HP EliteDesk 705 G4 - mini desktop - Ryzen 5 Pro 2400GE 3.2 GHz - 8 GB - SSD 256 GB - US
Mfg # 4HX42UT#ABA
CDW # 5252677
| UNSPSC 43211507
Quick tech specs
- Mini desktop
- RAM 8 GB
- NVMe
- GigE
- Bluetooth 5.0
- monitor: none
- Smart Buy
- Ryzen 5 Pro 2400GE / 3.2 GHz
- SSD 256 GB
- Radeon Vega 11
- WLAN: 802.11a/b/g/n/ac
- Win 10 Pro 64-bit
- keyboard: US
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HP EliteDesk 705 G4 - mini desktop - Ryzen 5 Pro 2400GE 3.2 GHz - 8 GB - 25 is rated
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Rated 5 out of
5 by
DSwan from
All-Around Outstanding Mini Desktop PC!!
These are immense all-purpose mini PC's for business users -- great performance, reliability, quality, and features at market prices. The integrated Vega 11 graphics is far superior to comparable competitor's offerings. AMD has VERY good SMT (two-thread-execution per physical core), allowing these quad-core units to perform roughly like six-core units without SMT and even better at times. The cases are easy to get into and field-service parts like SSD and RAM. These of course use SODIMM DDR4 modules like laptops to save space. 8GB of RAM is just enough to run Windows 10 Pro x64 quite well for general users, although power users, heavy applications, and running databases like SQL would benefit from more RAM (we prefer to volume-purchase this module and add RAM modules as needed). There does appear to be a bug that many users have reported recently where fan speeds ramp up excessively even though heat isn't the issue -- HP is aware and I'm sure will have the issue addressed soon with a Softpaq.
Overall, I highly recommend this particular model and really the entire Ryzen series of EliteDesk 705's so long as they include SSD's; don't bother with HDD's for boot drives anymore -- the difference is BREATHTAKING, especially once a machine is loaded up with many applications, user files, and software updates over time.
We were actually able to upscale from previously using ProDesk 400's and 600's due to the competitive pricing of these models. Competitor CPU shortages have only made these models even more attractive. The SFF (Small Form Factor) version of these 705's are awesome as well, having the performance of a full 65W TDP CPU, containing more USB ports, and having two half-height PCI Express expansion slots (one x16 slot, one x1 slot).
Date published: 2019-04-24T00:00:00-04:00
Rated 5 out of
5 by
ITFreely from
Hot systems, fans get very loud quickly
I ordered five of these systems and all have heat problems. At idle, they are running around 50-55C and with just a browser open and doing day to day tasks for the average office user it jumps to 70C+. The fan noise is unacceptable for the dentist office environment that I am currently running them in.
I opened a case with HP support and they sent a technician to replace the heatsink/fans in all 5 systems with no change in temperatures. In fact, two of the systems didn't even ship with the right heatsink/fan which were not even making contact with the cpu. I am scratching my head on how these made it out the door in the first place.
It's too bad because the systems are snappy and would be great if only they didn't run so hot that the fans are on medium to full blast at all times. It's really surprising that the Ryzen 5 35 watt chip runs so hot.
Steer clear of these unless noise/heat are not a concern.
Date published: 2019-11-16T00:00:01-05:00