The thermals on HP Victus are bad & would cause throttling issues after a year due to collection of dust and poor cooling/heat dissipation. For gaming laptops the famous & reliable series in:
1) HP has Omen,
2) Lenovo has LOQ,
3) ASUS has TUF and
4) ACER has Nitro series.
So try to lookup in those offerings. As for laptop budget gaming, i5 processors are fine but will struggle on CPU bound games. Here you're more GPU limited, wouldn't recommend 3050 for 1080p gaming. For total war games (CPU intensive), i7 (basically 6+ cores) and 3060/4060 combo is more suitable.