Prebuilt PC Purchase Advice

[ComradeCoconut]

This is the Prebuilt i am thinking of buying:

https://www.walmart.com/ip/HP-Pavilion-Gaming-R5-1650-Super-8GB-256GB-Gaming-Desktop-Tower/943933730

and i am upgrading it with these sticks of 16gb of ram:

https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-Ballistix-Desktop-Gaming-BL2K8G32C16U4B/dp/B083TYS4TL/ref=sr_1_6?dchild=1&keywords=16gb%2Bram&qid=1616439322&sr=8-6&th=1

[Radium_Angel]

I'm going to give you some professional advice, from decades of working with HP products.

 

In a word: Don't.

 

I wouldn't own an HP product if you gave me the money to buy it with. The parts are bottom of the barrel sub-standard garbage, non-standard sizing for PSUs and sometimes the mobo or space for a GPU, the BIOSes are an egregious affront to everything a BIOS stands for, and in short, there is a reason HP stands for

Horse Pucky.

Has Problems

Horrible Product

 

Now, this is my professional experience based on dealing with both their consumer line and business line. I have no experience with their gaming line, but I wouldn't expect it to be any different.

 

Others will doubtless chime in and tell you it's fine, and that's fine, each person has their own experiences, just giving you mine.

[ComradeCoconut]

3 minutes ago, Radium_Angel said:

I'm going to give you some professional advice, from decades of working with HP products.

 

In a word: Don't.

 

I wouldn't own an HP product if you gave me the money to buy it with. The parts are bottom of the barrel sub-standard garbage, non-standard sizing for PSUs and sometimes the mobo or space for a GPU, the BIOSes are an egregious affront to everything a BIOS stands for, and in short, there is a reason HP stands for

Horse Pucky.

Has Problems

Horrible Product

 

Now, this is my professional experience based on dealing with both their consumer line and business line. I have no experience with their gaming line, but I wouldn't expect it to be any different.

 

Others will doubtless chime in and tell you it's fine, and that's fine, each person has their own experiences, just giving you mine.

advice taken

[FakeATF]

Can confirm, HP bad.

 

My first Desktop PC was an HP pavilion that I still have kicking around somewhere. It uses a proprietary mobo, called the Willow2 or something. Only two ram slots, (One is occupied.. duh) which is a big no-no if you want to upgrade, the PCiE slot on it didn't have a power connector, so you can only add in up to a GTX 1050 in it, and the hard drive is in a really weird spot. Also to mention is the 175 watt PSU that barely runs the lethargic 4 core processor and 8 gigs of ram. You can definitely do a lot better for the same price.

[LogicalDrm]

-> Moved to Laptops and Pre-Built Systems