HP Flagship Pro Desktop 2018 Computer, Core I5 Up to 3.6GHz, 8GB, 512GB SSD, WiFi, DVD, DP, VGA, USB 3.0, Windows 10 Pro 64 Bit-Multi Language-English/Spanish/French(CI5) (Renewed)

I can't stand it anymore! My laptop is annoyingly slow, wouldn't load Paintshop Pro Ultimate 2020, barely loaded Photoshop CC 2020 so I decided to buy this HP Small Form 6300 PC. Doing a lot more photography right now.Only owned for a few days. Finished install. Disappointed max video resolution is 1080p. I use a 43" TV as my monitor so I don't need 2 monitors with 4k. To use with my Vizio Smart TV I bought a DisplayPort to HDMI adapter but still only 1080p. I just ordered an Asus GeForce 1030 graphics fanless card Low Profile that uses only about 35w I've read and hope it will work. The power supply unit is 240 watts, so you cannot use a heavy power draw video card. I also planned on ordering 32gb (2 x16gb) to run Adobe Premier Pro 4k video editing s/w. Read 64gb is recommended, but I'll try 32gb with two open slots in the event I will really need 64gb. My main usage is for Photoshop CC and with small files, the standard 8gb seems fine. Ditto with Paintshop Ultimate 2020. Streaming video is great, no stuttering with Netflix, Amazon Prime, YouTube, etc. I may hold off on buying the DDR3 RAM (as it is expensive and for obsolete PC's) until I do a lot of Photoshop editing and see if the 8gb ram is adequate. I really don't want to spend a lot of money on this temporary PC.I wasn't planning to upgrade this machine so much as I planned to just build a new powerful workstation PC in the near future... But I had to upgrade the onboard graphics and could have gone cheap with a GeForce 710 for $50 which you can't edit 4k video or buy the 1030 for $80 or only $30 more and I can edit 4k as well as play most games, although I don't play games as I'm afraid I'd get addicted... LOL Besides, when I build my next machine, I think this card will be adequate for my future needs.The 512gb SSD is made by SunEast and saw one review showing it is the slowest SSD, however, it is lightning fast compared to a HDD. I just hope it is reliable. I wish I had a Blu-Ray drive instead of the DVD... But at $185 for the basic PC that is barely more than the cost of Win10 Pro and the SSD... I was thinking of buying a M.2 VME adapter so I could run a faster SSD, but again, I just don't want to spend a lot of money now on a temporary PC...The microphone jack will not work with my big expensive podcast microphone, but it works fine with my tiny lavalier microphone... There is indeed 4 rear USB 3.0 ports and I use a lot of them, plus I run 3 USB 3.0 3-4 hubs as well (none in front only USB 2.0)...In summary, this is a fantastic value for the money and I'm pleased overall with the machine and value. If you only need 1080p HD, you won't need to spend the money for a graphics card, maybe $3-5 for a DP>HDMI adapter/cable. I always built my own PC's and have done so since 1983, so this is the first time I haven't built my own PC. I always bought the biggest tower cases that would house 4-8 drives, 500-1000w PSU for a Raid5 HDD drive array, but now it seems un-necessary with the new Samsung T7 SSD's...

My 10 year old Dell finally passed away and I was looking to replace it as inexpensively and as quickly as possible, and this looked like a reasonable way to do it; the OS would be an upgrade, the SSD would likely be a lot quicker, and I could likely recover files from the Dell's drives. All this worked out well, and I wound up with a system that outperformed the old one by so much that I wish it had happened a couple years earlier.There were a couple of as-received issues that didn't make me smile: First, after unpacking and setting everything up, it would not start, with no indication it was getting power, no LEDs lit, nada. Believe it or not, the new power cord was bad! Those never fail, right? After replacing that, it fired right up and all was well, except for the really funky odor wafting up from the interior, sort of like my basement smells when when it's wet. Fortunately , that disappeared over the first hour of operation, and hasn't recurred. Actually, the inside was spotlessly clean, like brand new. The only other issue was the keyboard. They couldn't have chosen a poorer quality device than that, low quality plastic, floppy-flexible, unreadable buttons, not useable if not supported by a solid desktop. That was immediately replaced with the keyboard from the old computer. In contrast, however, the new mouse is pretty good, works smoothly, no problems, and even looks OK.OS installation went exceedingly well, and when all the updates were completed, I wound up with the absolute latest, greatest version of Windows 10 Pro. Everything runs amazingly fast, it seems like about 4X the old computer's speed.I did add a second hard drive, a 2 TB that I bought a couple years ago but could never get to work on the old computer. It installed on this computer with no fuss at all, and it allowed me to easily recover all my content from the old computer.Finally, there was a surprise bonus: The old computer was apparently a power hog, if I was doing some heavy-duty computations (such as SETI@HOME) it would sometimes pull 150-200 watts, ( kind of expensive for volunteer number crunching) and at normal usage about 80-100W. This computer does normal at less than 10W! I'm curious now to see what it does with heavy duty use, but unfortunately SETI@HOME has run out of data and has closed up shop.

We bought this PC for my 12yo son who does mostly online gaming and school. For the games he plays (Roblox, and some steam games) it works excellent.It arrived well packaged and I couldnt even tell it was a refurbished model. However, the Wifi mentioned in the description led me to believe it had a wireless network card, when in fact, it cam with a cheap (cant even find a brand name on the packaging) USB Wifi adapter that overheated and quit working. The range wouldnt even work from where the PC Was to begin with in my house and I ended up having to go buy a new one.If I had known it was just a USB Wifi adapter, I wouldnt have purchased it. With that said however, I have nothing but good things to say about the PC itself. Very fast and clean. An excellent value. No complaints about the machine itself.