HP Victus 16″ Gaming Laptop, AMD Ryzen 5-7640HS, 16 GB RAM
HP Victus 16″ Gaming Laptop, AMD Ryzen 5-7640HS, 16 GB RAM, 512 GB SSD, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Graphics, FHD IPS Display, 144Hz, Up to 9 hrs battery, Win 11, Mica Silver, 16-s0000sa
| Weight: | 2.33 kg |
| Dimensions: | 259.4 x 369 x 22.9 cm; 2.33 kg |
| Brand: | HP |
| Model: | 9V451EA#ABU |
| Colour: | Black |
| Batteries Included: | Yes |
| Manufacture: | HP |
| Dimensions: | 259.4 x 369 x 22.9 cm; 2.33 kg |
I bought this mainly for gaming, moving over from consoles. The difference is definitely noticeable. The two games I played on console, war thunder and Microsoft flight simulator work extremely well on this machine, I average 120-150fps on max for both games.
Other people have complained about fan noise, which to be fair they are loud but I wear headphones and it drowns the noise out.
If you want a fast laptop that works well you can’t do worse than this.
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Purchased this HP 15 Victus Ryzen 5600H for my teen and I must say after all the software was updated it seemed quick to boot up and the overall response has been acceptable. However, it remains to be seen if it is robust and lasts longer and it won’t die too soon. The previous purchase on Amazon (other brand & specs) died within 3 days after opening and now it has returned. Upon checking I found that this HP Victus warranty from the manufacturer is expiring soon but the Amazon warranty is 2 years thus peace of mind if anything happens within the timeframe.
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Got this on a Black Friday deal at a great price, it is a lovely entry level gaming laptop PC in just about every area with a couple of issues, 8 GB RAM is not enough for the latest games and this will need to be upgraded to 16 GB minimum really. Also be aware that the RTX3050 Graphics Card in this laptop is only 4GB VRAM and again that is not enough for quite a few of the latest games, older games run superbly on it but newer stuff is very much 50/50, as a general laptop it is brilliant however.
Oh, and don’t expect the battery to last long on gaming, again it is perfectly fine for general use but games will obliterate it in under a couple of hours so it is definitely best plugged in for gaming which I did expect anyway.
4 Stars without a RAM upgrade and be aware of the VRAM on the graphics card which cannot be changed as I have made a mistake with that to be honest.
Good for the money
I bought this as a secondary gaming device for when I’m away from home and don’t have access to my gaming PC. I’ve owned a Steam Deck but prefer a full blown laptop as alot of games I play are better with keyboard & mouse.
Build quality is solid and performance is decent for the money. My only complaints is the 256gb SSD isn’t big enough for more than 2-3 modern titles, needs 500gb bare minimum but personally will be upgrading to 1tb. While the 8gb RAM does the job it ideally needs 16gb. I understand they’ve tried to keep the cost down but any semi serious gamer is going to change these out. Seems a waste of the parts that come with it as I’m going to have to spend out a further 80 in upgraded to get it up to scratch.
The performance of the 5600H CPU and the 6500M graphics card make for a good 1080p experience – you’ll be able to play titles at a mix of Medium and High.
As another reviewer has mentioned, the lack of a second NVME drive (the connectors are on the motherboard, HP just chose not to attach the drive) is very disappointing.
And you will want to upgrade – I swapped the 8GB of RAM out for 32GB, and the 256GB drive for a 4TB Crucial P3. This turned it into a great mobile gaming platform, with 33% more shader cores than the much and widely (and rightly so praised) 680M iGPU of the 6800HS.
Get it on offer with the headset and mouse, and upgrade RAM and SSD and you have a terrific low-mid tier gaming laptop.
Review for the HP Victus 15-fb0020na Ryzen 5 5600H Radeon RX 6500M 8GB RAM 256GB SSD:
I’m very impressed with the gaming performance of this laptop. Out of the box, it works well but with minimal upgrades it’s even better.
Firstly, it comes with a single stick of 8GB RAM, with a vacant slot. I added another 8GB so now also benefit from dual channel bandwidth.
Secondly, the SSD whilst fast, at 256GB is rather small capacity especially considering the size of modern games. I replaced it with a 500GB one. There is room for a second M.2 drive (see picture), but the manufacturer has neglected to solder the actual socket for it, so cannot be used. A bit pennypinching.
My replacement SSD already had Ubuntu MATE installed on it, along with games from a desktop computer. It worked straight away when I powered up the laptop, a real bonus.
The games I like are Skyrim Special Edition (ultra graphics, stayed at 60fps), Train Sim World 3 (ultra, 30-40fps on London Commuter) and Fallout 4 (ultra, mostly 144fps sometimes dipped to 80).
The screen is fine for my use case, only indoors anyway. LED backlighting for the keyboard is nice to have.
The fan makes itself heard when gaming, but that is preferable to overheating. Not a problem for me.
For the money, I am very pleased with this laptop indeed. My only gripe is that missing socket for a second SSD.
EDIT: A week or so in, things are all well. I’d like to mention one possible limitation to performance, which is the discrete graphics card has 4GB VRAM. Lots of newer games recommend 8GB. Although they will run, you may experience periodic frame rate drops. I found this with Train Sim World 3.
Ok so still early days but so far I really like this laptop. I bought it for gaming while away along with upgrading to a speedy machine. I’ve tried a few games and they play fine, it’s fast to start up. Although the HD could be bigger I’ll play games off USB HD, the fan is noisy as other reviews have stated but in the omen settings you can set it to quiet, apparently it limits GPU and CPU to compensate but I’ve not noticed anything major while playing. I’ve thing to note is make sure it’s plugged in while playing as I didn’t originally and the battery settings throttle the CPU making games stutter and all round unresponsive. You can change that in settings though. My main gripe so far would be battery life is poor but I mainly plug it in anyway. I was really on the fence on this but so far at least happy I purchased.