HP EliteDesk 800 G1 SFF Black Desktop PC, Intel Quad Core i5-4570 3.20GHz, 8GB RAM, 256GB SDD with Windows 10 Pro (Renewed)

Arrived quickly and was as advertised, packaged very well. No marks or issues. Working fine so far cant fault the value at all. Thanks

This ex-office PC is great value for money and such an improvement on my old laptop which was painfully slow.Windows 10 boots up in seconds thanks to the operating system being installed on a SSD drive.Something to be aware of is that these office PC's often don't come fitted with a wi-fi adapter as was the case with mine so check first if this is important. If you are unable to connect using an ethernet connection you will have to purchase a usb wi-fi dongle or fit an internal card which I did in about five minutes. If unsure about this the supplier will usually fit one for you.This is not really a PC for gaming but for most other tasks it works just great.

When I ran diagnostics on this machine, it reported as an HP ProDesk 600 G1. I contacted 'The IT Buffs', who immediately offered to replace it. I chose instead to get a new fascia, easily changed at home, as the supplied one had no slot for the optical drive that was obviously lurking but unable to get out!The PC came with Win 10 Pro already activated. Setting up a new computer is among my least favourite tasks and I'd already started, so wasn't keen to send it back. I've got the SSD, RAM and processor I paid for - and I think it's a real bargain at under £170 with a guarantee. The computer works quickly and quietly, has enough USB slots for all my drives & dongles, connected seamlessly to assorted peripherals, and even has a few bells & whistles that I don't need.As far as I can tell, the difference between the EliteDesk and ProDesk is a tweak in the motherboard. I'm not bothered about it - my mis-named computer works fine for my needs - but it's good to know this supplier would have exchanged it. What I have is efficiently workmanlike. It's certainly a vast improvement on my ancient laptop (also HP - they build things to last!)If you're looking for greased lightning and advanced graphics, you're going to have to pay more. But even though mine's a superficially inferior product, it's a very satisfactory piece of kit at a great price, from a helpful vendor. I read reviews of refurbs from half a dozen sellers before choosing this one, and I'm glad I bought from them.

Great little computer for the money.Very well packaged and fast delivery.Had it up and running in no time it’s just plug and play.Would buy it again.

My son bought me this few days after Christmas 2019 because my old PC stoped working what a nightmare it’s been with this PC every time you turn on the PC I got this message as you see in the photo so we Phoned the company up but they were closed because of Christmas so when they did open up we got a very nice person who was very helpful I’ve got to say the customer care is good it’s just that the PC itself was a let down and then to top it off I had to pay £20 to send it back to them which I’m not happy about they send me something that’s not working and now I’m having to pay for something that didn’t work never again

This is the second desktop I have had from IT Buffs. Absolutely a fantastic upgrade to an older slower pc. These refurbished i5 ex-business desktops from 2013 or 2014 are as fast as those you can currently buy. Mine have been with HP 800 series G1 3.2/3.3GHz with the 256GB SSD and 8GB RAM. The SSD improves the start-up speed of your pc. If you need further storage it is easy to install a 1TB or 2TB HDD within the unit. My units have DVDRW drive installed - this is a must if you want to create a DVD data disc or similar copy.The installed SSD is smaller than old type HDD, the same size of a 2.5inch laptop drive, so there is no fixing. It is just hanging inside the pc on its power and SATA cables. Not a good practice but appears common practice with the resellers, but again it is very easy to fix it to the drive bay: either by an adapter tray from Amazon c.£5 or simply cable-tying to the internal tray located beneath the HDD extra storage drive tray.The front of the unit has both USB3 and USB2 ports. This is a big advantage over the similarly priced HP 8300 desktop.Starts up first time on an already installed Windows 10 1909 edition 64bit OS as "user". Easy to change to your name and add other desktop users.HP Support web page allows latest upgrades for all of the original drivers, including to the system bios. This was not part of the seller refurbishment process, but would be easy for most users to navigate, download and install.You will need to buy a version of Microsoft Office separately and install this yourself.There is a desktop link to create an emergency recovery drive or disc ROM. The version of Windows 10 installed by the seller on this pc does not allow creation of Recovery Drive direct from the OS, but the supplied link downloads a Microsoft setup version of a similar thing. That will be good enough for most users to work with should your pc ever misbehave in the future.I would recommend my friends and colleagues buy this pc.And I would buy another of these units from the IT Buffs supplier.

My wife's PC recently lost the will to live and went to the great scrapyard in the sky. So rather than fiddle around fixing the old one, I decided to just buy one "off the shelf". Previously I have always bought all the necessary components and built PC's, then installed Windows, yaddy yaddy ya, but I couldn't be bothered. This one is apparently "restored", rather than new, but it was clean, tidy and well packed, so what's not to like. We just hooked it up to all the (miles of spaghetti) appropriate leads (mouse, VDU, etc, etc), switched it on and it happily fired up Windows 10 64 bit Pro, in about 10 seconds. The Intel quad core (3.2 meg) processor is fast enough for our needs and it runs remarkably silently. If it subsequently bursts into flames, or tries to go for world domination, I will report back. But so far it works perfectly.