This review is of the OG model, 5800H with the 3060 after using it for three years now.
When I bought this in 2021, it was one of the cheapest offering for a 3060. My main criteria for buying the laptop was that, the price. Second was the number of ports on offer. 3 USB type A, 1 type C with display out, 1 HDMI, Ethernet and the SD card slot. As I intended to game on a monitor, the display quality wasn’t a big concern for me.
You can check out the one year review here.
After that review there weren’t many changes done to the laptop. Only change I did was to upgrade storage to 2TB, which makes the total to 2.5 TB. There has been little to no dip in performance, though it needs a monthly clean up of dust (pretty dusty at my place).
I still use the laptop stand as I showed earlier in the one year review post, only now I do it closed. It still is a pain to turn it on as it doesn’t support wake on power in the BIOS. The laptop still maintains a healthy FPS on all games I throw at it even with a 1440p monitor attached to it.
Once you bought the top tier budget laptop, especially with an RTX30 series, you may not find a reason to upgrade. No new laptops are so upgrade worthy.
The Victus 16 still is my main computer, helping me gaming, multimedia editing, processor heavy tasks like encoding/decoding. It does lag a bit on a few things related to the CPU, when compared to my M1 air. However, it will be like comparing apples and oranges.
I do look forward to give you an update next year on this laptop, the 4 years review. Fingers crossed, would be great to see the laptop stay with me that long.