Is the HP Pavilion 590-a0205nd a good PC for me?

guerilla86

Hello all,

My PC recently went faulty, and I am considering buying the following PC at €399 from Komplett.ie.

I primarily want it for using Microsoft office and printing. But I also occasionally play games. My old PC has a Radeon Sapphire graphics card in it which I hope to fit into the new PC mentioned above.

The specs are:

Specifications
Brand: HP
Product number: 20892636
Product number manufacturer: 4TZ26EA#ABH
Audio
Audio output channels: 5.1 channels
Certificates
Energy Star certified:
EPEAT compliance: Silver
Connectivity
Combo headphone/microphone port:
DC-in:
DVI ports:
HDMI ports: 1
HDMI version: 1.4
Headphone out: 1
LAN (RJ-45) ports: 1
Microphone port(s):
USB 2.0 ports: 2
USB 3.1 (Gen 1) type A ports: 4
VGA (D-Sub) ports: 1
Energy management
Power supply: 65 W
Graphics
GFX model: Not available
Memory
Clock speed: 1866 MHz
Memory layout: 1 x 8 GB
Memory type: DDR4-SDRAM
RAM: 8 GB
Networking
Bluetooth:
Bluetooth version: 4.2
Network speed (LAN): 10,100,1000 Mbit/s
Network technology (wired):
Wi-Fi standard: IEEE 802.11ac
Wireless LAN (WiFi):
Operating system/software
Operating system: Windows 10 Home
Operating system architecture: 64-bit
Optical drive
Optical drive: DVD Super Multi
Packaging content
Display included:
Physical characteristics
Chassis type: Desktop
Colour of product: Black
Depth: 277 mm
Form factor: PC
Height: 338 mm
Width: 170 mm
Processor
Graphics processor: AMD Radeon R4
Number of cores: 2
Number of processors installed: 1
Processor cache: 1 MB
Processor clock speed: 2.6 GHz
Processor clock speed (Boost): 3 GHz
Processor family: AMD A6
Storage media
Card reader:
Hard drive interface: Serial ATA
HDD storage capacity: 1000 GB
Number of hard drives installed: 1
Number of storage drives installed: 1
Rotational speed: 7200 RPM
Storage media type: HDD
Total storage capacity: 1000 GB

If you are still with me thanks for taking the time to read all of that, any advice would be helpful.

Regards.

smuggler.ie

Where is OK for office applications/work, this PC have limited upgrade capabilities - Form factor: mini ITX. By looks of it you wont be able to fit you graphics as there is no PCI ports on motherboard. See full specifications on official HP site
Also, would recommend to get SSD into it and use existing 1Tb HDD as storage only.
For games you need gaming PC - it will run Office OK, not other way around

TerrorFirmer

No, it's garbage. The A6 is a terrible CPU and you cannot install a graphics card.

Better off buying a new i3-based machine that has a pci-e lane free.

Even a 2nd hand i3-3220 or similar off Ebay for €80 would be twice as fast and more upgradable.

What sort of games are we talking about and what's your old card? Big difference between playing something like Counter Strike and Battlefield 1 online.

guerilla86

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

No, it's garbage. The A6 is a terrible CPU and you cannot install a graphics card.

Better off buying a new i3-based machine that has a pci-e lane free.

Even a 2nd hand i3-3220 or similar off Ebay for €80 would be twice as fast and more upgradable.

What sort of games are we talking about and what's your old card? Big difference between playing something like Counter Strike and Battlefield 1 online.

Well I have a few real time strategy games(Age of Empires I, II & III, the old fallout series, Colflict World in Flames, might pick up an "Anno" game, but I wouldn't be pc gamer primarily as I have a PS4. Just don't want to waste a good Graphics card. The card itself is a Sapphire Radeon HD 7850, 1GB GDDR5, lite.

Thanks for responding.

Johnboy1951

guerilla86 wrote: »

Well I have a few real time strategy games(Age of Empires I, II & III, the old fallout series, Colflict World in Flames, might pick up an "Anno" game, but I wouldn't be pc gamer primarily as I have a PS4. Just don't want to waste a good Graphics card. The card itself is a Sapphire Radeon HD 7850, 1GB GDDR5, lite.

Thanks for responding.

Get a better replacement PC and sell the existing graphics card, else as advised get a PC that can take the Radeon card.

TerrorFirmer

The 7850 is still OK but the 1GB version is crippled by the low vram these days (though still fine for AOE, Fallout 3, etc).

Would you buy 2nd hand? You'd get a half decent 2nd/3rd gen i5 based machine with 8GB ram and a PSU to support that HD7850 off Ebay for €150 or so.

Or we could find you something locally on adverts.