HP Elite 8200 SFF Desktop PC - Intel Core i5-2400 3.1GHz 8GB 500GB DVDRW Windows 10 Professional (Renewed)

This PC is good for general use. I use it at work and does fine for what I use it. The first one I received was good but there was a software issue which was no fault of the seller so I returned it and got the same one just like it. This one was easy to set up. The PC had a few small nicks but it still looked clean and the inside of the cabinet looked brand new. No big deal that it is Win 10. This PC works great! The seller honored the warranty so no problem there. This is a great PC for the money and worthy of 5 stars. Thank You!!

Only quirk with the one I got is that becasue there are no DVI or HDMI ports I had to get a DP-to-DVI adaptor cable to support my monitor, and that is giving me a bit of screen flickering on POST & boot. However, I cannot blame the refurbisher for that as I have no way to know if it is the monitor, the adapter or the PC that is causing that; it doesn't matter anyways becasue once I get to the login screen everything is fine.The machine is as fast as you can expect for it's specs, more than fast enough for what I am using it for. The case is (as expected) not a standard ATX configuration but that's OK.There are two HDD cages; one under the PSU and another under the DVD drive. The one under the PSU is populated, the other is not. The SATA-power cable that supply the drives includes an unused plug at the unpopulated HDD cage, so I could add one drive to this PC if I wanted to. There is no spare SATA data cable so if you need to have two HDD drives be prepared to get your own. Fun fact: Despite there being only three SATA power plugs there are four SATA power headers on the motherboard.There are seven sets of unlabeled unused pin headers on the motherboard, I can only guess at their functions. Two of them appear to be fan headers, but they are not. Two appear to be either USB of IEEE-1394 headers (I have not tested those). There are two sets of two-pin headers (possibly unused jumper pins), the other is a strange 5-pin header. It would be nice if I could get a motherboard manual for this machine.

Like it a lot

The Tower arrived in clean condition, pretty close to new looking. The chip spec was right on on the fine drill down points, i.e it had the one chip, as promised, that met the Zoom spec of the day to support green screen and to run video processing pretty fast for such an inexpensive and older machine. The Windows 10 Pro license is nicely provided and Microsoft recognised it straight up. I recommend removing the hard drive and cloning it before you ever turn on the computer.The small vendor manual anticipates your needs. The external card guide on the case was bent and needed a bit of vise grip TLC. 5 minutes of careful no rage wrenching and it was good to go. I recommend the vendor and would buy from them again.

This was purchased to replace a Windows 7 laptop for general use, web surfing etc., because Microsoft keeps sending me scary messages about end of life, though Win 7 does everything I need to do and I know where everything is and how it is named (same went for XP, bless its heart).The interior presented very clean, obviously care had been taken in the refurbishment process. The components appeared appropriate for the purpose, with one exception: RAM. There are 4 sticks of 2GB each, so total RAM is 8GB as advertised. However, only two sticks match, and were probably the originals in a 4GB machine, while the other two look like random insertions to meet the spec. One of them is the same speed as the originals, while the other is higher. Memtest86 showed zero errors, and in theory all will run at the lower speed (though perhaps not in dual channel), but I was taught not to mismatch RAM and I think that is still a good general rule, so I subtracted one star from a fine machine and transaction due to mismatched RAM.The SmallFormFactor size is nice and compact (Compaq). Cosmetically, the unit appears as new.The DVD burner is a plus for me; most laptops don't include these anymore.Both the VGA and DP video outputs work, though the DP connection through a separately purchased adapter to HDMI is a little wonky, sensitive to just the right insertion pressure.I originally set the machine up using a wired ethernet connection and later added a USB WiFi dongle, which works fine as well.The keyboard works, but I use a different one to which I am more accustomed. The mouse is actually quite good.Overall I am happy with the purchase from Skytech, which I selected because they had the highest rating among the authorized refurbishers selling this particular machine on Amazon.