Monday, May 4th 2020
HP Updates OMEN Desktops, Gaming Displays, and Command Center
Debuting a new OMEN look and feel, today HP unveiled the OMEN 25L and 30L Desktops, engineered for gaming performance, designed for immersion, and crafted for gaming expansion. Both desktops perfectly pair with the latest immersive OMEN 27i Gaming Monitor with powerful specs to enhance gaming experiences and let the action take center stage.
With people spending more time at home, gaming has increased dramatically as players look to find social connections and outlets for stress relief and entertainment. In late March 2020, Steam set a record with over 23.5 million concurrent active users, an increase of more than three million people compared to the then record number of users just two weeks prior. The latest OMEN devices are built with powerful premium components and technology that addresses the mounting needs of all gamers, veterans and newcomers alike.
"The OMEN brand continues to evolve its identity and grow a world class ecosystem of hardware and software solutions in meaningful ways that address the needs of all gamers, especially at a time when socially connecting from home with friends and loved ones is so important," said Kevin Frost, vice president and general manager, Consumer Personal Systems, HP Inc. "The latest OMEN Gaming Desktop adds components from Cooler Master, WD_Black from Western Digital, and expanded options from HyperX which reinforces our commitment toward providing the best tools for progressing in your favorite games."
Engineered for Gaming Performance and Expandability
Built with refined thermals and a tool-less design for access to internals that adhere to microATX standards, the redesigned OMEN desktops offer gamers the choice of 25 and 30-liter options to allow for maximum flexibility when it comes to desired hardware. Multiple chassis options including a 30L model that has a tempered-glass front bezel and EMI-coated glass side panel, the desktops yield a gorgeous aesthetic and highlights the interior's diligent cable routing and color consistency. The new desktops deliver:
OMEN 27i Gaming Monitor delivers with a Nano IPS panel that yields a color gamut of DCI-P3 98%17 to provide deeper hues and more accurate colors with a 25% wider color gamut than sRGB and largely nullifies color degradation from shallower angles. This gaming monitor is crafted for winning with features that deliver:
Same great features with a fast and striking new interface, OMEN Command Center now showcases a homepage that shares news on the latest events, products, and happenings with OMEN Squad, all from one incredible app. Features include:
With people spending more time at home, gaming has increased dramatically as players look to find social connections and outlets for stress relief and entertainment. In late March 2020, Steam set a record with over 23.5 million concurrent active users, an increase of more than three million people compared to the then record number of users just two weeks prior. The latest OMEN devices are built with powerful premium components and technology that addresses the mounting needs of all gamers, veterans and newcomers alike.
Engineered for Gaming Performance and Expandability
Built with refined thermals and a tool-less design for access to internals that adhere to microATX standards, the redesigned OMEN desktops offer gamers the choice of 25 and 30-liter options to allow for maximum flexibility when it comes to desired hardware. Multiple chassis options including a 30L model that has a tempered-glass front bezel and EMI-coated glass side panel, the desktops yield a gorgeous aesthetic and highlights the interior's diligent cable routing and color consistency. The new desktops deliver:
- Powerful Performance: Never skip a beat with incredible visuals powered by up to the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti or up to AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT graphics. Harness the computing power a game needs with up to the new 10th Gen Intel Core i9-10900K with up to 5.3GHz, 10 cores and 20 threads or up to the latest AMD Ryzen 9 3900 desktop processors, which showcase "Zen 2" core architecture and 7 nm process technology.
- Top Tier Components: Cooler Master makes their OMEN debut with optional configurable 92 mm air or 120 mm liquid cooler options for the CPU and up to a 750 W Cooler Master 80 PLUS Platinum PSU. Colorfully and mightily outfit the interior with up to 64 GB of HyperX FURY DDR4-3200Mhz XMP memory with RBG. Enjoy lightning quick access to important files with top-tier storage by way of up to two 2 TB WD_Black PCIe M.2 SSDs7.
- OMEN Command Center Integration: Customize to perfection with lighting control for up to six zones, including front logo, front fan, interior lighting, CPU cooler, memory and graphics, along with five unique lighting modes. Intelligent Overclocking promotes the best performance possible by utilizing a patented algorithm to identify the highest optimal setting for your CPU and automatically overclocks it for you. Fan Control comes with a quiet, normal, and turbo setting for added cooling control. Comes with the latest OMEN Command Center features: Remote Play, My Games, Profiles, Coaching, and Rewards.
OMEN 27i Gaming Monitor delivers with a Nano IPS panel that yields a color gamut of DCI-P3 98%17 to provide deeper hues and more accurate colors with a 25% wider color gamut than sRGB and largely nullifies color degradation from shallower angles. This gaming monitor is crafted for winning with features that deliver:
- Brightness: With a Quad HD18 (2560x1440) resolution and 350 nits brightness, this monitor hits the mark to make games jump to life.
- Crisp Visuals: Experience pristinely fluid gameplay with NVIDIA G-SYNC Compatibility that makes display stutter, input lag, and screen tears things of the past. Responsiveness is paramount and with a 165Hz refresh rate and 1ms19 response time with overdrive, each moment is captured in its full glory.
- Battle-Hardened Build: Coated in a spectacular black shade, this high performance 27" diagonal monitor arrives with a dual pillar height, adjustable stand and four easy-to-access tilted ports. Additionally, an immersive diamond panel lighting solution on the rear can be controlled through OMEN Command Center along with the patented aim assist feature which creates a custom shaped and colored reticle.
Same great features with a fast and striking new interface, OMEN Command Center now showcases a homepage that shares news on the latest events, products, and happenings with OMEN Squad, all from one incredible app. Features include:
- My Games: Makes playing games from Steam, Epic Games Store, Origin, Uplay, or installed elsewhere on your PC19 easier than ever before with one simple location to launch them all.
- My Gear: A one-stop shop to manage your OMEN gaming devices, boost your network, control lighting and fans, and even create your own personal profiles.
- My Services: Augments your gaming experiences in fun and fulfilling ways with Coaching and an improved Rewards. Remote Play, formerly known as Game Stream, enables you to use your OMEN PC as your own personal cloud to play from another PC and is also available via Google Play and the Apple App Store.
- OMEN 25L Desktop is expected to be available May 5th via HP.com for a starting price of $899.99.
- OMEN 30L Desktop is expected to be available May 5th via HP.com for a starting price of $1199.99.
- OMEN 27i Monitor is expected to be available May 4th via BestBuy.com and May 22nd via HP.com for a starting price of $499.99.
- May the 4th be with you!
26 Comments on HP Updates OMEN Desktops, Gaming Displays, and Command Center
Also those cooling options for the CPU suck.
I like the simplicity but you cant put a 120mm AIO cooler on a i9 that goes up to 5.2 Ghz. At least 240mm AIO. C mon that chip will suffer so hard and his lifetime shortened.
It's like watching Ford buy Lamborghini and then start making for escapes with a lambo badge. A cheaply-illuminated, glowing lambo badge.
For the Intel model it is mentioned both Turbo speed and number of cores. Very specific stuff that most consumers will connect in their mind with high performance.
For the AMD model, only the model name, some general reference to an architecture and something about "7 nm" whatever that is. Go figure...
www.omen.com/us/en/desktops/omen-25l-30l/specifications-25L.html
Expansion Slots
1 PCI-E Gen 3 x16 (occupied)
2 M.2 (occupied)
External I/O Ports
Top I/O:
2 SuperSpeed USB Type-A 5Gbps signaling rate,
Headphone/Microphone Combo,
Microphone Jack
Rear:
4 SuperSpeed USB Type-A 5Gbps signaling rate,
1 SuperSpeed USB Type-A 10Gbps signaling rate,
1 SuperSpeed USB Type-C® 10Gbps signaling rate
HDMI
3 DisplayPort™
The cooling system is already even built for Intel X processors.
This actually took more effort...
I am genuinely excited to read the reviews of highest end model of this with a 2080ti/3080ti and the full intel 10 core in there on a 120mm aio and a 92mm exhaust fan.
For what it's worth I entirely approve of OEMs moving to smaller cases, though I wish they would allow for just a tad more airflow than this seems to. I've seen much worse though.A 120mm AIO should handle 125W just fine, and don't expect a build like this to allow it to boost past that for any significant duration of time. At best they are following Intel guidelines, which means 250W PL2 for 56 seconds, then 125W - which, again, this should handle. The AIO is also set as exhaust. I'm more worried about the single intake fan behind glass, though it seems quite recessed with some allowance for side intake even if it will be very restrictive. A 275W open-air GPU in there would be a bad idea, though. They'll likely use blower coolers, which at least help heat escape even if they cool poorly and run loud.
But you know they're going to have the $3000 10900K option where you will get 15% lower performance (compared to same spec builds) because of throttling/ lack of boost, and some amazing acoustic fan shrieking to go along with that. That's the one I kind of want to see reviewed.
edit^ wow....
www.tomshardware.com/reviews/hp-omen-obelisk-2019,6283.html
They hardly send those computers to in depth tech reviewers, that's the only place where they ever mentionned thermals.
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- behaving as if one owned something or someone.
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If you look at the website it clearly shows H.P. branded Motherboard.relating to an owner or ownership.
"the company has a proprietary right to the property"
"he looked about him with a proprietary air"
(of a product) marketed under and protected by a registered trade name.
"proprietary brands of insecticide"
As for Bespoke, we don't know if H.P. made the Motherboard or commissioned it.
mini-mobo in ATX case: f/A/iL #2
no engineering effort: f/A/iL #3
blase' boring-assed asthetics: f/A/iL #4
shall I continue ?
Every once in while they make an effort, but it's always for a luxury product that doesn't stick around for too long. (Even the Corsair one is a luxury product, sadly they don't offer a midrange spec they could have put dell,lenovo, hp to shame.)
I wonder if HP plans on shuttering the brand again? This whole new design direction doesn't say "stylish",it just screams "meh".
Beyond this, all OEM desktops from large vendors (and even smaller ones like Acer) use custom motherboards. Bigger OEMs make them themselves (Dell and HP, likely Asus), smaller ones have them made (Acer, others) by someone who can design a board cheaply around the required specs. Only custom PC builders or truly tiny outfits use off-the-shelf motherboards. The HP logo on the board also tells us that it's bespoke: either it was made by HP for this product line (this is the most likely given HP's size; it might be used in others too, who knows?) or it was made by someone else for HP from their specs/requirements. Either way it is bespoke.