*HP ENVY 17 & 17 3D (2XXX series) Owners Lounge*

[Bobmitch]

I had posted some AS-SSD scores when I first dropped my Vertex in the second drive bay for testing and validation, here is a PCMark score of it running as the system drive.

Result

16394 PCMarks

I'm rebuilding the machine again and should hopefully have something else interesting to share tomorrow or over the weekend.

Flyer...

Once you put in the new drive...you did a clean install, if I recall. When you look in Device Manager...you have the listing for ATAPI / IDE??? and No RAID storage controller?

[fiver5]

Flyer...

Once you put in the new drive...you did a clean install, if I recall. When you look in Device Manager...you have the listing for ATAPI / IDE??? and No RAID storage controller?

Fresh install of Win7 x64 Ultimate with SP1 on a single drive Vertex 3.



I made no attempt to install any controller drivers or do any drive controller configuration. Just put in the install disk and pressed next. Drive was unpartitioned before installation.

[Bobmitch]

Interesting. I wonder why ALL the machines, even with single drive have the SATA RAID Controller present...Oh wel...no biggie...my machine is working perfectly, so I absollutely will not complain. I ran an HDTach benchmark on the Intel...got 185/185, which is slightly slow. Now, I moved all my pagefile and temp files to the D drive...so as not to waste write cycles on the SSD. The SSD actually scores a 7.5 with Windows 7 Experience...so I just wonder if HDTach is a bit old for this technology. As I said...no wanting to mess with such a sweet running machine...

[frendzzz]

Hey all..pls post the 3dmarks06 and PCMark Vantage scores of your envy?

[slotti]

wow,
so the difference in between the 2630 and the 2870 is that much????

2870: Result
2630: Result

More than double on the 2870??!?!??!!
I must be reading something wrong. If not, my 2630 is going back and I'll reorder the 2870.

[fiver5]

Another interesting tidbit...

I just installed the Intel Rapid Storage Manager package which I downloaded directly from Intel, now it is a named controller.

[trucha]

I don't think its just the processors. The score is made up of all those different categories. The 2870 has a nice ssd in it (look at the hd scores at the bottom) compared to a slow hd in the 2630. They're also running different video drivers, which will affect performance. And besides, its a synthetic benchmark, it's not going to translate into "feelable" real world performance.

Although, that 2630 number seems surprisingly low... shouldn't it be closer to 12k?!

[fiver5]

wow,
so the difference in between the 2630 and the 2870 is that much????

2870: Result
2630: Result

More than double on the 2870??!?!??!!
I must be reading something wrong. If not, my 2630 is going back and I'll reorder the 2870.

The first benchmark is actually one that I ran, it has a Vertex 3 and 1600Mhz ram so it will crush pretty much any Envy out there.

Here is a "vanilla" envy 2820, when I ran this benchmark my Envy was bone stock with the exception of the WiFi card but that won't effect the score. I try to usually put something useful in the comments, I'll go update the comments on the V3 bench I was in a hurry.

Result

The second benchmark you posted was my old Envy that I returned due to a bad pixel.

[fiver5]

I don't think its just the processors. The score is made up of all those different categories. The 2870 has a nice ssd in it (look at the hd scores at the bottom) compared to a slow hd in the 2630. They're also running different video drivers, which will affect performance. And besides, its a synthetic benchmark, it's not going to translate into "feelable" real world performance.

Although, that 2630 number seems surprisingly low... shouldn't it be closer to 12k?!

I've been monkeying with my video drivers quite a but I've tried to post "stock" or "vanilla" benches for both processors with the OS, drivers etc in the configuration as shipped by HP.

[slotti]

The first benchmark is actually one that I ran, it has a Vertex 3 and 1600Mhz ram so it will crush pretty much any Envy out there.

Here is a "vanilla" envy 2820, when I ran this benchmark my Envy was bone stock with the exception of the WiFi card but that won't effect the score. I try to usually put something useful in the comments, I'll go update the comments on the V3 bench I was in a hurry.

Result

The second benchmark you posted was my old Envy that I returned due to a bad pixel.

Still a pretty big difference. I would have expected a bit less.