HP OmniDesk BL6L4AV-Upgraded 2025, Core Ultra 7 265, 16GB, 512GB SSD, Dark Wood

A 20-core office beast with best-in-class RAM, but the integrated graphics and weak PSU make it a one-trick pony. Only worth it at the low end of the price range.

The 16GB of DDR5 RAM is the real surprise here, hitting the 94th percentile. That's best-in-class territory for a machine at this price point, and it means you can keep dozens of browser tabs, Slack, and a few Office apps open without breaking a sweat. The 512GB NVMe SSD is also a standout at the 90th percentile, so boot times and file transfers will feel snappy. The CPU is no slouch either, but the integrated graphics are the bottleneck. For home office use, this thing flies. For anything involving 3D rendering or modern games, it's going to struggle hard.

Against the Apple Mac Studio M3 Ultra, the OmniDesk gets destroyed in graphics and build quality, but it costs a fraction of the price. The Lenovo Legion 90YA003GUS and MSI Aegis Z2 are gaming machines with dedicated GPUs, so they'll run circles around this HP in any 3D workload, but they're also bigger, louder, and more expensive. The Dell Desktop ECT1250 is probably the closest real competitor, and it's a coin flip depending on the day's pricing. If you need raw CPU power for office work on a budget, the OmniDesk wins. If you want to play games or edit video, buy literally any of the others.

The value story here is messy. Our data shows prices ranging from $770 to $2,249 across six US listings. At the low end, this is a steal for a 20-core office machine. At the high end, you're getting fleeced. The best deal in our database is at the $770 mark, and honestly, that's the only price where this makes sense. Pay a dollar over $1,000 and you should be looking at a Mac Mini or a proper gaming desktop instead.

The HP OmniDesk BL6L4AV-Upgraded is a mid-tower that knows exactly what it is: a no-nonsense office workhorse. The headline here is the Intel Core Ultra 7 265, a 20-core chip that sits in the 88th percentile for CPUs in our database. That's a serious amount of processing power for spreadsheets, multitasking, and general productivity. But don't let the 'Upgraded' badge fool you into thinking this is a gaming rig. The integrated Intel Graphics land at a mediocre 59th percentile, and the 280W PSU means you won't be dropping in a dedicated GPU later without a power supply swap.

If you're looking for a gaming rig, a video editing workstation, or anything that needs a real GPU, this isn't it. Go get a Lenovo Legion or an MSI Aegis instead. And if you're hoping to upgrade components down the road, the 280W PSU makes this a dead end. Buy a standard DIY tower or a machine with a bigger power supply.

Buy it if you find it under $900 and you need a quiet, capable office desktop. The Core Ultra 7 and 16GB of DDR5 will chew through productivity tasks for years. But if you're paying more than that, or if you have any interest in gaming or creative work, walk away. The integrated graphics and 280W power supply are dealbreakers for anyone who wants to upgrade later.