Question What's the difference between HP ProDesk 400, 600 and EliteDesk 800?

[Isaac Zackary]

I'm looking for a business computer that meets certain specs for an A/V application and was told to look for it from HP. (W10 Pro, Core i5-10500, 8GB RAM, 500 HDD, 128 SSD)

Anywho, there are several options, especially in their ProDesk and EliteDesk linups. But understanding all the differences is hard.

I get the Mini is the smallest without PCI-e slots, the Small Form Factor has half hight PCI-e slots, and the MicroTower apparently has three full sized PCI-e slots. Anything that ends in 5 is an AMD version.

But what about between 400, 600 and 800 (800 is called EliteDesk).

I kind of understand why the 400 G7 SFF is $50 less than the 600 G6 SFF since the 600 G6 SFF can hold up to 128GB of RAM.

But the EliteDesk 800 G6 line seems to be the same thing as the ProDesk 600 G6 line, yet with the same specs, the Mini is almost $100 more and the SFF is almost $500 more. Why? The ProDesk even seems to be limited to slower max RAM speeds. Same CPU (i5-10500) same chipset (Q470) same storage and RAM options, slower RAM if upgrading, costs $500 more. Why?

 

[Isaac Zackary]

Never mind. I think I answered my own question. The EliteDesk 800 line can be paired with a Core i9 but the ProDesk 600 line can only go up to a Core i7.

 

[CPU benchmark]

In addition to different CPU support, EliteDesk has a more powerful PSU and is a bit larger.