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HP Victus Laptop: 15.6" 1080p, i5-12450H, 8GB RAM, 512GB SSD, GTX 1650

$500

$799.99

+ Free Store Pickup

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Micro Center has HP Victus Laptop (15-fa0031dx) on sale for $499.99. Select free store pick up where stock permits.

Note: Availability for pickup may vary by location.

Thanks to community member heliosnine for finding this deal.

Specs:

15.6" (1920x1080) FHD IPS Micro-Edge Anti-Glare 144Hz Display
Intel Core i5 12450H 8-Cores, 12-Threads (3.30GHz Base 4.40GHz Boost) Processor
8GB DDR4-3200 RAM
512GB PCIe NVMe M.2 Solid State Drive
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Graphics
Wi-Fi 6 (2x2) + Bluetooth
Backlit Keyboard
Windows 11 Home
Ports:
- 2x USB 3.1 (Gen 1 Type-A)
- 1x USB 3.1 (Gen 1 Type-C)
- 1x AC Smart Pin
- 1x LAN RJ-45

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Written by Edited February 6, 2023 at 06:47 AM by

HP Victus 15.6" Gaming Laptop - $499.99 at Micro Center

https://www.microcenter.com/produ...sku=539411

Specs:

Victus 15-fa0031dx 15.6" Gaming Laptop Computer - Silver
Intel Core i5 12th Gen 12450H 1.5GHz Processor; NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 4GB GDDR6; 8GB DDR4-3200 RAM; 512GB Solid State Drive

Intel Core i5 12th Gen 12450H 1.5GHz Processor
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 4GB GDDR6
8GB DDR4-3200 RAM
512GB Solid State Drive
Microsoft Windows 11 Home
Multi-Format SD Media Card Reader
10/100/1000 Network
Wi-Fi 6 (2x2)+Bluetooth Combo
15.6" FHD IPS Micro-Edge Anti-Glare 144Hz Display

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I bought this because my sister needs a laptop and I know she wants to play casual games like Sims 4 and Minecraft. It rips through those titles and also Fall Guys and PUBG work totally great!

Microcenter also has DDR4 laptop ram on sale that works well with this pc. $500 for laptop $80 for a 32GB kit and now the laptop is pretty banging!

Screen quality is impressive, and will be good for my sister's photo editing needs. Should last her quite a while I hope !

PROTIP: If you do Windows Update -> Optional, some of the "HP" updates are A BIOS FLASH! THIS WILL RESET YOUR BITLOCKER KEY AND YOU CAN'T BOOT UNTIL YOU GET THE RECOVERY CODES FROM YOUR MICROSOFT ACCOUNT ! I totally got stuck in a bitlocker reboot cycle, so I ended up disabling it. My recommendation is to disable BitLocker drive encryption before you update the BIOS on this bad boy.

Indeed, but for $500 this machine performs better that average laptops non gaming at this price point

1650 is very outdated

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02-10-2023 at 11:55 PM.

Still around... They knock $75 off for an open box.

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02-10-2023 at 11:58 PM.

Quote from Shakilwinchester

Anyone who bought this laptop, when upgrading the ssd from micro centre. What did you do with the existing 512 gb ssd? As there is only one slot. Is there any option to get store credit for the 512 ssd if anyone wants to upgrade with 1 TB ssd

Ha ha. No. There's a $15 new customer credit you can if you sign up for texts for SSDs and some other things.

The Crucial P3 is a half-way decent and efficient drive you can pick up there for a fair price of $58.

Things to do with the old one:
Send it to me
Use it in another PC
Sell it on ebay/craigslist/etc.
Use it in an enclosure for backups
Save it for a rainy day
Donate to charity
Dissect for fun

Incidentally, these things seem to be shipping with an WD SN810, like most OEM drives, these are actually pretty good. From what I can tell, it is an SN850 detuned for lower power.

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02-11-2023 at 09:30 PM.

Quote from TheKricket

Nice deal! My uncle has been looking for something at the $500 mark - this seems to be the best bang for your buck from what I've seen recently.

I love supporting MC, too!

I bought the one that had 500+ thumbs a couple of years ago. Am happy with it, Use it mostly as a desktop. Still looks new. The one i bought had ryzen 5 4400/8gb/15.6 and same 1650.

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02-13-2023 at 09:52 AM.

Quote from eliteconcept

From a quality stand point, esp. Inital Lenovo is better than dell. Just my observation. I work in IT overseeing a campus of approx. 1500 computers. For the last 12 years, Lenovo has constantly been more reliable.

its not a shot a dell, they are fine. but ive worked in IT for 17 years, ive seen thousands of computers come and go. in my time ive seen dell slip in quality over recent years

Please suggest a lenovo laptop with a good screen and affordable price

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02-14-2023 at 11:11 AM.

Quote from NathanialH

Thanks for the protip. I was wondering why my laptop suddenly needed bitlocker key last week. Will disable bitlocker later.

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02-14-2023 at 12:23 PM.

Quote from paulm3024

have bad experience with HP laptops. Never again.
Only Dell ( and maybe Lenovo)

Dell?? Dell is the worst they DRM their hardware.

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02-14-2023 at 03:40 PM.

Think you would be better off with a 3050 and can get that close to this price range

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02-14-2023 at 03:40 PM.

Quote from mr782

I bought this yesterday from MC, got 5% off on top of it, so paid a little over 510 with tax.

Throw another 8gb 3200mhz ram stick (Crucial stick on Amazon is $22) and upgrade the NVMe to 1 TB and this thing is super powerful. It boots up in about 9 seconds once I nuked all the bloatware and reinstalled Windows 11 clean along with some optimizations. I tried installing windows 10 on this and it surprisingly came with a verified windows 10 license, but I couldn't get the Realtek Audio drivers to work nor the Touchpad. The screen is actually quite good and the refresh rate was the main selling point for me. It's hard to beat this price for what you get and what you could upgrade it to. There's a lot of mediocre laptops in the same price range with no dedicated GPU and same ram with only a 60hz screen.

DId you add RAM already and was it easy (trap door), or do you have to take the laptop apart? Looking for a laptop for a retired friend and need an easy RAM upgrade for their needs.

Thanks!

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02-14-2023 at 04:08 PM.

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Think you would be better off with a 3050 and can get that close to this price range

Only saw once for AMEX card holders briefly last black Friday. $600-$120 credit=$480.

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02-14-2023 at 04:35 PM.

Quote from paulm3024

have bad experience with HP laptops. Never again.
Only Dell ( and maybe Lenovo)

Yeah... same here.
I purchased a 17.3 HP laptop. Performance wise it's fine but the casing is falling apart.Build quality is subpar.

I expect so much more from Hewlett-Packard

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02-15-2023 at 04:33 PM.

I have an old Acer V5 with a 960M + 16GB. If I max this out to 32GB ram, how much of an upgrade would it be?

I don't play games, but I do run Adobe suite.

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02-19-2023 at 06:59 AM.

what is the brightness on this laptop? TIA

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02-20-2023 at 05:23 PM.

Quote from NathanialH

Hello,
I purchased this laptop and got it today.
Lets just say I am stuck in bitlocker reboot cycle, what should I do get out of it?

Also, wondering, how to get Recovery code from Microsoft?

Thank you.

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02-21-2023 at 12:00 AM.

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Download windows 10 to a 8gb usbstick and reinstall from scratch. Update the bios then install windows 11. Hope this helps.

BTW, HP has tons of bloatware pre-installed on the laptop. It's better to install a clean version of Windows

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02-21-2023 at 08:05 PM.

Looking for a $500 lappy and boy this spec is very stout. For just a regular user, 1650 who cares. Its not even close.

I did a cpu compare to similar cpus and 12th gen by like ALOT over 11th gen etc

Dell does have an inspiron 15 with a ryzen 7 5825U in it for 500 rn.

passmark beats this cpu over all. 8c16T, its 15w cpu. about 18% lower single thread score. with 16gb of ram tho..

its close

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/comp...en-7-5825U

https://deals.dell.com/en-us/productdetail/g3gf

For the everyday user the dell is more appealing i think. lighter, sleeker bezels, prolly better batt life. already comes with 16gb of ram which is nbd but still. if you dont need the gpu its kinda a toss up.

my wife would def pick lighter and sleeker over ips all day and prolly never notice and performance difference
Looks like the victus is 1.5lbs heaver. 5.06 as compared to 3.71
victus has an ips edgelit diplay 144hz vs WVA 120hz
obvi the gpu is of some difference