Great battery life, a powerful RTX 4070 GPU, and 16GB of RAM all in one HP laptop for only $849 —- 2025 is off to a good start

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Look forward to all the new games in 2025 with this powerful gaming laptop from HP.

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Welcome to 2025, and if you're looking for a gaming laptop to play the latest games on with high settings and not having to sell an organ to pay for it, then check out this fantastic price on an RTX 4070-powered gaming laptop from HP. With a reasonably-sized 16.1-inch display and 8-core AMD processor, this gaming laptop from HP features a dedicated Nvidia RTX 4070 graphics card to power your games. It might not break any records for performance, but at this low price, it's a great option for a gaming laptop on a budget and rewards a lot of bang for the buck.

Available at Best Buy for just $849, the HP Victus 16 (model: A1SV3UA#ABA) is the perfect option if you're looking to pick up a gaming laptop for an affordable price. You're getting a great deal with this 2024 model with features that include a 16.1-inch IPS display with an FHD (1920 x 1080 pixel) resolution, AMD Ryzen 7-8845HS processor, Nvidia RTX 4070 laptop GPU, 16GB of DDR5 RAM, and a 512GB SSD for your operating system and games library.

We've reviewed the HP Victus 16 - and found the laptop to have excellent battery life, a comfortable keyboard, a bright 300-nit display, and an attractive design. This Laptop is the 16.1-inch model and features many of the same specifications and the same design, albeit with less powerful components.

HP Victus 16 Gaming Laptop: now $849 at Best Buy

HP Victus 16 Gaming Laptop: now $849 at Best Buy (was $1,299)

A compact gaming laptop that contains a Nvidia RTX 4070 laptop GPU, an 8-core AMD Ryzen 7-8845HS processor, 16GB of DDR5 RAM, and a 512GB SSD for storage. The HP Victus 16 (model: A1SV3UA#ABA) uses a 16.1-inch display with a bright 300-nit IPS panel. The screen has a maximum resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels and a smooth 144Hz refresh rate - perfect for high-motion gaming.

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The negatives to this budget gaming laptop are the smaller-sized 512GB SSD and the lower resolution FHD screen. The computer is user-upgradeable and can support up to 2TB of SSD storage, which can be easily upgraded, but the screen can't be changed. Still, the benefit of the 1920 x 1080 pixel IPS panel is that it won't drain your laptop battery as quickly as an OLED high-res screen, so there's more time for gaming, and of course, you can always connect the laptop to a monitor.

Don't forget to look at our Best Buy coupon codes for January 2025 and see if you can save on today's deal or other products at Best Buy.

Stewart Bendle
Stewart Bendle
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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.

5 Comments Comment from the forums
  • Alvar "Miles" Udell
    Check your work. This laptop IS the HP Victus 16, with the 16.1" screen.
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  • HideOut
    I just wish it was 32GB of ram. Th is kind of power and only 16 is fail.
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  • abufrejoval
    HideOut said:
    I just wish it was 32GB of ram. Th is kind of power and only 16 is fail.
    It has SO-DIMMs, you can swap with up to 96GB currently.

    Same with the NVMe, 8TB are easy, many of these actually have dual M.2.

    And with this kind of a rebate you can decide where to spend some of the savings, now or later.

    If it was available at anywhere near the same price in Europe (and if I hadn't just spent that same amount on a Lenovo LOQ ARP9 with slightly older/lesser specs in Summer), I'd pull the trigger on this one: it looks to be a really good deal!
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  • Alvar "Miles" Udell
    abufrejoval said:
    It has SO-DIMMs, you can swap with up to 96GB currently.

    Same with the NVMe, 8TB are easy, many of these actually have dual M.2.

    And with this kind of a rebate you can decide where to spend some of the savings, now or later.

    If it was available at anywhere near the same price in Europe (and if I hadn't just spent that same amount on a Lenovo LOQ ARP9 with slightly older/lesser specs in Summer), I'd pull the trigger on this one: it looks to be a really good deal!

    True, but you're looking at around $150-200 between 2x16GB DDR5 5600 (it has 2x8GB installed according to listings in other stores for the exact model, A1SV3UA#ABA) and a 1TB NVMe SSD depending on brand and sales. Cheaper than the price gouging OEMs will want for the same upgrades but that "$400 off" basically turns into just $200.
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  • abufrejoval
    Alvar Miles Udell said:
    True, but you're looking at around $150-200 between 2x16GB DDR5 5600 (it has 2x8GB installed according to listings in other stores for the exact model, A1SV3UA#ABA) and a 1TB NVMe SSD depending on brand and sales. Cheaper than the price gouging OEMs will want for the same upgrades but that "$400 off" basically turns into just $200.
    My impression is that these extremely cut-corner optimized systems which they produce early on to match a price line turn into the worst dead inventory towards the end, if they can't get sold early on.

    With soldered RAM laptops, there is nothing to be done, plenty of 8GB hardware that was basically built crippled and can't be salvaged. But when the components are swappable, it's much better for the potential buyer.

    An official dealer can't do upgrades before flinging them, the cost of logistics and the warranty hassles make that economically impossible. But for buyers who don't mind (or actually quite enjoy) getting their fingers into hardware, it's a bonus.

    And then you can really game on 16GB of RAM and 0.5TB of NVMe for a while and do the upgrade later, once it's become a limitation.

    And if you're really tight, you can even upgrade only one module and wind up with RAM that's only single channel in high memory. Especially with a discrete GPU that's nowhere as bad as having too little RAM and even onboard iGPUs will allocate their frame buffers first from low (double channel) RAM.

    Eventually used RAM and NVMe storage might become even cheaper yet, if you dare trying that (or can test the stuff on pickup: it's a laptop after all).

    There is just so much more potential with systems that still have swappable components.

    I'd still consider this a very sweet deal, especially when you compare it to what will come out after CES, including Strix Halo designs that will offer far less gaming power at much higher prices.... for those who need to last on batteries. And I'm pretty sure those will come with soldered RAM, because only ultra fast LPDDR5 will deliver the bandwidth those iGPUs require for performance.

    And RTX50? Nothing below four digits for a year at least, I'd say.
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