HP Victus Gaming Laptop 15-fb0020na Bundle with HyperX Pulsefire Mouse & HyperX Cloud Stinger Headset | AMD Ryzen 5-5600H | Radeon RX 6500M |8GB RAM | 256GB SSD | 15.6” FHD | Windows 11 Home |Black

I'd been wanting a Windows 11 machine to get familiar with the OS and was tormenting myself with what spec PC to build. I decided a gaming laptop was going to be the best price to performance ratio and settled on this as it was such a good price on sale.You get everything you need with the laptop, decent gaming mouse and headset. The mouse has a dpi button and colour changing led along with two side buttons and has some weight to it. The headset has a built in volume control and microphone and is more comfortable that my PS5 official wireless headset.The laptop is very fast for the money with 4gb dedicated graphics memory, a full HD screen and a back-lit keyboard. 8gb of ram seems to be enough for now but it could do with more storage. 256gb is more like 170gb once you update windows and install game launchers like Steam, EA and Ubisoft Connect. This is OK for me though as I have a lot of older games in my Steam library such as Fears 3, Alien Rage and Halo 3 and these all fly on max settings. Plugging in an external monitor turns this into a gaming desktop and it doesn't seem to slow down at all running this way. I have been playing older games in full HD at max settings on a dell 27inch gaming monitor with no performance difference to just using the laptop screen.The only negative points other than the small HDD is the fan noise. I guess the reason they give you the headset is so you don't hear the fans blowing like a PS4 when playing games or even just installing windows updates. The keyboard back light initially seemed to be automatic like as you type it came on but after updating the firmware this seems to now be a manual on or off instead.I've looked up upgrading the ram and storage and it does seem possible but there are no easy access panels on the bottom so I think you have to disassemble it to a degree.Overall this is very good value for money if you aren't planning on installing multiple games that need lots of storage.UPDATE:After using this laptop for months I thought a slight update would help. If you want to upgrade the RAM and M2 drive in this, it's really easy. There is an unused ram slot so I installed an extra 8gb and changing the 256gb storage for something like 1tb is really cheap and easy. To install these you have to take the bottom of the laptop off which is involves prying open a corner and then working your way around unclipping the tabs. It's a bit fiddly but once your are in, everything is accessible. I didn't disconnect the battery when I swapped the M2 and Ram and got away with it but bare in mind that the laptop provides power to the Usb C ports when its shut down so you might want to not follow my lead on that.If you buy a crucial M2 drive you can use their free cloning software to transfer the contents of the old one using an enclosure. Once you have swapped it out you can put the original in the enclosure and have a fast external storage device.I've been seriously impressed with this laptop using it for the last 4 months or so and have spent most of the time using it with a monitor effectively as a desktop gaming machine.

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.

I purchased this during Prime Day sales, it was a far too good bundle to pass up on, I purchased 32GB ram (2x16) and added my Samsung M.2 that I had on my main PC to quadruple it's storage and ram capacity and it just breezes in speed for my work and gaming needs on the go, I travel a lot so this is a game change for me as I didn't need too much graphic power but this packs a solid punch, 60-144 FPS on the majority of games I play and good settings, however I do recommend as with any laptop with a mid range GPU to just lower the settings for cooling sake.For work and productivity it's amazing, the Ryzen 5 5600H is a very capable CPU.

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.

This was bought for my daughter who plays Roblox a lot. She also uses it for her school work. Impressive display, size and graphics, lovely backlit keyboard. It’s a rocket of a machine, she is delighted to no longer have lagging in her games

The laptop exterior is built very well, high quality on the keys, screen and chassis but unfortunately the quality ends there, one week into buying this laptop it started intermittently shutting off, black screen no power. Contacted amazon support about this and they claimed they couldn't provide a replacement but could have it repaired but it would take a bit more than two weeks, this didn't work for me as I needed it for work so Amazon suggested I take it somewhere locally and refunded me £130 to cover it which initially was good service, had the laptop serviced in a shop locally and the bloke said something about a ribbon cable?Anyways, fast forward a month and everything is going great, that was until I did a windows update as per usual and HP support center (the preinstalled HP software) decided to UPDATE THE BIOS, WITHOUT WARNING OR CONSENT FROM ME, luckily the bios update occurring in the middle of the windows update didn't brick the laptop as messing up a bios update can very easily brick the motherboard of a computer/laptop, however it did completely corrupt my windows install, losing me all of my work and personal files, I had to go home from work to pick up a USB stick and create windows installation media just so I could reinstall Windows.Once I got back up and running I noticed that every week or so the laptop would bluescreen with the error code always relating to the BIOS, so that automatic bios update did actually mess up the laptop and it took me 7 more bluescreens and subsequent losses of work to finally decide to refund this piece of crap.Amazon customer support had suddenly decided that despite my laptop being within the one year refund period and despite me having pictures of every time the laptop crashed that I wasn't eligible for a refund, despite the last time I contacted them about the laptop it being offered to me as an option, I had to argue them up the wall and escalate this to a shift manager to get them to offer me a refund for the faulty product and the real stinger being they subtracted the £130 that I had to use to repair the first fault off the total of the laptop, I bought it on sale for £479.99 and after it all I am being refunded £349.99, I am now at a loss of £130 because this laptop didn't work from the factory, but at this point I actually don't care, I just want it gone and if I only get most of my money back I can settle for that.I will never buy a laptop through Amazon again as their customer service has significantly deteriorated, they will try at every turn to stop you for getting your money back. If I had the energy for it I would have fought for the £130 back but it wasn't worth my peace of mind.Don't buy from HP if you can avoid it, if you can't, make sure the first thing you do is uninstall HP support center or disable the automatic bios update feature because that being enabled by default on a casual user-bases' device is utter insanity and a disaster waiting to happen.And I suppose the bigger lesson is be really really careful buying any kind of expensive electronics from Amazon because they won't hesitate to turn tail and try to lie/cheat/steal you out of your money.

Good for the price, can handle low end games and mid end games on mid- low settingsDoes overheat and will shutdown when it doesSpeakers are average, not too noisy, what youd expect from a laptopClear screen , havent had any build quality issues in 3 years and ive dropped it 3 times. Can be beginner friendly but to get the full potential youll need to know a bit about pcsIdeal size for a gaming laptop, portable in average addidas ruckackIf youre looking to play on high graphics w high frames consistently, consider something else. But for low end games or mid tier such as fortnite or roblox then this is a good pick