The OMEN 45L is HP’s flagship gaming PC and, in our opinion, one of the best prebuilt gaming PCs of 2024. This is HP’s roomiest chassis with plenty of cooling in the form of four 120mm fans for system airflow and an additional 360mm all-in-one liquid cooling solution for the CPU. This PC is equipped with a massive 1,200-watt power supply and current-gen components like an Intel Z790 motherboard, Kingston FURY DDR5 RGB memory modules, and a WD Black M.2 SSD. The chassis itself looks great with its blend of steel and tempered glass and RGB lighting. Although it certainly exudes a very premium feel, it doesn’t scream “gamer” like some other PC cases.
This specific formula is supplied with a high-end CPU and GPU. The Intel Core inine-13nine00K is an unlocked 13th generation Raptor Lake processor with a maximum refresh rate of 5. 8 GHz with 24 cores, 32 threads and 36 MB cache. It’s still one of the toughest Intel desktop processors available, with only the inine-14nine00K and Ultra nine 285K being slightly faster.
The RTX 4090 is also the most powerful GPU on the market. No other video card, whether from NVIDIA or AMD, comes close. In his review of the RTX 4090, Chris Coke writes: “The RTX 4090 is possibly huge and expensive, but it’s a smart smoke if it doesn’t outperform the competition. . . Until the rest of the package can catch up with it, between its hardware specs, stunning graphics, and DLSS 3 AI wizardry, even the $1,599 value doesn’t seem unreasonable for the unparalleled frame rates this card can produce. You’ll be able to run any game in 4K on ultra and ray-traced settings while displaying maximum frame rates, even the newest and most difficult titles like Black Myth: Wukong or Warhammer Space Marine 2. The 4090 is also the Selection client card for AI thanks to its 24 GB of GDDR6X VRAM.
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They’re not the most productive preview builds I’ve seen, but I’m glad they’re starting to trim some of the hardware after all.
What matters to me about the previous edition is that the RAM speed is 5200, which is close to the slowest of the 5th generation and 2×8 GB to begin with. Not to mention the elegance numbers.
I mean, really, you spend $3000 and RAM is cheap. For just one bad taco bell meal, they may have bumped it up to mid-6k (which is price/performance), while still taking advantage of the two more sensible tier components.
Easy enough to pop out those two dimms of ram, and grab some modest 2×16 gbs sticks at 6000 speed with cl 30 if possible. Which you can find for $85 or so. And get at least a 3-5% bump overall in gaming and many enterprise apps.
Then resale or give away the ram above.
I’m also a bit. . . over the 1TB 7200 mechanical hard drive. . . which m. 2 is now not only cheaper, but weighs less and would cost less to ship. I actually don’t notice it at all. Oh well! At least you still get the 30-day trial of McAfee Online Protection included, thank goodness.
If the labor is worth ~$300 to you this looks like a pretty good deal.
Very smart deal and will probably be between 5080 and 5090.