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i wasn't expecting a major innovation in case design this year and i certainly

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wasn't expecting it from hp but here it is the omen 45l possibly the

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biggest game changer in case cooling since the antec p180 introduced the

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concept of isolated cooling zones hp has

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dabbled in custom cases in the past but this

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scientifically cooled metaphysically

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fire design whatever that means is their

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first that there's just no other way to put it looks absolutely freaking amazing

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they even got a patent for what they call their cryo chamber cooling a

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solution that at least on paper makes the omen 45l one of the best cooled

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pre-builts on the market so

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Linus

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so

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the omen 45l boasts a top of the line spec sheet but none of that is what

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makes it unique what's special

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is all in the attic up here the top contains a liquid cooling radiator and

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120 millimeter cooling fans then there's this void with an angled airflow

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deflector that makes it a completely independent cooling zone so cold air

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goes in hot air comes out

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compromise cooling because the thing is in a traditional

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case layout you end up sacrificing cooling performance in some way no

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matter how you slice it either you mount the radiator in the front where it's

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going to pre-heat the air that ultimately gets sucked into your GPU or

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you mount the radiator in the top giving fresh air to your GPU which spits it out

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into your CPU cooler the bad news is that hp's patent means

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that nobody else can do this but the good news is that at least you can buy

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the case separately if you like what you see so why don't we take a closer look

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there's definitely some oem pc flare you

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got a nice tempered glass side panel but then you've got these little

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weird unpainted bits here i mean it's not a huge deal one really nice thing is

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check this out cable management grommets

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totally standard atx mounting this pass-through for the radiator tubes

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that's kind of a little weird but there's plenty of room in there you could

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definitely put thicker ones in if you really wanted to hold on a second

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there's a release oh look at this this is cool

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quick release front panel just got these little uh buttons right

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here easy to clean front filter is that

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magnetic i think it's magnetic

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yep all the RGB intake fans more oem pc

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weirdness this bottom fan is screwed in from the front because the basement kind

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of limits access to it and then the top fans are screwed in from the inside

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solid front i o on the case though if you buy the pre-built i'm not sure that

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it entirely makes up for the kind of flaccid rear i o on this particular

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motherboard and in a shocker from hp

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the cooling for the motherboard and actually look at that even the SSD for

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that matters pretty freaking awesome

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easy remove top panel that's a missed opportunity

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dual 240mm rad instead of a 360. i'm gonna see if that hurts us later

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curiously even though pc gamer reports that you can buy the case stand alone

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maybe it's coming later because i don't see it on the 45l page or under omen

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accessories on the us site coming back then to the pre-built which you actually

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can buy then hp claims that they've beefed up their motherboard vrm cooling

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and are using more off-the-shelf style parts this time around which it seems

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that they are and that's great in theory we already saw that they're at least

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using standard form factor motherboard case and power supply which should make

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future upgrades relatively painless but i just can't shake that feeling that

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something's rotten in the state of denmark here because here's the thing hp

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has a long history of kneecapping high-end components to the point where

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it almost feels like they intentionally limit their products performance

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so we need to deal with that but first we want to know if the cryo chamber is

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actually working as intended so we rigged up our omen 45l with four thermal

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probes one at the intake one at the exhaust for

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each of the two thermal chambers so the bottom and the top here and a final one

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measuring the ambient temperature in our room we then loaded up the system in

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three different ways first we hit all 16 of our CPU cores

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with prime95 small fft allowed our coolant temperatures to equalize in our

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radiator and found that there was a whopping 12 degree difference between

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the temperature of the air at our workbench and the radiator exhaust so in

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real world terms that means that if you were pulling hot radiator air into your

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gaming rig it could easily drive up your GPU temps by 10 degrees or more

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but what if we went the other way around feeding fresh air to the GPU first and

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then hoping that it can still cool our CPU afterward

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yikes running furmark we measured a 20 degree

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difference between our front air intake and our rear exhaust now this is a bit

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of a worst case scenario for that since most cases would feed at least

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some non-preheated air you know maybe from the top here into the radiator and

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there's only a single 120 millimeter exhaust but both of these scenarios

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demonstrate how you could easily end up cooling one of your components optimally

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at the cost of thermal throttling the other as for the crowd chamber does it work

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yes our final test a combined CPU and GPU

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load showed us that while the corner of my office where we were running the

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tests did heat up by a couple of degrees

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the way that hp routes the CPU heated air off to the side and then the GPU

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heated air out the back means that the entire system is getting

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ample access to fresh air it's freaking fantastic

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go buy one now not so fast our performance woes with hp

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desktops have never actually been caused by poor thermals

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so we need to know is it fast or is it

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just fast for an hp to find out we gathered up a

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test bench with the same specs using off-the-shelf gaming parts nuked hp's

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pre-installed software bloat because that's the first thing you should do when you buy an hp anyway and took our

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rigs to the drag strip and

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well this is a good omen get it out of the gate the 45l measurably

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outperformed our control bench in both f1 2021 and flight simulator 2020.

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cs go is a little less clear-cut with our control bench managing better

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averages but given that the omen posted better 99 minimum frame times i'm

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inclined to call this one a draw unfortunately the same can't be said of

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cinebench r23 what the heck is going on here

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how is it that you can come out ahead in gaming

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and then with exactly the same specs fall behind by nearly five percent in

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rendering like this

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it looks like whatever fuss hp has made about their beefed up vrms and keeping

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mother cool whatever that means the omen 45l's poor 12900k is so power limited

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under sustained load that even manually overclocking the course to 5.2 gigahertz

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results in basically exactly the same score

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it's a solid 32 watts below Intel's

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rated turbo power for this chip

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well that's a simple fix you might think fire up the UEFI BIOS set all of Intel's

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various boosts to their maximum and call it a day right

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wrong i have seen thin and light notebooks

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that have more available tuning parameters than this thing

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but i'm a gamer not a professional 3d

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modeler you might think who cares as long as it's gaming

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performance is good you do and here's why

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as i was puzzling about the performance advantage over our reference system i

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came across something odd hp went out of their way to equip this machine with xmp

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capable hyperx 3733 mega transfer per second at cl21 memory

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but they are running it at both lower speeds and higher latencies than it is

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rated at with absolutely no way to

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activate the xmp profile and run it at its full potential what the sam's honest

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hill is going on here hp

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now we've got another question to answer is our control system getting beat fair

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and square or is it only getting beat because we're forcing it to play in the

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same weak sandbox as the omen 45l

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what if we did what any sensible enthusiast who just spent over a

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thousand dollars on a GPU would do and

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spend another 20 bucks on our RAM

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holy bananas it's a bloodbath folks

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curiously our cinebench scores did go down a little bit but in gaming we have

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unlocked so much more performance that our control is beating the omen 45l by

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anywhere from a couple of percent to nearly 15 percent in flight sim 2020

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so yeah while our initial numbers have hp

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as the big winner it turns out that's only because they stacked the deck in

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their favor the silver lining though is that all of this is fixable either by hp

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seeing the light and fixing their power delivery

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limitations please hp i'm rooting for you here because otherwise i really like

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this thing or by just obtaining the case

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somehow and building your own while you're at it i've got a couple of

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suggested tweaks spend the extra 10 bucks and get a triple rather than a

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dual 120 millimeter radiator for the top upgrade that 850 watt power supply to a

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thousand watt just to be sure and maybe go for a full-size atx motherboard oh

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and leave out the mcafee and dropbox installs while you're at it you will end

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up with the same great omen 45l design

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just with less hpness choding it up

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thanks for watching guys you know what since you're done now why don't you go

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and watch our second secret shopper series where hp pulled this exact same

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move and ended up with lower performance than

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the competition as a result oh i guess

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that's kind of a spoiler except not really because you already know that

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they would do this to their highest end gaming right