***ENVY 14 Gaming Lounge***

[ironman]

Hey ironman, will u update 12.3? they just went out love ya man! or you can teach me how to do it, i know a lil bit of programming!

lol 0 programming or skill required. its just the link that amd's software would download when it okay's the requirements. BTW, usually it never changes in structure (the link) so just change 122 to 123 for example in the 12.2 link to make it 12.3 download link. I just check if changing version number in link works and if it does, job is done. If it doesn't work, I would then find the new link.

[martin96]

anyone tried putting windows 8 consumer preview on their envy's? it works all fine except for the graphics drivers...ive been trying for 2 straight days to get the drivers to work, ive tried everything from the windows 8 consumer preview drivers for ati to running the older ones in compatability mode and none of it works . If anyone could help me thatd be great cuz im getting super frustrated.

[rmartinezdl]

Dont use windows 8 its a downgrade from windows 7.


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Anyone having cpu overheating issues?

Im having idle temperatures of 49 and max temperatures of 95 when I play bfbc2. I dont want my cpu to fry, how can I fix this? please, I thought at first that it was the gpu but it isnt

[bubzers]

Dont use windows 8 its a downgrade from windows 7.

a statement like this needs some supporting evidence/statements for anyone to believe it.

i have it running on my main desktop pc and its not without its annoyances (primarily the metro ui), but i do like the crazy fast boot time and incorporating the ribbon into windows explorer isnt too bad, either. i certainly wouldnt consider it a 'downgrade'

as for getting it running on an envy...i have no idea. my desktop has nvidia gpu.

[martin96]

^ I agree, its not bad and i dont mind the "tablet esque" feel to it...and the boot times were amazing. Just sort of a random question, is it possible to have a raid array in the envy 14? ive seen people take out the cd/dvd drive for another hdd, and ive even seen a raid 0 being done with two ssds on macbook pros.

[rmartinezdl]

Well the fact its tablet oriented (for me) makes it worse, they are just going to port operative systems to pc, just like devs to with games now, console ported to pc. so hell no. Im sticking to w7.

[martin96]

Could anyone please answer my question? ive been looking around forums but haven't found an answer yet...Is it possible to do a raid 0, using lets say 2 ssds, one in the normal hard drive spot and the other replacing the cd/dvd drive? Also, how beneficial can this be? i know its around 2x as fast as a single SSD, but still....what would be the best reason to do this?

[bubzers]

A user here (JJB, I believe) showed there was little to no gain in doing a raid 0 of 2 SSDs. He has/had a 2nd Gen Envy15. You should PM him about it. His findings are in one of the Envy15 threads.

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[martin96]

^ thank you. I did some more researching around and found out that it probably wont even be possible to raid 0 on the envy 14. And even still, a raid 0 configuration would not yield THAT high of a performance increase over a single SSD. Plus, with raid 0, the SSDs dont support TRIM, which would degrade performance over time. Speaking of SSDs, anyone have some good recommendations? I preferably would like a 120gb-160gb SSD for around or less than 200 dollars.

[Mike415]

anyone tried putting windows 8 consumer preview on their envy's? it works all fine except for the graphics drivers...ive been trying for 2 straight days to get the drivers to work, ive tried everything from the windows 8 consumer preview drivers for ati to running the older ones in compatability mode and none of it works . If anyone could help me thatd be great cuz im getting super frustrated.

This is how I got mine working. I use W8 daily with everything (Including Switchable Graphics) working fine. Someone on second gen Envy 14 didnt get it to work but he also might have tried to use first gens stock drivers. Let me know how it goes. I havent gotten any other feedback besides this, but Ill say that it is clearly possible since Ive been using it for months now.

Windows 8 Consumer Build