Computer build at MicroCenter... can this Run Adobe CC Apps smoothly... Also Davinci Resolve?

[bokehmegusta]

I am considering this computer to run Adobe Premiere, After Effects.  I am hoping to add 16GB of Ram if possible for a total of 32GB of ram.  I use 1080 video now, but I will need to produce 4k video as well.  I may need to use Davinci Resolve, Element 3D and Blender as well.  Can this computer handle this type of work load smoothly.  Thanks very much!  

HP OMEN Obelisk Gaming ComputerIntel Core i9 9900K 3.6GHz Processor; NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti 11GB GDDR6; 16GB DDR4-2666 RAM; 1TB SSD

$2,599.99 SAVE $300.00

$2,299.99

[Peru Bob]

You do want at least 32 GB RAM or RAM will be a bottleneck. You may want to consider 64 GB RAM.

[bokehmegusta]

Thank you Peru Bob,

Like all "deals" I'm afraid this particular offering may limit me to 32GB of RAM total... I like that it comes with the NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti 11GB and the price seems reasonable to me..... BUT...  Maybe I should keep looking?  

[RjL190365]

I checked HP's Website for that model (which turned out to be model 875-1022, a version of the OMEN Obelisk that is sold through big-box retailers rather than directly from HP itself), and discovered that the system has four DIMM slots. That means that you can officially go up to 64 GB of RAM using four 16 GB DDR4 sticks (of which you will need three of them in addition to the one that was preinstalled in the system.)

In addition, in HP's gaming PCs HP may have permanently disabled the Intel integrated UHD Graphics at the factory setup, thereby permanently disabling QuickSync (I know for a fact that HP did this on its gaming laptops; on its gaming desktops HP might not have provided an option in the BIOS to enable or disable the integrated graphics, thereby permanently locking that to the "AUTO" position, which only enables the IGP if something is connected to the motherboard's video-output ports). In the case of that HP Omen Obelisk 875-1022, the motherboard that HP uses does not have any video outs at all whatsoever on the rear of the motherboard, and there is absolutely no provision at all whatsoever to force-enable the integrated Intel UHD Graphics iun the BIOS. Effectively, that permanently disables the Intel QuickSync feature on the CPU, which in turn completely defeats the sole purpose these days to buy an Intel PC in the first place: its performance with decoding and encoding H.264 (AVC) and/or H.265 (HEVC) videos. Without QuickSync, Intel Core-series CPUs actually fall behind equivalently-priced, and sometimes cheaper, AMD Ryzen-series CPUs (especially the Ryzen 3000 series) in AVC/HEVC decoding and encoding performance.

[RjL190365]

I corrected my statement in the reply that is below yours. 64 GB is the official limit for that PC.

As a result of all that I stated above in my last post, that makes the Obelisk system, despite its attractive price for such higher-end components, a bit too expensive for the performance that you'd get. With all the restrictions that HP has imposed, HP itself has completely denied gaming PC users the biggest reason these days to buy a mainstream-platform Intel system for video editing in the first place. And sadly, its other retail-boxed PCs suffer from the same problem: Either they have a discrete GPU but no motherboard video-out ports or a provision to force-enable the iGPU, or they have no discrete GPU at all whatsoever but instead rely solely on the integrated iGPU (and then, they still provide absolutely no provision at all to force-enable the iGPU with a discrete GPU installed).