How well do Envy's hold up after a few years of use?

Weird, the stuff I wrote got completely deleted...

Long story short, I've owned a DV7 for over a year (specs in sig) and now it has heat issues. Fan is going crazy when I'm not really doing anything on a normal 75 degree F day. Recently formatted it back to factory but the problem still persists.

Can any long-time Envy owner tell me if Envy notebooks are any more reliable as far as heat is concerned?

 

Built quality and such, yes. Heat, it gets better after the 2nd refresh/design.

 

Cool, thanks for the quick reply! Once I find a good deal on one, or if Costco carries them, I'd like to pick up an Envy 15 with Ivy Bridge and the 7750m.

 

just a thought did you ever clean the fans on your laptop? that may be why its over heating.

 

The Envy 13 is fantastic and I never had an issue with heat or the fans; it's still going strong today.

 

Your heat issues almost certainly have nothing to do with build quality, and everything to do with dust accumulation around the heat sink and fan. Clean the dust out and it should be like new.

 

I was restless last night and had enough of my heat issues, so I decided to check for and clean out the dust the other night. Took me until 4am but I did it and all is well now! Thanks for the heads up. There was a small bit of dust that could not be removed by simply blowing into the vents alone. cleaning that small bit out however, makes all the difference in the world.

I just made a thread about it in the Pavilion subforum here:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/hp-...297-just-fixed-my-overheating-dv7-4071nr.html

Feel free to lock/delete this thread mods.

edit: I'm still going to get an Envy 15. Just need to wait for Ivy Bridge and the 7750m. Had one briefly from Costco (Sandy Bridge and 7690m) and loved the slot-drive, backlit keyboard and 1080p screen. Didn't like the orange-red/violet blue color issues and the volume control knob however.

 

Very true but it kind of sounds like the OP wants a new laptop and dust buildup is all the more reason! (I guess).. The newer envies are solid in the cooling department.. the old ones were aweful but now that theres 2 fans in the newer one, it runs really cool. I never heard the fans run (turned off always on in the bios) with general useage and even when gaming they rarely go to max speed unless your stress testing it or overclocking a lot.

As far as being more reliable... unfortunately theres no such notebook besides a fanless untrabook (if there is one) every laptop and computer has to deal with dust and it always finds a way to trap itself in the heatsink.