OK - I have to have a laptop for work and I want my FSX with all the sliders out to max when I get home. It looks like the HP Omen will not overheat and with an i7 4710HQ CPU, an NVidia 860M 4gb GPU, 16 GB RAM and a 500GB SSD it should tick all the boxes right? Before I spend what will probably be about AUD$2000 has any one else tried one? My main concern is overheating but the news from HP is that they have this fixed. I wonder if they have tried it out with a CPU hungry programme like FSX?

 

Gerry

"I want my FSX with all the sliders out to max when I get home"

 

Forget it...  :rolleyes:

 

Why is that so important? Why not sliders at a reasonable balanced level?

 

BTW I run it on an AsusG73JH and heat is a problem, same with the HP, but they fixed it, how?

 

Cut the bottom open?

Well yes, I might be a bit cynical as well given previous experience with HP but this is what PC World said about the cooling issue:

 

"The anodized aluminium chassis includes a fully vented bottom panel. Two rubber feet run almost all the way around the bottom, save for openings at the front and back. Dual intake fans pull in cool air from the front, and hot air exhausts out the back of the unit, underneath the hinge. The Omen’s display is actually raised a little bit to keep it farther away from the hot exhaust".

 

​Does anyone own one?

 

​PS - the reason I want sliders to the max is because of that glorious scenery from FTX - Global Vector, OpenLC Europe and Australia SP4.

" Another potential problem is endemic to any thin gaming notebook: effectively cooling both a reasonably high-end CPU and GPU in a slim chassis is difficult, and in most thin gaming notebooks we've seen higher temperatures and noise levels compared to their bulkier siblings."

 

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8686/hp-launches-omen-a-thin-gaming-laptop

 

"Dual intake fans pull in cool air from the front"

 

If one is located in a climate where cold air is present.

 

If you live in Asia, as I do, forget it...

Thanks Frosty777

 

Handy link that. I still wonder if anyone has bought one for FSX.

 

Gerry

People with 2000 usd desktops can't even max sliders... If you did that you'll run out of memory (virtual address space) anyway

 

That laptop seems decent though - expect 15-20 fps with your addons in busy cities

That is disappointing as well as strange. I do not have add on airports but I do run Australia SP4, FTX Global Vector and OpenLC Europe and I am getting 25 - 28 fps on the ground with REX weather. I have an Acer Aspire time line i5 laptop with 8GB RAM and an NVidia 640M 1GB video. All sliders are set to max apart from water which set is set to 2x and Scenery complexity and Autogen both set to very dense.

Are you saying I cannot move those to extremely dense with an i7 with the 4gb 860 card, a much superior machine it seems without causing OOMs and lesser fps?

 

Seems strange! I need to make a decision as Harvey Norman here have an HP Omen for me to look at! Any help/advice is appreciated.

 

Gerry

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I deleted what I wrote, I just repeat myself with regards to them sliders that you are so insistent on keeping at max.!

 

BTW I just bought a cheap Lenovo G40-45 with AMD A6 Quad CPU an GPU onboard, 4 Gb RAM, a 500 GB Toshiba Hybrid HD, and for fun I just installed FSX on it.

 

Crazy? Yes! But I can run it with FPS locked at 26 and medium settings, quite amazing, so you just go ahead an buy what suits you, it´ll be fine I guess.