HPPavilion Gaming Desktop, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER, Intel Core i3-10100, 8 GB DDR4 RAM, 256 GB PCIe NVMe SSD, Windows 11, USB Mouse and Keyboard, Compact Tower Design (TG01-1022, 2020)

This absolute beauty has stood the test of time I've been playing games on her for almost 7 years if you're looking to play games that aren't too new its perfect but the newer games you'll have to get a whole new pc the cpu motherboard ram and storage are all lacking without upgrades but some upgrades you can get to make her run and play newer games are a new gpu a 50 dollar 32gb of ram kit and a terabyte hard drive of your choosing (you can get up to 16tbs!) After those small and easy upgrades she'll be able to play anything without forced screen reflections and forced raytracing (oblivion remaster) this pc is awesome

Solid

Going into this knowing that this is lower spec hardware and is a workstation or lower end beginner gaming computer. So I base my information knowing this. You cannot compare this to a $2500 computer because it isn't. I base this review off what I paid for it.The good: I was surprised by the 1650 super. The current day games play excellent as long as you keep your graphical settings conservative. The 10100 CPU is far better than I expected for a low core count. Don't walk past this CPU without taking a look. I do a lot of PCB design that's somewhat CPU intensive. This CPU it's practically sleeping while I'm doing my work because it doesn't even need to try. The efficiency and ability to divide its workload is absolutely fantastic for such a low end CPU. It's multitasking ability is amazing for the price.The bad: Really HP? 1 ram stick? It's such a stupid oversight. The manufacturing of desktops is such a simple task nowadays. It requires a very simple set of rules. Using only one RAM stick regardless of its size forces the RAM to be in single-channel mode. This severely hinders the entire computer. Having 8 gigabyte of RAM is not a bad thing if it was two 4 gig sticks. But it was one 8 gig stick. The novice user is not going to know that this is holding this desktop back by huge numbers. Needless to say an extra 8 gig stick and bumping it up to 16 gigabytes of memory cost me 40 bucks and is worth every penny. Opened up this computer even more and turned into a little monster.My only other real issue with this computer is storage. I knew what I was buying, so this was not a surprise. Games today are HUGE in size and that little hard drive is not going to hold more than a couple modern games at a time. We know you're making allot of profit on this machine especially since you use your own cut down motherboards and other parts. So throw in a second mechanical 1 or 2 terabyte hard drive! It would cost you next to nothing and make this desktop so much more appealing.. Advertising this computer as a gaming computer but it barely has the capacity to hold any games? I owned a few spare hard drives so I tossed one in on the READY TO USE WIRING THAT CAME IN THE COMPUTER! It's almost as if you were going to do this but then took the hard drive out at the last minute.Overall: 7/10 for beginner gaming computer or workstation. Those two things in the cons would have made this a 9.5/10 for the price. Just saying.In current times for a pre-built I still have to give the go ahead and buy this desktop if it meets your standards. Do yourself a favor and buy a cheap DDR4 3200mhz 8gig ram stick and make it the first thing you install even before you power on the computer. You will be much much happier.

This PC is great! I haven't owned a desktop computer in decades because of the thought that one day I'll need mobility. Well now my smartphone can basically do everything I need to do anymore so a switch back to a desktop pc was something I wanted to do. This PC is 10x better than my old Asus Netbook that I've had for over 6 years. The price point and the 4GB dedicated graphics card sold me. I looked at the performance different between this model with the i3 and the "faster" it and from what I've read it isn't really much with some sources saying it's a 4% difference in performance. Now I'm mostly a console gamer but I do enjoy playing older games like Diablo, Starcraft, Warcraft, Stronghold, and Stronghold Crusades so the video card that comes with this PC is vastly more than what I'd ever really need. At least this gives me peace of mind that I more than likely won't need an upgrade in a decade. Definitely a great deal for $600. Just a reminder this PC doesn't include a cd/dvd drive so you'd have to buy an external one. I haven't used a drive in over 6 years due to my netbook not having one either. But nowadays everything is downloadable and can be saved on the cloud. I would certainly recommend this PC. People saying to upgrade the 8GB RAM to at least 16GB is a good recommendation but certainly not needed for someone like me. My Netbook only 2gb RAM and the only issues I ever had was if I had like 50 tabs open on google chrome while playing a game. Most people don't do that type of thing and I rarely do as well so 8GB is more than sufficient. It's nice to know though that in the future this PC is able to be outfitted with up to 32gb of RAM.