Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #5225 in Personal Computers
- Color: Black
- Brand: HP
- Model: h8-1030
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 20.51" h x
11.22" w x
19.65" l,
24.25 pounds
- CPU: Phenom II X6 3.2 GHz
- Memory: 10GB SDRAM
- Hard Disk: 1500GB
- Processors: 6
Features
- AMD Phenom II x6 Processor 3.2GHz
- 10GB DDR3 RAM
- 1.5TB Hard Drive
- AMD Radeon HD 6670
- Windows 7 Home Premium
HP Pavilion Elite h8-1030 Desktop Computer - Black
Product Description
HP Pavilion HPE h8-1000 HPE h8-1030 QN561AA Desktop Computer Phenom II X6 1090T 3.2GHz QN561AA#ABA Desktop Computers
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
53 of 56 people found the following review helpful.
By terry haggin
Usually I do all my work on laptops; Sony Vaio's, Dell Inspiron's, IBM Think Pad's but I recently decided to upgrade a 11 year old desktop to do web server pre-hosting plus some corporate video rendering for new DMV traffic school requirements for our traffic school, Internet Traffic School.com.Not being a computer builder, I wanted something that was 64 bit and that had a lot of available programs. I wanted to go Linux but programs are hard to find and I won't buy an Apple anything any more because they always abandon previous customers and I was burned over and over in the past with useless hardware and software.I also wanted something with at least 16 GB of memory so it wouldn't be obsolete in the next 5 years and 3.0 Ghz or more. I looked at Dell which was too expensive. We could easily afford it but since we were only going to be keeping this purchase for a short time, I wasn't going to overpay. Then we looked at Lenovo but they did not have a dual monitor capability that I was looking for so we could be rendering video on one monitor while working on company work on the other.The similar Gateway model that was around the $1,000 price range was a possibility but it had a cheap build look and our database engineer who is a computer genius said he gets people all the time at his consulting company who have Gateway computers that have just failed so he said under no circumstances buy a Gateway for company use.The Lenovo was a fine computer, solid build, plenty of memory, Windows 7 but no dual monitor outlets. It was also a quad Intel processor that is great actually and in most tests faster than the 6-core AMD.But after researching and spec comparing we decided to go with this HP six core, 3.3 Ghz, 10 GB memory because it had dual monitor capacity, blue ray video, and other benefits that no other computer had in this range.The negatives about this computer is common to all similar computers, none are flawless. Some have 8 GB limits on memory. Others no blue ray. Etc ...This computer has a slow hard drive of only 5400 and the thru rate of data is often slow due to bottlenecking issues within the motherboard design. But we can upgrade later to a 7200 speed master drive if we need to for less than $75.00. Also the power supply is marginal at 350 but no other computers that we looked at were any better. So if things get to the point where we need to we can always upgrade the power supply too for around $75.00.So all in all, we got a pretty good deal for $979 with no sales tax. I am not a gamer but need video rendering and with the new 64 bit rendering program that we are buying to take advantage of the 4 GB limit on 32 bit operating systems we should see a dramatic decrerase in render time saving us employee hours and freeing up our media staff to create other in-house projects faster.It is a good looking computer with all the current bells and whistles plus HP is an awesome company, they stand behind their products and have a fine reputation. If this computer works out, then we will be buying them for everyone in the company because these computers all have wireless cards so we can all network on our corporate network as well as on our google documents/gmail/buzz interactive collaborations.Terry Haggin[...]
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
By Darth Sabreth
I have been buying the elite machines from HP since the concept was introduced and this model is the best one yet. does what it is supposed to do and does it well. If i had to have a beef with it it would be the slow HD but that really isnt an issue unless you are a stickler for an inst boot up when you turn it on. All my programs run really fast including games. I play rift on High settings and i get decent frame rates.With all the power they put into this machine i am mystified why they would put a slow HD in such a screaming fast / powerful machine.I strongly recomend buying this PC if you want to do pretty much anything for the average user.
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful.
By Kyle
This computer is amazing in every way possible. i am a hardcore gamer and programmer. the graphics, ram, processor are all great EXCEPT the slow harddrive. once you get a new hardrive with this. I went from using a Dell Studio 1555 laptop with duo core, 4gb ram, ATI 4570 hd video. it was nice but not good for gaming. i killed it 20 times then i was forced to use my moms desktop. hp dx2200 with duo core, 2gb ram, ATI 200 xpress(JUNK for what i needed). went window shopping and came by this guy. MOST computers u customize on dell or HP with the same exact stuff runs you about $1300-$1600. so this computer for that low of a price i couldn't Pass it up.TV tuner is the BOMB!!!! the TV remote it came with is good looking and EASY to use.I've now had a couple of days to play with it. i really need a new harddrive as it is SLOW on start up, data transfer, loading big programs. 5200rpm is total waste. gonna use for linux later.I highly recommend this desktop to people who play big game, big programing stuff, and much more.My VGA monitor plug is also defective but i using DVI/HDMI anyway. this desktop has 6 different combos to hook up. so one fails got 5 more.
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