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you know it's a funny thing it's like apple does something and then everyone

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else goes hm that's a pretty good idea

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and does the same thing 3 years later for a fraction of the cost meet the

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latest member of the club the HP wave a

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trash can PC starting at 600 bucks

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enjoy VR without obstacles with Zotac

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vrgo backpack which features a GTX 1070

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and Intel Core i7 processor learn more at the link

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below so what exactly is this thing well

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hp's slogan is a desktop PC designed to

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be seen so we'll mark it on its looks

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first at 9 and 1/4 in high and close to

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7 in wide in a rounded triangular shape

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it's very small for a desktop with this much Hardware inside and features a gray

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fabric wrap around the outside that looks really modern but doesn't draw

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unnecessary attention that is assuming you can find somewhere to stash the

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unsightly power brick so it is pretty

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but can it perform actually the specs

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are not bad our core i7 model Sports a

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power optimized lifestyle CPU whatever that means which

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basically trades some performance for

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lower heat and power consumption it's got a good mix of solid state and

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spinning storage and a functional if not

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4K AAA gaming ready GPU curiously hp's

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website says up to 16 gigs of RAM but as

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far as we can tell there's no way to order such a beast so you might have to

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upgrade it with one of those empty slots yourself noise is probably the biggest

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downside of the wave which Peaks at 50

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DBS and a whopping 86° on the CPU under

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load though that in itself isn't the

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biggest problem even short bursts of

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activity like installing a program make the fan wind up then wind back down and

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this irregular fluctuation in the sound quality makes it very hard for the wave

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to blend in with background

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noise which isn't to say there isn't any reason you couldn't try to drown it out

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in a bit of an unusual move HP has integrated a speaker into the tower it

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sounds best at about half volume which is loud enough for background music at a

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small dinner party but not for movie watching and sports half decent base

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although It suffers as sounds get more complex everything I am by Kanye sounds

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right at home but busier tracks such as LCD sound systems Daft Punk is playing

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at my house get muddled and a bit messy

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a problem that is exacerbated by the fact that the speaker's output Grill is

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also the exhaust vent for the cooling solution to look inside the wave all we

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needed to do was remove three screws and from here the RAM and 3 and 1/2 in

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storage hard drive are easily accessed for upgrades

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but an m.2 SSD swap would be much more

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difficult totally disassembled we can see why the thermal performance was a

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little lackluster system cooling is handled by these copper heat pipes that

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lead to a small heat sink with a single

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blower style fan for airf flow even compared to a stock Intel heat sink it's

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a little anemic looking and it's responsible for the video card as well

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not that it's a super for powerful one or anything the wave isn't made for

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gaming and it shows but I still give HP

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credit for including more than onboard Graphics rise of the Tomb Raider on the

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lowest settings at 720p ran at a

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playable 40fps and Esports games like Dota csgo

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or OverWatch will run fine as long as you manage your expectations and you

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don't try to play them with the included wireless keyboard and mouse they're

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functional and it's NE neat that they don't require any setup thanks to the

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receiver that's zip tied to an internal USB port but they're possibly actually

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worse than what you'd expect for included peripherals in a starting at

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599 computer I'd replace the keyboard immediately if I intended to do any

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serious word processing work and the mouse's unusual kind of Sonic the

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Hedgehog profile shape didn't fit the hand of anyone that I showed it to so

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yeah but while at this point in the

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video you might be thinking gee he sure

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doesn't like this thing very much truthfully I wasn't that stoked on it

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until I tried to find something that out competes it and if you want a reasonably

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high performance little machine thermals

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and Acoustics aside it's very functional

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it powered through productivity image editing watching 4K content and even

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light video work and it does it without taking up a lot of space or looking ugly

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in your apartment or your studio for competing trash can PCS there's really

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not much else out there the Mac Pro is in a totally different class using

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workstation Hardware at five times the price the MSI Vortex is similarly uh

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much more expensive and the extra $700

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you'd be giving Samsung for an art PC

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seems to be going towards an aluminum chassis and Easy Storage expansion and

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for that kind of money you could swap a 10 tbte Seagate Enterprise hard drive

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into the wave and still have enough left over for 436 chicken McNuggets even

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looking Beyond trash cans it's very competitive a similarly speced laptop

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will cost you an additional 200 bucks which is enough to cover a monitor and a

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replacement keyboard for the wave and many mini PCS were either much less

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powerful or clearly made with gaming in mind sacrificing some processor speed

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and generally looking well let's just say

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gamery do you use Amazon we do we think

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they're great we've got links to Amazon purchase pages in almost every video

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description that we create and there's more than just the ability to buy pretty

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much anything they've also got Amazon Prime which is $99 annually and gives

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