even vlc will work anymore. I debated linux. My next pc purchase will be an apple product. Not all this is the seller, but what ships with it is. And its over 1000$ more per unit then when I got it. Why? If you mine eth you dont make enough to justify that. 4600$ and to think the day you get it an go to play a h.265 video file, microsoft will force your arm behind your back for a buck and your identity. Nothing could go wrong.
C**L
Cooling
So as a lot of reviews have said, this cpu gets HOT with the cooling and this case. I've seen it hit 100C before, at which point it throttles down and the fan kicks on to the point it sounds like a jet is taking off. Temps regularly in the high 80s mid 90sC while gaming on certain games. However, I read another review, and skeptical I tried it anyway. I cannot believe how much of a difference it made. Go into power settings, go to processor state in advanced power settings. Turn the minimum to 5%, and whats important is to change the maximum from 100% to 99%. I really cannot believe the difference this made. Temps are no longer instantly spiking from 35C to 90C nearly instantly. Cyberpunk for example, regularly 85c to 94c prior, now low 60s to low 70s. A few other games, same thing. Temps hold steady in the upper 60s to mid 70s, and take a while to get there, where before it would happen in 2 minutes and it would be 90C. Obviously as a result, the fan does not crank itself up like before either, so it isn't loud. As for the performance itself, it's a straight beast with gaming. 4k in games like Red Dead, AC valhalla, Odyssey, with everything on Ultra seeing framerates in the mid 50s to 60. Cyberpunk maxed out with DLSS, seeing 60-75 fps. If you happen to play World of Warcraft.. Obviously not super intense, but everything on ultra, 4k you can expect to see about 90 to 140 fps. Ray tracing drops about 15 to 40 fps depending on the game so I usually keep it off anyway. All in all, great PC, will do anything you need it to.Quick edit: The reason is because taking the processor from 100 percent to 99 is disabling turbo boost. So you're going from about 5.0 to 3.6. no real noticable difference in game performance for what I'm playing. 1 game so far is the exception. Assassin's creed odyssey, temps will rapidly spike up into the mid 90s within a few minutes depending on area. Could be an issue with the game as no other game is doing this with the CPU at 99.Edit: I just installed a new Windows 10 feature update. It is the ONLY thing that has changed, and temps on the CPU dropped by 30C in every game. Some that were spiking into the 90s toward 100 earlier, aren't breaking 65C suddenly. Nothing else has changed. They aren't spiking up suddenly anymore. So a lot of the cooling issues might not be so much the cooling as whatever the issue was that seems fixed now.
A**R
Beware, the airflow in this machine is non-existent.
If the machine worked proper, it would be a wonderful deal. Very slick looking case with everything you would need for future gaming. However the tower is not large enough and there is not enough airflow to allow for proper cooling. The machine was constantly running at max 83C with full fan speed which btw is so loud headphones are a must. Customer service on HP's end was non-existent. The 3080 is so hard to come buy that having to return this was a letdown. If going with a 3080 please be mindful or the case size and cooling in the system, this machine will cause you headaches.
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