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expired Posted by sonichedgehog360 • May 4, 2021
May 4, 2021 6:40 PM
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expired Posted by sonichedgehog360 • May 4, 2021
May 4, 2021 6:40 PM
HP Pavilion Desktop TP01-2066: AMD Ryzen 7 5700G, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD
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They are a Ryzen 3500 (6-core) with a GTS 1650 Super. A 1650 Super is roughly twice the graphical performance of a 5700G.
https://gpu.userbenchma
It looks like Walmart's website sells out of these very quickly and only 3rd party sellers are listed there. But if you can find them at your local store they are sold for $599.
https://brickseek.com/walmart-inv...=94393373
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It seems to support only 32 GB going by the document. I'm not sure why it wouldn't be 64 GB.
New AAA games? Maybe, but at 720p & low.
Generally you'll want a discrete GPU for most PC gaming.
According to the spec, the HDMI 1.4b port won't drive my 4k monitor @60hz.
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I'm also aware the power used by the more modern CPUs has dropped, so even with the same PSU, there should be more power available to the PCIe bus now.
That said, if you do want to add a PCIe card, I'd focus on the lower-end and less power hungry cards that only require power from the PCIe slot.
This is a *screaming* fast machine, with no upgrades required, for anything except gaming and things that require a fast GPU. For those things, it would be wise for most to look elsewhere.
It's an incredibly wasteful way of designing computers, and its one that I was hoping we had left behind in the early 2000s when Dell moved away from those big plastic book-style nightmare-inducing towers. Laptops are bad enough in this regard, but at least they have the excuse of making them more mobile\thinner\lighter (even if that's a bad excuse to make a computer non-repairable by the end user). Desktops designed this way have no benefits at all for the end user, and it's extremely frustrating for people who know their way around computer hardware.
It would be like if car companies started making every model completely differently, and making repairs by the average person nearly impossible, so that you're forced to pay them to fix it or to buy a new one if something breaks... oh wait... nevermind.
Anyway, if these used standard m-atx boards or ATX power supplies, this would be a no brainer system to recommend to nearly anyone right now. If someone wants to game, it can squeak by with low settings in many games, but if they ever stumbled on a good deal for a GPU they could simply upgrade the power supply and have a gaming machine with a near top of the line performing CPU.
Instead, you've got this awkwardly over powered grandma PC that is going to sit in home offices or living rooms, being used to browse facebook and accumulate McAffee shovelware and coupon downloaders until something breaks (virus, bad update, hardware failure etc) at which point some PC repair guy will see that it has a monster of a CPU, tell her it's not worth saving, and keep the 5700G while sending the rest to the landfill.
Best possible scenario for this machine is that someone buys it intending to use it for some specific software that needs a beefy CPU but not much of a GPU. For that use case it will probably be suitable for many years, as long as the PSU survives.
Thanks for going green HP.
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