My jaw dropped to the floor cartoon-style when I first laid eyes on this deal. A gaming laptop for under $500?! If you’re looking for a seriously inexpensive gaming machine, you’ve definitely come to the right place. Best Buy is selling the HP Victus for $449.99 during Black Friday week, which is a savings of $350. That’s an absolutely insane price for a gaming laptop with a discrete graphics card.
The HP Victus comes with an AMD Ryzen 5 7535HS CPU, an Nvidia GeForce RTX 2050 GPU, 8GB of RAM, and 512GB of SSD storage. The RTX 2050 GPU is two generations old and a bit underpowered, so you’ll need to dial the graphics settings back on newer and more intensive titles. Expect to have decent frame rates at medium visuals in most games. That said, it’s absolutely worthwhile if you’re looking for a gaming laptop that won’t break the bank; you never find GPU-equipped notebooks this affordable, with anything under $1,000 being considered a deal.
The 15.6-inch display has a resolution of 1920×1080 and a refresh rate of 144Hz. That means you can expect relatively smooth gameplay and a sharp enough picture. This rig features a backlit keyboard with an integrated numeric pad, a high refresh rate anti-glare display, and so much more.
And did we mention this laptop has a discrete graphics card and costs just $450? That’s truly wild and utterly rare. Don’t miss out.
Author: Ashley Biancuzzo, Associate Editor, PCWorld
Ashley Biancuzzo manages all laptop and Chromebook coverage for PCWorld. She's been covering consumer tech since 2016, and her work has appeared on USA Today, Reviewed, Polygon, Kotaku, StarWars.com, and Nerdist. In her spare time, she enjoys playing video games, reading science fiction, and hanging out with her rescue greyhound.