After a quick stint among the many greatest gaming desktops, HP’s Omen model hasn’t stepped as much as the plate on the desktop entrance. The current Omen 40L was a lukewarm PC, and the corporate has settled into the identical design in barely completely 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, not like one thing just like the Alienware Aurora R16, however the Omen 35L pushes that concept additional. The bottom-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 exchange the internals down the road.
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The desktop is much less attention-grabbing than what’s inside, nevertheless. HP is introducing its first Omen parts contained in the Omen 35L. It created a set of followers, two completely different energy provides, and two liquid coolers that will likely be out there on their very own. The Omen followers solely are available a 120mm measurement, 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 assist for as much as 14 followers by a hub.
For the facility provides, HP is providing 850-watt or 1000W, each of that are absolutely modular and include an 80 Plus Gold certification — although 80 Plus is slowly getting old out of relevance. HP additionally says these energy provides assist ATX 3.1, that means you’ll get a 16-pin connector for RTX 40-series GPUs, in addition to a zero RPM fan mode.
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Out of the entire parts, the all-in-one (AIO) liquid cooler is essentially the most attention-grabbing. HP is providing it in a 240mm or 360mm measurement, and each include an Asetek Seventh-gen pump and assist for each Intel and AMD — HP hasn’t specified which sockets particularly, nevertheless. The extra attention-grabbing word is the cap. By default, these coolers include an ARGB cap adorning the Omen emblem, however you possibly can improve it to an LCD display.
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It’s not a large IPS show like we noticed on the Hyte Thicc Q60, however the LCD cap lets you present a video, GIF, system info, clock, or audio visualization on high of your cooler. The display itself has a decision of 480 x 480 and is able to 250 nits of brightness.
These parts will likely be out there individually or as a part of the Omen 35L. Outdoors of HP’s choices, you possibly can 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 parts but, nor once they’ll be out there.
