HP Pavilion S3430F Slimline Desktop PC (AMD Phenom Quad Core 9100E Processor, 4 GB RAM, 500 GB Hard Drive, Blu Ray Drive, Vista Premium) | 
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| Brand: Hewlett-Packard
Category: Personal Computer
List Price: $1,278.00
Buy New: $980.99
You Save: $297.01 (23%)
Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 1177
Media: Personal Computers
Operating System: Windows Vista Home Permium 64-bit
CPU Manufacturer: AMD
CPU Speed: 1.8
CPU Type: AMD Athlon 64 X2
Processors: 4
System Bus Speed: 1000
System Memory: 4000
Memory Type: DDR2 SDRAM
Hard Drive Size: 500
Floppy Disk Drive: None
Graphics RAM: 256
Modem: Fax / modem
Shipping Weight (lbs): 20.1
Dimensions (in): 4.2 x 13.9 x 8.5
nv:Condition: New
Operating Systems: Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit SP1
Platform: PC
Orientations Allowed: Vertical
Form Factor: Ultra Small Form Factor (USFF)
Bays: 1 - 5.25" Drive Bay
Internal Bays: 1 - 3.5" Drive Bays
PCI Slots (Total): 1
PCI Slots (Total): Low Profile
PCI Slots (Available): 0
PCI Express X1 Slots (Total): NA
PCI Express X4 Slots (Total): NA
PCI Express X8 Slots (Total): NA
PCI Express X16 Slots (Total): 1
PCI Express X16 Slots (Total): Low Profile
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: KN495AA
Model: S3430F
UPC: 883585814602
EAN: 0883585814602
ASIN: B001672L9E
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | AMD Phenom 9100E Quad Core Processor/ Go Wireless with 802.11 b/g | | • | 500GB/ 7200RPM SATA Hard Drive Stores Up to 218,000 Photos | | • | 4096MB PC2-6400 DDR2 SDRAM Memory for Powerful PC Performance | | • | Blu Ray/HD DVD Player and SuperMulti DVD Burner with LightScribe Technology | | • | Includes HP Optical Mouse, HP Multimedia Keyboard, Remote Control, Infrared Receiver, Power Cord, Manual, Warranty Card |
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Product Description
Get all the power and functionality of a fully loaded home theater desktop PC in a stylish space-saving design that's one-third the size of a conventional tower. NVIDIA GeForce 8500 with 256MB dedicated graphics are essential for high performance DirectX 10 gaming and watching brilliant high definition Blu-ray DVD & HD DVD on your PC or TV. The built-in TV tuner and personal video recorder (PVR) let you watch, pause, rewind, and record up to 307 hours of live television with the 500GB hard drive- with no monthly fee. The free online Electronic Program Guide (EPG) lets you review the TV schedule and choose a single episode or an entire series. You have Internet access anywhere in your home with the built-in 802.11G wireless. The 64-bit edition of Windows Vista Home Premium with service pack 1 is for serious computer users who have advanced high-performance needs. This latest edition provides access to larger amounts of memory, stronger security, and a new level of reliability. HP computers are designed to perform and built to last, and you should definitely pick this up. NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT with 256MB dedicated with up to 1535MB Shared Graphics Memory NTSC TV tuner over-the-air ATSC high-definition television tuner with PVR Blu-ray/HD DVD player & LightScribe SuperMulti DVD+-R/RW with Double Layer High Definition Audio, 6 speaker configurable Built-in 802.11B/G Wireless 10/100BaseT Ethernet LAN 15-in-1 card reader Front ports - 2 x USB, Headphone Back ports - 4 x USB, IEEE 1394, 2 x PS2 ports (keyboard, mouse), Digital Audio Out, Microphone/Line-in/Line-out, RJ-45 (LAN), RJ-11 (Modem), VGA, DVI-I out, HDMI out Expansion slots - 1 x PCI (occupied), 1 x PCI Express x16 (occupied) Drive bays - 1 x external 5.25 (occupied), 1 x external 3.5 (occupied), 1 x internal 3.5 (occupied) Monitor is not included
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| Customer Reviews: Read 16 more reviews...
 Slimline S3430f for Home Theater June 18, 2008
Gizmo Buff (Westlake Village, CA USA)
17 out of 18 found this review helpful
I have owned the Slimline S3430f for about 3 weeks now and have been impressed with the performance of this computer. It has a small form factor and can be mounted horizontially so it fits well in my home theater credenza. It is connected via HDMI to my Onkyo TX-SR805 receiver and then to a 50" LG plasma TV.
I have played Blu-Ray, HD DVD and standard DVD's on this system. So far I've only had one disk that was difficult to play but I was able to get it to work. I have a 5.1 sound system and it relays both Digital Dolby and DTS signals. Have not yet used high definition audio but that requires a 7.1 speaker set up on my receiver.
I have ordered WIN DVD 9 Plus Blu-Ray software. I am using the trial version of WIN DVD 9 now - its All2HD upconverting for standard DVD is incredible, better than my Oppo DVD player. The included HP DVD software is a stripped down version of Power DVD but the latest verion of PDVD will not play HD DVD disks unless you hack it.
I have also loaded over 150 music CD's on the sytem in WMA lossless format - good quality sound playback on the HP S3430F via Windows Media Player. First time I have had most of my music on computer and it really makes it a lot easier to access. Big benefit that was not considered when I bought the computer.
Its also fun to use the system to surf the net on the big screen. The S3430F does NOT include a wireless keyboard and mouse so I had to buy them separately - IOMEGA offers a 2.4 gigahertz model that works from up to 33 feet away. HP should have included something like this given that the system is designed for home theater and remote access is critical.
All in all I have enjoyed using the system. Lots of RAM, good sized hard drive, Windows Vista 64 Bit plus quad core AMD chip make it plenty fast and able to multi-task easily.
Are u looking for Powerful, stylish, small and very fast pc? I recommend this product 100% June 9, 2008
Mohd A. Alahmadi (saudi arabia)
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
What a product from hp? Like it very much, from the second I took it out of its box and when I inserted it into my LCD table like a dvd player, for the first time I see vista like an operating system instead of crab, high speed and performance running software and games smoothly I tried fifa 08 it works 100% and crysis at a normal and low resolution, and it works good too.
Wireless lan card also is a good feature as a desktop pc, nvidia vga card gives u a cool graphic performance and a perfect control of colors and brightness.
I should mention this: hp has a great chatting support 24/7 I spoke to them more than 10 times for another laptops cases and never takes more than 10 sec to receive an answer from tech..
Sorry for my English and have a nice time with ur great product u r going to buy :)
I am so pleased! June 7, 2008
J. P. Olivier (full-timing the USA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I ordered this HP Pavilion S3420F Slimline with the HP 19" monitor and HP 4180 printer last Monday night, took advantage of the free offer of Prime shipping, got it all (plus the 3 softwares I ordered) on the following Thursday. Set it up in a few minutes, and within another few minutes we were on the internet with the built in WiFi and that beautiful big screen monitor, fantastic display, awesome! Got to admit we havn't figured out the TV tuner and some of the other features yet. We are so delighted with what we got, did quite a bit of research, very pleased. I have ordered quite a few things with Amazon and have always had good results even when we returned a watch, great response!
HP has a rebate right now if you order a PC and a printer on the same day (I called to verify this with HP) and from the same business (e.i. Amazon) I would get $50. back on this $85. printer. And Amazon has a deal when I ordered this PC that MSFT Office H&S is only $75.! Great deals!
I look at Amazon with confidence before I look anywhere else online.
Great little computer May 27, 2008
Sewwolf
16 out of 21 found this review helpful
I brought the s3421 which is the same as the s3420 only without the tv tuner, another retailer is featuring them on sale this week. I brought this computer to replace my high end HP laptop that died. Because of that I hesitated buying another HP. But I've had HP's in the past that were fine. And I swear by the printers. I didn't want another laptop though. This litte computer for the money really packs a punch. I found I rather like the Windows Vista system and I know I'm in the minority on that one. But this computer is fast, stays cool, and you can barely here it running, unlike the laptop before it. Nice softwhere assortment with it. Let's face it the avg computer user really only needs Microsoft works for their office needs. You only need office if you work at home and there is a 3 month student trial for Office 2007. I rather liked the look of that also(let's not forget and support our open source buddies by downloading openoffice free Office clone that can read Microsoft office files). The special keys on the keyboard make it easy to acess mail, internet, open and close the disk drive. The disk drive is vertical that took some getting used to. You can use is laying on it's side but space didn't permit me to so using as a tower. It's small maybe 30# larger then a wii if that. I don't know if it's the trend these days but didn't give you any software disks. You have to make a recovery disk yourself. Very little written instruction. So if you've never used a computer before might have some problems. It has 6 USB ports, firewire, media card reader. Even though mine didn't come with a tv tuner it still has the Media center. Now I got this with my laptop and a usb tv tuner which I could use. The Media center has come a long way since I looked at it. You have the option to download movies (at a price), watch shows on most of the basic cable channel for ex. History channel, food network. You can intergrate with you music, except if you have an ipod and itunes, they don't work well with others, there are programs that will unlock the protection Apple puts on anything you put into itunes but if you have thousands of song might not be worth it. Also with music get yourself some good speakers has a nice sound but I have some cheap speakers I got temp while using another computer. With a 500 gig hard drive unless you a media hound won't fill that up. Hard to believe my first computer had a total of 6.4 gig hard drive. I paid $[...] after rebates and this computer does what some priced twice this amount. It' definately a good value. The one selling here is also with the tuner and remote. But if you fine without you might check out a popular office supply company till 5/31/08. And remember real people don't wear real fur.
Sweet! June 30, 2008
D. S. (SLC, Utah)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Great computer!
Wow this is so much nicer than my previous computer which was state of the art a few years ago but had become impossibly slow. This machine works fast and its so small.
I haven't figured out how to use everything, but what I have investigated is pretty cool. Plus, the ad lists that it comes with 3GB of RAM but actually comes with 4GB. The graphics card is something that might need upgrading; if that's important to you you may want to look at another version of HP.
Shipping was nice too. [...]
Perfect!
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