HP Firebird

Best-looking PC we've seen. That's it

Slow general performance ; Severely lacks upgradability

This medusa of gaming systems will charm you with its good lucks, but be warned: it could be a trap!

Dead sexy-looking. Blu-ray player. Energy-saving mode. SLI graphics power when you need it. No crapware. Wireless mouse and keyboard included.

Limited internal expandability. External power brick. No Blu-ray burner option. Its 5,400-rpm notebook-class hard drives are slower than those of the competition.

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Amazingly quiet and conscientious in its power consumption. Outstanding design; belongs on top of the desk, not beneath it. Solid all-around performance at a fair price

No front USB port. Curvy design means you can’t put anything on top of the case. Functionally locked down, with no real upgrade path

Dead sexy-looking. Blu-ray player. Energy-saving mode. SLI graphics power when you need it. No crapware. Wireless mouse and keyboard included

Limited internal expandability. External power brick. No Blu-ray burner option. Its 5,400-rpm notebook-class hard drives are slower than those of the competition

The HP Firebird 803 is one of those "love it or hate it" gaming desktop PCs. Its looks give you a lot to love, but some gamers will be put off by the lack of expandability.

Zippy PC, good SLI graphics. Great oomf for your buck ; Currently feeds my desk monitor via the DVI out and a 46" Sony Bravia in the living room via a 16f HDMI. Connected with two wireless keyboards/mice, a set in each room, it's like having two PCs ;...

5400 rpm HDs. Set them up in RAID 0 and clean install Windows 7 and it becomes a non issue ; AVG antivirus was preinstalled but expired

After receiving m windows 7 upgrade I followed the packaged instructions to upgrade. After the install I had several issues with stability in windows 7 so I decided to do a clean install. The clean install worked great, no drivers are available that I...

The slot load optical drive held my win7 media hostage. After following HP's instructions for disc ejection problems the issue was not resolved I could not manually remove the disc. Aside from HP's assistance I discovered the issue and found a solution

Prior to buying the Firebird, all I had to play games was my HP laptop that only had a 2.0 Ghz dual-core processor, 3 GB RAM, and a nVidia GeForce 8400M. Imagine the upgrade to this! Any Steam game plays at 75 fps with EVERYTHING maxed out, Battlefield...

First off, it's sold out. I feel for all you potential buyers. Secondly, despite everything mentioned above, after around 4 months, my rig isn't working. It just no longer wants to turn on, and I have yet to figure out the problem. I really WANT to say...

Sick design, its absolutely awesome to just look at. Of course, the best thing about this PC is that its extremely quiet ; my laptop sounds like a beast next to my PC. I didn't get this PC so much for gaming as I did for watching movies and...

Yes, its not very expandable, but it doesn't aim to be. I can see how not having any USB slots in the front could annoy some people ; I haven't made much use of the CD/DVD drive, but yea, its not very practically built

The design of the case and internal layout clearly indicates a fair amount of attention to detail. I was reluctant to make the purchase after reviewing many tickets about DOA hardware components however when my system arrived it worked flawlessly. I've...

1. The lack of port expansion can be frustrating at times, it doesn't seem to be a huge feat to add a couple of USB ports in the front or top of a case considering the internal design is professional by all standards ; 2. The 5400rpm drives, common...

This machine is very quiet. I can barely hear it run next to my desk. It was very easy to replace the included hard drives with two 7200 RPM seagate drives. The machine is high quality and it shows in everything you touch and look at. It is an awesome...

There are a few issues. There is only one plugin for headphones and a mic. I will have to find a splitter so I can plug in my speakers and headphones at the same time. It really could use some front mounted USB ports. They should have at least put some...