***ENVY 14 Gaming Lounge***

[2.0™]

Does anyone know how hard is it to access the CPU to reapply thermal paste, and does it void out the warranty?

See the service manual on the 1st page of the official thread to see how it's done. It's not hard to do.

Theoretically it voids the warranty. But the HP script tech primates wouldn't know you did. Especially if you used AS5 which is the same color as thermal compound HP uses.

[m3ta1head]

I run BF2 on my 15 at 1920x1080 highest settings with 8xAA/16xAF and rarely dip below 60fps. The 14 should have no problem whatsoever running maxed out at 1600x900. BF2 is quite old...

[HSN21]

I run BF2 on my 15 at 1920x1080 highest settings with 8xAA/16xAF and rarely dip below 60fps. The 14 should have no problem whatsoever running maxed out at 1600x900. BF2 is quite old...

This is not possible because even the 5870 and GTX480m can not do that unless you are playing with high resolution and low/medium settings

The game is very demanding on ultra settings

[HSN21]

Benchmarks for another laptop with i7 and 5650m compared to ASus G51 with GTX260m to give you an idea of the performance

Envy 14 results should be similar i imagine since it use the same CPU/GPU












Anyone got any idea about the battery life for Envy 14 while gaming?

[MosKoWe]

The notebookcheck benchmarks for the 5650 (600MHZ) in the Fire DTX show 35.7 FPS with textures max / vsync off / 4X AA / 1920x1080
Generally speaking looking at the benchmarks for i5-430 / i5-520 and 550MHZ clocked 5650 should give you a good idea.

[m3ta1head]

This is not possible because even the 5870 and GTX480m can not do that unless you are playing with high resolution and low/medium settings

The game is very demanding on ultra settings

You are mistaken. I am referring to the game Battlefield 2, released in 2005.

[MosKoWe]

You are mistaken. I am referring to the game Battlefield 2, released in 2005.

x2

For Bad Company 2 you can expect to run it in high settings @1366 by 768 with about 30 fps. Medium settings should be 40-45 fps.

[MagusDraco]

I gotta wonder how well this thing will run...well...

Bioshock
Borderlands
Dead Space
Guess oblivion and Fallout 3 but I think it'll run both of those alright (FO3 on medium and that's good enough).
Mass Effect 2
Mirror's Edge
STALKER Call of Pripyat (I'm gonna assume Stalker: Shadows of Chernobyl will run fine once you install the STALKER 2009 mod)

[xapopex]

You are mistaken. I am referring to the game Battlefield 2, released in 2005.

I love BF2.

[m3ta1head]

I gotta wonder how well this thing will run...well...

Bioshock
Borderlands
Dead Space
Guess oblivion and Fallout 3 but I think it'll run both of those alright (FO3 on medium and that's good enough).
Mass Effect 2
Mirror's Edge
STALKER Call of Pripyat (I'm gonna assume Stalker: Shadows of Chernobyl will run fine once you install the STALKER 2009 mod)

All those games should run at native res on high settings, perhaps with the exception of STALKER. I run all those games on my Envy 15 without a sweat, and the 5650 is not that much slower than the 5830.