Grab a budget HP gaming laptop for just $449

Depressing news about tariff price rises on your favorite tech, GPU prices through the roof, and the general cost of being a gamer skyrocketing. With all these extra costs and threats of prices increasing further floating about, it's so lovely to find some actual deals on our favorite tech and hardware. Today, we have a gaming laptop from HP that won't break any FPS records. However, it will offer you a mobile platform to play your games on and is upgradable, so you can beef up the specs for even better performance.

This 2024 model of the HP Victus features a 15.6-inch IPS display with an FHD (1920 x 1080 pixel) resolution, AMD's Ryzen 5 7535HS processor, AMD's Radeon RX 6550M GPU, 8GB of DDR5 RAM, and a 512GB SSD for your operating system and games library. 8GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD aren't great, with Windows alone chewing up a large portion of the available RAM. If you are thinking of purchasing this laptop, you will want to look at grabbing some more RAM and upgrading to at least 16GB for gaming. The good news is that the laptop is easily upgradable, and you can add another 8GB of RAM and install up to 2TB of storage in the M.2 slots.

We've reviewed the HP Victus 16, the big brother of this laptop, and found the laptop to have excellent battery life, a comfortable keyboard, a bright display, and an attractive design. The Laptop featured in this deal is the smaller 15.6-inch model and includes many similar specifications and the same design, albeit in a slightly smaller chassis. For only $449, this laptop is the perfect gaming laptop for those on a budget looking to play games while away from your main gaming rig.

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Stewart Bendle is a deals and coupon writer at Tom's Hardware. A firm believer in “Bang for the buck” Stewart likes to research the best prices and coupon codes for hardware and build PCs that have a great price for performance ratio.

8 Comments Comment from the forums

Geef

Laptops like this are great because of the ability to upgrade memory. Only ~75 dollars for 32GB right now.

Quick Tip: If you are ever looking for a laptop make SURE the memory isn't soldered in.
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Exploding PSU

Geef said:
Laptops like this are great because of the ability to upgrade memory. Only ~75 dollars for 32GB right now.

Quick Tip: If you are ever looking for a laptop make SURE the memory isn't soldered in.

That quick tip is super important... I have a 2018 (or was it 2019?) Thinkpad with soldered RAM.. It's stuck in 8GB, which is a shame because everything else about the laptop is still great for my needs..
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dalauder

Odd, this ad in the form of an article actually has a good price. Usually the ad prices are uselessly average.
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beyondlogic

great specs crap design never go near a hp the hinges are literally designed to fail. also they thread lock every screw so upgrading is a royal pain ive fixed and binned many hp laptops all had hinge problems because there in such fragile plastic.
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DingusDog

I'd spend a little extra and get the victus 16 4070 for $899
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DingusDog

I'd spend a little extra and get the victus 16 4070 for $899

beyondlogic said:
great specs crap design never go near a hp the hinges are literally designed to fail. also they thread lock every screw so upgrading is a royal pain ive fixed and binned many hp laptops all had hinge problems because there in such fragile plastic.
They've fixed the hinges on newer models.
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beyondlogic

DingusDog said:
I'd spend a little extra and get the victus 16 4070 for $899

They've fixed the hinges on newer models.

its never been fixed fixed several models victus and older models they all fail at the hinge.

threw friction and plastic that becomes quite brittle. every single one ive fixed i have put it down to design flaw as even with new screen and parts it will happen again. there is no reinforcement to prevent it from happening. even newer designs just band aid the issue which is the garbage plastic they use.
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dalauder

DingusDog said:
I'd spend a little extra and get the victus 16 4070 for $899
You mean you'd spend double? It's like recommending a Lexus instead of a Toyota, when the discussion should be between the Toyota and Honda.
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