*HP Envy 15 Owners Lounge! PART 1*

got it to work fine installing from a usb drive in case anyone else was having the same problem

 

Has anyone found or could tell me how to configure the webcam?

Mine was perfect, revo'd my laptop (uninstalled all bloatware) and now it is black and white...

 

I don't have a license to run CATIA V5 on my personal laptop, so I cannot test.

 

With regards to people getting in a muddle about Volts, Amps & Watts - I recall being taught in school (many moons ago now) to consider it like a plumbing system.

The voltage is like the water pressure, the current (measured in amps) is the flow rate of the water, which is a direct relation to the amount of water pressure divided by any resistance (the tap). Watts (the electrical power) is the calculation of Volts x current, and can be considered if you put a water wheel at the end of the tap. To make it go faster, you can either increase the water pressure (the voltage), or open the tap more (decreasing resistance) which then in turn increase the flow rate (current/amperage).

Now we're not talking about a water wheel in reality, we're talking about a notebook - specifically charging the battery of this notebook. The charge time is of course a function of the amount of current being allowed through, and the voltage being applied, but you'd be wrong if you thought you could apply these willy nilly to complete the charge cycle. Rechargeable batteries are funny little creatures, some can manage higher voltage in shorter space of time, and some cannot. The same is also true of your computer, in that you can throw all the voltage you like at it, but if the current is not high enough, it simply will not work, too much current and it may even go pop.

So you are thirsty, you reach into the fridge for a bottle of whatever soft drink you enjoy. You take a mouthful. OK, so this time you put your thumb over half the opening (increasing resistance), and squeeze the bottle (increasing the voltage) as you take a drink. The result is you still get the same amount of liquid, but one way feels like you've just pressure washed your teeth and gums. Computers don't normally like being pressure washed. Finally, you put your thumb over the opening, but nearly all the way and you squeeze the bottle. Now it still feels like a pressure wash, but it takes longer to get the same amount of liquid. All electronic components need the 'liquid' to flow at a certain rate, otherwise they wont run - like it would take you longer to quench your thirst.

EDIT:

OK, so looking on the official HP products page, it recommends an adaptor that has 19V, 4.74A. The problem you are having is that the current your power supply has is simply not enough. 4.74A is an odd number, you'd probably be ok with 5A; but on a purchase this expensive I would personally buy the adaptor from HP regardless of the cost.

http://h20141.www2.hp.com/Hpparts/S...FDF67&SearchIn=PartNumber&SearchPN=463955-001

 

I recall MDNSAA (is that the spelling?) well, the thing is if you are or were a student you could ask for a version of it...at least that is how it works here...

That is the best explanation on this matter ever! Thanks a lot Fragilexx, this helps a lot (especially me since I am a no-go in electricity...lol)

 

Actually as I just re-read through it, it's not quite right, well my analogy on pressure washing your teeth. You see, by putting my finger over the end of the bottle what I've actually done is increased resistance.

The formular to calculate current is I=V/r, where I = current, V = voltage and r = resistances.

So if we had a resitance of 1 in the first instance, and a voltage of 2, then the current is 2. By squeezing the bottle I made the voltage 4, but placing a finger on the end of the bottle increased the resistance to 2, which then makes the current 2 exactly the same as it was before.

However, the total power would have increased still - it would have been like pressure washing your teeth, but I didn't actually reduce the current at all. what I did was increase the Wattage, from 4 (2V x 2A) to 8 (4V x 2A).

If I wanted to keep the wattage the same, then I would need to apply more resistance, which would then have reduced current - say I'd only left a tiny opening on the bottle and made the resistance 4. The calculation would then be Current = 4V/4r = 1A; Watts = 4V x 1A = 4W.

I don't think the meaning was entirely lost though, but I've edited my original post.

 

Nice explanation Fragilexx. Analogies like yours do help people learn physics easier.

The same goes for battery capacities, you forgot about that. I saw a whole lot of people talking about the mAh capacities of their phone/notebook batteries without knowing what mAh actually is. In your analogy, mAh would be equivalent to the total water available. Or in the actual situation, mAh (milliamp-hour) is the total charge which the battery can store.

It usually means the more the mAh, the better the battery, but it ultimately depends on the consumer. The capacity is not equivalent to power, though.

Let's say we have a battery of 1000 mAh = 1 Ah (amp-hour), and two consumers, each of 1 Watt. One has 0.5 amps x 2 volts, the other has 1 amp x 1 volt. Capacity = amps x time, so the first will eat the battery in 2 hours, the other will eat it in one hour, even though they consume the same power.

Same goes for the water thing. If you have a larger pipe (in diameter), you'll empty your container faster that with a smaller one, right?

 

My current HP charger for my 6510b notebook is rated at 19V, 4,74A. Thats probably a standard component for HP, thats why that rating is mentioned.

That actually is good news since i already have a spare charger for my 6510b laptop which means I could use that (when HP finally gives us Europeans full HD...).

 

Been reading this thread since the beginning and must say I have learned a lot about this laptop. Unfortunately I'll have to wait for HP to realize that us Europeans are not visually impaired and give us Full HD screens.

One thing, I havn't learned yet is the battery life time when doing "office things". What I mean is how long can I expect the battery to last if I use wi-fi, minimum brightness and just using Word, checking mail and so on? Basically minimum CPU load things. Most reviews and posts concern watching a DVD and that should consume more power since the external DVD consumes power.

 

Well I finally got my unit yesterday.

Ordered Nov 22nd, expected ship date came, HP pushed it out another 10 days, that date came and I found that some other folks with a similar configuration to mine who had order theirs several days after I did had already recieved their units. So I spoke with HP on my dissatisfaction and they managed to get it shipped out on the 2nd estimated ship date. I think they also spent money on expedited shipping because it came much sooner than I think it should have with the default shipping method, especially considering it was sent from Shanghai and I'm in the U.S. So that helped alleviate a bit of my initial negativity.

Form factor - Awesome

Weight - Have a lenovo X61 and an old (maybe 17 inch, Alienware laptop for comparison). Definately more weight than the Lenovo, but that system is not a gaming system by any stretch of the imagination, nor high end performance. So a proper comparision would be against the alienware. Envy power brick, slice battery, and laptop all together... fantastic. I'm not sure why others are complaining so much but I find their weight, even combined to be extermely managable and actually impressive as I compare it against the very hefty alienware system + its power brick (which is maybe 3 times the size of the ENVY and probably just as much heavier).

Bios - From factory F06

Screen - Beautiful, no lines that I can detect and I've scrutinized it pretty good.

Peformance - Still testing but ran Dragon Age for a few hours last night, no issues, beautiful performance, max settings performance settings. Cant wait to run Photoshop CS4 later (commonly work with 1G files, many layers).

System has 8G of RAm and the SSD + HD option.

Impressions of the SSD with the OS, applications, etc. AMAZING. Even if the writes are slower than a standard HD, well worth the extra money. This system overall is blazing fast compared to most everything else I've worked, and I work with a lot of different systems (R&D - at a major semi-conductor company).

Have I exprienced any issues? Yes.

HP doesnt give an option for all flavors of Windows 7. I wanted to upgrade to win 7 Ultimate. Here's what I experienced:

Tried to upgrade existing HP installed OS.
Seemed to work fine, very little effort on my part.
Then I tried to remove HP bloatware - epic fail. System started having weird issues.
So I reinstalled OS from scratch with Win 7 Ultimate. Tried letting Win 7 grab the latest drivers it thought it should use but it caused Blue Screen of death on reboot. Video driver the cause, normally would be able to get around this and fix with safe boot. Kept running into issues. So I just reblasted OS again as this seemed the faster route. On the second pass I let OS install itself, then (I had backed up the driver directory on the original OS) I installed all the drivers or at least the critical ones from the original driver directory. No issues this time.

I encounter one more oddity. I had rebooted the system several times, it had been running fine, it had played Dragon Age, etc. Nothing that I had done prior to the reboot that gave me trouble would have accounted for the behavior. I went to reboot and nothing, I think the hard drive might have made a murmur or something but basically black screen and the power light was flashing...

I was like... um... what?

I noticed that not even the bios splash info was coming up from a cold boot. At first it seemed like it might have been a drive issue, like my SSD up and died. But that doesnt make sense as the bios should have still posted. So I tried F10 to get into the bios, and was successful. I think I changed something like the boot order or something and saved it. Same thing. Then I hit F1 for summary inforamation, that came up ok and then it says hit escape to continue so I did.

System came up after that just fine.

So what was the issue? I dont know. Two guesses - bios has some kind of problem that needs to be fixed which causes intermitten issues when rebooting or powering up. Maybe there is something partially loose (connection, solder job, etc) inside the system. My guess is its a bios issue...

Also someone else was having a problem with their SSD + HD from factory being Raid 0.

Not mine. SSD = C: HD = D:

Heating: No issues. System runs warm but nothing that I would consider to be abornmal.

OVerall: Assuming the system continues to stay stable or any issues are easily remedied, this system really, really kicks A for a laptop.

 

Just got my new Envy 15 from FedEx…HP order on 11/30….Build Date 12/8…left Shanghai Friday and arrived New York and home by Tuesday. Not bad.

I’ve got the basic set up with 8 RAM and single HDD. I’m a novice compared to the folks here, but will be doing all the basic back ups, bloat removals, driver updates and fixing to get the best possible performance will advise of status and how things are going. But very impressed with look, feel, and no issues typing or mouse pad…also no lines and I think I have the most resent Bios running,.

 

Re power draw - there should be an option for fast battery charge in the BIOS setup. Disabling fast charge could possibly reduce power requirements.

 

It would be very helpful, per Serg’s request several days ago, if someone would kindly post what the preferred list of minimum applications should be running under Start Up. I know there was a great post offering what Bloat you should consider removing, but having an idea of what should be running during start up would be appreciated. Thanks….more to come

 

Congratulations rfoster123 and ariochdm on your new laptops.

Hope you are enjoying them as much as I am enjoying mine. Already got tons of pics, and everyone that sees it is in awe or falls in love with it...

I have noticed, on a slightly side topic, that I am typing faster here, yet I am doing more errors, the new layout is somewhat different than that I am used to, but hey no complaints here...only one thing, that this laptop shares with the MBP, after very long sessions of typing I noticed the borders of the laptop have my wrists marked...this doesnt bother me, but who knows...feels new to have an edge there, where I had a smooth surface...

 

Ok, I am marking this page so I know where to return.

I am off for the day. Keep me posted!

 

F.07 Bios is out but not updated on the download page;

ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp46501-47000/sp46761.html
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp46501-47000/sp46761.exe

Changelog reports this only fixes the itunes sync issue.

I have installed without any issues whatsoever.

 

awesome...thanks..

 

Just flashed the BIOS.
All my temps raised to above 50C, when they were below 50C before the flash.

Will investigate a little further on why.

 

UPDATE afte BIOS Flash to F.07.

The CPU is throttling and speeding up constantly due to a network setting I dont know how to kill.

Temps are Core 0 50, Core 1 46, Core 2 47 and Core 3 is 45 almost full idle. Fans seem somewhat quieter.

GPU side feels now warmer than CPU side. All 3 fans are constantly working.

EDIT: might sound off, but RAM usage on idle went from 1.94 to 1.55 much better IMO...

 

Low 3d Mark 06 performance, new machines.

Hey, just want to check if I am doing something wrong as the two Envy 15's just received seem to be getting low 3dMark06 scores. Have clean installed Windows 7 (was always going to do that anyway) with no change.

I would expect (based on others scores in reviews) to get anywhere from 7600 to 8000 on default settings. For both these machines, I get a score around 7100. This is with default 3dMark settings (1280x1024). I have turned power options to max performance whilst plugged in to no avail.

I know 3dMark isn't necessarily the best real world tool... but that is quite a difference and is consistent across both the new machines.

Any suggestions or comments? Thanks

 

I ordered my HP Envy 15 on 11/30 , It was built on 12/7 and arrived on 12/10 with FedEx 5-7 day shipping. I live in Michigan so I am surprised how fast FedEx got it here with the cheapest shipping.
I did days of research on my desktop computer. I opened a tab for every laptop brand that I could think of, and finally came across the Envy 15.
I got(From HP):
Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
15.6" LED backlight 1920x1080 (1080p) Screen
6gb's of DDR3 ram 3x2gb (Don't know what speed it is)
ATI Radeon HD 4830 1Gb
Intel Core I7 720QM 1.6ghz
500Gb Seagate HDD
Standard 6-cell battery

I also bought a Samsung DVD Writer for $50 on www.newegg.com which was way cheaper than HP's $75 DVD Reader, and also a Zalman laptop cooler which helps to cool the laptop on the long gaming nights. Check www.newegg.com out they have some pretty good prices on just about anything you can think of. I have been buying products from them for year and have had no problems.

Now back to the laptop. The Envy 15 is my first true laptop, and I am extremely impressed, I have used many other laptops. My parents, one brother, and my sister all have Dell's, and another brother has a Macbook pro. I thought that their Dells where quite solid and nice but there were many downsides. First of all, Dells are pricey for what you are getting(Alienware also). I prefer large touch pads, and no Dell has that to this day, and I wanted a small yet powerful laptop that was very smooth and simple. Also after trying my brothers Macbook Pro out I felt that Dells weren't solid enough. Om not an Apple lover though either. I don't like how much money that Apple products cost, and you aren't getting good parts at a reasonable price. Then I came across the HP Envy 15. It was exactly what I wanted and more. The processor in this laptop is absolutely amazing. I can multitask like my desktop can, but have extreme mobility. Even though it doesn't have the overpriced "unibody" design it is a very solid laptop. I really like the styling on the whole thing. I also like to play games once and a while and have been trying a few out on it. I played Left 4 Dead 2 and it runs the game at maxed settings. Which is awesome for a laptop. I also put Borderlands, Medal of Honor Airborne(MoHA), and DiRT 2 on it. It Maxes DiRT 2, and MoHA, and gets pretty darn close to maxing Borderlands. I am just going to sum up the rest in a Pro, Con sorta thing.
Pro's(For Me):
-Very solid
-Large touch pad (With multi-touch)
-Very simple yet good looking design
-Amazing parts (Especially the LCD)
-Designed pretty well for the most part
-No internal drive
-The keyboard is very nice to type on(i'm using it right now)

Cons:
-Once in a while the touch pad will act up while doing multi-touch(I don't mind though)
-I use WASD to play games and were my palm sits is right above the processor. So my hand gets warm and sweaty(It's not to bad though I live in Michigan)
-I don't mind the glossy screen, but why the glossy edge around it. it gets covered in finger prints.
-I don't know if this thing was designed by a left hander or something, but why are all of the ports on the right side. There are more Right handers than left. When I have my USB cooler, and my mouse plugged in the cables once in a while get in the way.
-This baby gets quite warm sometimes. I would suggest getting a cooler(But still not as hot as one of my brothers Dell)
-I liked the HP "bloatware" at first, but then realized it was using way to much of my computers resources. After uninstalling many of the programs I have notices a large difference in processor usage and temperature. Normaly it would idle around 5%-8% Processor usage. after removing the "bloatware" it is around 0%-2%, and also my wrist isn't getting toasty as quick as it used to when I first used it.
-The battery life is okay. I can get about an hour and a half of surfing the web out of the 6-cell battery that came with it.(lowest screen brightness)
-The power brick is a little large, but I don't mind. At least it isn't as big as the Xbox 360's(I don't own one, PS3 all the way!) or my brothers old Dell Latitude.

Overall I think that this laptop is one of the best looking, it is a really good value for all of the amazing performance, and I feel that it will outlast many of my family's laptops because of it's simple,and strong design.

I had one question though. I was looking at getting the 9-cell battery for this. Does anyone have it? And if so how is it? It seems like it would cause the laptop to get warmer since its covering up the intake fans and the whole bottom of the device, does it? Also how much longer does it allow the laptop to run?

 

Long time reader of this thread, thought i would finally post. I recieved my Envy the other day and just got done doing a fresh install of windows 7. Now im wondering what i should be doing next, should i go to the driver page and start updating. Im not an advanced user so im just wondering what i should update, sounds like bios should be updated. I only have 38 processes running on my computer presently. Anyways, thanks for the help

 

Hello everybody,

I have been following this forum from the beginning and I just wanted to say thank you for all the information, for it has convinced me to purchase the envy. I ordered notebook on 11/27 and received it yesterday, 12/15. I just opened it up and started using it and so far it is amazing, but I have a few small questions. I know much of what I am going to ask has been covered, but I feel that it will be easier to ask and get answers from those who know directly than to go through all of the forum pages.
1. Are vibrations under the palm rests normal?
2. The webcam has a very extreme blue/purple tint to it, which I remember reading about previously. Is there any way to fix it at this point, and is it a software issue that will be fixed with updates, or a hardware issue that is permanent?
3. Does syncing with the iphone work with the current updates and whatnot? I don't want to attempt to sync it and something go wrong.

Thank you again to everybody on this forum that has given their time to inform those interested in the HP Envy.

 

Are you using the drivers from the HP website, or the BETA ones from the ATI site?

 

I have a question regarding the mousepad.

I'm using the Envy 15 right now, and clearly so, the touchpad has one single click in the middle, like the macbook pro. I wanna know if that single clickpad button is usable or not? because the left click and right click buttons work, I want to make the large clickpad button work as the primary slection like the macbook pro.

 

What are your CCC settings? By default, many of the settings are set to quality and not performance. Even if you have turned off powerplay you won't get the maximum frame rates unless you set the 3D settings to custom/performance or set up some profile to do the same when using 3dmark.

 

If it was a true single click then you could get the same action by pressing anywhere on the touchpad, however if you depress the touchpad at a low enough point - about the middle and lower - it actually seems to depress both the right and left touchpad buttons simultaneously. Sorry, no real single click button, and no apparent way to make that work as if there were.

 

I remember a post a ways back that a guy changed a setting in the stynaptics touchpad and get single click working.

 

Does the Envy suffer from the throttling that the Alienware and Dell SXPS does?

 

Im not much of an analogies person, but one thing you have to watch out for is that you can not change the voltage. the internal charging circuity has a certain variance it can accept but if you exceed or not meet it it will either short (too much voltage) or not charge (too little)

As for amp's. you have to meet the minimum requirements or again you could blow the PSU, or it will not work.

It is fine to have 100 amps as long as you get the voltage right (usually you have about a 0.5v variance) the system will simply draw the amount of amps it requires.

 

Question remains though, the service and maintenance manual rated power requirements at 3.42A - a lot less than 6 Amps. I saw your post about that at The Next Bench, let's hope we can get some answers there.

 

After 8+ hours on the phone with tech service I'm sending my Envy to the shop for fixing. As you may or may not know, HP mistakenly configured my dual HDDs (250gb HDD + 160gb SSD) as RAID 0. Disabling the RAID was fairly simple, but the recovery disc is not functioning because: "The hard drive on this computer is smaller than the original shipped hard drive. The recovery process cannot continue"... Very frustrating.

 

Wouldn't it be possible for them to ship you the correct recovery disks for free?

 

Thought I'd finally stop lurking in the shadows and make my first post. Thanks to all, especially Serg, for making this forum such a great resource for the Envy!

I received my Envy last Monday, but just recently had a chance to start playing with it. So far, I think it's great and will suit my needs. This is by far the nicest computer I have every owned and my first personal laptop.

Outstanding issues:
- GPU performance. Like sakor1, I also see lower 3dmark06 and 3dmark vantage scores on the gpu. The cpu scores match up, but gpu seems to be about 10% lower than expected. I am using the shipped HP drivers. Is the solution here to update to the latest mobility drivers on amd's website?
- Heat. I see idle temps around 50 C and during games like L4D2, it gets up to 75 C. I'd like to get a notebook cooler, but am not sure what kind to get. E.Scott mentioned the Zalman cooler, which I've been leaning towards the ZM-NC1000 model. Does this cooler properly cover the intake vents at the bottom of the laptop? Does it get the air flow direction correct?

Thanks!

 

Happy to report my new temps using F.07 and idling.
Core 0 37
Core 1 34
Core 2 34
Core 3 34

 

Compared to the GDDR3 version? I am guessing ours has DDR3 only, which is indeed 10% slower IIRC.

 

I asked that same question and was told they needed to load a new OS through a master disk, not for public consumption.

 

In relation to the lower 3dMark scores:

I am using the video driver from HP website, I was under the impression that the ones directly from ATI would not work.

Left these at default. Most are set to application preference or balances. Were other peoples higher scores by forcing everything to performance?

Thanks...
Stu

 

Yes I realise this, my analogy was just to explain the differences between Volts, Amps & Watts for those who have not yet learnt or cannot remember. To be honest, I'm suprised I remembered - I'm a database analyst by trade, not an electrical engineer.

In all honesty I suspect this is a balls up. The 19V, 3.42A requirements are exactly the same as the Envy 13, but thinking about this, it does not make sense. 19V, 3.42A is a 65W PSU; I doubt enough to power this machine and charge it at the same time. 45W max for the CPU alone after all.

I think maybe they just started with the existing manual for the Envy 13 and in error did not correct that part of the document. In other areas of the Envy 15 doc it gives reference to two potential power supplies, the 120W, 18.5V, 6.5A or the 90W, 19V, 4.74A PSU

 

That doesn't seem quite right, since they do sell recovery disks from about $19 for the Envy, from their online store.

 

Does the Envy suffer from the throttling that the Alienware and Dell SXPS does?

 

Don't you want to set it to Quality to get better graphics?!

 

Well I recieved my Envy back today and the note in the box said "no problem found". I have 20/15 vision in both eyes and I can see the lines all the way out to arms length. I think I will be looking for a new laptop as this is not going to cut it and I do not have the time to fight HP over getting a laptop without lines but still with a 1080p resolution.

problem is that there is nothing out there with the same performance and portability. I guess I can try to sit as far back as I can to see if it will help. at least long enough for a strong competitor to come out.

 

Yes agreed it doesn't seem right and you are probably right in your guess about the origin of that piece of information.

Battery charging alone is a heavy power draw. My new little Samsung X120 with an SU7300 works its 40W PSU scorching hot when charging the battery - and it's a tiny battery compared to Envy 15.

The math is of course quite simple - say you want to charge 150 Wh in five hours, that's 30W right there, plus losses so maybe 50W just to charge batteries in reasonable time. There's just no way a 65W PSU can handle that in parallel with powering the system.

I remember reading about a BIOS setting for fast or slow battery charge though. Maybe the slow charge setting will make it possible to use a 90W PSU?

 

I expect the 90W power supply would be enough to use the notebook and charge the standard battery - I mean it's what my current notebook uses - and that has a 6 cell battery, although max CPU to go into this thing is 35W I believe. To charge the additional battery slice at the same time you'd probably need the 120W PSU.

I did notice the manual said something about a fast charge and slow charge, and you may very well be correct that a slow charge for both slice + standard battery could be achieved with the 90W PSU.

I think I might just re-read the entire manual to see if it has any reference to the restrictions on the 90W PSU.

Not that I own this machine at the moment; but once the hi resolution display is available in the UK I may very well snap one up. Although, if the 5000 series ATi GPUs are released by that time then that will hold more sway over which machine I go for. As much as I wish it, I think for HP to refresh the Envy with the 5000 series GPU so soon is too much to hope for - no doubt it will happen in time though.

EDIT: I just re-read the relevant parts of the manual. What a great manual - that's if you want to take your machine apart. Useless for anything else, and their other manuals aren't an awful lot better.

I assume this is the question you asked on that other site? Not about the manual, but about using a 90W PSU?

 

Shouldnt. Dell has a 90W limit, and when stressed, the PSU will hit the limit and throttle. Here the 120W supposedly takes cares of that and you should not see any problems.

Yours is 25W limit, since it is a P, shouldnt go any higher than that in theory.

CPU has a TDP of 45 alone and GPU has around AFAIK 35W like the 4670...

 

Some people have said that they do, I have tried them with mixed results ( I finally ran mobility modder on them and am using them now ).

Generally speaking, when benchmarking for highest scores, yes people force everything to performance to get the maximum frame rates. When playing games however, you want the maximum quality at playable frame rates. So in a lot of ways 3dmark is only good at comparing base capability, but depending on the graphics processor different quality settings are more playable on some than others with higher 3dmark scores. That is why reviewers use game benchmarks as well.

I ran 3dmark, but since this is by far the most powerful graphics laptop that I have ever owned I don't really care about the score only that there weren't any faults in the graphics subsystems.

Sigh..

 

Yes I know this Serg my man, but the Inspiron was also sold with CPUs that were 35W with the same PSU. I know because I ordered this one after seeing a friends machine with his T series CPU.

Really - that much? Obviously it is a better GPU than the MR 4670, but with the 40nm process I'd have maybe expected slightly more savings. Searching the web has yielded very few results on the subject though.

I still expect that the 90W PSU could charge the standard battery and run the machine at the same time.

 

Oh, ok...sorry. Just saying Fragilexx.

I am extrapolating on the 4830HD consumption, since it has the full 4850 shaders and the 4670 specs, kinda, it is like a hybrid, so my guess is around that. But who know 40nm, maybe it is sub 30

 

Sorry to repost the same question but I'm very curious about the purple/blue coloring to the webcam? Is there any way to reduce it, and is it a software or hardware issue?

Thank you. And a specific thanks to Serg for all of the time and effort you've put into this thread. Its amazing.