HP custom PC (i7-6700, 980Ti, 16GB Ram, 2TB HDD, 500W) for $1127 with coupon

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Great deal for these specs with a 980Ti. The coupon code is good for 30% off any custom PC over $1199.00 or more. Personally I'd recommend upgrading to the i7-6700k. If you're looking for a great deal on a PC for playing games, you'd be hard pressed to find a better deal even building it yourself. The last time this deal was live it didn't last terribly long, as they ran out of 980Ti cards, so jump on it if you need the upgrade.

Main page for the 750se: http://store.hp.com/us/en/pdp/deskto...-n3g97av-aba-1
Customization page: http://store.hp.com/us/en/ConfigureV...657&quantity=1

Coupon Code: spring2016

 
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I know that $1127 could buy like 57,000 cheap ass games we'll backlog and never play :D/ but this is an amazing deal for someone looking for a rock solid gaming PC, you're not gonna find a pre-built system for lower with the specs. Figure if only a few CAG's are looking for a new PC, they'll save several hundred dollars with this deal. My order was like $500 off so I'm hoping it will help some of you guys too that are looking for an upgrade. Plus, freeeeee shipping. :p

 
mindatlarge said:
I know that $1127 could buy like 57,000 cheap ass games we'll backlog and never play :D/ but this is an amazing deal for someone looking for a rock solid gaming PC, you're not gonna find a pre-built system for lower with the specs. Figure if only a few CAG's are looking for a new PC, they'll save several hundred dollars with this deal. My order was like $500 off so I'm hoping it will help some of you guys too that are looking for an upgrade. Plus, freeeeee shipping. :p
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In all seriousness though I really couldn't recommend anyone spending $1200 on a PC right now. The big next gen hardware is supposed to be later this year and the performance upgrade over the current (and mostly 3+ year old hardware) is supposed to be quite significant.

It's a good deal if you have to buy now but if you can wait you'll probably be better off if you're not replacing or rebuilding fairly often.

 
I don't think the cpu architecture is going to change drastically this year, as far as performance.  But, the graphics cards are definitely going to see a significant improvement with Nvidia's Pascal architecture, which has unified memory.  I'll upgrade then.

 
EldritchOnRye said:
In all seriousness though I really couldn't recommend anyone spending $1200 on a PC right now. The big next gen hardware is supposed to be later this year and the performance upgrade over the current (and mostly 3+ year old hardware) is supposed to be quite significant.

It's a good deal if you have to buy now but if you can wait you'll probably be better off if you're not replacing or rebuilding fairly often.
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Yeah, I feel you. With VR coming out, I'm sure things will be getting substantially upgraded. But for me, my current PC is like 7 years old and VR means nothing to me, since I'm blind in one eye and that fuck makes me vomit or at least the last time I tried Oculus Rift my ass was green after like 10 minutes. So basically, any CAG with one eye and an old ass PC, do not pass up this deal! Still think it's an incredible deal, two eyed or rocking one though.

 
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bruceg said:
I don't think the cpu architecture is going to change drastically this year, as far as performance. But, the graphics cards are definitely going to see a significant improvement with Nvidia's Pascal architecture, which has unified memory. I'll upgrade then.
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Well AMD has literally had the same top end chip since I built my PC about 3.5 years ago and unless there's been a delay I think they were aiming for around September if I remember correctly. I think Intel was supposed to be doing an actual new chip (and not just another reworked thing) as well but I haven't really paid a ton of attention the last few months. Maybe it's all slid to 2017 at this point. GPUs are definitely supposed to hit this year though.


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Yeah, I feel you. With VR coming out, I'm sure things will be getting substantially upgraded. But for me, my current PC is like 7 years old and VR means nothing to me, since I'm blind in one eye and that fuck makes me vomit or at least the last time I tried Oculus Rift my ass was green after like 10 minutes. So basically, any CAG with one eye and an old ass PC, do not pass up this deal! Still think it's an incredible deal, two eyed or rocking one though.
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Yeah, VR and 4K are the main reasons to wait if you're not going to upgrade again for another 3-5 years. I don't care about VR myself but 4K is super intensive on current hardware and to get games to run decently at high settings and 4K resolution currently basically requires this type of machine.

 
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980ti is the top card at the price point right now, the GPU itself usually hovers $600-650, so considering what else you get it's pretty good. For a pre-built system that will last you at minimum 5 years this is a good deal.

 
United_Korea said:
if anyone needs a reason to turn this down, the same build was $100 cheaper last december.
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If this was $100 cheaper 3-4 months ago, by my math, in another 3-4 months, it'll be $100 more expensive. Just another reason to jump on this deal if you're in need.

 
This is a really great deal, and good opportunity to get yourself ready for VR. Wish I had an extra 1200 to spend as my rig is approaching 4 years old. But like others said I will be waiting for the new line of gpus that supposedly give way more bang for your buck to build again
 
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Been looking for this deal to pop up again after they sold out of 980ti last time. Thank you for the heads up. Pulled the trigger. My new rig ships on April 12th. Thank you Sir for the update

 
HP is one of my blacklisted brands

I heard they connect the heatsink to the processor with thermal bacon grease. The more you play, the better the room smells!

 
ZombiesWorld said:
Went ahead and put together a similar PC using some of the cheapest but reliable parts I could find, just to see how good of a deal this is.

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/H3cBsY

You'll save about $300 buying this instead of building it yourself.

Just a little fyi to anyone that's interested.
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Honestly I would spend an additional $300 instead of getting a prebuilt computer. Save yourself the heartache down the line when you crack your case open and realize the mobo, PSU, RAM, heatsink, case fans, case, etc. are bottom of the line garbage. Does the mobo on this prebuilt even support SLI? Doubtful.
 
Jaevicious said:
Been looking for this deal to pop up again after they sold out of 980ti last time. Thank you for the heads up. Pulled the trigger. My new rig ships on April 12th. Thank you Sir for the update
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Glad to hear the heads up helped ya out! I missed this deal last time too, I was hesitant then it was gone so this time I pulled the trigger after hearing the glowing reviews over at neogaf, so yeah! Pumped too and mine ships the same day as yours. :)
 
EldritchOnRye said:
In all seriousness though I really couldn't recommend anyone spending $1200 on a PC right now. The big next gen hardware is supposed to be later this year and the performance upgrade over the current (and mostly 3+ year old hardware) is supposed to be quite significant.

It's a good deal if you have to buy now but if you can wait you'll probably be better off if you're not replacing or rebuilding fairly often.
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Great.. just built a PC a few months ago and it's already going to be outdated.

 
EldritchOnRye said:
In all seriousness though I really couldn't recommend anyone spending $1200 on a PC right now. The big next gen hardware is supposed to be later this year and the performance upgrade over the current (and mostly 3+ year old hardware) is supposed to be quite significant.

It's a good deal if you have to buy now but if you can wait you'll probably be better off if you're not replacing or rebuilding fairly often.
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Not sure what you're talking about. The Intel 6th Generation chips just hit last Fall and it is very unlikely that there will be massive upgrades in processors or memory in the next 2-3 years. AMD and NVIDIA will be launching new very high end GPUs in the Fall or Winter, but the initial specs indicate that they won't be a massive leap over a 980TI initially. This is a great deal on a PC that will be good for at least several years and with a GPU upgrade after that, it should be good for at least 5 years from now.

 
Wow this is actually tempting.  :wall:

Oh wait there is tax, so I'm good on skipping out. 

 
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DisGonnaBeGood said:
Honestly I would spend an additional $300 instead of getting a prebuilt computer. Save yourself the heartache down the line when you crack your case open and realize the mobo, PSU, RAM, heatsink, case fans, case, etc. are bottom of the line garbage. Does the mobo on this prebuilt even support SLI? Doubtful.
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Buy for $1200.

Take the 980 TI out: $600ish

Take the I7 6700k out: $375ish

2TB HD: $50-60

Scrap the rest (about what it's worth) Well the 7-1 card reader isn't bad to have around.

500w PS?... pass

DDR4-2133... pass

HP brand MB... pass.

SLI capable? see above.

Overclockable? See above.

Buy real components with the two saved items, spend more than I would if I just built it outright.. :whistle2:k

@Zombiesworld: you can't pick just any MB off pcpartpicker and remotely compare it to the one in the envy... i would assume the most basic Z170 MB out there has more features than the HP branded one..

And I don't know what brand the 980Ti is either.. does HP even say? or is it an actual Nvidia branded one? (a TON of companies make "Nvidia"graphics cards... and they are not all equal) An EVGA for example is better than "Joe Blow's Super OC" from Joe Blow corp.

As far as building/buying a PC right now, there are GPU's supposedly on the way.. AMD *may* bring a new CPU out in the next year.. but they have been lagging behind Intel recently. Intel just dropped the I7 6700k.. so there *may* be a faster CPU come out eventually as well, but probably later rather than sooner. Anyone building now with a Z170 MB would still be able to just replace the CPU with the new one anyway, not like they are dropping a new socket style CPU.. just possibly faster clock speed.

I'm building my new PC now based on the 6700k, but using my GTX 770 OC for now until I see whats coming with new GPU's. Every site i've read recently regarding my new build (advice/specs/benchmarks/pricing/etc) have said pretty much the same, CPU's are going to be the same for a while, new GPU's may be coming soon. (soon as in this year)

Not a bad deal if you need a "gaming" PC and do *NOT* want to build one yourself. (Not trying to dissuade anyone from buying) But if you don't have any problem with building one yourself, you can do better.

 
Thebacklash said:
Buy for $1200.

Take the 980 TI out: $600ish

Take the I7 6700k out: $375ish

2TB HD: $50-60

Scrap the rest (about what it's worth) Well the 7-1 card reader isn't bad to have around.

500w PS?... pass

DDR4-2133... pass

HP brand MB... pass.

SLI capable? see above.

Overclockable? See above.

Buy real components with the two saved items, spend more than I would if I just built it outright.. :whistle2:k

@Zombiesworld: you can't pick just any MB off pcpartpicker and remotely compare it to the one in the envy... i would assume the most basic Z170 MB out there has more features than the HP branded one..

And I don't know what brand the 980Ti is either.. does HP even say? or is it an actual Nvidia branded one? (a TON of companies make "Nvidia"graphics cards... and they are not all equal) An EVGA for example is better than "Joe Blow's Super OC" from Joe Blow corp.

As far as building/buying a PC right now, there are GPU's supposedly on the way.. AMD *may* bring a new CPU out in the next year.. but they have been lagging behind Intel recently. Intel just dropped the I7 6700k.. so there *may* be a faster CPU come out eventually as well, but probably later rather than sooner. Anyone building now with a Z170 MB would still be able to just replace the CPU with the new one anyway, not like they are dropping a new socket style CPU.. just possibly faster clock speed.

I'm building my new PC now based on the 6700k, but using my GTX 770 OC for now until I see whats coming with new GPU's. Every site i've read recently regarding my new build (advice/specs/benchmarks/pricing/etc) have said pretty much the same, CPU's are going to be the same for a while, new GPU's may be coming soon. (soon as in this year)

Not a bad deal if you need a "gaming" PC and do *NOT* want to build one yourself. (Not trying to dissuade anyone from buying) But if you don't have any problem with building one yourself, you can do better.
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Did I ever say it was the same motherboard? Nope. I said "Went ahead and put together a similar PC (as in not the same, but close enough to use for a comparison) using some of the cheapest but reliable parts (because I knew that this HP most likely doesn't have the best of the best parts) I could find, just to see how good of a deal this is."

And of course you could build a better PC than this, but you're also going to be spending more money. And that was my point. Remember, this is a website that people use to save money and get good deals. And by buying this HP, they're definitely saving money and getting a pretty decent deal.

 
Never said you said it was the SAME..... All I said was the most BASIC Z170 MB is better than anything HP makes.

"Similar" should be read as "better than"

 
I think it boils down to this, this deal gives saves you like $300-$400 over building it yourself, and will probably give you like 5 years of running games at pretty high settings, with 4k being a solid option for a good amount of games as well. Granted, this will not be as easy to upgrade as a rig you put together yourself..say once everyone is running into walls with VR helmets strapped to their melons, So if that is important to you as well as the experience of building a rig, that would run you $300 additional bones. For me, I never upgrade, minus ram and gpu and I hate computers as I work with them all day at my work, so I'm not gonna pay for that experience. Anyways, just my two cents! *drops mic*

 
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trying to talk myself outta this
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This PC is fine if you don't plan on ever upgrading anything, namely adding another gtx 980 ti, as there is only one PCIe x 16 slot and the PSU is a piece of trash. If you did wanna do SLI, you would have to buy a new mobo and a new PSU. Air flow sucks in the HP case, so it wouldn't even be a good idea. If I were to guess, this case probably can't even fit an atx mobo. To get the most out of this setup, you would want to over clock both the GPU and CPU, but because the mobo is a piece of garbage, airflow sucks, and it's probably just the stock Intel heatsink, you can't do that.
 
DisGonnaBeGood said:
This PC is fine if you don't plan on ever upgrading anything, namely adding another gtx 980 ti, as there is only one PCIe x 16 slot and the PSU is a piece of trash. If you did wanna do SLI, you would have to buy a new mobo and a new PSU. Air flow sucks in the HP case, so it wouldn't even be a good idea. If I were to guess, this case probably can't even fit an atx mobo. To get the most out of this setup, you would want to over clock both the GPU and CPU, but because the mobo is a piece of garbage, airflow sucks, and it's probably just the stock Intel heatsink, you can't do that.
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FWIW SLI and crossfire almost never make sense. Unless you want bleeding edge performance with 2 top end cards you are better off selling your current card and buying a faster single card the vast majority of the time. 2 cards look good in a synthetic benchbench but real world performance varies wildly depending on the game.

 
DisGonnaBeGood said:
This PC is fine if you don't plan on ever upgrading anything, namely adding another gtx 980 ti, as there is only one PCIe x 16 slot and the PSU is a piece of trash. If you did wanna do SLI, you would have to buy a new mobo and a new PSU. Air flow sucks in the HP case, so it wouldn't even be a good idea. If I were to guess, this case probably can't even fit an atx mobo. To get the most out of this setup, you would want to over clock both the GPU and CPU, but because the mobo is a piece of garbage, airflow sucks, and it's probably just the stock Intel heatsink, you can't do that.
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^ this.

And here's the insides of the case. Now i doubt thats the "980Ti" in the pic... but i'll pass :shame:

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Ahh here's the 750se with a 980Ti inside. had to dig for an inside pic, and it looks like it IS a Nvidia brand 980Ti.

http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/img/pcw/docs/703/250/html/2.jpg.html

 
For an OEM case that looks pretty easy to work on honestly. Usually they are a nightmare. Airflow looks bad though. No front fan and no easy way to pull in air from the front.

 
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The Oculus requires 3x 3.0 and 1x 2.0 USB inputs, can someone confirm there's enough 3.0/2.0 inputs on this HP system?  Thanks.

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Checked the specs, so it looks like there's 4x total 3.0 and 6x 2.0 usb inputs.


 
Ports

7-in-1 Media Card Reader, 4 USB Ports (Top), Audio [Top 2USB2.0, 2USB3.0]



External I/O Ports

2 USB 3.0; 4 USB 2.0



 
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stryker said:
The Oculus requires 3x 3.0 and 1x 2.0 USB inputs, can someone confirm there's enough 3.0/2.0 inputs on this HP system? Thanks.

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I looked at the specs, so there's 4x total 3.0 and 6x 2.0 usb inputs.




Ports

7-in-1 Media Card Reader, 4 USB Ports (Top), Audio [Top 2USB2.0, 2USB3.0]



External I/O Ports

2 USB 3.0; 4 USB 2.0
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Confirmed:
TOP: 2-USB 3.0, 2-USB 2.0

REAR: 2-USB 3.0, 4-USB 2.0

The Steam VR Test for this setup: (If you opt for the plain 6700, the test should come back pretty similar)

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stryker said:
I noticed you updated your post to include the VR test, another thanks for that. Decided to go with the 256gb ssd and 1tb hdd for $1235 total. Still undecided on Oculus or Vive.
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Sweet, man! Kinda kicking myself I didn't opt for a SSD myself. I went with the 2TB HDD with the thought of upgrading to a SSD down the line. Others have installed SSD's to this computer on their own, but I really am not looking forward to it, haha. In my opinion, you'll have two clear champs of VR, Oculus and PS4 VR...something tells me those two have the best shot at success and cornering the market on their respective platforms. Anyways, enjoy your new rig! :D/

 
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You are better off adding the SSD yourself price wise. For what they want to upgrade to a 256ssd + 1tb you can add a 512 later.

 
mindatlarge said:
Sweet, man! Kinda kicking myself I didn't opt for a SSD myself. I went with the 2TB HDD with the thought of upgrading to a SSD down the line. Others have installed SSD's to this computer on their own, but I really am not looking forward to it, haha. In my opinion, you'll have two clear champs of VR, Oculus and PS4 VR...something tells me those two have the best shot at success and cornering the market on their respective platforms. Anyways, enjoy your new rig! :D/
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I did the same thing. I went and found a Samsung 850 pro for $88 and will install it when the computer gets here.

 
EldritchOnRye said:
In all seriousness though I really couldn't recommend anyone spending $1200 on a PC right now. The big next gen hardware is supposed to be later this year and the performance upgrade over the current (and mostly 3+ year old hardware) is supposed to be quite significant.

It's a good deal if you have to buy now but if you can wait you'll probably be better off if you're not replacing or rebuilding fairly often.
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To be fair, there has never been a time when "the next big thing in GPUs/CPUs/etc" isn't right around the corner. With a PC, you just have to pick the time that's right for you and jump in. If you are always concerned with what the big sea change might be in the next couple of months, you'll never buy a PC.

 
Just a heads up for people buying branded PCs like this one. SOME are locked down in regards to what you can upgrade. Ive had a fair amount of experience with people buying gateway/dell style off the shelf PC's and not being able to upgrade them down the line due to them being locked. 

I have no idea if this PC is lockd down. Its more of a PSA

 
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