HP have significantly expanded their Omen gaming lineup to include everything from high-end desktops to gaming laptops, monitors and even peripherals. The Omen 10 is one of the more hit pre-built systems on the market place with its cube design and red highlights, though naturally this desktop is mostly intended for loftier-finish buyers that demand powerful graphics, enough of expansion opportunities and a bulky liquid cooling system.

HP's more than minor gaming desktop is the just named Omen Desktop, which is now bachelor with AMD Ryzen processors inside. It's a more traditional belfry-mode chassis that's highly configurable, with prices ranging from merely under $1,000 to over $3,200. The thought here is that HP can provide gamers of many budgets with a pre-built system that will satisfy your needs.

Here's a quick expect at what HP provides in the Omen Desktop at both the entry level and high stop cost points, as well as the system I was provided to review.

Entry-Level Reviewed High-Finish
Processor AMD Ryzen 5 1600 AMD Ryzen seven 1800X Intel Core i7-7700K
Retentivity 8GB 16GB 16GB
Storage 1TB HDD 256GB SSD + 2TB HDD 512GB SSD + 2TB HDD
Heatsink Air Cooling Liquid Cooling Liquid Cooling
Graphics Card AMD Radeon RX 580 4GB Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 SLI
Ability Supply 500W 80Plus Statuary 500W 80Plus Bronze 750W 80Plus Titanium
Optical Drive None DVD Author DVD Author
Price $999.99 $1909.99 $3218.99

Every bit you can see, our review unit slots right in the middle of the bachelor options, with a powerful AMD Ryzen 7 1800X octa-core and GeForce GTX 1080 graphics. The corporeality of configuration options is huge, with HP offering GPUs from the RX 580 up through the GTX 1080 Ti to various dual-GPU setups. A decent selection of processors from both AMD and Intel are available besides.

The tower chassis used by HP for their Omen Desktop is nothing specially crazy, instead befitting with most traditional PC design trends. Plain this organization is non small class factor, though it'southward not especially big as far equally PC cases go, falling around the typical size for almost desktops. In fact there's several "32L" logos around the example, indicating the volume here might be 32 litres.

Build wise the materials used are adequately average, which isn't unusual for a pre-built desktop. Most of the interior and the side panels are metal, notwithstanding the height and front are almost entirely black plastic of dissimilar textures and finishes. Those hoping for tempered glass will be disappointed, as the window on the left panel is only standard plastic, and even and then it's an optional feature for some models.

Rather than opting for a deadening rectangular chassis, the forepart section of the Omen Desktop is athwart and reasonably interesting. Most of the front end panel's plastic is textured with a carbon-fibre blueprint that looks pretty good, fifty-fifty if information technology'due south not real carbon fibre. In that location's a large illuminated Omen logo in the eye, forth with some red lighting that emanates from the large intake vents below. Similar most of HP'southward Omen line, there's no RGB to exist seen here; the entire pattern is black with red highlights instead. Yous'll fifty-fifty see some subtle red lighting through the example window, which is darkly tinted to requite an ominous look.

As far equally pre-built chassis get, I like this one from a visual standpoint, even though it uses a fair scrap of 'gamer style'. If the instance was on the market place for me to purchase for a self-built organisation, it's probably non something I'd go for, simply I've seen far more than ugly desktop cases out at that place. If you buy the Omen Desktop, people will know you have a gaming desktop from looks alone, withal it doesn't go overboard in any aspect.

For cooling, there are plenty of vents around the place, though well-nigh are hidden to a degree such that there are no big vent areas like some cases yous tin purchase. There's a single 120mm fan on the front for intake, which draws air through the 5-shaped illuminated vent on the front, as well as a strip of vents along each edge. In that location are no vents along the height, a small vent on the bottom for the power supply, another small vent on the left side, and a large frazzle vent on the rear. This case has clearly been designed for only ii 120mm fans, and that's what y'all become pre-installed.

The Omen Desktop has a decent array of forepart I/O: two USB-A 3.0 ports, two USB-C 3.0 ports, two iii.5mm audio jacks and an SD card reader. The positioning of these ports is a little strange, as they sit down on an angled console that points towards the right. This means that for the ports to be accessible, the organization has to sit down on your left, simply positioning it in this way stops you from being able to look into the Desktop'southward window. A small oversight just something I noticed during testing.

On the rear we're looking at a fairly bones collection of I/O for a gaming desktop. Out of the motherboard we get four USB 3.0 ports, two USB 2.0 ports, three three.5mm audio jacks, optical sound, Ethernet and some blocked brandish outputs. On the graphics card in that location'southward three DisplayPorts, a HDMI port and a DVI port. Information technology perhaps wouldn't take hurt to have a few more audio jacks and USB ports, though this drove should be fine for most users.

The Omen Desktop embraces expansion through toolless design, which is fantastic to run across. Along the top front edge are two flaps which can be opened to reveal two 3.5-inch hard drive bays, complete with cool locking mechanisms. All configurations of the Desktop have at least ane hard drive installed in the two additional internal bays, which keeps these two trophy free for user expansion. Calculation more storage space is something many users will want to do, and so these highly accessible bays are a peachy addition. Oh, and in that location's also a slimline optical drive on the forepart of the desktop, again hidden behind a flap.

Getting to the inside of the Desktop is easy as well thank you to a toolless mechanism that keeps the side panel attached. Press a single button at the top rear of the chassis and the panel comes off, revealing the hardware inside. As I mentioned earlier, configurations can vary significantly between Desktops, however nigh mid- and upper-tier models come with a closed-loop liquid cooler for the CPU with a 120mm radiator attached to the rear frazzle vent. The GPU, in my case a GTX 1080, is air cooled with a basic dual-fan dual-slot solution. The ruby highlights to the libation, GPU shroud and motherboard expect pretty swell here.

Expandability is reasonable for an OEM system, though clearly not equally good every bit a custom-built rig. Well-nigh of the system's limitations come from the OEM motherboard, which simply has a single PCIe x16 slot, an unused PCIe x4 slot, and four SATA ports which are all occupied: one for the internal HDD, one for the DVD author, and ii for the externally accessible drive bays. There is a gratis internal 3.5-inch drive bay, just to utilise it, you'll have to unplug the optical drive, which is disappointing.

On the other hand at that place are four DIMM slots, two of which were occupied for my review unit's 16GB configuration. The SSD is an One thousand.2 PCIe NVMe unit of measurement, the motherboard appears to exist standard micro-ATX and the power supply seems standard as well. This means basically every component should exist user upgradeable in the future, especially the graphics carte du jour, storage and RAM, which are all extremely accessible.

Notwithstanding it should exist noted that my organisation was just one of many options bachelor. Those who purchase an Omen Desktop with an Intel CPU will receive an entirely dissimilar motherboard, equally will those that opt for a dual-GPU setup. My review unit doesn't have a second PCIe x16 slot for a 2d graphics menu, though HP offers dual-GPU configurations, so information technology seems several unlike motherboards are used. Hopefully some of these come with a few more than SATA ports.

Information technology's also worth pointing out that cablevision management wasn't particularly bang-up. While the general surface area around the graphics card and CPU is neat, and the liquid cooling tubes are clearly designed for this specific setup, in that location are a lot of other cables running effectually the motherboard and all over the place. For those that like excellent internal aesthetics, things like the multi-colored 24-pin power cables and many loose-hanging cables will disappoint. I suspect about users buying a pre-congenital desktop won't care though.