PC Tech Thread

Would not buy.

It's a nice machine, good components.

But the motherboard. The motherboard is a generic from Lenovo and whilst packaged nicely it really doesn't offer much in the way of expansion in the future. A solitary USB-C which may not be Thunderbolt, a solitary PCIE... if this machine fits your requirement now and for always, then great... but my mistake in buying a HP Omen (it was a whim purchase, I don't regret it for how I bought it) has ultimately come down to the lack of expansion capability... I cannot even take the USB-C dock that I use on the Mac or Thinkpad and plug it into the HP Omen due to the lack of full support for Thunderbolt, etc.

For me... I'd rather compromise the amount of RAM, the disk, etc... in favour of a system with a good motherboard and great CPU and pretty good GPU. A good motherboard is the longevity and usefulness of the machine IMHO.

I should qualify this... I am actually really happy with my HP Omen. I just have buyers regret that I didn't spend more time researching and think more about the motherboard and the details of that.

vouchers from work.

Is this something specific to your workplace? I think I've read about something akin to cycle scheme for computers, my employer doesn't run one. The main reason I want a new computer is to upgrade my profession skills in my free time.

I bought the same one a year ago with a 3070 for £1500. It's been good so far but needed a firmware update initially or it would crash every game after a while.
Temperatures are good but not very quiet on full load.