HP Compaq 505B

I purchased two HP 505B B2CO2UT Windows 7 Professional Desktop PC computers for a small insurance agency. They work fine for processing information and were easy to install. The machine comes with 3GB ram (4GB ram is the maximum capacity). I would NOT...

I can't vouch for the state of the OS and bloatware that comes pre-installed. First thing I do when I get these things out of the box is image the hard drive with a clean build. Expect bloatware and/or a format c:

Please discount this reviewer (Peter M. Ross, Ph.D.) as a disgruntled consumer. Look at all of his reviews and you will see that he has gone on to almost all of the H.P. desktops and copied and pasted his same unhelpful comments.

Both this and the 500B advertise a 300W PSU, but the labels state 268W max. On the 500B I had no problems when adding a discrete video card. The 505B may need more power than this. The way the mobo is installed, a discrete video card is "upside down"...

remove junk software just because it's junk

I am a pc user of more than 25 years; my first purchase was an IBM XT.

got this to replace a computer that went out in our small business, we have about 25 older hps and after getting this one i'm convinced that i will be replacing the rest as they go out with this one.

got this to replace a computer that went out in our small business, we have about 25 older hps and after getting this one i'm convinced that i will be replacing the rest as they go out with this one.