HP EliteDesk 705 G4 Mini Desktop Computer: AMD Quad-Core Ryzen 5 Pro 2400GE up to 3.8GHz, 8GB DDR4 RAM, 256GB SSD, Windows 11 Pro (Renewed)

My system came pretty well cleaned. It had something oily on part of the top, but that wiped off, though some had gotten into the dust screen so that had to be removed to clean. There were no scratches on the system, and everything seems in good working order. As most other reviews have mentioned, mine came with the Ryzen pro 5 2400g, which is a 65W part, vs. the 2400ge which is 35W TDP but lower clocked. The top is covered in mesh for better airflow, probably because the 2400g does get hot in this little machine. Running a stress test, I was able to get it up to 93C but the cooling system, in a room at 68F, was able to keep it there so it never throttled (which it should do if it gets to 95C) and maintained just under 3.6ghz on all 4 cores (the base clock). Stressing a single core, it will go up to 3.9ghz, so it could be that others who were having issues with performance might have some problem with their system. It came with 8GB of SK hynix DDR4 2666mhz RAM and a 256GB (older) Samsung PCI-E SSD. I got the SATA drive cage as well, which does have a fan for both its drive and the PCI-E drive that sits under the fan. I actually had a 16GB DDR4 3200mhz RAM set not being used, so I put that in and the system sees it as 2933mhz, which is the maximum RAM frequency supported for this CPU without overclocking, which this system does not do. So, I'd recommend at least picking up a second stick to get the benefits of dual channel which is supported, but if you buy all new RAM, I'd recommend picking up the faster stuff as well as it'll handle it. My system came with the HDMI module so it has 1 HDMI and 2 display ports. Accessories were a very generic USB wired keyboard, a very generic USB wired mouse, a mini USB wireless dongle and a mini USB bluetooth dongle. You can put a PCI-E wireless/bluetooth module in this system, so that might be a better option. Keep in mind that this system has antenna for the PCI-E wireless/bluetooth module, but does not come with the module, and you will most likely (I had to, someone else mentioned this as well) have to remove the motherboard to get to the antenna wires, as they seem to have been tucked underneath. To remove the motherboard, you have 4 screws plus the 3 that hold the heatsink onto the CPU. The problem here is that you shouldn't remove the heatsink without cleaning and reapplying thermal paste, so you basically will have to rebuild the system to install the wireless module properly. The power adapter this comes with has been mentioned at least once before. Mine was not a HP OEM power brick, but a generic one. It had the right barrel connector, but it's a 90W 19V 4.7A adapter. It appears the OEM adapter should be a 19.5V 4.62A, but finding the OEM 90W adapter is tough unless you want to spend a lot. My system does immediately power on when plugged in as others have mentioned, but you can turn it off and it will stay off, and seems to run ok on the generic adapter. One thing I think someone else mentioned, but the first generation Zen processors (Ryzen 1000 and 2000 series) are not on the Windows 11 supported CPU list, and you will be blocked from upgrading to Windows 11 on this machine. It does have TPM 2.0, so it's just the CPU that is blocking you. Microsoft does have instructions for getting around this, by entering a registry entry to tell the installer to allow unsupported CPUs, but Windows updates still will not let you upgrade directly. You'll need to download the installer/updater from Microsoft then run that. It does appear that upgrading from the installer works, though people were originally saying you would have to install fresh. Anyway, doing this, you have to agree that you are fine with possible issues and lack of driver support, so do it at your own risk I guess.

solid little computer for light gaming, and general use. did not come with the caddy for a 2.5 hdd but that was a cheap ebay purchase, windows 11 ran alright on included ram but i upgraded to 32gb and now its running amazing. dont expect absolute miracles as its a refurbished mini, but for general use this is a fantastic little computer, it fits great under the television i use it on and ive yet to have any problems with it, even before the upgrades.

HP EliteDesk 705 G4 Mini Ryzen5 Pro 2400G with 256GB NVMe and 8GB RAMfor $160 I ordered two of these. Each comes with the RTL8192EU 2.4G wifi adapter and a generic bluetooth adapter. Problem is, they left these plugged into the PC and the wifi adapter got broken during shipping. I contacted the company thru Amazon and they quickly shipped new adapters to me. Great service! I got the exact model they advertised. The HP website shows this unit is from March 22, 2019. So the unit is 3 1/2 years old which I expected. Purchase of this unit was a no-brainer for me because I'm already familiar with the CPU, especially for graphics-dependent use. Yeah, it's no RTX 3080 but it's way better than the Intel HD 4000 graphics. For gaming I can play lots of Steam games with relatively decent FPS, like Left4Dead or even Back4Blood. But something like Doom (2016) required some serious tweaking to be playable. Even League of Legends gives me 105 FPS with medium settings. The power adapter is original HP, so that's nice. The gigabit network is great. The unit is totally clean, looks brand new. Even opened it up and there was no dust or anything. This comes with Windows 10 Pro but I upgraded to Windows 11 Pro after running the Skip_TPM_Check. This unit seemed to have a problem with restart, where it would just hang. So I went to HP support page and installed all the outstanding updates including the BIOS update and that fixed it. CrystalDiskInfo showed the power-on hours for the 256GB NVMe SSD at 14,845 hours (or 1.5 years) with 90% life remaining. I get the typical NVMe super fast read/write speeds. I confirmed this actually has the M2 drive. It only has 8GB RAM with 2GB of that used by the Vega 11 graphics, so I added a 16GB stick for a total of 22GB usable. I mean, it runs fine with 6GB RAM but more will help for use on a daily basis. Strangely, in one box they included a used wireless Lenovo keyboard KBRFBD71 and a cracked cheap wired mouse that was cracked during shipping. So the keyboard is useless since there is no Lenovo USB dongle, and the mouse is what it is. Except for the computer itself, their packaging of accessories was poor. But hey, my concern was the computer itself not the freebies. Would I buy again? Definitely yes.

I didn't want to write this review but I have no choice. I had bought a pc just like this weeks before for a friend that i had recommended about how good the ryzen 5 was for the 160$. I could not buy it at the time, because I did not have the moneyWhen it finally arrives, everything is wonderful, new accessories, keyboard, power supply, mouse. Everything was simply spectacular, it even came with more RAM than we had asked for. When I finally order mine, it is not sent by Amazon, it is very late almost 2 weeks, I just left today From work and I come super happy to install my computer... My Christmas completely destroyed, poor quality mouse and open the pc has signs of damage outside, really not all of that mattered to me at all If not when I turned it on and saw that I had an AMD A-10 instead of a Ryzen 5... I have no words to say how bad I feel... I want a new device or a refund. Apart from that I had to pay 40 dollars for shipping to get it faster, IT WAS A COMPLETE MESS. At this moment it sounds loud and get very toasty to the touch, al pc get warm of course, but this can burn you very easily...

TL;DR: Great computer with expandability and solid hardware. Unit came with a brand new mouse/keyboard and wifi adapter. I cracked it open to find some very interesting things. Internals: The case has some very minor dings and a fully vented top plate with vent grilling underneath. Mine came with the Ryzen 5 Pro 2400G like other recent purchases. No wifi/bluetooth card but it does come with a wifi adapter (2.4ghz but I plan to wire it in once my switch arrives so no biggie there) and the wires are pre-run so I can add one later if desired. 1x 8GB stick of DDR4 RAM (I had a second laying around with the same speed/size so I popped it in for a total of 16GB running in dual channel mode) SATA SSD instead of M.2 but that means I have the SATA caddy so I can upgrade later and get a bigger SATA drive for storage. The drive caddy also has a dedicated fan? That's new for me but not unwelcome as it will help with thermals. The Flex i/o port came with HDMI which netted me 2x DP and 1x HDMI which was excellent for my needs. I hit it all with some canned air and blew out the teeniest amount of dust. Thermal tests show that it's currently idling around 42C. Software: Windows initialized on the first boot with no issues. Initial setup was painless and the key was activated automatically. Updates ran smoothly and it's now on version 21H2 of Windows 10. According to the HP website, it is not currently compatible with Windows 11 because of the processor. It just arrived in the mail today so I haven't installed too much on it yet. I am planning to use this as a remote only computer and it had no qualms about booting without a keyboard/mouse/monitor. I don't plan to game on it or anything too crazy so I can't speak to gaming performance but it'll do what I intended for it to do with no problems. I'll update later if things change but it's currently a fantastic unit and I'm impressed with the refurb job and reseller.

I purchased 3 of these to setup a low-power server environment at home to replace several servers / applications that I was running in the Cloud (and paying monthly for). I purchased the 8GB model, I also purchased 2 32GB (2x16) SO-DIMM modules separately. Original intention was to upgrade two to 32GB and reclaim one of the 8GB for the third to make 16GB(2x8GB) for that one. As luck would have it, all 3 of them came with 16GB(2x8) instead, so now I just have extra memory. Inside they were a bit dusty, could use some compressed air, but they did come with the 2.5" caddy and an HDMI port in the back. Linux also identifies my CPU as the Ryzen 5 Pro 2400G (not 2400GE in the description), the biggest difference here is in the power, the GE requires less (35 vs 65), which would be ideal. I have not yet seen any issues with the systems due to this as they came with 90W power bricks. I currently have them all loaded up with Proxmox, in a cluster, and provisioned a complete/HA k3s (kubernetes) environment to deploy my multiple services into. This keeps the nodes around 25% CPU and 80% memory used at all times, and separately I'm using VAAPI in a Tdarr cluster to do some background video processing using the APU. Everything pretty much works exactly as expected, if even a little better as it feels like these boxes are more responsive than the Hetzner cloud machines I was running costing me monthly. As long as these devices last more than a few months they will have saved me money. On that note, one of them did fail to start up after I got it loaded with Proxmox which ultimately appeared to be a bad RAM module. I replaced it with one of the spares mentioned above and it's been fine since. As I purchased it expecting 8, got 16, and one out of 6 total failed - I'm not too upset. I imagine if someone else purchased 8, got 8, and it failed making it unusable they might be - but that's the nature of refurbished hardware. As long as you understand that these aren't the best hardware on the market, so expectations are set right, these are fantastic little boxes and are definitely a great alternative to a Raspberry-Pi or SBC-style mini cluster. Similarly, if all you need is a College workstation, PC for the Kids to play Minecraft, or something similar these serve that purpose great too.

My 8 year old son bought this computer with some early Christmas money ; Hes always liked messing around with various operating systems and system types as well as building and already had an older micro pc ( optiplex 3020m ) but wanted something a little more updated. He got what he paid for but with some pretty major caveats which ill go over. So the good and the bad . Condition and shipping. It came in about a 10 days it was in good condition , powers on and runs better than his prior mini thanks to the APU . It had a generic wired keyboard and mouse and generic power brick with unspecified wattage which powers on the system as soon as its plugged in without pressing the power button ( these systems don't really like non original power bricks in many cases ) The CPU was a Ryzen 2400g not a 2400GE which was a positive; problem is it doesn't run above 3.4 GHZ ever and the base clock is 3.6 so i tried a different power brick original hp product I had since the bios has no option to increase the TDP it did stop it from powering on by itself when plugged in but didn't help with the CPU running way below specs. Internal Storage : It came with a caddy for a SATA drive with a cooler on it many referbs don't come with caddys in my experience which was good . The bad it it was advertised with a PCi-e SSD which was is somewhat misleading and while its possible this thing is running sata over pci-e I didn't bother to test since it was the most generic sata SSD I have ever laid eyes on KingFast ,not Kingspec or Kingston but Kingfast and unlike most other reviewers it was SATA not NVME . Ram: It did come with the advertised quantity of ram 8 gigs of Samsung 2666 MHz ddr4 which is what it was advertised with however don't get your hopes up on getting extra as others have mention that oversight on their part has clearly been remedied the system log in my sons actually said the ram configuration had been changed 5 days after I ordered it leading me to believe after seeing all those bragging about getting extra they finally decided to start cracking these open to take out the extra stick others were getting now let me be clear this isn't a bad thing I did get what I paid for as far as the ram is concerned I just don't want others thinking they will win some kind of Amazon internet lottery when they are definitely checking now . WIFI and Bluetooth: Advertised with WiFi and Bluetooth I know some got dongles and some an internal card . I got a very bad WiFi dongle that only supports 2.4 GHz and disconnects constantly with no Bluetooth i didn't care about the dongle and its not worth the time waiting on a Bluetooth adapter but it's worth mentioning for those who might As An Aside i would like to suggest people steer clear of these hp mini PCs, at least from this generation and go with maybe a Dell or Lenovo with similar specs these things get extremely hot they definitely do not have adequate cooling a 2400g maybe with a 2400ge they would be cool properly but with this configuration ( 65watt apu ) even with new thermal paste this thing is thermal throttling constantly which isn't the sellers fault just a bad design on HPs part . The Takeaway is I am not trying to discourage you from buying from this seller ( the item was shipped at a reasonable speed and was after all for the most part what it was advertised as . I just want people to know you will get exactly what is listed in some cases a slightly different processor as they have realized their folly with not checking under the cover maybe you will get lucky maybe you won't ( I am thinking you won't because of the system log change after I ordered mine ) however the hp product itself is lacking when compared to alternatives Inability to get the CPU to full speed and overheating . Ryzen Master doesn't work with this computer either and I can't find a fan control anywhere to at least turn it up .

Good packaging, should survive most "experienced" amazon delivery driver. Arrived cleaned, not a single mark of dust, fresh CR2023 battery with good voltage. Thermal paste also seems fresh but (!) heatsink had a big empty spot in the center of the chip, good that I decided to re-check it before putting as a home lab node in some place with hard access. Looks like thermal pads for CPU power lines were refreshed as well but for me they appeared to be too sticky and kind of low quality so they were replaced with some spare cuts I had. Provided m2 SSD is fine and had around 93% of health. Device was quipped with two identical sticks of 4gb Samsung M471A5244CBO-CRC. After re-paste I performed couple of stress tests to check that cooling system is working properly, wasn't able to make it hotter than 78C and CPU boosted for max of almost (!) 3.9GHz with effective clock around 3.7GHz. Included keyboard is meh, mouse is terrible but better than nothing I guess (?). Also I got WIFI5 dongle, also better to have one for spare parts. Didn't have a chance to test SATA slot, but it was clean and have dedicated fan for your 2.5SSD or HDD and overall unit cooling. Had some troubles with BIOS update, default HP tool could not flash USB drive with latest firmware but after connecting Ethernet I just clicked "download from hp site" and it got it with no problem and installed via internet. I was surprised how easy and convenient it was lol. Conclusion: seems to be a good choice for some cheap home PC and especially cheap and almost energy efficient home lab node. Plan to buy more of these puppies in the future.