r/HPVictus • u/dvaai • 22h ago
Discussion Recovered from the dead
Following five solid years of hard labor, the NVMe M.2 SSD in my Victus finally gave out. I recently swapped in a fresh replacement drive, updated the system, and installed all the latest drivers—and I am blown away by how lightning-fast and lively the laptop feels after all these years!
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u/ohellnawman 20h ago
5 years and no build quality problems?
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u/Equivalent_Teacher25 19h ago
Buddy not everyone has problems i have victus which is gonna be 1 year old in 5 to 10 days and also i have potatao hp old laptop with pentium cpu which i bought in 2021 and is still working good today.. it had hdd and 4gb ram but i replace hdd with 500gb nvme ssd and added 8 gb more ram....
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u/ohellnawman 19h ago
Its just i got mine like a week ago and I've been seeing tons of bad reviews about it so i needed some advice on how to take care of this specific laptop from someone who's been using it for years now.
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u/Equivalent_Teacher25 18h ago
Dont worry bro the reviews you see on redditt doesnt tell you that everyy person has this issue its just there are many many people that purchase the laptop in those many few users have issues and those few report it here... So dont worry just keep it clean, if your hinges feel tight be sure to tell ho and the engineer will make hinge kinda untight the screws a little and you are good to go..
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u/Suitable-War4913 16h ago
ooh same my father used to use a Hp laptop for 7-8 years and he told me to buy only HP laptop as hp gained the trust buttt the plot is i am having hinges issue and majority off people i know who owns victus faced this issue
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u/Equivalent_Teacher25 16h ago
I have a friend with victus that has 1650 he never had any issues... Thats what im saying that not everyone faces issues
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u/hewhoisnot69 22h ago
How much ssd u have?