HP Omen X Desktop Release Date, Price and Specs – CNET

HP is taking its Omen gaming brand very seriously, breaking out new, higher-end products as the Omen X. The flagship is the new Omen X Desktop, which is built into a giant black metal cube, complete with multicolored lights.

The cube sits perched on one edge, held in place by a small stand. There are a couple of reasons for this. First, it just looks cool; second, it exposes more of the surface area of the case, allowing for better airflow and increasing the thermal efficiency of the system.

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And with the ability to pack in nearly any high-end PC gaming component, cooling is something to take seriously. Despite the unusual design of the chassis, this is essentially a modular desktop, starting with a standard micro-ATX motherboard and supporting current-gen processors and either one or two desktop graphics cards.

Both Nvidia and AMD options will be offered, including the new Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 cards. Liquid cooling is also an option, and probably a good idea if you’re running dual GPUs. Naturally, most of the hardware configuration options will be VR-ready.

The Omen X Desktop should be available to order very shortly through HP’s website, and prebuilt configurations start at $1,799 in the US (no international price or release details are available yet).

HP’s new gaming cube, the Omen X Desktop
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But besides just ordering a finished configuration from HP, there are a couple of other options. If you’re a DIY type, HP will sell you just the empty case for $599 — no motherboard, no power supply, no components. Or, if you want a very extreme configuration, HP will send you to Maingear, a well-known boutique PC builder, and that company will start with HP’s empty chassis and build in whatever sky-high configuration you want, including rigid tube liquid cooling systems and custom automotive paint jobs.