Discover the expansive world of PC gaming with the powerful HP Pavilion 500-260ea.

Gaming with Windows

Windows 8.1 is the perfect OS for serious gaming. Pared back and less demanding on resources than previous editions, it lets your components work on what's important.

Whether you use a touchscreen monitor or prefer a mouse and keyboard, navigating the new home screen is as simple as a swipe or click. You even get the choice between a customisable new home screen and the more familiar traditional desktop display.

The new Start Screen features Live Tiles, handy windows into your favourite programs and games that deliver important info and updates straight to your desktop – perfect for chatting or keeping up to date with stats on the fly.

Powerful processing

You needn't worry about performance capabilities as the 500-260ea features a high-powered quad-core AMD A10-6700 APU. While the everyday clock speed of 3.7 GHz is enough to take care of most demanding tasks, an incredible Turbo Core frequency of 4.3 GHz is achievable should it be required.

Multitasking and demanding processes are aided by 8 GB of RAM and the processor's 4 MB cache. So whether you need an efficient working environment or serious processing power for high-end gaming, you can rely on the Pavilion 500.

Serious storage

Storage is provided by a colossal 2 TB hard drive that's perfect all your games, software and media.

Backing up is simple too thanks to the six USB ports, two of which are super-fast USB 3.0. Delivering far faster transfer speeds than previous generations, USB 3.0 back-up even the biggest of files to external storage devices in no time at all.

Ready to game

Whether you're intrigued by the expansive world of MMOs or want the immediate action of a blockbuster FPS, you can discover the exciting world of PC gaming right out of the box courtesy of an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 645 graphics card.