HP Pavilion Gaming 15.6-inch(39.62 cms) FHD Gaming Laptop (Ryzen 5-4600H/8GB/1TB HDD/M.2 Slot/Windows 10/NVIDIA GTX 1650 4GB/Shadow Black),…

 This review is after 10 months. I am a software engineer and I use this laptop for hours a day.
Pros:
1. Powerful processor,it is a beast!
Easy multitasking. Usually I use IDE s,
MS Teams, browsers, emulators
together. But it never hangs! It’s smooth.
2. Light weight, feels like an ultrabook.
3. Good design , nice premium look.
4. Good battery life , 8+ hours when it is in power saver mode and just browsing.
5. Upgradeable ram.
6. Nvme SSD option.
7. Perfect keyboard, this keyboard is better than those in much more expensive models.
8. Very thin bezels.
9. There is a superspeed C.

Cons:
1. Ram in this laptop is 8gb ddr4, but very poor quality.(samsung ram 21 GBps read speed)
2. Average speakers.
3. No ssd , nvme ssd can be added. It’s pathetic with given hdd . It hangs as hdd usage becomes 100 whenever you open something.Takes 50 sec to boot up and again 2-3 minutes to come into action. Never think to use it without nvme ssd.
4. Overall build quality is average.

Note: 60Hz display
Samsung 970 Evo plus nvme ssd works fine with this ! You need to buy it seperately. With that you get complete potential of this laptop. I am using it.
There is only one 2.0 and one 3.0 port and one C.

I purchased the HP Pavillion Gaming 15-ec1024AX during the prime day sale for around 59k. According to my testing and comparing it to other laptops in the price range, I can confidently say that this is easily the most powerful laptop under 60k.
CPU:
The amd ryzen 5 4600h is an absolute price to performance beast and this CPU alone makes this PC worth buying. It’s performance is even better than the intel i7 10750h which is usually found in laptops above 1 lakh (see Cinebench scores below for CPU performance).
GPU:
The Nvidia Geforce gtx 1650 is pretty good for this price range and is definitely a better deal than the 1650ti which is priced around 10k more with a performance bump of only around 7%. (For more details about GPU performance see the Unigine Heaven and Shadow of the Tomb Raider benchmarks below).
Thermals:
The thermals were actually better than I expected. In all my benchmarks and stress tests the CPU temps rarely crossed 90 degrees C and the GPU temps are much lower (around 70 degrees C). You can see the thermal design with 2 heat pipes and two fans. Also the intake (underside) and exhaust (rear) vents are pretty large, which allows for good airflow. Even at max performance the fans don’t get very loud. Unfortunately there is no software to manually control the fan speed, but I think I’m asking for too much at this price range.
Display:
The IPS LCD display seems pretty good to me and viewing angles are excellent. The peak brightness is more than enough indoors, but I haven’t tested it outdoors. I don’t know about NTSC or sRGB values, but the colours look good to my eyes.
Miscellaneous:
RAM is 8GB 3200MHz single-channel with one slot free. This is perfect for me because I want to upgrade to 16GB, but for those who don’t want to upgrade, the lack of dual channel RAM could be a negative.
The installed hard drive is terrible, like all hard drives (see Crystaldiskmark scores). On the bright side, the laptop supports upto 1TB of M.2 NVMe SSD storage. I have installed a 250GB NVMe SSD and it made a HUGE difference. (Boot time reduced from 40secs to under 10secs). The process of transferring windows to the SSD and making it the boot drive is a little complicated, but you can always get it done by a professional. I HIGHLY recommend upgrading to an SSD, without it performance is quite sluggish.
I cannot say anything about the battery life because I haven’t tested it yet.
The keyboard is excellent. It has two levels of white backlighting (much better than violet IMO) and it has a numpad which is a necessity for me. The only problem is that the arrow keys are squished together.
Build is all plastic, but has a clean and understated look (I hate obnoxious GAMERY aesthetics). The build feels pretty sturdy but one major problem is that it picks up fingerprints like crazy and it is pretty tough to clean (see pictures).

Now here’s some data from the benchmarks I ran. I have given results for both while charging and on battery:
CPU Z (Charging):
CPU Bench:
Single thread: 490.0
Multi thread: 4021.7
Multi thread ratio: 8.21
CPU Stress: 5 min
CPU Max temp: 90.9°C
CPU Max power: 50.9W

CPU Z (Battery):
CPU Bench:
Single thread: 479.5
Multi thread: 2440.5
Multi thread ratio: 5.09
CPU Stress: 5 min
CPU Max temp: 74.0°C
CPU Max power: 30.8W

Cinebench R20 (Charging):
Single core score: 454
Multi core score: 3400
MP ratio: 7.48

Cinebench R20 (Battery):
Single core score: 446
Multi core score: 2822
MP ratio: 6.32

Unigine Heaven 4.0 (Charging):
DirectX11, high quality, normal tesselation, 1080p
Score: 1772
Avg framerate: 70.4FPS
Max framerate: 138.6FPS
Min framerate: 19.1FPS
GPU stable clock: 1785MHz
GPU max power: 50.9W
GPU max temp: 63°C

Unigine Heaven 4.0 (Battery):
DirectX11, high quality, normal tesselation, 1080p
Score: 1385
Avg framerate: 55.0FPS
Max framerate: 125.6FPS
Min framerate: 16.9FPS
GPU stable clock: 1500MHz
GPU max power: 31.5W
GPU max temp: 53°C

Crystaldiskmark:
Default, 5 cycles, 1GiB
HDD:
Sequential read: 127.5MB/s
Random read: 1.3MB/s
Sequential write: 122.4MB/s
Random write: 1.1MB/s
SSD: (not included, bought separately)
Sequential read: 2034.4MB/s
Random read: 857.0MB/s
Sequential write: 1263.0MB/s
Random write: 1046.5MB/s

Blender BMW (Charging):
CPU:
Time: 4m8s
CPU max temp: 93.8°C
CPU max power: 53.4W
GPU:
Time: 2m38s
GPU max temp: 58°C
GPU max power: 43.1W

Blender BMW(Battery):
CPU:
Time: 5m5s
CPU max temp: 68.5°C
CPU max power: 32.2W
GPU:
Time: 3m46s
GPU max temp: 54°C
GPU max power: 30.7W

Shadow of the tomb raider (Charging): (see settings in pic)
Avg framerate: 69FPS
CPU max temp: 84.4°C
CPU max power: 29.1W
GPU max temp: 70°C
GPU max power: 50.8W

Shadow of the tomb raider (Battery): (see settings in pic)
Avg framerate: 58FPS
CPU max temp: 65°C
CPU max power: 15W
GPU max temp: 56°C
GPU max power: 30.5W