Embarrassingly Bad: HP Pavilion $1430 Prebuilt Gaming PC (TG01-1160XT Review)
Embarrassingly Bad: HP Pavilion $1430 Prebuilt Gaming PC (TG01-1160XT Review)
We secretly tested HP’s support quality alongside its assembly and parts selection competence. This review of the HP Pavilion TG01-1160XT prebuilt shows why it’s so bad.
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The HP TG01-1160XT was purchased as a PC in our $1000-$1500 price range for prebuilts. This follows-up previous benchmarks and reviews of Alienware, Dell, Lenovo, ABS, and Skytech, among others. The HP Pavilion tested was recommended to us by HP’s support — who told us we should get 32GB of RAM for gaming, for some reason, while also recommending an Intel i5 CPU and a 2060 Super. It’s a bizarre combination of things that led to this build. We’re still on our quest to find the best pre-built gaming PCs. So far, we’ve found two pretty good ones and a bunch that aren’t that.
Pre-built gaming PC review playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYyBeYW4FX4&list=PLsuVSmND84QuM2HKzG7ipbIbE_R5EnCLM
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RELATED PRE-BUILT REVIEWS
Skytech’s Chronos prebuilt is one of the best we’ve seen yet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYyBeYW4FX4
See HP’s competitor, also at the bottom of the list, in the Dell G5 5000 review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DMg6hUudHE
You can see why the ABS Challenger is the other best prebuilt we’ve reviewed so far here:
We also collaborated with Digital Foundry to test the Playstation 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgWuGA8cExo
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 – HP Pavilion Gaming TG01-1160xt
01:55 – Buying from HP is … Unique
05:32 – HP’s Incomprehensible Support
08:04 – Tearing Down the HP Pavilion
09:00 – Phillips Heads Are So Out of Style
10:00 – Dell All Over Again
11:10 – GPU Is Very Flexible
13:00 – Another Weird Power Supply
16:25 – CPU Cooler
17:04 – Thermal Benchmarks
17:58 – Gaming Benchmarks
18:26 – Rainbow Six: Siege (1080p & 1440p)
19:53 – Cyberpunk 2077
20:40 – Hitman 3
21:12 – Red Dead Redemption 2
21:37 – Noise
22:45 – Power at the Wall
23:14 – Bloatware, BIOS, Setup, & Instructions
27:16 – Conclusion
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Host, Test Lead, Writing: Steve Burke
Testing: Patrick Lathan
Video: Andrew Coleman
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Is it possible to modify the device, for example, to install an M2 ??
Probably been said already, but 32GB RAM even on a lower end CPU can make total sense..if you play for example modded Cities:Skylines, Transport Fever 2 or similar, because in the late game, they will just consume every MB of RAM you have. TPF2 crashed often on my 16GB RAM system for memory-related reasons.
Quality case
i’m watching these because they are so f***ing hilarious.
I bought an HP many years ago. Guess what? Last HP I ever bought.
You crack my ass up on a major scale. I’ve been building systems since 92′ and we could melt the mind of seniors world wide. Oh Dell, how’s your face// What do you mean why? Because it’s killing me.. Blaaaaaaaa..
Companies big as HP, Dell ect couldn’t care less about your thoughts. Why you think they still make this garbage?
I actually ended up buying that same hp pre-built because I kinda had no choice, gpus were sold out and I needed a gaming pc that could just give some decent performance. So far it works really well for me. The only thing I wasn’t impressed with was the small watt psu and the bad cooling system. But I only game at 60 fps 1080p so it’s good enough for me. Plus I’m amazed with it’s performance for how small of a tower it is, it’s like an overpowered xbox series x
Holy crap, I’m SO glad I didn’t buy one of these
Plot twist: Dell and HP are the same company
HP pc’s are real pieces of crap, 80% of my repairs in my shop are HP computers, all kind of bizar problems too mostly.
Hp and Dell are a joke to PC building…
HP is particularly bad for pre-installed bloat ware.
HP is garbage.
Hp also has bloatware on their laptops too. Never get an hp !
all oems does some wierdo non standard builds
HP Machines
H PMachines
H P’eMachines
HP eMachines…
Ahhh. It all makes sense now. HP is eMachines.
Bought and $300 HP OEM back in 2014 and worked out the components were worth like $170 at a max. They didn’t even have a built in PSU…
the pre built acer system i bought over 10 years ago atleast had a standard formfactor board but wasnt exactly easy to dind a manual for plus they delivered the computer with a powersupply that could bearly run th components it came with
The Challenger ~ oh shit.. That Ram is available across America. That cooler keeps flames from showing from spreading to far and wide …..
Love your videos. Awesome Steve
i agree these are not so good computers , but only because of the missing possibility to upgrade almost anything inside them. i got myself one of these hp pavilion pc , and it was pretty much ok until i had to make some upgrades .. mine was 700 euro in 2017 and had 8gb of ram , i5 8400 , gtx 1050 and 1 tb hdd .. i do know to install a windows so bloat isn-t a problem . fast forward in 2021 , i still use parts of that pc , liuke ram, cpu, hdd, ssd , sata cables , leds , buttons , screws . it did his job for 3 years .. had never issues with any component inside it so i don’t agree with you calling them trash . (maybe they are too expensive for the specs) i didn’t had more money that 700€ back in the day .. and it did work good for the price .
I got an dell ad entering this video..
After watching two of these videos suddenly apples bottom specs don’t look like shit considering they actually work as advertised…
Media keys on keyboards should be removed entirely from any peripheral
If that PSU fries and I am sure it is rigged to fry very often, you are screwed. 🙁
Not shocking that the products that are from the company sponsoring their videos are great, etc.? Is anyone not surprised by that?
Do company’s like HP, Dell etc ever reply to these video’s?
dropping that case down for it’s own good
Nice pc from 2004 i hope it runs Far Cry 1
Pre-built gaming PC review playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYyBeYW4FX4&list=PLsuVSmND84QuM2HKzG7ipbIbE_R5EnCLM
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damm no care about the case im already intreaged
That is just sad.
Why are my comments censored?
Wow… 700 bucks for a 2060 super… glad I got my 2070 super when I had the chance a couple of years back
I’ve got an HP Envy 700-230qe from 2013 that I’ve upgraded, and I swear it’s got the same cooler fan, similar motherboard, and the case has the same insides but shinier outside since it’s meant to be an office desktop so there’s a DVD drive I’ve never used (but could absolutely use that space for another fan). The side panel is pretty identical to yours, but hey at least this refurb came with a thumb screw! Right now I’m looking for new cases and storage, since I’ve already upgraded the power supply and GPU!
Watching these makes me appreciate the fact I built my own.
My experience with HP customer support was so bad I haven’t bought an HP product in over a decade.
Hello I’m trying to get into gaming can anyone please help me find a good and cheap gaming pc thank you very much everyone
The way you Linus that case cracked me up haha
"We have a motherboard… allegedly!" 🤣 I can’t stop laughing
Sadly the people watching this are unlikely to be the target audience of HP.
this video shows why you dont buy prebuilt
This is a very defensible position, and I wouldn’t argue with anyone for calling me an idiot, but it seems like there is enough evidence at this point that a teardown of a "cheap" off of the shelf PC is redundant. For the average customer of a PC like this "Does it work?" yes. "Does it play my games?" yes. "Can I upgrade parts in the future?" no. What is being described here is a video game console, with just a little bit less margins in the error for manufacturing mistakes. I sorta liken it to being angry my Roku doesn’t play video games at a high enough frame rate, or a console that doesn’t run Excel. Different purposes for different devices.
Thats like… 12 watts per amp? So each main, cpu, Vg can handle like 216 watts.
But a max of only 400 watts so you cant even max out each lanes potential 🤔
Shitty
Is tje HP rep. also working for UserBenchmark?
Ooh wow that custom bios litteraly almost made me faint
Well HP and HPE uses torx for allmost all of chasis, and this dates from Compaq times. And frankly with most of the servers you even get a torx tool on the back of the server. And torx is way better than philips. So even if everything else is really s….t this is something you do not need to focus so much. It outdates you seriously 🙂
Try out Omen desktop its vastly superior to these HP pavilions in terms of everything but one major problem is heat
Would be great if you could do such teardown on Asus ROG Strix GT/GA35 ?!