new envy 15 owner, questions and stuff

i7, 4GB, 5830, win7 sp1 x64.


I'm really hoping speedfan doesn't really read correctly. It has the ambient temp at 52C, and each of the cores at 55-70C. I read about taking the lappy apart and replacing the thermal paste with AS5, which I'm comfortable doing. How about replacing the fans? are there different fans I can add which are more powerful?

Anything else I'm missing?

 

My question to you would be why buy a laptop that you would have to take apart to get it meet expectations? Why buy a laptop that you have to take apart and replace the cooling fans and re paste the mobile cpu? If it is defective return it. HP has a great return policy. If it is power you want checkout the new Pavilion DV6QE with the sandy bridge chips.... The new DV6QE is about the same size but cost less and has more power and has an internal DVD. The 15 Envy to my knowledge has an external DVD. The DV6TQE has better battery life too....
Just wondering....

 

There's nothing wrong about wanting to maximize performance.

 

Oh I agree with you... but unless I read that wrong he said it was a "new" Envy 15. So in my mind if it is new and it is running too hot then send it in for service because it is new..... But I agree with mods for performance!

 

I'm guessing those temps would actually be relatively close to what you're getting, especially with an old gen i7 the heat will be brought out fast, I am also wondering if I can replace the fan for my dv6.

 

I'm sorry that may have sounded deceptive, I meant new to me envy 15. I got it on CL.

 

That makes sense as the Envy 15 is no longer sold directly by HP as they discontinued the model since last September. I do recommend reapplying thermal paste as I got a decrease of 5C on my Envy just by doing that for both GPU and CPU.

However, you can't improve the fans internally, as they are dedicated design but those fan do work well and gets the job done really efficiently. If you need more cooling, just get an external laptop cooling pad. I recommend the Cooler Master ErgoStand for the Envy 15 as it has a big fan that really hits most of the hotspots on the Envy 15 and really helped to keep my Envy cool in stable ranges of 63-68C on the GPU (OC'ed at 600/1125) and 65-71C on the i5-540M (Turbo Boost) when both are on 100% load.

 

I have excellent results with the Zalman NC-1000 laptop cooler.

If I want to use the Envy 15 on my lap, I usually unplug from AC power and use the slice battery for insulation.

Whenever it is plugged into AC power and running intensive programs like games, photoshop, etc., the bottom becomes quite hot to the touch. Since the entire case is metal, it acts as a sort of heat sink. Under these conditions I usually use the Zalman laptop cooler and the underside becomes cool to the touch.

I have also heard that if you have traditional platter drive instead of SSD that there is additional heat in the palmrest. In my case the only heat is on the bottom, near the power supply and GPU area. If you switch to SSD, I imagine you will experience significantly less heat in the right palm rest area.