HP Pavilion Elite E9140F Desktop PC Review from netman88. Best Desktop for the price with lots of extras but QA lacks, Just purchased this item and I’m impressed with the Speed of this box. With the AMD Phenon II 925 Processor at 2.8GHz is way faster than my old Intel Hyper-threaded (hyperthread was garbage.. freezes up a lot) box. Video/processing power makes it the Multi-media heaven box.

The same machine costs so much $$$ more if you customize it online at HP.com. I didn’t get a monitor for my price.

Pros: Awesome CPU, lots of freebies for the price, tuner, extra memory, SD/CF reader, extra memory for video (1GB memory ATI not Nvidia),

Neutral: Green (drive to save energy) Western Digital 1TB drive at 5400rpm but with a 32MB cache. Speed tests on Tom’s hardware is awesome and faster than many other ones out there including Hitachi. However past experience with WD indicate reliability issues. I guess I’ll see.

This one uses 3 platters instead of 4 which is less moving parts and saves energy. Maybe with less moving parts and at a slower rpm, this one will last longer. My Hitachi/IBM drive still is going strong with 4+ years.

Cons: HP doesn’t include a recovery disk. Even the low end Lenovo desktop includes it for FREE. That’s is awful for a HP to skim on that since we are buy a [..]+ computer here. I had to pony up around [..] for them.

Overall, I like the HP Media Drive Bays for backups are great for backups. Everything is very easy to access and use.

*Update 1: Found Personal Media Drive slot has bad cable or something. It would not recognize the HP PMD thru the PMD drive bay. Need to send in for repairs under warranty.

HP support is avg to bad. Bounced around 5 times in 1 night. Better to call in the US daytime.

*Update 2: Received desktop fixed by HP back in a few days from HP. Faster than I though. Media Drive works now.

But HP has stolen my right rubber feet on the front side. So another call to HP on another issue.

*Update 3: Rubber feet never came on the week as promised even though calling them to confirm it would arrive.

*Update 4: Called HP again and a night HP tech works are totally clueless and said they will escalate case. Found out 2 days after, they didn’t escalate the case when call back the morning HP tech crew. I guess the HP night support crew is an answering service only.

*Update 5: Took 2 weeks and did receive the missing part.

Expected Quality of product after fix: Probably a 5 out of 5.

HP Support (US morning crew) 4 out of 5.

HP Support (US night crew) 1 out of 5.

HP QA of Product: 2 out of 5. (you wonder why so many returns on HPs). They have no QA (Quality Assurance). The issue that I encountered could have been avoided if they did their QA.

Recommendation:

You get what you pay for in price and quality. I do recommend AMD processors (the little guy).

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