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Pros & Cons
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Ram Capacity
Customers have mixed opinions regarding the laptop's initial 8GB RAM capacity but generally agree that upgrading it significantly improves performance. Some customers have successfully upgraded to 16GB or even 32GB of DDR4 memory, resulting in noticeable improvements and enhanced usability.
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Graphics Performance
Customers have mixed opinions on the graphics performance of the HP Victus laptop, but generally positive. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 GPU delivers good performance for gaming and productivity tasks, allowing most non-AAA titles to run smoothly with reasonable settings. Some customers noted occasional stutters or frame drops, while others were satisfied with its value and strong performance for the price.
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Quality
The keyboard feels nice and works well for both gaming and typing/browsing.
Nice tight hinges, backlit keyboard has a great tactile response, and the trackpad works great.
*if you do not do this, the laptop will be basically unusable for gaming outside of very light indie titles and will be frustra... Read More
Tried to play the finals and it was struggling to deliver 30fps on medium.
Price
Good budget laptop for the games i play.
Great quality and the laptop is premium for the price.
As someone who has only ever gotten hand me down laptops that were slow as dirt this laptop at its discounted price was a god send.
The cost to upgrade the ram to my recommended 32gb (from amazon) is around $60.
Competitiveness
Apex, fortnite, cs go, etc are all fine.
If you do want to upgrade the ram, i recommend either opening the laptop or using a tool to determine what memory is already in... Read More
It does help to keep the price down, though you can get a pretty big jump in performance for spending more, this is good enough... Read More
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- Our engine has analyzed and discovered that 72.2% of the reviews are reliable.
- This product had a total of 55 reviews as of our last analysis date on Oct 8 2024.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I really enjoyed this laptop for the first couple of uses after loading my programs within a week i started to realize that maybe 8gb isnt enough as the laptop started to slow down significantly just using chrome
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The hard drive space is decent but dont expect to be able to download much of your steam library as game files are on the bigger side of things nowadays
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The performance during gaming is great but ive noticed that the battery life isnt much to talk about
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Even when using light applications such as word or web browsing i found the laptop barely reaching 2 hours though nothing would require a large power draw so im not sure what is happening
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Overall this would be great as a starter gaming laptop as a gift
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Battery life is pretty good though as you might expect it doesnt last very long when playing games
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Which brings up my biggest complaint that the laptop only has 8gb or ram
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
While its not a dealbreaker it would have been nice if it came with 16gb
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