I actually bought the same laptop in January of 2019 at Walmart for a little over $500 after tax. It was a 2018 Black Friday Special that didn’t sell and they clearanced them to get rid of them. Never had any problems out of it and I put in 8 more gigs of ram, 16 total now and a nvme ssd 500gb. Great laptop.
@@HearMeLearn I did have had it 3 years and no problems. Just upgraded to an Aorus Intel I7 and rtx 3080 for content creation video editing and gaming . It’s now my wife’s and main purpose is photo editing.
@@adamdwills your is a very powerful version. They don't come standard with those specs. Atleast not for half a G lol. But yours can do anything anyone has ever wanted to do with any game lol. Far beyond gaming needs. But I could see content creation requiring more power.
I love how this is barely faster than integreated vega graphics on a 5500u or something. And then when laptop OEMs finally release models with the R7 6800u, they will literally be better in every way for like $700.
I bought one very similar to this (1050 Ti) refurbed off Ebay for about 450 back in 2019. First thing i did was drop an SSD in along with another 8GB of RAM. It's been a workhorse ever since. Only real problems are the HDMI out is really flaky and in games the keyboard feels like the surface of the sun. I expect it just needs a thermal paste change and the fans cleaned out but thats a bit of an undertaking.
It's best to use an external USB keyboard/mouse when gaming on these things - also, cooling is not the HP laptop's strength (Pavilion or OMEN, it doesn't matter). The heatsinks are too small and are inadequate for such a high power CPU - especially the i7 variants. My HP OMEN 15 with i7-8750H does not handle its temperatures very well at all.
ik this is old but i have that hp laptop i couldnt get it to run cool i re did the thermal paste an that didnt help also inside it only has like 2 heat pipes lol the only thing that works to cool it is the iets gt 500 cooling pad or if your house has vents on the floor then put it on a vent an run the ac lol
Crazy... I actually have this laptop today. I bought it back in 2018, not from Walmart for about $515 and I still use it today for school and work. I tried playing games on it when I first got it but it was a no go. I did replace the hard drive with an SSD which sped it up a little.
I actually received one of these as a Christmas gift back in 2018 from my parents, as I wanted to get into animation and digital art. I used it for gaming after I found out it could run games lol. It had a 1050ti, and an i5 8th gen mobile processor in it. For the time, it was great, not knowing anything about PC's and such, but after building a desktop PC with my dad, and having an actual M.2 with a good amount of RAM, and an actual dedicated desktop graphics card, I couldn't go back to using it. For a few hundred, maybe $250-$300USD, it may be worth a buy in my opinion, but for $800? That is a horrible price. Good review ToastyBros. Keep up the good stuff!
i recieved this as a Christmas gift from my parents too in 2018. I have a rig much better now but it was good for what I needed to use it for at the time.
@@Chris-eq6jb that's honestly pretty good! Dude it was so hard to find any graphics card just a year ago, hang onto that 1660ti. You never know if the same thing will happen again eventually.
You’re very wrong. With the power processor and ram in this laptop, 800 is a kick ass price especially for the time. 200-400 will get you a pos Celeron processor with 4 BG of ram and maybe a 32-256 hard drive
I have this one but 9th gen and GTX1650 and I absolutelly love it. I've taken it to 32 gb of ram (has 2 SODIMM slots, up to 64 according to the manual) and added a XLR8 NVME CS3030 in the M2 drive slot and a Patriot Burst 2TB in the SATA drive slot. I use it to game and stream at the same time and the thing can handle it, really recommend it due to how upgradeable it is.
@@Me-eb3wv Honestly, nice. I've updated it to 48 GB RAM and then 64, and swapped the thermal paste last year. Been playing all the lastest games with mixed settings but haven't found any issues with not being able to play any games. FSR has been a lifesaver for heavy games such as Ghost of Tsushima. The only thing that I've noticed that hurts is when I try to stream heavy games, most likely due to having to use the CPU/GPU for certain effects that if it had newer GPU or an NPU could be outsourced there but other than that, I'm still using this one.
I have the AMD version with the 1050 ti for nearly two years now and I've yet to have an issue. Also mine came with an SSD so perhaps these are completely different manufacturers
I got that same laptop on Walmart on a Black Friday deal on 2018 for $ 550 if I remember correctly. First thing that I did was to put an ssd and another ram and it worked like a champ for 3 years of daily abuse. Great value back in the day, today is a glorified paper weight.
I have the same laptop with a 1050ti 4GB and an SSD and 16 GB RAM, honestly it's good for some engineering design software and slight gaming, it's not bad i'm still using it since 2 years.
Yeah I have a HP OMEN 15 (not the Pavilion) with 1050Ti and i7-8750H. Works a treat, especially with upgraded RAM (32GB) and storage (1TB + 1TB SSDs). First thing you need to do is add more RAM, as these things come with single channel memory from the factory. Oh, and the cooling on these is far from ideal ESPECIALLY with the i7 variant.
I bought this laptop last Black friday $500. It's a complete beast for the price tag. Mine has a 10th generation i5, an Nvidia Geforce GTX 1650, 16 GBs ram. Laptop can do anything you literally NEED for gaming and it does it VERY WELL. Just takes some minor adjusting to the laptops settings.. Not saying it can do everything you WANT possibly. But it can play ANY GAME in High/ Medium settings, ANY GAME. I've stress tested this laptop to the maximum degree. It can run anything from Ark - Geshin impact - fortnite - FF7 remake - ANY emulated console on the market. I have never encountered a game that can't run at 60+ FPS at Max High - Custom Max Mid Settings, all titles above included. I even run mods to make games texture better too. So anyone that reviews this laptop as bad, just has never had anything but the best computers. Because yeah I will probably upgrade one day. But there's absolutely no need to have anything more powerful. It's just a dick measuring contest once you have 3070s, i9s, and a several 1000 dollar price tag, let's be real.
I have kept that laptop running for almost 6 years. The amount of stuff I fixed.... it made me the tech guy who fixes my friends pcs and laptops. i even upgraded it to have 24 gigabytes of ram and added a 1tb ssd m.2
I brought this exact same laptop second hand off Offer Up for about $500 with 16GB of ram 256GB boot SSD and 1TB hard drive. For that price I will be happy to take it home. It has started to age and slow down but it’s still going strong.
Got the newest version of this laptop with a 3050 and ryzen 7. It’s much better than this on the video and its really really good. Using it for a few months now and everything is great. Good screen. Good storage and fast startup. Really great cooling compared to other laptops and it keeps quite cool when gaming. Battery isn’t that good but what’d you expect for a gaming laptop. I recommend getting the 15 inch with 3050 and white LED instead of the ugly green. Laptop got some business looks so great on a workspace
I have the 1050ti variant of this laptop when it was like a year old maybe? and used it through college and had no issues with it until recently and the issue isn't even with the the laptop itself but rather the replacement battery I bought for it. the original battery lasted a solid 4 years
@@pham3383 I'd rather keep the laptop working and just replace the battery. Sadly you can't get genuine HP laptop batteries for gaming laptops easily, so you have to get cheapy aftermarket ones. It also helps to do power intensive tasks (such as gaming) on mains power, so you don't completely ruin the battery.
8:23 You're telling me that this is way worse than when I updated a 10 year old laptop to windows 10?! That took 2-3 hours to do the updates. That has taken almost if not more than a day?
Just checking in on this channel since last I watched back when I was still on a potato. Appreciate all your stuff and soon I'm getting an RX6000 series gpu ❤️
I did a double take for a sec, I have a Pavillion that is a lot newer and looks identical (not sure of the specs) but it runs stuff like RE2 on max graphics and is great for Blender.
Good review. At that price point, with the damage, it's not worth it - an 8th gen Intel CPU is still decent, as is the 1050, but I'd definitely be swapping that hard drive for an SSD, not to mention the RAM as well. I reckon the RAM could be 8GB, and single channel too - gaming laptops should have at least 16GB dual channel, preferably 32GB dual channel memory. In my opinion it is worth about £400/$500 - not taking into account the damaged shell.
if the seal was never broken which it looks like it was not, it would be considered NOS (new old stock). dents and scratches do accore if they sit for so long. but $800 is way too much for an 8th gen with a 1050 laptop
I bought this laptop around the beginning of 2020. I've had it for over 2 years now and have had almost no problems with it at all. Even after spilling half a bottle of root beer on it while in a flight simulator, it still works perfectly fine, although the keyboard feels a bit different now. I play DCS World on this thing with 8 GB of ram and it gets almost constant 60 fps. I have windows 11 on it, and any updates take only a few seconds. The strange thing about this laptop is, I bought it a Target for around $750, and it is completely different from any other hp pavilion I've seen. It has different ports, instead of 1 usb being by the charger port there are 2, and it came with 8 GB of ram instead of 16. The headphone port is on the same side as the charger port, and every other port has basically swapped sides from the computer on this video, other than the charger port. One of my friends bought the same laptop from the exact same shelf in the exact same store only about a week after me, and his was the kind you have in the video, and it works perfectly fine. I think this laptop is amazing.
I got the same PC but with an i5-10300h / GTX 1660Ti (6gb) and it's great really, I paired it up with a 144Hz and had the best experience ever in gaming, everything but warzone and RDR2 runs at a flawless 144hz and it's simply great that said I added an external fan for thermals and has helped a lot. Really good PC and recommendable, but that said these are better spec laptops for same price (800 USD).
Hey now, that is my current gaming/work laptop (although I have the i7-7700HQ cpu variant), using that one while typing this. I already upgraded that to SSD and RAM to 16GB a year ago. Yes, I cant play triple A games, but as long as I can play Genshin Impact, Im happy. Been with me since 2017, the screen is flickering now and the battery got damaged. This serves as my desktop until my LG5pro arrives. Oh I found my receipt last 2017, I bought this at USD 1050.
Well seeing The performances of this machine i’m happy with the purchase i made with a low-cost lenovo ideapad “gaming” 3 i got last week: ryzen 5 5600h - 8gb ram - 512 ssd - rtx 3050 4gb and Wi-Fi 6 card for 699,90€ in Amazon I’ll invest few more € in a ram upgrade to have a decent light gaming machine for at least a year
Oh, that HP bloatware. I remember it well. Not only that, updating drivers was a mess. HP standing in the way of updates and planned obsolesce.....classic.
I bought same laptop but with newer specs (r5 5600h & rtx 3050, 16gb ram dual channel) for 699€ (was 1050€) and it works perfectly. One minus is that out of the box, cpu will run very very hot abt 88-95 degrees celsius, but when you change some settings it will be 75 degrees maximum.
I bought an almost similar laptop( hp pavillion 15 cx0056wm) for $600 a while back from walmart. Upgraded to an m.2 SSD ( 1 tb hdd and 1 tb nvme ssd) and added a 16gb ram stick(24gb). Works well.
It's not a bad laptop, if you get it in a reasonable price. I got my pavilion in 2020 and has served me well. Thermals are good, but the best choice is to repaste 3-5 months after the date of purchase because the stock paste that comes with it it's just awful. (Better use grizzly kryonaut). After 2 years since I bought it's still running flawlessly. I recently bought another ram stick and now having dual channel enhanced my experience. My model has the i7-10750H and gtx 1650 GDDR6. I can easily run any recent games with medium-high settings above 60 fps.
You mean you didnt immediately filter out 3rd party sellers?! Also step one; HDD out, SSD in, fresh Windows, RAM upgrade. I recall looking for cheap HDD laptops because I knew I would do an immediate upgrade..
I got this exact laptop last year on black friday for $500ish, and for that price you're not going to get more power. Not the most portable, and the body is plastic, but you can't expect more for this price
On HP website the last few days theyve had this style laptop with a 5600 8gb ram(i believe can add more) and a 1650 for $600. i think it went up to $680 now buuut still not bad considering. i believe it has an nvme as well
Have a model similar to this that has a Ryzen chip instead of Intel and with a 240 GB SSD (Or 256, it makes like no difference), and that was on sale for like $450 back in 2019. Putting an extra SSD and RAM stick does help it a lot, but it’s definitely not the worst thing you can get, as long as it ain’t over $400 like that one was
I bought this exact laptop 2 years ago on black Friday from Wal-Mart for $450. It's purely a back up, and may have about ~60 hours of total time on it. For what it is, it's done very well and I couldn't complain at all, then again, I paid $450.00
This same exact one two years ago on black Friday I got I used it constantly everyday running minecraft, discord, roblox, and hundreds of other things for 12 hours a day every day took it to school, everything by month 2 the bottom gripping ls fell off and the back vent thingys fell off before Christmas 2021 I still have it and have a internal disk on it now it runs somewhat smoothly though if it dies/turned off for too long it won't turn back on and I have to rig it through the back to turn it on it's a dangerous task and tedious too the touch pad and keyboard sometimes stop working 8m planning on moving everything from the computer onto a USB and trashing the thing I'll make a backup USB and keep everything on the computer until it takes its last shit and stops working it still works decently fine as long as I do all of the things to make it work and try to avoid things that will fuck it up
Idk what you guys are buying but I bought the same laptop for 700 and it works very good for gta but that’s what I only play and I don’t know what there doing to the laptop but mines works fine for a year now
I have been using the Pavilion gaming since 2019, here is my personal experience; I replaced the battery, and put on some thermal paste, the fans are making weird noises, the battery is dying again, and the cooling system is bad. But overall my experience is good. It is a great laptop, with good sound and a quality 1080p display.
A lot of people in here like me also bought a similar model, mine is an AMD Ryzen 5 instead of an intel processor and the GPU is a 1050ti. First upgrade was after a month when I realized the space was running out so I then decided to add an SSD and an extra 8 GB of ram. I got it back in late 2019 and it’s still works perfectly fine with no issues, though recently I had problems as the keyboard feels like molten lava every time I play something like GMOD or Fortnite.
If you be patient you can catch random deals. I picked up a laptop with a 3050 and a 10th gen i5 for $524 recently here in the US. You really need to pay attention to the parts that generally can't be replaced easily like the GPU and CPU. You won't be getting a laptop that'll do ultra setting at 4K but it'll play new games med/high at 1080 Sorry i just assumed you wanted a laptop because the video was a laptop and just read the PC part. The comment after mine is good
If you're at that price point, you can't have a discrete GPU. Or, you shouldn't because you'll pay too much for a weak one. I'd suggest doing something like this ($472 on part picker) and start saving till you have $300 to get a 6600. CPU: Ryzen 5 5600g Mboard: MSI B450 Tomahawk Max RAM: G.Skil Ripjaws V 3200/cl16 Storage: WD SN570 500GB Case: Phanteks Eclipse P360A PSU: EVGA W3 450watt You could use the extra $80 to upgrade storage or the PSU or just use it as a head start on saving up for a GPU
Look on marketplace for used. I'm selling a ryzen 1700 and gtx 1070 for 475 currently. 16gb ram ssd etc. Deals are out there if you look for used. Can get alot for your money. If you want to build new then keep saving just a bit more so you can build something a bit better
As someone who actually owns this very computer model, it's honestly really good. I can play God of War perfectly with no issues, Apex also runs well. My fan is very very loud, however but I didn't install anything other than games on it. I'd personally rate it 8/10 for basic gaming (non competitive)
The next few models are nothing too write home about either. It doesn’t get good until the 1650S model. Sometimes people get away with ridiculous things online because of laziness and or people not caring about the difference in value. It’s worth $469.00 imo and that’s all i can justify
i got this same year and model laptop, just with an i7 8750h and gtx 1060 3gb. still holds well mostly, its battery just offed itself, probably because the thermals were total ass thermal throttled within minutes. ive upgraded now tho.
Yeah, these laptops are decent but they just don't handle their cooling very well at all. Also, I wouldn't have gon with the 3GB variant of the 1060; I'd have used either the 1050Ti (4GB) or the 1060 (6GB).
I have the 2019 model with the 1050ti and 256gb ssd in it. Got it for $450 on black Friday same year. I bought another 8gb of ram off eBay and it runs great. I mostly use it for bills and personal work use. But I've played hell let loose and halo infinite on low settings when i was away from my gaming PC with zero issues. Only negative thing i have to say is the battery life is horrible even with brightness on 50%... Just paying some bills and surfing the web will drain a battery in less than 4 hours.
I bought my gaming laptop a few months ago and it actually was between this and another. Luckily, i bought this one (Lenovo Ideapad Gaming 3) and for 100 bucks cheaper. Dodged a bullet there.
HP laptops are bad in general unless your paying for the top line HP laptops. I’ve had 3 HP laptops and all of them are so bad for the price. Screens are usually terrible and keyboards are mushy. Battery also drains too fast in every HP laptop I’ve had
As somebody who only plays ROBLOX and Minecraft, this would be fabulous as it's better than my other laptops and the games I play don't need a powerful device.
I got a dell laptop very similar to this one for christmas in 2018. This system would be unplayable on gta5 until i upgraded the ram to 24 gb. Was gonna upgrade the SSD but i couldnt be bothered so now i have a spare laying around
The worst mistake you can make is buying windows when u switch the key is gonna be useless don’t soend money on it if the watermark bothers you that much there’s guides on yt on how to activate windows for free don’t buy keys
They fixed everything at Walmart. If you get a beat deal go onto your online profile and click the order information.Go ahead and hit refund, Put your reasoning down and return too your nearest Walmart. As soon as it goes on the truck you’ll instantly have your money back on Walmarts end.The rest is up to your individual bank on when your money comes back to your account. It doesn’t have too make it to the seller, As soon as they scan it to go on the truck 👍
