Envy 15 Temps + Noise

Hello,

I'm thinking of getting the Envy 15 - Gen1 (because can't get to the 2nd gen because of azerty keyboard is needed)
Now all modals are equipped with an 720QM here (and 4830M)

What are idle temps of the CPU and GPU?
What are the load temps of the CPU and GPU?
What about the noise? Can you reduce it?

Is it possible to play with the fanspeed of the CPU and GPU? (important!)
How well does the GPU oc? 500/800 to xxx/xxx and at what temps?

I heard about some heating issues (quadcore editions), is it really bad? I read that the envy 15 got three vents, isn't that enough to keep it cool?!

Thank you very, very much!!
Looking forward to see some results/answers

 

on mine i get idles of 38 to 42 on the gpu and 40 to 46 on core 0, the other cores slightly lower.
Regarding "load temps" I can run 3 instances of WOW on high settings which stresses the system, and my temps currently remain mid to high 50's on both. Now, if I push the system to the max, ie. Furmark's "Kombustor" which is included in the MSI Afterburner utility btw) I can max both the gpu and cpu (2790mghz). With my gpu overclock thrown in, I get 62C on the gpu (with the fan spooling up to 76percent) and 70 to 72C on the CPU (after about 10 minutes of running, takes a while for the temp to climb up there). I could pull the temps down with steeper fan profiles.

Noise is negligible, and far less than I expected at full tilt.
You can change the fan profile for the gpu using MSI's Afterburner program.
I have not felt the need to attempt to re-profile the cpu.

As to how well the gpu overclock's, from what I have read, people have done better with the 5830 than the 4830. my starting clocks with current driver and bios drops the clocks down to 300/700. I have no prob clocking up to 530/880 and completing all the usual bench's. I have read reports of others going substantially higher. At my clocks my 3dmark06's run in the 9300/9350 range.

I have had no heating issues. Some have reported huge temps from both the cpu and gpu, that has not been my experience. the hand rest areas do get warm if you're pushing the machine. Funny but as I understand the interior layout, its hottest for me on the right side which is over the harddrive. But, since i'm a right handed mouse user, when gaming it doesn't affect me at all.

Yes there are lots of vents, they are large and there are three fans, two on the cpu and one on the gpu. Between that and a design that uses much of the metal chassis as a heat sink, I think we can expect the component life of this box to entend out quite a while.

Oh, and one other thing, if you get the *slice* battery that goes on the bottom, you can actually use this computer on your lap as the intakes for the fans are directed to the sides thus are not blocked in your lap. All in all I am quite happy with mine.

seer

 

Thanks!!

Some more questions
Do you have the most recent bios? because 300/700 GPU speeds are quite low. How should it performance against the envy 14 with an 5650M ? The 4830M will be faster I guess, but how much faster?

Did you do your 3dmark06 run on 1280x720 ?

Did you also run Vantage? which results do you've (CPU/GPU score)

Which screen do you have (full HD or 768p): is it nice? or just average?

 

I'm using the latest, i think its F28. My original stock gpu clocks were higher, bios *appears* to have lowered them. No problem ramping up. My *guess* is that the 4830 would trash the 5650, a sentiment echo'd by notebookcheck.com's ranking Notebookcheck: AMD ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870.

3dmark06 was run on the std version downloaded from Guru3d site. It was on stock settings which were in fact 1280x720. Didn't run the Vantage suite. This box has the 1920x1080 screen. I love it EXCEPT, that on a 15.6 screen, you'll want to pick up a good pair of reading glasses as though you can change the text size on a lot of screens, sometimes the print on some applications is darned small and your eyes will thank you if you spend hours and hours before the screen. In gaming, it is beautiful and VERY adjustable both as to brightness, and color intensity. It is a glossy screen with all that suggests.

If you would like a quick win7 performance comparo, my readings are:
Processor-7.0
Mem-7.4
Graphics-aero 6.9
Gaming Graphics 6.9
Primary Hard Disk (500gig) 5.9

A lot of people have gone to ssd's which shoots the low disk score right on up there. For myself I looked at the G73 (MONSTER physical size, no bat life to speak of, huge gaming performance); the MSI GX640 and 740, small and thin, amazing gaming power (5850-5870) Serious heat (single fan) all plastic construction, negligible bat life, great ports, and the big acer. In the end I bought the Envy. So far so good. I can get right around 2.5 hours doing real work on the built in bat, and over 5 with the slice battery. I can approach the perf of the 5830 with a modest overclock, the i720 is a capable cpu, the ability to expand all the way out to 16gig of ram, and use an SSD/HD combo really seemed to me to be the best all around package at the price I paid which worked out to a little over 1100 for the unit, the slice battery, and the external dvd drive.

seer

 

How do you adjust GPU and CPU fan speed?

 

Get MSI Afterburner, and AMD GPU Clock Tool. Read the help etc. for instructions. Afterburner gives you good monitoring and lets you change the fan profile. GPU clock tool will let you reclock the gpu. Afterburner INCLUDES a version of Furmark's gpu stress proggie so you CAREFULLY up the clocks until you get artifacts then back the clocks back down. If the foregoing doesn't mean anything to you, you need to do some reading about overclocking in general. There are a number of sites and forums which discuss it ad nauseum. The Envy 15 boards on this forum include over a thousand messages covering everything possible about this particular computer.

Seer

 

That's why I started a new topic.
All these posts and 1st gen, 2nd gen, quadcore, dualcore, etc.

Can't you change fan speed with rivatuner?
But the GPU runs fairly cool, but I'm more in changing the CPU fan speed?
Any ideas on that?