HP Pavilion M8530F Desktop PC Review
HP Pavilion M8530F Desktop PC Review from Jeremy Freed. That’s a lot of computer for the price, I just finished getting everything tweaked the way I want it and I am mightily impressed with this machine.
First the cons:
1) Video card is a little weak. Not recommended for hardcore gamers. However, see below for the video card pro.
2) No wireless networking. A minor nitpick since I do not place my computer near my router. Easily solved by picking up an adapter.
3) No install discs. The hard drive has a recovery partition in case you need to recover, however, I would much prefer physical copies of the OS. So far this is the prime con.
4) This is more serious nitpick. The media reader does not fully accept SD cards (they only go in about half way and hang out). My other readers accept the card fully and have an eject function. I am not very comfortable having a very flimsy disk protruding where it could possibly get easily damaged.
Now for the pros:
1) Vista 64-bit is incredibly fast when you have this much machine. 64-bit Internet Explorer is noticeably outperforming both Firefox and Chrome.
2) This machine is whisper quiet. Even running the video card as hot as I could this machine puts out less decibels than my ps3 (which is very quiet).
3) The video card is respectable. It has native HDMI support (although I had to connect via DVI-RGB and tell the computer to output to HDMI before getting signal). The card is incredibly quiet (my guess is heatsinks rather than fans). While I wouldn’t recommend the card for Crysis, I have been able to consistently get 20 frames per second out of World of Warcraft running 1980×1050dpi (and high quality) on a 42″ screen. Running a somewhat lower resolution and slightly downtweaking the quality I pull 30 (bright areas) to 60 (dark areas) frames per second constantly. Lowest I dropped to tonight was 29fps and that was with a LOT of screen clutter plus multiple programs running in the background.
The pros outweigh the cons. I highly recommend this machine. Even for hardcore gamers you are not likely to find that much processor/ram for the price and it is relatively easy to replace the video card (with a 9800gtx+) and increase the power supply. For casual users you just can’t beat the bang-for-your-buck value.
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