What is your experience about warranties and opening chassis on desktop PCs (HP Pavilion Ram Upgrade)?

Bruno Vincent · Sep 27, 2017

I posted on HP forums but no answer, they have no live chat, and the sales staff in Thailand don't speak English...so can't get any help!

I plan on buying an HP Pavillion(HP PAVILION 550-159I - $390) , really good deal on it. But it only comes with 4 gigs of RAM...

Some shop said there's a sticker on the chassis and if you open it you void the warranty, is that true or even possible?

How can I upgrade my RAM?

Ask the retailer to do it?

Wait for HP to show up on site (it has 3 years on site warranty)?

Andy_K · Sep 27, 2017

Opening the side of the case surely cannot void the warranty.

users are allowed to add in an extra memory stick - i guess it depends on the rules of the country though!

RARRAF · Sep 27, 2017

do not waste your money everything is integrated on board in other words looks cheap and it is no upgrade path at all thats why its cheap 1st PC I bought was HP never again mind you that was 15-20 years ago the specs are terrible https://support.hp.com/gb-en/document/c04949714

Bruno Vincent · Sep 27, 2017

RARRAF :

Why are specs not good, cause odense motherboard? My other choice is to self build with an i5 7500 and ASUS motherboard, but for the same price no graphic card...

Am I better with an i5 7500 integrated graphics and Asus quality motherboard versus the HP i5 6400 with geforce gt 730 GPU?

Thinking about self build again!

RARRAF · Sep 27, 2017

much better off with self build the PSU on HP is 180watt and everything else is on board as you stated ASUS boards are great I do not have any information about new builds but can search here http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/id-3314070/builds-2017-500-budget-category.html

if you build it yourself you can upgrade whatever you like if you buy that HP then you have to start from scratch

Bruno Vincent · Sep 27, 2017

RARRAF :

Great advice, looked at the list but don't game at all, however heavy multitasking, and sometime Adobe Photoshop and AI, opening many tabs also, I'm looking at that list now

RARRAF · Sep 27, 2017

Adobe Photoshop stuff will need ram like you said in the first place its not expensive now days a good set 1600mhz or above will be great I think now days a cheap RYSEN build would do you well.

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