HP Omen 15-AX033DX 15.6″ Laptop (Intel Core i7, 8GB RAM, Nvidia GTX 960M, 1TB HDD+128GB SSD, Onyx Black)

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In the world of gaming laptops, the 15.6-inch HP Omen series and the 15-AX033DX model certainly aren’t the most powerful. But on the positive side, they can handle most of the modern games well and are sleek and stylish.

The 4.8 pound HP Omen 15-AX033DX with a 1″ thick profile sports a chassis made of plastics, with onyx black finish resembling carbon fiber. It’s supplemented with red gloving logo and red keyboard backlight. The plastic hinges hold a 15.6″ Full HD anti-glare display with IPS wide-viewing angle technology and without touchscreen. The display and game rendering are powered by the Nvidia GeForce GTX 960M graphics card with 4GB of GDDR5 video memory. It’s a mid-range gaming-class GPU with enough power to crunch many of the popular games on maximal detail settings and some very hardware-demanding titles on mid-to-high settings. You can read more about it here. As for main computing, it relies on the 6th Generation Intel Core i7-6700HQ quad-core processor which is a standard among gaming laptops. This robust CPU can easily handle gaming calculations, daily computing chores, and multimedia playback. As for system memory, 8GB is a bare minimum in the gaming notebook category. Most today’s games don’t require more than 8GB to run properly, but it is questionable whether upcoming game releases will. On the other hand, 8GB of included DDR4 RAM is capacious enough for heavy multitasking in day-to-day computing scenarios. The HP Omen 15-AX033DX is admirably equipped when it comes to storage. It features a spacious 1-Terabyte 7,200 rpm hard disk on which you can put your large game installations (oftentimes exceeding 50GB) and also a snappy 128GB solid state drive carrying Windows 10 Home OS. This laptop doesn’t feature a built-in DVD drive.

An excellent selling point of this model is its very powerful 61.5 WHr battery. Per HP, it can provide a battery life of “up to six hours” which is an excellent result for a laptop with powerful components. Of course, if you want to play games off the power grid, the battery life will be noticeably shorter.

The Omen isn’t exciting when it comes to the rest of the specs, but it can meet all requirements of normal PC users and gamers. The laptop has Bang & Olufsen stereo speakers, a 720p web camera, one USB 2.0 port and two USB 3.0 ports, HDMI video output, a media card reader, 802.11AC wireless, Ethernet LAN port, Bluetooth, and a combo headphones / microphone audio port.

HP Omen 15-AX033DX 15.6" Laptop (Intel Core i7, 8GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce GTX 960M, 1TB HDD+128GB SSD, Onyx Black)

Specifications of the HP Omen 15-AX033DX

Here are the specs of the HP Omen 15-AX033DX with descriptions of its features. For comparison against other laptops, you can use the "Compare Specs" button.

Brand HP
Screen Size 15.6-inch

This is by far the most popular laptop screen size. It provides a lot of screen real estate, while avoiding bulkiness of the 17.3" laptops.
Screen Resolution 1920x1080 pixels Full HD

Full HD is the most common laptop screen resolution today. It provides a good image sharpness and a decent amount of space on the display for the user interface and programs. However, it isn't as good as the top-tier 4K Ultra HD.
Touchscreen No

This laptop doesn't support touchscreen input.
Other Display Specs IPS type

Displays based on IPS technology provide much wider viewing angles than the budget-class TN screens.

Anti-glare coating

Anti-glare coating reduces ambient light reflections, as opposed to the glare-type displays with more vivid colors.
Processor (CPU) Intel Core i7-6700HQ 6th Gen (older higher-end gaming and pro CPU)
Graphics (GPU) Nvidia GeForce GTX 960M 4GB GDDR5 dedicated video card (for light gaming, but with improved smoothness)
System Memory (RAM) Size 8GB RAM

The 8GB RAM size is the standard one in 2023. It provides comfortable multi-tasking for the most home and office users.
Data Storage 1000GB (1TB) HDD + 128GB SSD

This is an excellent capacity, but the HDD portion is a slow type of storage.
DVD Optical Drive None
Keyboard & Input Backlit keyboard with dedicated number pad

The keyboard has backlit keys and a separate numeric pad on the right side of the keyboard.

Touchpad with click buttons built into the surface

The left and right click buttons are built into the surface of the touchpad, as opposed to separate physical buttons.
Speakers & Audio Stereo speakers

As usual, the device features a pair of built-in stereo speakers.

Combo microphone and headphones audio jack

This laptop has the ordinary 3.5mm combo audio jack that supports both headphone output and microphone input simultaneously.
Camera Front-facing web camera

Laptops usually feature a frontal webcam located on the display bezel. This laptop is no exception.
Wi-Fi Wireless 802.11AC

The 802.11AC is the previous-generation wireless networking standard. It's also known as Wi-Fi 5. 802.11AC is succeeded by 802.11AX Wi-Fi 6 with data transfer speed and multi-device connectivity improvements.
Ethernet Network Port Yes

This laptop has an Ethernet LAN port for wired internet and networking connectivity.
Mobile broadband (4G LTE) No
Bluetooth Yes

This laptop has a built-in Bluetooth module. It enables you to connect the computer to Bluetooth mice and other Bluetooth peripherals, smartphones, and other Bluetooth-equipped devices.
USB Ports 2 x USB 3.0 + 1 x USB 2.0

A total of three full-size Type A USB ports.
Video Output Ports 1 x HDMI

HDMI is a widely used digital video output port. You can find HDMI-in ports on most computer monitors and TVs.
Media Card Reader SD card reader

The laptop has a slot for full-size SD memory cards, used in many digital cameras. You can also use microSD cards with a card adapter.
Battery "Up to 6 hours" of battery life (not gaming)

3-cell 61.5 Whr
Weight 4.8 pounds
Height 1"
Width 15.1"
Depth 9.9"
Windows Version Windows 10 Home

Windows 10 Home is aimed at the regular home and office computer users. Only select business users need the Professional edition. Windows 10 Home users are eligible for a free upgrade to the latest Windows 11 Home.
Warranty 1-year

A typical laptop warranty.

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User Reviews and Q&A on the HP Omen 15-AX033DX

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Current rating: 3 out of 5 stars
  1. 3 out of 5

    SteveHeist

    The laptop functions as expected. It’s “good enough” but nothing close to exceptional. I have, however, noticed that during heavy load, the laptop develops a heat issue near the numpad due to cooling basically all exhausting from the bottom of the system and having issues escaping due to the low foot clearance. I ran it through a benchmark (Futuremark 3DMark Time Spy) and it performed… not terribly, but not exactly great (It landed near their “Notebook” marker, rather than their “Gaming Laptop” marker or even “[Non-gaming] Desktop” marker) and then ran an AIDA64 stress test and found, under it’s own cooling abilities, the CPU thermal throttled up to 14%. I can’t recommend the system to anyone not willing to build their desk around it (laptop cooler AND external desk fan blowing on the numpad), but it does perform reasonably well on relatively modern titles (Bioshock Remastered, CS:GO, DiRT 3, Dirty Bomb, and Rainbow 6: Siege among the games I play on a daily basis on the system with relatively little issue), so the issue is not in the processor hardware, but rather in HP’s wish to make the OMEN in the same mold as their significantly less expensive and less powerful Pavilion line.

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