HP OMEN 30L Desktop: RTX 3080 Ti, i7-11700K, 32GB RAM, 512GB SSD + 2TB HDD Expired

This is exactly what I don't understand. How come they cancel it for some people, but they deliver it for others? I put the order in pretty early on Friday before it sold out.

It sucks since I already ordered a Corsair 5000D case and a Corsair H150i cpu cooler, since I knew it runs warm. I found both on sale. I am hoping it will ship tomorrow morning, but I feel like it won't.

It was such a slick deal, but I guess I will be stuck with 8gb DDR3 ram, i7 3k series, and a 1050ti a little longer.

Did you see the FedEx package get shipped then recalled? Or the package never shipped

The people who did receive this desktop and has been using it - thoughts so far, especially regarding stability and heating?

Thank you,
Tofu Vic

Lots of youtube vids with reviews on this desktop already. Please google it.

Oh, I have. I've spent over 2 hours learning about this desktop in the last week, but was specifically interested in the thoughts of Slickdeals members because there are a lot of comments in these forums about overheating desktop PCs by HP.

Thanks for the suggestion nonetheless,
Tofu Vic

I got this for my son's birthday to replace his aging laptop. There are plenty of folks will say they love it, then other camp will argue they can build a better one, heating issues, wait for the new 40xx, blah blah. But ain't nobody got time for that!

I debated building one as well, but for the pricepoint of the Omen 30L, this is an outstanding deal. I was about to go with the Omen 45L case since there have been very positive reviews for it, but I felt the case was too large and the 30L case was the right size I was going for. Out the box, the 30L was already running warmer for my taste as I was well aware of the heating issues and already researched quite a bit on fan upgrades to cool it down. There is also the option to swap out the omen AIO with the Arctic Liquid Freezer II AIO, but that requires taking out the mobo and ripping out stuff that would pretty much void my warranty. So I chose only fan upgrades for now and may do the aio later down the line if needed.

I got the following premium fan upgrades and found it dramatically cooled down the box very well

Noctua NF-A9 PWM 92mm for rear case fan, I used the noctua y-splitter 3-pin side so fan runs full speed, makes it slightly noisier but I've found it cools better instead of using the 4-pin variable speed plug.
Noctua NF-A12x25 PWM 120mm for aio. This was their quietest best performing static pressure model. There is a industrial model too.
Noctua NF-S12A for bottom of case blowing up with Noctua y-splitter to split the power for bottom case fan. I kept the front case rgb fan as-is for now.
Noctua y-splitter 4-pin 3-pack (found that the splitter has a 3-pin and 4-pin ends. I found using the 3-pin connection runs the fan full speed which helps pull more air)

Now the box runs much cooler than before. I'll look to add a couple of more fans in it once I get more time. There was a user that managed to add two more 120mm fans to the front after moving his hard drive mount and cutting a hole, and flipped his rear case fan to suck in more fresh air and now diverting the heat away from the cpu area and direct it towards the front exhaust, which actually makes perfect sense!

I got some black mesh sleeves to wrap the bundles wires to make it a bit cleaner inside. The 30L is very tight on space so hiding wires is much tougher. I'll probably get around to a more efficient wire management setup later down the line.

Overall, happy with the purchase!