Essentially the Pavilion Elite e9120y is a classic jack of all trades, master of none. It can play Blu-ray movies, but we wouldn't use it as a digital theater PC in the living room because of its size. It has decent application performance, as you'll see below, but it's not as fast as other PCs that cost less. And although its discrete 3D card likely helps Blu-ray playback, it barely registers on our most forgiving 3D gaming test. You can configure similar desktops from HP on its Web site and build a more targeted, specialized computer. Unless you're looking for this particular blend of only so-so features and performance, we'd suggest that the online configuration route would net you a better system.

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