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HP Victus Laptop: 15.6" FHD 144Hz, i5-12500H, RTX 4060, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD

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Walmart has HP Victus 15.6" Gaming Laptop (15-fa1072wm, 8B3R1UA#ABA; Mica Silver) on sale for $699. Shipping is free.

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Specs/Features:
  • Intel Core i5-12500H 12th Generation Processor
  • 15.6" FHD (1920 x 1080), 144 Hz, IPS, Micro-edge, Anti-glare Display
  • 512 GB PCIe Gen4 NVMe M.2 Solid State Drive
  • 16GB DDR4 RAM
  • NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 8GB GDDR6 Graphics
  • Windows 11 Home
  • Backlit Keyboard
  • Wi-Fi 6 + Bluetooth 5.3
  • HP Wide Vision Camera with AI Noise Removal​
  • 1-Month of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate

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Walmart has HP Victus 15.6" Gaming Laptop (15-fa1072wm, 8B3R1UA#ABA; Mica Silver) on sale for $699. Shipping is free.

Thanks to Deal Hunter PennyFound for finding this deal.

Note, product must be sold/shipped by Walmart

Specs/Features:
  • Intel Core i5-12500H 12th Generation Processor
  • 15.6" FHD (1920 x 1080), 144 Hz, IPS, Micro-edge, Anti-glare Display
  • 512 GB PCIe Gen4 NVMe M.2 Solid State Drive
  • 16GB DDR4 RAM
  • NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 8GB GDDR6 Graphics
  • Windows 11 Home
  • Backlit Keyboard
  • Wi-Fi 6 + Bluetooth 5.3
  • HP Wide Vision Camera with AI Noise Removal​
  • 1-Month of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate

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Model: HP Victus 15.6" FHD 144Hz Gaming Laptop, Intel i5-12500H, RTX 4060, 16GB DDR4, 512GB SSD, Win 11

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OrangeVest212
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Personally in this price range I'd wait for the a16 TUF at bestbuy with 7600s. 99% SRGB screen, and much higher power gpu. it was $750 for the past few weeks.

This victus and the gigabyte are lower wattage version of the 4060.. plus I'm guessing the cooling is sub-par.
SensibleStep5797
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Such a shame, these gimped 4060, should be some sort of fraud, probably explains the elden ring at 40fps, i was reading about on one of these, when frame rate should be much higher.
emmit76
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HP's website states this is 75 watts, same as Gigabyte

https://support.hp.com/rs-en/docu...8109292-16

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Dec 6, 2023
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Raulthatool
Dec 6, 2023
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Quote from braab321828 :
Why is it gimped? Looking for a gaming laptop for vr. I don't need to run absolute high settings.
The GPU is 75W, which is a slight decrease in performance. The 100W+ variants are $300+ more. You just have you ask yourself if a 12% FPS decrease ( around 10-15 FPS) is worth the savings. This laptop is basically the equivalent of a mid tier gaming desktop.(RTX 2060-2070, 3060-3070.)

I went to look at these Asus TUF laptops in person that are similar in performance, one thing that turned me off from them is all of these Asus laptops keyboards have a lot of flex in their case. I could push it in by around half an inch.

Walmart offers returns until Jan 31st, you could try it out and return it later.
Last edited by Raulthatool December 6, 2023 at 02:31 AM.
Dec 6, 2023
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St8
Dec 6, 2023
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Quote from Raulthatool :
The GPU is 75W, which is a slight decrease in performance. The 100W+ variants are $300+ more. You just have you ask yourself if a 12% FPS decrease ( around 10-15 FPS) is worth the savings. This laptop is basically the equivalent of a mid tier gaming desktop.(RTX 2060-2070, 3060-3070.)

I went to look at these Asus TUF laptops in person that are similar in performance, one thing that turned me off from them is all of these Asus laptops keyboards have a lot of flex in their case. I could push it in by around half an inch.

Walmart offers returns until Jan 31st, you could try it out and return it later.
Thanks so much. Will it say the wattage of the cpu in the specs? I'm guessing they reduce it for thermal reasons?
Dec 7, 2023
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mgx
Dec 7, 2023
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Got this laptop. Works very fast, runs stable diffusion (including SDXL) very well. Encodes 1080p videos to AV1 @ 300fps and 720p @ 700fps. Upgraded to Windows 11 Pro and runs like a champ. Screen is matte and good too! Sound is very nice as well.

Ask me anything.
Dec 7, 2023
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SensibleStep5797
Dec 7, 2023
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Quote from mgx :
Got this laptop. Works very fast, runs stable diffusion (including SDXL) very well. Encodes 1080p videos to AV1 @ 300fps and 720p @ 700fps. Upgraded to Windows 11 Pro and runs like a champ. Screen is matte and good too! Sound is very nice as well.

Ask me anything.
Timespy 3dmark bench results
Dec 7, 2023
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2deal
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Quote from SensibleStep5797 :
Timespy 3dmark bench results
About 9000. Here are the results I saw.
Unigine Heaven high 238 fps ultra 221 fps
Superposition 1080 medium 126 fps
Superposition 1080 high 91 fps
Superposition 1080 extreme 42 fps

3DMV P76000 G82000 > 98% of all results
3DM11 P26300 G32000 > 98% of all results
3DM TS 9000 G9000
3DM FS 20500 G24600

Even though 4060 is only 75 watts it's only 15% slower than average full power 4060. This has better performance per watt than a 100 watt 4050 and produces less heat.
Last edited by 2deal December 6, 2023 at 09:35 PM.
Dec 7, 2023
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2deal
Dec 7, 2023
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I'm impressed with performance per $ and performance per watt. Killawatt shows gaming uses about 100 to 120 watts. Old DX9 games only draw 70 watts. It's about 70% faster in Superposition benchmark than my 2 year old GTX 1660 Ti MaxQ or RTX 3050 Ti gaming laptops while drawing the same ~ 110 watts. Noise levels are acceptable. Fans are fairly quiet until GPU gets to 79C then fan gets loud.

Power button location between F12 and Delete key is a bit odd. Matte IPS screen is good enough.
Last edited by 2deal December 12, 2023 at 04:09 PM.
Dec 7, 2023
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Raulthatool
Dec 7, 2023
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Quote from braab321828 :
Thanks so much. Will it say the wattage of the cpu in the specs? I'm guessing they reduce it for thermal reasons?
It's not anywhere listed on the Walmart page or when you revieve the laptop. You have to hunt it down on the HP website.

I have no idea why they do it. Probably to make you buy an Omen that isn't throttled and a bit more expensive.

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Dec 8, 2023
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2deal
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Quote from braab321828 :
Thanks so much. Will it say the wattage of the cpu in the specs? I'm guessing they reduce it for thermal reasons?
I confirmed with CPU-Z and ThrottleStop that this I5-12500H is a 45 watt CPU. I timed Wprime 32M at 4.9 seconds and 1024M at 178 seconds for 16 threads in Best performance mode. Clock speed stays between 3.9 and 4.2 GHz for Wprime. CPU can briefly run at 80 watts for a few seconds and sustain 40 to 50 watts for Wprime. I'm other words it is as fast as cooling allows. The performance cores get up to 98C in Wprime which is close to the 100C limit. I did not notice any issues with performance.

The Wprime 1024M time of 178 seconds is really fast, even faster than most i7-12650H and i5-13500H surprisingly. I repeated the result but I can hardly believe my eyes. It runs hot and fast in Best performance mode while Balanced mode is noticeably slower.

I will test Cinebench when I have time, but I am not expecting such amazing performance in Cinebench compared to that Wprime 1024M time.
Last edited by 2deal December 7, 2023 at 06:07 PM.
Dec 8, 2023
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slickbuyer7
Dec 8, 2023
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does it allow battery charge limit (say 80%) as other laptops do?
Dec 8, 2023
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Raulthatool
Dec 8, 2023
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Quote from 2deal :
I confirmed with CPU-Z and ThrottleStop that this I5-12500H is a 45 watt CPU. I timed Wprime 32M at 4.9 seconds and 1024M at 178 seconds for 16 threads in Best performance mode. Clock speed stays between 3.9 and 4.2 GHz for Wprime. CPU can briefly run at 80 watts for a few seconds and sustain 40 to 50 watts for Wprime. I'm other words it is as fast as cooling allows. The performance cores get up to 98C in Wprime which is close to the 100C limit. I did not notice any issues with performance.

The Wprime 1024M time of 178 seconds is really fast, even faster than most i7-12650H and i5-13500H surprisingly. I repeated the result but I can hardly believe my eyes. It runs hot and fast in Best performance mode while Balanced mode is noticeably slower.

I will test Cinebench when I have time, but I am not expecting such amazing performance in Cinebench compared to that Wprime 1024M time.
Did you notice that the track pad gets stuck? It's not a big deal to me, but 2 of my Victus laptops track pads have this defect. Someone else mentioned this on their Walmart review. HP gave me no issues and offered to send me shipping or the option to take it to bestbuy.
Dec 9, 2023
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2deal
Dec 9, 2023
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Quote from Raulthatool :
Did you notice that the track pad gets stuck? It's not a big deal to me, but 2 of my Victus laptops track pads have this defect. Someone else mentioned this on their Walmart review. HP gave me no issues and offered to send me shipping or the option to take it to bestbuy.
I did not notice the trackpad sticking, but it was unresponsive for a moment or two when running heavy benchmarks.
Dec 10, 2023
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JollyMeat212
Dec 10, 2023
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Per the HP website this maxes out at 16GB? Sometimes those specs aren't accurate so I'm curious, has anyone tried additional RAM?
Dec 13, 2023
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JollyMeat212
Dec 13, 2023
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Quote from JollyMeat212 :
Per the HP website this maxes out at 16GB? Sometimes those specs aren't accurate so I'm curious, has anyone tried additional RAM?
For anyone still interested in this laptop, I ordered one Sunday at 2AM and it was on my doorstep by 1245PM Monday. Have to hand it to Walmart and FedEx!
The specs say it only will accept 16GB of RAM which it ships with, however I was able to get a 32GB kit to work just fine.
The cooling on this thing is pretty great I have to say which is surprising that they thermal throttled the 4060.
When I opened up the case to upgrade the RAM I found something disturbing and as I texted a friend..."words escape me".
Yep, that's right...it has 1 NVMe slot. Board would easily accept another as the soldering and PCB are prepped for it. Some bean counter decided to save $.50 and ruin what could have been a tremendous value.
As nice as the laptop is for the money, the lack of a 2nd NVMe slot is going to force me to return this thing tomorrow. Bummer as I thought I had found a hidden gem even with the gimped 4060.
Dec 13, 2023
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northerners
Dec 13, 2023
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The single SSD slot is a real deal killer. Also, the benchmarks are almost exactly the same as the $50 cheaper Gigabyte G5 KF - whether it runs cooler or not, the HP offers no performance advantages. At least the G5 has a second NVME slot and is probably much easier to open up. I don't see a lot of user enthusiasm about this one, with no Youtube user reviews or unboxing vids. Multiple mentions of a touchpad issue are entirely credible. I've had touchpad issues with multiple HPs over the years, both high and low end. Believe it or not but I actually like the brand. That why I'd recommend watching for the return of the $807 deal on the altogether superior Omen 16 4060 that lasted all of a couple of hours on HP.com. As much as I love Walmarts easy in store returns, I was burnt last year by a Walmart exclusive laptop from another brand that had stellar hardware but horrible cost cutting that ruined it. I was only saved by the holiday returns period. My gut tells me that $699 is too much money to spend for the daily annoyance of a dim screen and sticking touchpad. Considering the lack of overall enthusiasm for this deal, I'm guessing that most prospective shoppers feel the same way. If Walmart has bought too much inventory, they'd better cut the price another $100 or $150.

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Feb 2, 2024
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magre
Feb 2, 2024
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Not worth the price. Just returned one.
Reason #1: poor battery life (I mean BAD -- REALLY BAD: full charge to dead w/n an hour). There's supposed to be a 'fix' but I wasn't want to chance it.
Other reasons:
- 'cheap' all plastic build quality
- keyboard is skewed way left putting the center of keyboard at about 1/3 from the left side of the laptop
- this skewed keyboard puts your right palm squarely on top of track pad
I've had probably 20 or more laptops over the years of all brands.
Overall, this laptop feels like it was a Temu/AliExpress special rather than an HP.

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