Tom's Hardware Verdict HP approaches excellence with its Omen 45L, with smartly designed cooling, good looks, and top-end component options. But performance isn't quite the best, and a simplified, restricted BIOS makes pushing the system to its limits (and taking true advantage of its cooling) difficult.

The HP Omen 45L is an extremely powerful gaming PC, packed with all the best components on the market. It's an expensive computer, but easy upgradability means it will last you for years. By TechRadar on March 11, 2022 HP approaches excellence with its Omen 45L, with smartly designed cooling, good looks, and top-end component options.

No gaming desktop is perfect, especially the prebuilt ones, but the Omen 45L improves on its predecessor in almost every way. It has a unique cooling design that actually pays off in thermals; the tool-less case is even easier to get inside; and the performance, although occasionally hamstrung by memory speed, is worthy of the hardware inside.