What Reddit says about HP

“I wanted to get a 5090 during the Labor Day sell, bought a HP HyperX Omen Max 45L and am quite impressed over all. Paid $6400 for it: RTX 5090, I9 285K, 64GB 6000 MT/s RAM, 2TB Gen 5 SSD. The cable management inside the visible part of the case could be better. I will go back and clean it up later down the road. The PC runs really quiet and has good temps, I am impressed there. I would have preferred an AMD build with a 9950x3D CPU . Not sure if I can put a regular ATX motherboard in the OMEN case and go that route later. I really do like the OMEN case. The HP replaced an Alienware Aurora R16 with a RTX 4090, I9 1400KF, 64GB 5600 MT/s RAM, and 2TB Gen 4 SSD. The Alienware Aurora was hot and loud. I’m sure their Area 51’s are better. The previous HP omen 45L models were not good, be sure if you go this route you are getting the new HyperX Omen Max 45L. At least with HP I could reuse most parts in a new build except the motherboard, case, and maybe the CPU AIO cooler. Not sure if I could just replace the motherboard inside the Omen case.”

“I don't wanna fanboy for them but HP prebuilts have gotten better quite a bit since this gen, at least the 45L models. They're using Coolermaster PSUs which are just labeled HP, non OEM RAM, GPUs are OEM but are designed nicely and while the MBs are still OEM, they don't use proprietary connectors or sizes anymore, same with the case.”

“Unfortunately I can't recommend anything but I can tell you what to avoid: HP, Dell, and their owned brands.”

“I would avoid buying something like an HP or Dell from Best Buy at all costs.”

“Really depends, part/cost is better than self-building these days but there's usually hidden issues. Big brands (HP, lenovo, etc) will use proprietary motherboards with properietary PSUs that make it hard/impossible to upgrade. You may end up with a system that has 1 stick of RAM running in single channel mode. They might cut corners on cooling/air flow, motherboard might be extremely budget, etc.”

“Hard to say since I never bought a prebuilt, and I never will. Don't get OMEN though, they're really bad I've heard that some stores can put your computer together for a fee, so you could just buy the parts and bring it to them”

“True or not HP has no trust from any level of PC enthusiast and it would take a decade of wins before I ever considered buying their products. Every "worst computer I've ever used" has been an HP and that doesn't even mention their printers.”