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HP deal is back (i7-6700, GTX 980Ti, 16GB, 2TB, 500W) for $1127 with coupon

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shangolin

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Got a great email response back from them.

First, I want to say thank you for choosing HP as your partner in technology. I understand you have concern that you have not received yet the game code for The Division that was included on the offer in purchasing the HP Envy 750se Desktop PC which included an Nvidia GeForce GTX 980Ti. I apologize if this has caused you any worry. I do appreciate you brought this matter to our attention so we can look into this and provide you assistance.


This offer is available for GeForce GTX 970 or 980 graphics cards. The promotion is available for a limited time or while supplies last. The game code for GeForce GTX 900 Series included on the order for a qualifying product was emailed after April 25, 2016. Email confirmation were rolled out starting this date. Please try to check your spam folder just to double check it wasn’t caught by email filters. If the game code was not found on your email spam folder, please reply back for this to be further checked.
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Also, I thought the perk of this deal is that it's as cheap as building it yourself, not that it was cheaper. I don't feel like building my own PCS these days and a fresh install of windows is easy to manage.
 
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CaptainCook

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Got mine yesterday, and boy does this 390x get hot. But it does hit 60fps in every game i have tested. Couldn't imagine the gains a 980ti would of gave me. But im only playing at 1080p right now and this 390x feels like overkill for that, let alone a 980ti.
 
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chainfire95

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Pulled the trigger. Upgrading from a 2013 ultrabook to my first gaming pc. quite a performance boost. Excited!

EDIT: Was reading about the gtx 980ti and apparently Nvidia recommends a 600w Power supply? Will I be okay with the 500w that comes with this?
 
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Ghazi

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I have decided to install a fresh copy of windows on the machine. In order to get rid of the recovery partition, do I need to delete it and then expand the SSD partition before reinstalling Windows? Did anyone encounter any major issues when installing a fresh copy?
 
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JHoNNy1OoO

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chainfire95 said:
Pulled the trigger. Upgrading from a 2013 ultrabook to my first gaming pc. quite a performance boost. Excited!

EDIT: Was reading about the gtx 980ti and apparently Nvidia recommends a 600w Power supply? Will I be okay with the 500w that comes with this?
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You'll be fine as long you don't try to overlock either the cpu or gpu. If you will then definitely get a better power supply.
 
Johnny Cage In The Shower

Johnny Cage In The Shower

Member
Question about the box and packaging this comes in, is it a fancy looking box with graphics and photos on it, or just a brown cardboard box? or both? (Cardboard box outside the main computer box)

I ask because I have very limited space in my apartment and I want to throw it out, but also thinking may not be a such a good idea, in case something goes wrong and I have to return the PC back. Would anyone be kind enough to post a pic of the box it comes in?

Thanks in advance!
 
Johnny Cage In The Shower

Johnny Cage In The Shower

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Syriel said:
Just a brown cardboard shipping box.
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And there's no box inside a box? that's the only box with Styrofoam padding etc?

A' la this?

kJiv
 
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Stoze

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Does anyone who perhaps ordered the HP a lot earlier and isn't getting a code for The Division want to play it? Not gonna use my code, first reply to this can have it. edit: taken
 
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Lorcain

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Dreams-Visions said:
just checkin in on you guys. everyone with a machine doin alright so far?
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I've been very happy with mine so far. I've been playing Dark Souls 3 with maxed settings with no issues. I also tried a bunch of my Steam backlog. The 980ti does run hot. I've been trying out different GPU fan curves to strike a good balance between fan noise and keeping the GPU temp under 83c. It's easy to do with MSI afterburner.

My boot up time from the factory SSD is like 5 seconds. It's crazy. Considering my old PC would take like 2 minutes.
 
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B.K.

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I finally hooked mine up. I can't believe how fast a SDD actually is. This is my first system with one. After I got Windows set up after the first power up, I turned it off and back on to see how fast it really was. It took me longer to put in my password than it did to get to the password screen. I'm used to my old computer taking up to five minutes to come on.
 
Bigrx1

Bigrx1

Banned
Update on my system:

Having some definite issues with overheating. I thought I got the fan curve right to keep it under 83C but no matter what I set the curve at it still at times is going too high. Just crashed in The Witcher 1 of all things and it was hovering around 84C-85C at the time. Not good.


How is everyone else's doing? Any suggestions on what I can do with this thing to keep it cooler?
 
Bigrx1

Bigrx1

Banned
Nevermind my fan curve got all screwed up somehow - fixed it and seems ok now. Will update if further stuff comes up.
 
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CaptainCook

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No idea why I only got the 500w psu, damn pc turns off everytime metro starts up lol. Anyone know of some solid 600-700w psu? I'm using afterburner to curb the power usage but that's a short term solution.
 
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BriGuy

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It looks like I'm late, but I got an email with a code for the Division. It's the deal that keeps on giving.

I redeemed the code, but do I need to download Uplay to actually install it? I might pass if that's the case.
 
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newsguy

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BriGuy said:
It looks like I'm late, but I got an email with a code for the Division. It's the deal that keeps on giving.

I redeemed the code, but do I need to download Uplay to actually install it? I might pass if that's the case.
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Yes you do. I haven't installed it because if that.
 
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Don Lapre

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CaptainCook said:
No idea why I only got the 500w psu, damn pc turns off everytime metro starts up lol. Anyone know of some solid 600-700w psu? I'm using afterburner to curb the power usage but that's a short term solution.
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A 500w is fine for a 980ti. If your PC is turning off something else is going on.
 
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jellies_two

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mine arrived, I also see the 500w supply (80 plus bronze) was included.

install steam and got steamui.dll not found - horrible flash backs to debugging PC issues ensued. Google showed lots of different possibilities and the error is reported in any given year of the last 4 years. In the end had to quit a steam process in the task manager and then re-running steam which put more files into the steam folder and it worked.

prime benchmark - cpu temp 6700K gets to ~80c and during the run up in temp, the cpu fan has a faint turbine whine to it that varies with a period of a few seconds. I don't really care as nothing is going to use all cores the way the prime benchmark purposefully does.

steamVR test tool produces the expected triangle at the far right of the green area. During the steamVR benchmark the GPU went to like 70c, (custom fan curve of 50%). By this stage the PC is quite audible. I guess it doesn't matter if you're in VR with headphones on.
 
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CaptainCook

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Don Lapre said:
A 500w is fine for a 980ti. If your PC is turning off something else is going on.
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I got the 390x, but yeah even throttling the gpu power didn't help for long. System shut off after 30 minutes or so of overwatch and won't turn back on :/. Gonna contact hp and send it in for repairs today. Hope they don't replace my hard drive though, got some irreplaceable pics on it already.
 
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Surfinn

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jellies_two said:
mine arrived, I also see the 500w supply (80 plus bronze) was included.

install steam and got steamui.dll not found - horrible flash backs to debugging PC issues ensued. Google showed lots of different possibilities and the error is reported in any given year of the last 4 years. In the end had to quit a steam process in the task manager and then re-running steam which put more files into the steam folder and it worked.

prime benchmark - cpu temp 6700K gets to ~80c and during the run up in temp, the cpu fan has a faint turbine whine to it that varies with a period of a few seconds. I don't really care as nothing is going to use all cores the way the prime benchmark purposefully does.

steamVR test tool produces the expected triangle at the far right of the green area. During the steamVR benchmark the GPU went to like 70c, (custom fan curve of 50%). By this stage the PC is quite audible. I guess it doesn't matter if you're in VR with headphones on.
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This is why I didn't bite. Knew temps would be a huge issue. We're talking about longevity here, and I want my $1k+ machine to last 5+ years like my others.
 
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draughn101

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Surfinn said:
This is why I didn't bite. Knew temps would be a huge issue. We're talking about longevity here, and I want my $1k+ machine to last 5+ years like my others.
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Well we are getting our first two negative reviews. I think most of us haven't had temp issues at all. Or PSU issues.
 
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Flandy

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Surfinn said:
This is why I didn't bite. Knew temps would be a huge issue. We're talking about longevity here, and I want my $1k+ machine to last 5+ years like my others.
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I mean you could just get a new CPU cooler and that seems like a normal temperature for a GPU benchmark
 
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Surfinn

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draughn101 said:
Well we are getting our first two negative reviews. I think most of us haven't had temp issues at all. Or PSU issues.
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Flandy said:
I mean you could just get a new CPU cooler and that seems like a normal temperature for a GPU benchmark
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Right, but it's also very, very early on. I hope there are no temp issues with the HP everyone is getting, but I'm assuming that CPU isn't even OC'd. Who knows if you can even fit a decent enough heatsync in the case to reliably cool it for longevity.

I'd like to see others impressions of attempting to replace the heatsync and OC their CPU.

If you can't OC, I'd rather just build and get better parts for cheaper, personally (although getting a 980 Ti and 3770k for that price alone is good, but I'd rather not go through the hassle of buying and replacing parts/selling them). And it seems like others are reporting high temps for their GPU.

I'm worried these issues are going to crop up more and more as time passes..
 
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draughn101

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Surfinn said:
Right, but it's also very, very early on. I hope there are no temp issues with the HP everyone is getting, but I'm assuming that CPU isn't even OC'd. Who knows if you can even fit a decent enough heatsync in the case to reliably cool it for longevity.

I'd like to see others impressions of attempting to replace the heatsync and OC their CPU.

If you can't OC, I'd rather just build and get better parts for cheaper, personally (although getting a 980 Ti and 3770k for that price alone is good, but I'd rather not go through the hassle of buying and replacing parts/selling them). And it seems like others are reporting high temps for their GPU.

I'm worried these issues are going to crop up more and more as time passes..
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Well the savings for me more than makes up for the drawbacks. I just finished playing BF4 in 4k, Ultra settings for about two hours and never got over 72C with almost 100% GPU usage. I'll pay more attention and post my findings.

edit: The Division, maxed settings 1440p. Max Temp 71C. CPU temp stayed in the upper 50s maxing at 61C

If you aren't interested in the deal, this thread isn't for you. If there was an issue this thread would've blown up with negativity by this point.
 
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PhoenixDawn

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I saw a bit of heat issue/throttling right when I got the system a couple weeks ago, but after adding in a custom curve with MSI afterburner it's been fine. I was a bit more aggressive with the curve than I usually am, but it keeps it certainly below the throttling/damage temperatures under any conditions I've seen so far. The fans might wear out slightly earlier, but I figure that's an ideal alternative to frying my system or having shitty performance.
 
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CaptainCook

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Hp tech support is a nightmare, they wanted me to pull my pc apart for the most part and try and get it working before offering to fix it themselves. Hope nobody here needs to deal with them.
 
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jellies_two

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It would be easy to upgrade the CPU cooler if you want to hammer the cpu. I don't see the CPU temps ever reaching 80c playing games. Unless the game stops doing graphics and starts doing FFTs or something.

However the other drawback to this HP is there is no CPU fan control options thru the motherboard. The bios has its own idea about controlling the CPU fan speed and the bios is one of those minimal no knobs and levers types. So there is no point downloading speedfan and adjusting fan control the way msi afterburner can control the videocard fans.

With one core 50% busy (I don't know what it was doing - some windows thing probably) temps were 55c on it. Idle temps are almost room temp.

I re-ran the torture test (small FFTs) and the worst core got to 90c. If I see VR or whatever get about 75c I'll re-do the thermal paste, or get a better cpu cooler. The bios is controlling the cpu fan and even when all cores are at 80c it is still not running it at full power because the fan RPM is changing, you can hear it revving up and down. That part is weird to me. The bios should have the CPU fan at 100% by then.

UPDATE: the cpu fan is annoying.
Sitting in the (useless) HP bios, I can hear and see the RPMs rising and falling like it is breathing. It sounds like rrrRRRrrrrRRRrrrrRRRrrr with RPMS changing from 1400 to 1600, system case fan is stable at 1200.

If I could change one thing about this system it would be control of CPU fan speed, a quieter (larger) cpu fan, and a proper BIOS.
There isn't even a way to set whether or not the USB ports are powered while the system is asleep.

UPDATE again: More limitations. Although there is an M.2 socket on the motherboard, using an SSD in it for booting is problematic (bios again) there is a 4 page topic on this,
here: http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Deskto...e-capable-of-M-2-NVMe-use/td-p/5367894/page/4
but attaching a second drive eg http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01639694M/?tag=neogaf0e-20 to this socket appears to be possible, giving 2400 mb/sec read speeds.
 
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aaaaa0

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jellies_two said:
UPDATE again: More limitations. Although there is an M.2 socket on the motherboard, using an SSD in it for booting is problematic (bios again) there is a 4 page topic on this,
here: http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Deskto...e-capable-of-M-2-NVMe-use/td-p/5367894/page/4
but attaching a second drive eg http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01639694M/?tag=neogaf0e-20 to this socket appears to be possible, giving 2400 mb/sec read speeds.
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I got a 512GB Samsung 950 PRO M.2 PCIe SSD to work in that slot.

I had to find my own retainer screw, and I had to create all the UEFI required partitions on the new drive before the BIOS would recognize it as a valid boot disk, but it now boots and works flawlessly from it with a clean install of Windows 10.
 
Bboy AJ

Bboy AJ

My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
Get a new case, new motherboard. Have a great time.
 
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AHappyPanda

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This thread has 2 types of people it seems.

People who just want a dope ass gaming PC and don't want to mess around too much, and then the tinkerers.

Nothing wrong with either group, just a comment.

From what I can tell, the vast vast majority of people who got the deal have no to very minor complaints about the PC they received.

I personally am loving it, running Overwatch on epic, runs/looks amazing, for several hours with no issues.
 
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draughn101

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AHappyPanda said:
This thread has 2 types of people it seems.

People who just want a dope ass gaming PC and don't want to mess around too much, and then the tinkerers.

Nothing wrong with either group, just a comment.

From what I can tell, the vast vast majority of people who got the deal have no to very minor complaints about the PC they received.

I personally am loving it, running Overwatch on epic, runs/looks amazing, for several hours with no issues.
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Overwatch is awesome! Battlefront trial is out now too if you want to give it a workout.
 
Kibbles

Kibbles

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jellies_two said:
UPDATE: the cpu fan is annoying.
Sitting in the (useless) HP bios, I can hear and see the RPMs rising and falling like it is breathing. It sounds like rrrRRRrrrrRRRrrrrRRRrrr with RPMS changing from 1400 to 1600, system case fan is stable at 1200.
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It really is. Headphones at all times are nearly a must, or at least some background noise to cover up the breathing :S
 
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B.K.

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I just got finished putting in a couple extra hard drives. That was a nightmare. I didn't think I was ever going to get those SATA cables in the motherboard. That brace for the graphics card was right in the way.
 
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