HP Turns the Omen Desktop Into a Meme Machine With a Screen on its CPU Cooler

If a desktop illuminated successful brushed RGB glow wasn’t capable superior “G” gamer for you, HP’s latest desktop is bigger and comes packed with 1 of the weirdest interior cooling mechanisms that volition marque immoderate HVAC technician blush. At Gamescom connected Tuesday, HP showcased however its Omen 35L desktop PC is packed with a CPU cooler that sports a tiny LCD display. Sure, you tin usage it arsenic a static photograph framework for household snaps. You tin besides play videos oregon GIFs done it to crook your PC into a literal meme machine. 

Like the Omen-brand gaming laptops, I similar the 35L successful achromatic alternatively than black, though with that optional 240mm CPU liquid cooling system, you whitethorn privation to framework it with the acheronian lawsuit for a movie theatre effect. The liquid cooling headdress contains an LCD surface connected to an Asetek 7th-gen pump. HP told Gizmodo it tin enactment video oregon animated GIFs, oregon you tin acceptable it to amusement audio visualization oregon a timepiece done the built-in Omen software. There are different ample fans with plentifulness of RGB lighting moving on the apical and beforehand of the PC to acceptable the temper for your gaming room, but I’d beryllium precise funny to spot however gamers customize their machines.

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You’ll person options for the astir almighty Nvidia RTX GPUs.  However, HP won’t beryllium shipping the desktop with the latest AMD Ryzen 9000 bid chips. You tin bargain the 35 L with an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 up done a 4080 Super with 16 GB of representation oregon a 4080 with 24 GB of VRAM. That each sounds good and good, but the contented is the prime of CPU. AMD already has the Ryzen 9000 bid chips, including the precise gamer-specific Ryzen 9 9950X. The Omen 35L lone goes up to an AMD Ryzen 7 8700G with a 5.1 GHz max clock. 

You tin besides get it with the Intel Core i5-14400F oregon i7-14700F. That being said, there’s bully crushed not to spot the latest Raptor Lake 13th oregon 14th-gen Intel chips. Those CPUs person been plagued with crashes and bluish screens owed to faulty operating voltage levels. Intel has confirmed the affected CPUs see chips 65W oregon higher basal powerfulness settings, truthful the 14400F and 14700F aren’t expected to pb to crashing. Still, HP did not reply reporters’ questions during a property telephone astir whether it would beryllium accepting replacements for faulty Intel chips.

At the precise least, the motherboard supports the AMD B650 and Intel Z790H chipsets, truthful there’s country for upgrades. Like the Alienware Aurora r16, the Omen seems to beryllium utilizing a proprietary motherboard, though it comes with 4 representation slots and options up to 64 GB of DDR5-5200 MT/s memory. You besides lone person an enactment for a 1 TB oregon a 2 TB SSD.

The HyperX Quadcast Mics Are truthful Full of RGB They Look Like Lava Lamps

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Streaming mics are meant to enactment retired of the mode and possibly not distract viewers from the prima of the show. HP didn’t get that memo, oregon other they’re hoping the swirling lights connected their screens mightiness hypnotize viewers. The adjacent measurement successful the company’s Quadcast lineup of mics includes the Quadcast 2 and Quadcast 2S. The erstwhile is each successful reddish with a 24-bit audio solution and 96 kHz sampling rate. What truly stands retired is the 2S, with its implicit 100 aRGB LEDs, which users tin customize with patterns to rival a definite mind-controlling amphibian, Futurama’s (all hail the Hypno Toad). 

The Quadcast 2S besides includes 32-bit audio solution and a 192 kHz illustration complaint for audio fidelity. It includes 1 dial for changing summation oregon volume, though you tin besides acceptable it betwixt 4 colour patterns. If you privation much control, you’ll request to usage HP’s NGENUITY bundle to alteration the LED limiter oregon impact the 10-band EQ.