Comments on: HP Pavilion P6210F Black Desktop PC

By: Happy r/c

Happy r/c — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 08:58:40 +0000

PROS: My 6 year old Pentium 4 pc at 2.5Ghz was too slow to edit my new HD video footage (in 720P AVCHD Lite format) so I upgraded to this new HP quad processor and the HD footage is now smooth and I have no problem multitasking by surfing the web, burning a dvd, and editing an HD home video. The pc never used more than 2gigs RAM even though it has 6gigs RAM. I love the standby button that Compaq and HP pcs have always had so it's always a quick 1-second to turn on and 1 second to turn off.

The keyboard lights up when the pc's awake and turns off when the pc's on standby.

Windows 7 is awesome. When you have multiple windows open on the menubar at the bottom of the screen, hovering your mouse over a window makes it zoom-in to show you what you're about to click on so you don't have to guess if you're clicking on the right window anymore.

This pc has the AMD quad chip instead of the Pentium chip (which would cost about $50-$60 more) but because it can render HD video with ease, I can spend the $50 savings toward a nice dinner or a wireless keyboard/mouse.

CONS: I wish the standby button was a separate button instead of having to hold down a FUNCTION key and the F2 key at the same time. Because the included Windows 7 is 64-bit instead of 32-bit, I had to download the 64-bit drivers for my HP Laserjet 3030 and Laserjet 2600n printers.

No old format PCI expansion slot so if you want to make it wireless, you're better off buying a $30 USB wifi adapter. Also, no old serial or parallel ports.

By: R. French

R. French — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 07:33:31 +0000

I bought this PC with high hopes, but low expectations. I needed a replacement for my old Pentium 4 rig, but didn't have a bunch of money to shell out at the moment. Typically I build my own machines, but even the parts I had picked out were more than I wanted to spend. Staples had this PC on sale for around $460 and after doing a lot of research on the AMD CPU and reading reviews I decided to give it a shot. I'm glad I did.

I work with very demanding graphic, 3D animation, and video editing software including Premiere, After Effects, 3D Studio MAX, etc. I also tend to work in two or three applications at a time. In my spare time I also enjoy playing video games. I bought GTA IV when it first came out and my old 3Ghz P4 couldn't even begin to play it, even with a good video card, so I was hoping this machine would be capable of running that.

I knew before buying that the integrated graphics on this machine would never be capable of my demands, so I ordered a mid priced video card at the same time XFX PV-T98G-YDLU GF 9800GT 600M 512MB DDR3 DUAL DVI TV PCI Express Card, hoping a.) that it would fit in the tight confines of the case, and b.) that the stock 300 watt power supply would be enough to run everything and would have the necessary connectors.

I am happy to report that the video card fit fine, didn't require an additional power connection, and ran fine with the stock power supply. The computer itself is extremely quiet, very fast, and a pleasure to work with. It runs all of my applications flawlessly and with very impressive speed, and GTA IV runs with very high settings. For the combined $570 or so spent, this is an extremely decent system.

By: Javan Carson

Javan Carson — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 04:38:32 +0000

I bought this computer in October with the release of windows 7. The video card cannot not support itself. The image on the screen has always jumped when switching from one program to another. Sometimes it just goes to blue screen of death. Do not buy this if you have an Ipod. It does not let you connect a usb mounted storage device without crashing. You will get the BSOD and the error code 0x00000116. HP has no clue how to fix it. I have spent hours with their customer service only to go in circles.

Spend a little time and Google HP pavilion 6210f and see for yourself.

I have spent plenty of time working on this problem before I posted such a bad review but enough was enough.

By: Gene Winkler

Gene Winkler — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 04:18:29 +0000

If you go to HP’s own website, you can buy this same computer for $499.95. It seems like a good computer but it certainly isn’t a good buy from Amazon. Shame on Amazon for overcharging!

By: M. Tornero

M. Tornero — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 03:14:49 +0000

had issues when transferring files from a external hard drive to the pc. every time I started the transfer the system would crash followed by the blue screen. when called hp support I was told to get the patches for a guaranteed fix i would be charged a fee. keep in mind this is brand new out of the box and needs patches to work.

Otherwise it's a good computer. Very fast and can handle multiple programs at one time nicely.
Just wish it didnt come wiyh hidden fees.