what am I missing with the ops comment: "​MASSIVE COMPUTING POWER FOR LITTLE MORE THAN A FIVER!"?

Like a Farrari 458 will do for driving the national speed limit.

You're not the only one. i don't get it either!

Still waiting on a return label shocking service!

I got mine refunded and picked up a supposed Grade B from here:

HP Pavilion 550-153na Desktop PC computer Intel Core i5 8GB Ram 2TB HD Grade B

More expensive but worth it - i5 not AMD and 2TB not 1. Arrived with a couple of loose wires (blame it on UPS) but they were easy to solve and the cosmetic condition was as near perfect as I could tell. Goes like a rocket.

Looks like Argos are still trying to get shot of the last couple. Must be the c**p ones we returned for refund. Caveat emptor!!!

just snipped the offer & sent it to myself in case I needed - offered as new

thanks for info

probably too late as the window to drop it at my pa's is now nearly closed (she flies out to join the kids & me tomorrow & will be working late)

if it's new & 8.1 I'll live with it

if it's used & not perfect I'll send it back as it was sold as new

Ordered 5 for work one of the 5 was windows 8.1 and one was also used missing keyboard and had an account with password on! Would get it checked!

thanks, I'm assuming they're all W10 then :smiley:

she can shove it in the corner until I get back

Windows 10 and some HP Crap pre installed. Runs extremely quiet.

was it Windows 10?

any other reports?

mine arrived @ a neighbour and my wife picked it up - there's just time to get her to drop it off at my old pa's to get him to upgrade it to W10 if that's what's needed

Had mine delivered on Monday. Bought it for my mum and it's incredible. Can't believe it's not got a SSD in. Timed it at less than 50 seconds to go from off to on and in Outlook with emails updated. Wish I'd bought one for me now.

aha

makes my buy a bit dodgier - I won't even see the wee f-car until September lol

anybody else with info?

Haven't a clue.....no boot 'beep' so no boot! Fan runs and power to usbs but op. system is dead as a dodo.

was it at least W10?

It was sold as new so if your one is an obvious return/ second/ refurb, get yourself an exchange for a new one, blue is less ugly than red in any case

Looks like I got the runt of the litter!

Keyboard but no mouse. Definitely not 'new' - no manuals, no cable ties on the leads, and, worst of all, no boot 'beep'!!! Not sure if to push for an exchange (they've still got blue ones at higher price) or to cut and run with a refund.

Wish I'd got 2 now lol

Though the wife would have really exceeded moaning limits in that case

Thanks for reply. Can anybody else kindly confirm the one they got sent was W10? As obviously there might be a mix of W10 & W8, the more I hear you all got W10, the happier I will be

There isn't anything, I'm afraid.

Great stuff

Unfortunately my wife will still have a good old moan this evening. I am out of the country & was going to ask my old pa to upgrade to W10 before July 30th - is there any way my wife can tell from the outside that it is W10 without setting it up? Thx

Sorry, what???

Mine just arrived, to answer a few questions
Yes, it has a hdmi slot
Comes with Windows 10 (not 8 as previously posted)
Includes a pretty nifty free keyboard and mouse.

Only just set up, but seems pretty fast and dead quiet.

Hi, I have bought this so delivery around Monday, I have also bought a 250gb SSD, will it be easy to transfer everything from my existing desktop and 250 gb normal hard drive, also I am running windows 7, I think this comes with windows 8 but i have a free download for windows 10 which i haven't yet activated, I would imagine I would load this onto the SSD drive ?

No point in getting a GPU to play high extensive games when you have the bottleneck processor. Upgrade to CPU at least and get a cheap GPU - way better then splashing put on a whack card.

Would still be slow. It would need a CPU upgrade in addition. And also, might need to upgrade your PSU dependent on your GPU

The most underrated joke ever. Bravo.

6YO you should replace it

could go on forever but cheap to upgrade to a much better computer these days, such as my deal :smiley:

Thanks dood (!). Been looking for something to replace my 6 yo Dell which goes to sleep for 5 mins every half hour.

Anyone know of a value 8GB batch of extra memory to put in this?

snoozer, loser

Says Out of Stock now :disappointed:

I want my decent computing for a fiver dammit!!

I think this is a bargain! The onboard graphics are pretty damn good really, should play quite a few games quite well at 1080p if you're interested. It also looks pretty good for photoshop although any intensive work would require more RAM.

​So if I got this and put a graphics card inside, it would be OK?

Mixed answers, HP website looks like it does, Argos q&a says it doesnt

No HDMI? Really?

How come the refurbished version of this costs an extra £20 more (before any discount applied)?
Looks identical spec >>http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HP-Pavilion-550-082na-AMD-A8-3-1GHz-8GB-1TB-Desktop-Tower-Red-/361417522030?hash=item542629bb6e:g:gZoAAOSwRH5XKxZn

would benefit from a dedicated graphics card

Apparently not terrible, but you'd be looking at lower resolutions and details. Older stuff will probably be fine. Don't expect to play Doom at 4k with everything turned up :smiley:

Gaming Performance Review of the A8-7600

does anyone know if you can use this for gaming?

Specs from HP if anyone needs them:

HP Specs Page

Nice pre-build for the money I think. The usual 'install an SSD' advice stands. Only a 180W PSU, but does have a PCI-e 16x slot. I'd say it's a full sized case so you wouldn't be limited on graphics card size, although it doesn't specifically state that it is on the HP page, it's 16.5cm wide so it should be.

A GTX 750ti draws ~65W and some models don't require additional power. Given the CPU can take 65w and 20% loss on the 180w figure leaves you with <150W to play with, it'd be close to the limit.

in terms of Trident it is a little over a fiver!?!

It appears to be missing an additional ~£182.

A touch over a fiver id say :smiley:

Anyone know if this would do for a plex server?

Decent price but in comparison its a I3 4th gen intel chipset.

Great price!

My dad bouth this a few weeks back for about £240 from Argos, great little PC with better graphics chip than the model below (its in blue on the Argos website). It's basic but solid and have room to upgrade inside. Need him to get an SSD next as he doesn't believe it will make it faster. DVD drive is a laptop one which I dislike but other than that for £186 its a cracking deal.

But not with 15% off.

This will do for a home office, will It?

Do you still get Windows 10 as a free upgrade or has that ended now?

what am I missing with the ops comment: "​MASSIVE COMPUTING POWER FOR LITTLE MORE THAN A FIVER!"?

My bad, wasn't applying the discount in my basket even though it said it had, but at checkout it does.

£219 for me

This is priced about where it should be considering what it is.

5180 - cpu benchmark