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Review on HP Pavilion Gaming Desktop TG01 Mini-Tower, Intel Core i5-11400F, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, DOS, 500W, Black by Mateusz Kazana ᠌

Revainrating 5 out of 5

A really necessary purchase, Im glad I found this product.

With an Intel Core i5, 16GB of RAM, and a GeForce 3060 Ti, I took it. If additional RAM is required, there is a slot for it; this allows for an easy expansion to 32GB. It fit easily and quickly into a 500GB HDD from an outdated PC that was primarily used to store archived data in 5 minutes. Running several instances while using a powerful IDE like Visual Studio yields acceptable performance. An update to the RAM is necessary when working on tasks that need a lot of resources. Performance when rendering video in Sony Vegas - not personally tested to the very end, just a few tiny experiments, but compared to an hour and a half rendering of five-minute films on an old typewriter - subjectively, fire) Regarding games, there are no issues: Cyberpunk runs at top speed with tracing and averages 45 frames per second while the GPU's temperature stays under 80 degrees. A crucial distinction: lighting with tracing is disabled in the settings. FPS drops to 25, which is no longer really comfortable, at maximum illumination. The Pavilion Gaming Desktop item in the left menu, the "Backlight" item in the top menu, and the OMEN Gaming Hub program (loaded by default in the version with Windows) can all be used to turn off or alter the green lighting operation mode. Bottom line: content with the purchase, like an elephant who has just eaten.

Pros
  • High performance, first. 2. Relatively inexpensive. 3. A somewhat small form factor. 4. Not only "quiet"; it is completely undetectable at all times. Through the Omen Gaming Hub software, it's also pretty simple to programmatically switch off the green lights without messing with the wiring.
Cons
  • In actuality, it was kept a secret because of probable upgrading challenges in the future. The extremely likely lack of a need for an upgrade in the following three to four years offsets this, though. The absence of the HP support assistant application in 2022 is one of the drawbacks. Additionally, everything functioned flawlessly for the first few days following the purchase (perhaps due to "luck" with timing), but then it abruptly stopped. Well, yes, and in general it's not a big deal.