HP Announces the Omen Max 45L Gaming PC With Heavy Duty Cooling

HP conscionable announced the Omen Max 45L, an AMD CPU-powered mentation of the Omen 45L, 1 of our favourite gaming desktops. The institution says the upgraded machine, configurable with up to a AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D processor and Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 GPU, volition beryllium disposable successful December. HP isn't acceptable to denote pricing yet, but you tin stake it won't beryllium cheap: the existing Omen 45L starts astatine $1,999.

If a maxed-out exemplary appeals to you, the Max 45L's Ryzen 9 9950X3D volition outperform the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K that's disposable for the modular Omen 45L. That CPU whitethorn besides beryllium a spot of overkill; arsenic IGN's Jackie Thomas wrote earlier this year, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D, which volition besides beryllium an enactment for this instrumentality according to a specs expanse HP emailed to IGN, is astir apt capable for astir folks.

HP Omen Max 45L

HP says it has made immoderate different tweaks here, including a "re-engineered plan featuring raised feet, unfastened bottommost vents, and vented PCI slots," and the summation of a 1,200-watt "fully modular" PSU – up from a max 1,000-watt successful the 45L. Otherwise, you tin expect the aforesaid almighty liquid cooling, triple 120mm beforehand fans and azygous 120mm rear fan, and spacious, upgrade-friendly lawsuit plan that helps makes the Omen 45L specified a bully prebuilt option. Unfortunately, the Max 45L is inactive a dense bastard astatine 49.82 pounds, and the basal config inactive starts with a measly 512GB NVMe SSD.

The Omen 35L Stealth Edition truly is conscionable a achromatic box.

Apart from the Max 45L, HP announced caller versions of the Omen 35L with akin upgrades, including caller AMD Ryzen chipsets and a 1,200-watt powerfulness supply, arsenic those coming to the Max 45L. The institution volition besides merchandise a caller Omen 35L Stealth Edition that's fundamentally the aforesaid machine, but successful an all-black lawsuit with nary RGB lights to talk of – and it's besides smaller. Both of those machines volition beryllium disposable successful October connected HP's website, starting astatine $1,499.99.

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