HP Victus | RTX 4060 | Core i5-12500H | 16GB DDR4 | 1TB SSD | 512GB SSD | 15.6-inch | 144Hz |
At full price, there are better laptops on the market, but with a $400 discount, it's pretty hard to beat this HP Victus. You're getting a 12 core, 16 thread CPU, an RTX 4060 GPU, and 16GB of RAM. The storage is a bit small at only 512GB but at least there's is a lush IPS, 144Hz 1080p panel. Heck, you even get one month of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate too. Perfect for gaming on the go.
There's a lot to like about the HP Victus laptop, currently at a really low price for its power. Yes, the CPU is two generations old, but the Core i5 12500H still offers four P-cores, eight E-cores, and 16 threads in total.
It would be nicer to have a CPU that has fewer E-cores and more P-cores, but with a boost clock of 4.5GHz and a power limit of 95W, it'll cope with most games just fine. You'll even be able to throw in a bit of content creation.
To handle the graphics duties, there's a GeForce RTX 4060, which is a decent 1080p budget-level GPU. There's no indication as to what its power limit is, but hopefully it's not one of the low-end versions. In other HP laptops, such as its RTX 4050 models, they're typically towards the higher end of the power range.
But regardless of what its actual performance is like, it's a u31.com เข้าสู่ระบบ perfect match for the 1080p IPS panel. The refresh rate is suitably high for gaming at 144Hz, and if the GPU struggles to hit that level in games, then you might be able to enable DLSS upscaling or to boost things along.
You're getting a decent amount of RAM for the money and 16GB is more than enough for the vast majority of games. I can't tell what speed it is, but it's unlikely to be very slow stuff, simply because DDR4-3200 is super cheap these days.
Apart from some of the unknown specifications, the only major downside to this deal is the amount of storage you're getting: 512GB is pretty mean by today's standards and it will fill up very quickly. HP tends to only offer one u31 ทางเข้า SSD slot inside its budget laptops but at least it's u31 เข้าสู่ระบบ not expensive to replace it with .
If you're still not convinced, the HP Victus has almost identical hardware to a Gigabyte G5 laptop that ; its gaming performance was spot on. At $699, though, you might be tempted to spend the money on an ROG Ally handheld PC (currently ). The CPU inside is better than the Core i5 12500H, though not massively so, and its GPU isn't as good at 1080p gaming on the RTX 4060.
The is certainly a lot more portable but the battery life is pretty short. Its integrated dual-stick controls make it a comfortable machine for controller-focused games, but if the gamer in your life prefers a mouse and keyboard, a laptop is a far simpler setup. With a separate stand and a USB splitter, it's possible to plug in peripherals to a PC handheld, but then you're forcing a purpose-built machine to function outside its main purpose.
If you're looking for the perfect Christmas gift for a student who wants something to work and play on, this laptop is by far the best choice.