Select Micro Center Stores have
HP Victus 16-r0073cl 16.1" Gaming Laptop (Refurbished, Mica Silver, 7N4X6UAR#ABA) for
$649.99. Select free store pickup where available.
Thanks to community member
BeigeRoad455 for finding this deal.
Note: Availability for pickup will vary by location
Specs:
- 13th Gen Intel Core i7-13700HX 16-Core (8p+8e), 24-Thread (3.70GHz Base / 5.00GHz Boost) Processor
- 16.1" FHD (1920 x 1080) 16:9, 144Hz, 250-nits, 45% NTSC, Anti-glare, IPS Display
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 8GB GDDR6 Graphics (115w tgp)
- 32GB DDR5 4800MHz (2x16) RAM
- 1TB PCIe M.2 NVMe Gen4 TLC SSD
- Intel Wi-Fi 6E AX211 (2x2) and Bluetooth 5.3
- Full-size, 1-zone RGB backlit, moonstone grey keyboard with numeric keypad
- 1080p FHD webcam with temporal noise reduction and integrated dual array digital microphones
- 4-cell, 70 Wh Li-ion polymer battery
- Microsoft Windows 11 Home
- Width - 14.53 in., Depth - 10.21 in., Height - 0.90 in.
- 5.11 lbs. (2.32 kg)
- Ports:
- 2x USB 3.1 (Gen 1 Type-A)
- 1x USB 3.1 (Gen 1 Type-C)
- 1x HDMI 2.1
- 1x RJ-45
- 1x Headphone/Microphone Combination Jack
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The specs page for this laptop can be found here: https://support.hp.com/us-en/prod...ku=7N4X6
The i7-13700hx in this laptop is functionally a desktop i7-13700k with lower power limits. It has 16 cores (8p+8e), and is exceptionally powerful for a laptop cpu, though power consumption is very high and power efficiency is rather poor. The 13700hx is overkill for gaming with the mobile rtx 4060, you'll essentially always be gpu bottlenecked. Likewise, the 13700hx is an excellent productivity cpu. with extremely powerful multithreaded performance. The igpu supports intel quicksync, which is a boon for any workloads involving video encoding/transcoding. Overall, the cpu in this laptop would be considered good in a $1000 laptop, at $650 its far exceeds expectations. That being said, battery life will likely be meaningfully worse compared to amd's zen 4 mobile offerings, this processor is better suited for a desktop replacement laptop.
The mobile rtx 4060 is the cheapest current gen nvidia mobile gpu that has 8gb of vram, which is a crucial threshold for gaming. Gpus with fewer than 8gb of vram are relegated to solely budget gaming even at 1080p. The next step up, the mobile rtx 4070, is around ~20% faster in gaming on average, while having the same amount of vram. In most respects the mobile rtx 4060 at ~$800 is the value sweetspot, since getting a laptop with good specs and a mobile rtx 4070 would usually be at least ~$250 more. The mobile rtx 4080 is massively superior in terms of performance and has 50% more vram, but laptops with the 4080 tend to be at absolute minimum $1600. The rtx 4060 in this laptop only has a tgp of 115w, meaning it is technically not a full power variant. However, performance scaling in gaming for the mobile 4060 stops at 100w due to nvidia's voltage limits, so you don't actually lose any gaming performance with the 115w tgp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMMrh6P
The screen in this laptop is by far the biggest disappointment in it's specs, and the primary downside for this laptop (though at $650 it's at least slightly more acceptable compared to the manufacturers putting similar screens on $1000+ laptops). The refresh rate of 144hz is decent, but the brightness of 250 nits and color gamut coverage of 45% ntsc (~62% srgb) are quite low tier. While a brightness of 250 nits should be sufficient for indoors areas without exposure to direct sunlight, it's very dim overall, and will be a detriment for use in medium light or higher environments. The 45% ntsc coverage is a huge detriment imo, colors will appear dull, washed out, and flat out wrong. I generally advocate that no one should purchase a laptop with 45% ntsc (~62% srgb) coverage at over $500 or so unless the other specs are absolutely incredible for the money. That being said, the specs in this particular laptop vastly exceed that threshold imo. This laptop supports advanced optimus according to a response an hp staff member left (the rtx 4060 connects directly to the display in discrete gpu mode, and can be switched without rebooting the laptop). However, the screen in this laptop does not support any form of vrr (aka g-sync or freesync). If you want vrr you'll need to connect an external monitor to either the hdmi 2.1 port (with the monitor also supporting hdmi 2.1), or over displayport 1.4 from the usb c port.
This laptop has two user accessible sodimm slots (occupied by 2x16gb ddr5 4800 sticks), supporting a maximum of 64gb and officially only up to ddr5 4800 speeds. Having 32gb of ddr5 ram is exceptionally good for a gaming laptop under $1000, usually 16gb is the most you'll find under $1000. When combined with the 13700hx, this laptop should be excellent for most productivity workloads without even needing a ram upgrade.
This laptop has two user accessible gen 4 m.2 2280 slots, one occupied by the 1tb gen 4 tlc ssd. Having 1tb is decent for any laptop under $1000, though it may be insufficient for those with productivity workloads.
The 70whr battery is somewhat low for an upper-midrange gaming laptop, though not terrible. That being said, when paired with a power hungry cpu like the 13700hx, I'd expect battery life to be fairly poor, even for a gaming laptop.
I'm not aware of any major issues with hp's "victus" chassis, but it is positioned as lower end sku compared to their "omen" chassis. It is quite large, bulky, and heavy, this is not a laptop designed with portability as a primary focus. This appears to be the costco specific model that microcenter is selling refurbished.
Overall, at $650, this is an incredible deal for a laptop with these specs. If you can get the $100 off any laptop coupon (linked above), it's an even more insane deal.
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I only do some light gaming with friends from time to time. I have a laptop on loan with a 4060 and it seems to be good enough for my purposes.
This is a fantastic deal for sure, but don't worry too much about it if you can't get one…the normal price is just $750. They were $750 the week before last and $799 the last week and now $650. It's just 100 bucks…
I used my coupon to get a $129 HP 14" laptop. Pretty happy about it. It's also normally $299 or $349 and with refurbished sale it's coming down to $229. I personally would recommend against refurbished gaming laptops since most of my refurbished high performance laptop(more than 20 in the last few years) has weird issues that can only be discovered after long term use. Another thing I will never touch from micro center refurbished is the motherboard. Got a Z790 tomahawk a year ago for $100 and it has weird issues from beginning, like once every week.
I purchased over 50 certified refurbished, none had issues from Walmart, Dell, Ebay Cert, DJI
Certified used means it's used as spare tire only.
Your daily use or workhorse should always be new or certified used with 1-3 year warranty.
Now the downsides 2 reviews mention frequent BSOD, which has me worried that the cooling is ridiculously bad on these guys. Going to order one for pickup tomorrow near me and see how it plays. I dont believe MC charges restocks or anything like that on open boxes.
Do HP laptops contain a similar app or do you have to search for and download drivers and firmware manually?
Thanks in advance for any replies.
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- the "open box" unit i got seems to be almost perfect condition. and the regular units are already refurbs so definitely nice savings there.
- Battery life is short as hell. Maybe 2 hours? Maybe it needs better calibration, but my battery dropped from 10% to a black screen in a minute. Somewhat expected, but always plan to be plugged in.
- The omen gaming hub app seems somewhat usable for monitoring CPU/GPU/ram usage.
- Testing games with overwatch and diablo IV, very smooth gameplay for my eyes on high/ultra settings. Windows does seem to recognize my HP X27q 165hz monitor as only 144hz, but not sure I'd be able to tell the difference anyway.
- Screen is somewhat disappointing at only 1080p and a bit dim, but it's acceptable at max brightness for me as a secondary screen for chat next to my 27in 1440p monitor.
- fans do spin up, but not extremely annoying. when they're really going, it's from gaming and the game sounds totally override it.
- no slow down doing a bunch of app installs, windows updates, and having 20+ tabs in google chrome. the machine just purrs along.
- having an ethernet port is really nice. I can skip using a dock! I'd have trouble trusting most docks to push the frames anyway. Keeping in mind this is a high powered desktop replacement type laptop, you pretty much need the big ol proprietary charger. A bit annoying with 5 plugs (charger, hdmi, ethernet, audio, 1 usb-A for my windows hello webcam), mouse/kb on bluetooth for now. i dont plan to move the machine much.
final verdict: Getting a "desktop replacement" at this price feels pretty slick. Somewhat tempted to sell my desktop after my experience so far. Definitely need to keep testing, but so far so good, especially at this price.
PS
I also currently have the the Asus 16x i5 + RTX3050 which was a great deal, but the RTX3050 isnt nearly as powerful as this RTX4060. Also office depot is seriously pissing me off with cancelling my partial refund repeatedly. FOUR different reps told me the refund would go through and it's getting auto cancelled. Eugh
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Now the downsides 2 reviews mention frequent BSOD, which has me worried that the cooling is ridiculously bad on these guys. Going to order one for pickup tomorrow near me and see how it plays. I dont believe MC charges restocks or anything like that on open boxes.
One guy who left a review said it was perfectly fine for 3D model so it cant be that bad.
Yes the HP assistant does the same thing as the Desll Support assist.
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- the "open box" unit i got seems to be almost perfect condition. and the regular units are already refurbs so definitely nice savings there.
- Battery life is short as hell. Maybe 2 hours? Maybe it needs better calibration, but my battery dropped from 10% to a black screen in a minute. Somewhat expected, but always plan to be plugged in.
- The omen gaming hub app seems somewhat usable for monitoring CPU/GPU/ram usage.
- Testing games with overwatch and diablo IV, very smooth gameplay for my eyes on high/ultra settings. Windows does seem to recognize my HP X27q 165hz monitor as only 144hz, but not sure I'd be able to tell the difference anyway.
- Screen is somewhat disappointing at only 1080p and a bit dim, but it's acceptable at max brightness for me as a secondary screen for chat next to my 27in 1440p monitor.
- fans do spin up, but not extremely annoying. when they're really going, it's from gaming and the game sounds totally override it.
- no slow down doing a bunch of app installs, windows updates, and having 20+ tabs in google chrome. the machine just purrs along.
- having an ethernet port is really nice. I can skip using a dock! I'd have trouble trusting most docks to push the frames anyway. Keeping in mind this is a high powered desktop replacement type laptop, you pretty much need the big ol proprietary charger. A bit annoying with 5 plugs (charger, hdmi, ethernet, audio, 1 usb-A for my windows hello webcam), mouse/kb on bluetooth for now. i dont plan to move the machine much.
final verdict: Getting a "desktop replacement" at this price feels pretty slick. Somewhat tempted to sell my desktop after my experience so far. Definitely need to keep testing, but so far so good, especially at this price.
PS
I also currently have the the Asus 16x i5 + RTX3050 which was a great deal, but the RTX3050 isnt nearly as powerful as this RTX4060. Also office depot is seriously pissing me off with cancelling my partial refund repeatedly. FOUR different reps told me the refund would go through and it's getting auto cancelled. Eugh
https://slickdeals.net/f/17537898-asus-vivobook-16x-laptop-16-wuxga-i5-12450h-rtx-3050-8gb-512gb-ssd...
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