After a short stint among the many best gaming desktops, HP’s Omen model hasn’t stepped as much as the plate on the desktop entrance. The latest Omen 40L was a lukewarm PC, and the corporate has settled into the identical design in barely totally different sizes over the previous few years. That’s altering with the brand new HP Omen 35L.
It’s what the corporate calls its first customizable desktop ever. Omen desktops have supplied improve paths for years now, in contrast to one thing just like the Alienware Aurora R16, however the Omen 35L pushes that concept additional. The ground-up design now helps as much as 4 sticks of reminiscence, two M.2 NVMe SSD slots, and a 3.5mm storage bay. It additionally comes with an ordinary micro ATX motherboard and ATX energy provide, in addition to three slots for a GPU, permitting you to fully intestine and change the internals down the road.
The desktop is much less fascinating than what’s inside, nonetheless. HP is introducing its first Omen elements contained in the Omen 35L. It created a set of followers, two totally different energy provides, and two liquid coolers that can be accessible on their very own. The Omen followers solely are available in a 120mm dimension, however HP is providing them both in a single pack with a conventional 4-pin connector, or in a three-pack with daisy chain connections and help for as much as 14 followers by a hub.
For the ability provides, HP is providing 850-watt or 1000W, each of that are absolutely modular and include an 80 Plus Gold certification — even supposing 80 Plus is slowly aging out of relevance. HP additionally says these energy provides help ATX 3.1, which means you’ll get a 16-pin connector for RTX 40-series GPUs, in addition to a zero RPM fan mode.
Out of all the elements, the all-in-one (AIO) liquid cooler is essentially the most fascinating. HP is providing it in a 240mm or 360mm dimension, and each include an Asetek Seventh-gen pump and help for each Intel and AMD — HP hasn’t specified which sockets particularly, nonetheless. The extra fascinating observe is the cap. By default, these coolers include an ARGB cap adorning the Omen brand, however you may improve it to an LCD display screen.
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It’s not a large IPS show like we noticed on the Hyte Thicc Q60, however the LCD cap means that you can present a video, GIF, system data, clock, or audio visualization on high of your cooler. The display screen itself has a decision of 480 x 480 and is able to 250 nits of brightness.
These elements can be accessible individually or as a part of the Omen 35L. Outside of HP’s choices, you may pack as much as a Ryzen 7 8700G or Core i7-14700F into the machine, together with as much as an RTX 4090 and 64GB of reminiscence. HP hasn’t shared pricing particulars on the Omen 35L or its Omen elements but, nor once they’ll be accessible.