Embarrassingly Bad: HP Pavilion $1430 Prebuilt Gaming PC (TG01-1160XT Review)
38,597We 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:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2vrvQydVIw
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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