HP OMEN Desktop: Ryzen 5 1600, 1TB HDD, 8GB DDR4, GTX 1080 Expired

If someone is buying for gaming, go with the 1080. The graphics card is by far the most important thing for gaming.

Yea. I too had a pretty bad experience with HP. I bought my mother in law a HP Envy 34" AIO 2 years ago. (This one [amazon.com]) Spent $1500 on it and 16 months later screen just completely crapped out and acts erratic. I called HP and they refused to provide any tech support as it was outside the 1 yr warranty. Told me I had to pay $150 for 1 year of additional tech support. Paid the ransom, go through HP trouble shooting, they conclude it is Windows driver issue and they can't help me. Tell me to reinstall drivers. I do a wipe and reinstall windows and drivers, screen still doesnt work. Call HP back, they tell me I did something wrong and it is a driver issue. So I take it to a local IT shop, they conclude the touch sensor in the screen failed and screen needs to be replaced. Call the $150 HP tech support and relay them the findings, they tell me the tech is wrong and it is a driver issue (from their over the phone analysis). I push to have the screen replaced, they tell me it will be $80 for shipping each way and $800 for full screen replacement. I hang up and call local IT guy. He charges me $100 and opens up the back and disconnects the touch sensor. Low and behold the screen stops acting crazy.

In the end I paid HP $150 for jack shit, had to disable the touch sensor, and now have a reduced functionality PC. The 34" Envy AIO was suppose to be on of their top tier products and not only did it have issues, their support couldn't care less. I dont trust HP products at all. So always recommend buying extended warranty now.

I now own that i7 8700/GTX 1070 alienware prebuilt because of these GPU prices.

WHAT HAVE I BECOME?