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    Envy 6t-1000 Temps

    Discussion in 'HP' started by ibanezbass, Sep 27, 2012.

  1. ibanezbass

    ibanezbass Notebook Guru

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    After doing a little gaming and GPU overclocking, I thought I'd share my temps with all of you. I'm pretty impressed with the cooling of this laptop, considering how thin it is.

    Here are my specs:
    Core i5 2467m
    Radeon HD7670M
    6GB DDR3 (1600 downclocked to 1333)
    500GB 5400rpm + 32GB SSD Cache / Maximized
    Windows 7 x64

    I pushed the 7670M from 600/900 to 700/1000 after monitoring the temps for a while. At 600/900, 70* was basically the max. At 700/1000, I hit a max of 72* playing Oblivion, and around the same playing Fallout 3. My CPU maxed at 77*, which is a little warm in my opinion but not too bad. I realize these games are not that pushing so I'm going to test out some more and report back.

    Some thoughts: 72* is far better than the 100* I hit in my ASUS laptop with the GTX 260M before I drilled holes in the case. I realize the 260M is a superior card, but I feel that the performance of the 7670M isn't too far off at all. Plus I get DX11 :D

    Update: I've tested some more with my overclocking enabled and am reporting back. I ran a GPU burn-in using DX11 on MSI Kombustor. Sitting on a flat, wood desk, the temperature hit 78* and 80* for the CPU and GPU, respectively, after about 10 minutes of 100% GPU usage. I don't think it would have gotten any hotter as it barely tipped toed up to 80. As soon as i picked the laptop up (still running the burn in), the temperature of the GPU plummeted to 67*C and the CPU down to 70*. A notebook cooler would probably keep this laptop in the mid 60s, no problem. Impressive.

    Update 2: I ran a Prime95 torture test to try to max out the CPU temps. This time, I propped up my laptop to allow for air to pass underneath (never previously done this). With the max heat test in Prime95, my cpu happily bobbled right around 70*, maxing out at 72* on both cores. The turbo boost held pretty steady at 2 Ghz, with the occasional drop to 1.9. I never saw it max out at 2.3 using Prime95.
     
  2. LTBonham

    LTBonham Notebook Evangelist

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    Those temps are perfect. I wish all HP models were as good.
     
  3. ibanezbass

    ibanezbass Notebook Guru

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    Moved to OP.