HP ENVY Six-Core Desktop w/ 10GB RAM

[cjwonder]

STILL 80% after 45 minutes??

Come one wooters let’s move this one along!!!

[teevee]

I feel like that hover-mouse is false advertising.

[engineire]

Picked up the HP Pavilion HPE h8-1360t (HP Quad-Core i7 Desktop w/ Blu-ray) last winter for $879 from woot and really really like it. I know it’s more $$ but it may come back for those who want more power in a PC.

[livedon]

I completely disagree. Please lookup some RAMDISK vids up on YouTube. You can certainly use a LOT more than 4GB if you know what you are doing.

@jorfrost

Yes, yes there is. No current generation of video games will ever use more than 4gb of DDR3 memory. Tack on windows using roughly 1, and anything over 6 for gaming is unnecessary. You’d be better off spending the money upping the speed instead of slapping new sticks in to get to 10.

And just FYI, there’s a small chance you’ll be handed a computer that will stop working after a day or two. I would hope these being refurbished means they fixed the issue. However the original version of these were shipped out with the first release of Windows 8, which conveniently didn’t include all the files you need for this crappy six core processor to work. Again, hopefully by being refurbished they’ve installed a newer release of windows 8. But I wouldn’t bet $400 on it.

[auctionsaver]

@jorfrost

Yes, yes there is. No current generation of video games will ever use more than 4gb of DDR3 memory. Tack on windows using roughly 1, and anything over 6 for gaming is unnecessary. You’d be better off spending the money upping the speed instead of slapping new sticks in to get to 10.

And just FYI, there’s a small chance you’ll be handed a computer that will stop working after a day or two. I would hope these being refurbished means they fixed the issue. However the original version of these were shipped out with the first release of Windows 8, which conveniently didn’t include all the files you need for this crappy six core processor to work. Again, hopefully by being refurbished they’ve installed a newer release of windows 8. But I wouldn’t bet $400 on it.

It doesn’t mean that your system won’t. Please don’t post disinformation if you actually don’t know. By adding over 4gb, you are freeing up the memory that has to be cached on the storage drive which allows faster page swapping. Just because a game takes 2Gb of memory, doesn’t mean it isn’t accessing more within the page. And games do not run in isolation.

Anyone who has gone above 4gb of ram has seen the difference. And folks who studied computer science know this as well assuming you take a basic course on operating systems, processes and threads (and paid attention).

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It actually looks like a decent PC. You could swap out the crappy card in the PCI-e x16 and put in something substantial, and it would be a decent gaming rig. It amazes me that you can do 6 cores at 3.8ghz. I still remember hitting that wall with the old P4s which is when they switched to multi-cores.

Even older games like COD BO 2 gave a significant improvement just going from 2 to 4 cores. interesting what 6 would do at that rate.

Real question is what they are going to do when they reach a point of diminishing returns in terms of core addition.

[curlieq]

We bought this exact model for a workstation using AutoCAD two months ago for $700 at BB and it has been working flawlessly.

[RFDuncan]

@sjlee

So, same one that was for sale yesterday, but more expensive?

EDIT: Here are the differences…

1. Faster processor (AMD FX-6200 3.8GHz vs. AMD FX-6120 3.5GHz)

2. Better graphics card (Eyefinity Radeon HD 7570 2GB DDR3 vs. AMD Radeon HD 7450 1GB DDR3)

3. Bigger hard drive (1.5 TB vs. 1 TB)

I guess not a bad deal for only $20 more.

Yeah f-ing SUCKS if you bought the last one thought.

[hitched97]

Available at newegg for $5 more.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883256744

[chippedliver]

No open PCI Express x16 slot and 3 open X1’s?

[jorfrost]

@auctionsaver

It doesn’t mean that your system won’t. Please don’t post disinformation if you actually don’t know. By adding over 4gb, you are freeing up the memory that has to be cached on the storage drive which allows faster page swapping. Just because a game takes 2Gb of memory, doesn’t mean it isn’t accessing more within the page. And games do not run in isolation.

@livedon

I completely disagree. Please lookup some RAMDISK vids up on YouTube. You can certainly use a LOT more than 4GB if you know what you are doing.

You two don’t read much before you try to argue, do you.

[Vulpecula]

So tempting…

I just rebuilt mine 2 years ago (4x3.5GHZ, 8GB RAM) and I’ve gotten a couple of BSOD’s in the past few days. Nothing a wipe/restore won’t solve, but still. I can move my 2TB internal over to this one and have 3.5 TB internal, along with my 3TB external. Should last a while.

[Vulpecula]

So tempting…

I just rebuilt mine 2 years ago (4x3.5GHZ, 8GB RAM) and I’ve gotten a couple of BSOD’s in the past few days. Nothing a wipe/restore won’t solve, but still. I can move my 2TB internal over to this one and have 3.5 TB internal, along with my 3TB external. Should last a while.

[ThunderThighs]

@jmackinac

So tempted as my dog just knocked over my pavilion and it won’t boot…it’ll power up, but just to the generic screen and no further. Where do I start with the trouble shooting? Hard Drive?

Open it up and reseat the memory and all cables, cards, etc.

[ThunderThighs]

@jmackinac

Totally did that. Opened it and started un-doing connections and plugging them back in to make sure they are tight. Even did it while plugged in, so I could see all LED’s and fans running. Something must have jarred loose and simply can’t figure it out. Even pulled my entire hard drive out, which included a huge chassis to remove which wasn’t easy, unplugged it’s cables, plugged back in and still no boot. Argh.

Could have damaged the hard drive if it was a good fall.

[ThunderThighs]

@mitchloft

Seriously, what’s up with the Woot response times? Did they blow out their 33K modems and have to hook the old 2400Baud ones back up?

Our dev team is looking into it. We’re seeing it our end too.

[defjab]

@jmackinac

Totally did that. Opened it and started un-doing connections and plugging them back in to make sure they are tight. Even did it while plugged in, so I could see all LED’s and fans running. Something must have jarred loose and simply can’t figure it out. Even pulled my entire hard drive out, which included a huge chassis to remove which wasn’t easy, unplugged it’s cables, plugged back in and still no boot. Argh.

If you haven’t already Try reseating the RAM. Since you had the forethough to crack the case, I’m guessing you tried this already. Any POST Beep codes you want to share? The only other thing I can think of is somehow a USB stick/device got plugged in and it’s trying to boot off of that (Long shot / out there idea I know)

[Janeykapri]

OK, forgive me if this has been answered before but are the BOC’s a thing of the past. I haven’t see it in the last couple of Woot-Off’s?

[defjab]

@ThunderThighs

Open it up and reseat the memory and all cables, cards, etc.

Sorry for the double post, it didn’t show up on the 2400 modems the forum was hooked into at the time