**HP 15 da006T - A Mixed Bag**

The HP 15 da006T is a laptop that promised much but delivered mixed results. With its sleek design and impressive specs, it was expected to be a top contender in the market. However, our experience with this laptop revealed some concerning issues that need to be addressed.

**CPU Performance Under Stress**

When we stress-tested the CPU using a 264, we were surprised to find that the stock settings resulted in temperatures of around 68 degrees Celsius. Adding a -0.15V under-voltage modification brought the temperature down slightly. However, it was clear that this was still not enough to fully utilize the CPU's capabilities. Our benchmark results showed a small performance improvement, but it was still capped at 15 watts TDP, which is restrictive of full performance. To put this into perspective, we ran Cinebench CPU benchmarks and saw an 11% boost in performance with the under-voltage modification applied.

**Temperature and Cooling**

Despite our best efforts to stress-test the laptop, temperatures remained relatively stable throughout. The body of the laptop reached around 30 degrees Celsius at idle, with a slight warming up towards the center of the screen where heat is exhausted. However, when we ran CPU stress tests, there was little difference in temperature between the two scenarios. The keyboard only felt slightly warm to the touch, and even under load, the fan barely spun up, making it completely silent.

**Gaming Performance**

Unfortunately, our attempts at gaming were met with disappointment. Due to constant blue screens and crashes, we were unable to perform extended GPU testing. However, our brief attempts at gaming showed noticeable lag between moving the mouse and the screen updating, particularly at 1080p. At 720p, it was somewhat playable but still plagued by occasional stuttering.

**Storage Performance**

We ran some storage benchmarks using Intel's Octane, which showed a noticeable performance improvement compared to not having it enabled. However, the results were skewed due to the obtained module catching data highly and not providing a realistic indication of real-world performance. The laptop's 1TB hard drive performed poorly without the Octane, while the SD card slot showed respectable but unremarkable speeds.

**Pricing and Verdict**

The HP 15 da006T is priced around $1200 AUD, which is relatively high considering its limitations. While it had some redeeming qualities such as decent build quality, surprising speaker quality, and running fairly cool and quiet even under load, these were not enough to make up for the performance issues we encountered. We couldn't help but feel that a 30-dollar 120GB SSD would have been more valuable than the 16GB Octane stick, which was included in the package.

Overall, our experience with the HP 15 da006T was mixed. While it had some impressive specs and decent build quality, its performance limitations and issues with gaming made it a less-than-ideal choice for many users.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enI've got a HP 15 laptop here for testing up Intel's obtained but figured I may as well do a full review of it too while I've got it so let's find out what this thing can do for the specs there's an Intel i7 285 50 you for gig of single channel memory Nvidia MX 130 graphics a 15.6 inch 1080p TN panel and a one terabyte hard drive which is accelerated with a 16 gig stick if Intel's obtained for network connectivity there's a Gigabit Ethernet port 802 dot 11 AC Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.2 the body of the laptop is all plastic and matte silver on top and then the interior is a dark grey with a smooth brushed pattern no sharp corners or edges anywhere despite the plastic build overall it felt fairly solid the dimensions of the laptop are thirty seven point six centimeters in width twenty four point six centimeters in depth and 2.25 centimeters in height so you're pretty average for a 15-inch machine the weight is listed is one point seven seven kilos and I found mine to way above 1.9 kilos with a small 65 watt power brick and cables for charging the total weight increases to around 2.2 kilos so still fairly portable as mentioned the screen here is a 15.6 inch 1080p SB a panel HP's terminology for TN it looks acceptable front on and then not really usable from any other angle jitter color shift the screen doesn't get that bright 206 nits at 100% brightness in the center with a very low 100 to 1 contrast ratio blacks looked gray and overall picture quality looked washed out I've also measured the current color gamut using the spider v Pro and my results returned 58% of srgb 41% of NTSC and 43% of Adobe RGB so again not great I've taken a long exposure photo in a dark room as the worst case backlight bleed test there was no observable blade in my unit at all but this will vary between laptops there wasn't too much screen flex despite the plastic build as the lid is a little thick and it uses a lodge hinge that runs along most of the base for the further stability opening the laptop with one finger was only just possible sir perhaps a touch more weight towards the back it's that fine on my life in any case above the display in the centre is a 720p camera the camera looks quite grainy and the microphone is round average but you'll be able to judge both for yourself the keyboard has white printed lettering with no backlighting it was actually pretty nice to type with I liked the spacing between the keys and the numpad isn't cramped though the usual small error keys make another appearance here's how it sounds to type on to try and give you an idea of what to expect there was a little keyboard flex while intentionally pushing down hard but for the most part it was pretty solid for a plastic build and our problems during normal usage the speakers are found just above the keyboard and they actually sound pretty good for laptop speakers much better than I was expecting from this laptop in any case quite clear although their bass the air exhaust vents are also just above the speakers and below the screen though with the lid closed there's a little opening at the very bottom so should be your cable docked the touchpad uses synaptics drivers and what fine it's got separate left and right click buttons down the bottom or you can to finger click to paid anywhere to right-click the touchpad itself does not click down when pressed the left side of the left-click button in my unit was a little difficult to press properly at times otherwise that worked ok on the left there's the power input Gigabit Ethernet port HDMI 1.4 B output 2 USB 3.1 gen2 on type-a ports and a 3.5 millimeter audio combo jack on the right towards the front there's a couple of status LEDs SD card slot USB 2.0 type-a port then near the back a Kensington lock both the back and front it just smooth silver plastic up on the silver matte lid there's just a HP logo in the center with the shiny murdered finish fingerprints were difficult to see on the silver lid and if enough too heavy use only just visible on the interior and as a smooth surface they were reason to clean away underneath there's a little air intake spot in the middle towards the back and two rubber feet did do a good job of stopping the laptop from moving around while in use the bottom panel should be able to be removed by taking out five screws with a Phillips head screwdriver however I wasn't able to get the pedal off without feeling like I was going to break it so no inside here unfortunately that thing was stuck on real good powering the laptop is a three cell 41 watt hour battery and with a full charge and just watching YouTube videos with the screen on half brightness and background ups disabled I was able to use it for six hours and two minutes it was using the Intel integrated graphics in this test thanks to Nvidia optimists I wasn't able to test the battery while running games as I had some serious issues every time the Nvidia graphics were used often resulting in a blue screen I have no idea what the problem was I tried different versions of Nvidia drivers and even reinstalled windows fresh but the problem persisted I have my doubts that it's a widespread issue as I can't see other reports of it with this model so it may just be an issue with this specific review unit thermal testing was completed with an ambient room temperature of 20 degrees Celsius so expect warmer temperatures in a warmer environment I wasn't able to manually change fan speed and as already discussed GPU testing was basically out so I've only been able to look at CPU stress test results at idle the CPU was a little warm but not too bad the laptop was completely silent though so no fan spinning at this point I've stress tested the CPU using a 264 and that stock it rose to 68 degrees Celsius and with the minus 0.15 / volt under volt applied to the CPU it only dropped back slightly these are the average clock speeds for all four CPU cores while running those same stress tests we can see that with the under multiplied in yellow there's a small performance improvement but still a fair bit below the specified 3.7 gigahertz or core turbo speed of the 85 50 you as in both instances we're still capped to a 15 watt TDP which I was not able to modify with Intel X to you to demonstrate how this translates into performance I've got some Cinebench CPU benchmarks here and were able to get a small 11 % boost in performance with the under vaulting applied I'd expect performance to be worse with a combination of GPU load but us mentioned that wasn't possible to reliably test as for the external temperatures where you'll actually be putting your hands at idle the body of the laptop gets to around 30 degrees towards the left and a little warmer in the center of the screen as that's where the heat is exhausted with the CPU stress tests running there's not very difference the keyboard only felt slightly warm to the touch as for the fan noise produced by the laptop while you have listened to these tests at idle it was completely silent and then even while under load the fan only just very slightly spins up there's no real point in it going faster the CPU isn't even passing 70 degrees under load due to the power limit throttling previously discussed now for some gaming benchmarks I did mention an extended GPU testing wasn't possible and trust me it was very difficult to get the little results that I do have due to constant blue screens and crashes while loading games over which was tested at 1080p and 720p using the low settings preset at 1080p there was noticeable lag between moving the mouse and the screen updating but at 720p it was somewhat playable although that was still occasional stuttering Fortnite was tested at 1080p only I wasn't able to load the game up anymore after this test to try 720p and it took five attempts of blue screens to get into the game it was sort of playable on the low preset but not a great experience for detailed storage benchmarks I've actually got an entire video benchmarking intel's octane otherwise just quickly these are the speeds with obtain enabled in crystal dis mark honestly not a good real wealth indication of real performance as the obtained module catches the data highly skewing the results that said obtained does noticeably improve performance compared to not having it at all as we can see here with the differences in Windows boot times the first boot with obtained enabled takes longer while data is cached then subsequent boots are significantly faster but any data that's not cached will still be extremely slow and go to the hard drive here's how the one terabyte 5400 rpm hard drive performs without obtain casing to give you an idea and here's how the SD card slot performs with a high-speed card acceptable but nothing special pricing will change over time so check the links in the description for the most up-to-date prices at the time of recording here in Australia it's going for around 1200 Australian dollars and I can't really see any other pricing for it so it might be a model specific to this region converting the price without tax to US dollars my international friends that's around 750 dollars but also worth keeping in mind stuff here costs more - so probably even cheaper still so what did you guys think of the HP 15 da00 6 6 Tx a pretty nice model name I admit but overall it wasn't great mainly due to the issues I had trying to use the Nvidia graphics again no idea if that's just my model the screen wasn't very good the CPU power limit throttles restricting full performance quite a bit and despite intel's octane cache at times it still felt slow to use i personally would have preferred a 30-dollar 120 gig SSD for the same price as the 16 gig octane stick but that's just me at least this way you have one terabyte of storage I suppose otherwise the laptop actually had decent build quality surprising speaker quality and ran fairly cool and very quiet even under load so probably decent for a work machine in an office with the ability to do extremely light 720p gaming let me know what you guys thought about the laptop down in the comments I haven't reviewed many of the laptops in this price range yet so I don't really have much to compare it to thanks for watching and don't forget to subscribe for future tech videos like this oneI've got a HP 15 laptop here for testing up Intel's obtained but figured I may as well do a full review of it too while I've got it so let's find out what this thing can do for the specs there's an Intel i7 285 50 you for gig of single channel memory Nvidia MX 130 graphics a 15.6 inch 1080p TN panel and a one terabyte hard drive which is accelerated with a 16 gig stick if Intel's obtained for network connectivity there's a Gigabit Ethernet port 802 dot 11 AC Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.2 the body of the laptop is all plastic and matte silver on top and then the interior is a dark grey with a smooth brushed pattern no sharp corners or edges anywhere despite the plastic build overall it felt fairly solid the dimensions of the laptop are thirty seven point six centimeters in width twenty four point six centimeters in depth and 2.25 centimeters in height so you're pretty average for a 15-inch machine the weight is listed is one point seven seven kilos and I found mine to way above 1.9 kilos with a small 65 watt power brick and cables for charging the total weight increases to around 2.2 kilos so still fairly portable as mentioned the screen here is a 15.6 inch 1080p SB a panel HP's terminology for TN it looks acceptable front on and then not really usable from any other angle jitter color shift the screen doesn't get that bright 206 nits at 100% brightness in the center with a very low 100 to 1 contrast ratio blacks looked gray and overall picture quality looked washed out I've also measured the current color gamut using the spider v Pro and my results returned 58% of srgb 41% of NTSC and 43% of Adobe RGB so again not great I've taken a long exposure photo in a dark room as the worst case backlight bleed test there was no observable blade in my unit at all but this will vary between laptops there wasn't too much screen flex despite the plastic build as the lid is a little thick and it uses a lodge hinge that runs along most of the base for the further stability opening the laptop with one finger was only just possible sir perhaps a touch more weight towards the back it's that fine on my life in any case above the display in the centre is a 720p camera the camera looks quite grainy and the microphone is round average but you'll be able to judge both for yourself the keyboard has white printed lettering with no backlighting it was actually pretty nice to type with I liked the spacing between the keys and the numpad isn't cramped though the usual small error keys make another appearance here's how it sounds to type on to try and give you an idea of what to expect there was a little keyboard flex while intentionally pushing down hard but for the most part it was pretty solid for a plastic build and our problems during normal usage the speakers are found just above the keyboard and they actually sound pretty good for laptop speakers much better than I was expecting from this laptop in any case quite clear although their bass the air exhaust vents are also just above the speakers and below the screen though with the lid closed there's a little opening at the very bottom so should be your cable docked the touchpad uses synaptics drivers and what fine it's got separate left and right click buttons down the bottom or you can to finger click to paid anywhere to right-click the touchpad itself does not click down when pressed the left side of the left-click button in my unit was a little difficult to press properly at times otherwise that worked ok on the left there's the power input Gigabit Ethernet port HDMI 1.4 B output 2 USB 3.1 gen2 on type-a ports and a 3.5 millimeter audio combo jack on the right towards the front there's a couple of status LEDs SD card slot USB 2.0 type-a port then near the back a Kensington lock both the back and front it just smooth silver plastic up on the silver matte lid there's just a HP logo in the center with the shiny murdered finish fingerprints were difficult to see on the silver lid and if enough too heavy use only just visible on the interior and as a smooth surface they were reason to clean away underneath there's a little air intake spot in the middle towards the back and two rubber feet did do a good job of stopping the laptop from moving around while in use the bottom panel should be able to be removed by taking out five screws with a Phillips head screwdriver however I wasn't able to get the pedal off without feeling like I was going to break it so no inside here unfortunately that thing was stuck on real good powering the laptop is a three cell 41 watt hour battery and with a full charge and just watching YouTube videos with the screen on half brightness and background ups disabled I was able to use it for six hours and two minutes it was using the Intel integrated graphics in this test thanks to Nvidia optimists I wasn't able to test the battery while running games as I had some serious issues every time the Nvidia graphics were used often resulting in a blue screen I have no idea what the problem was I tried different versions of Nvidia drivers and even reinstalled windows fresh but the problem persisted I have my doubts that it's a widespread issue as I can't see other reports of it with this model so it may just be an issue with this specific review unit thermal testing was completed with an ambient room temperature of 20 degrees Celsius so expect warmer temperatures in a warmer environment I wasn't able to manually change fan speed and as already discussed GPU testing was basically out so I've only been able to look at CPU stress test results at idle the CPU was a little warm but not too bad the laptop was completely silent though so no fan spinning at this point I've stress tested the CPU using a 264 and that stock it rose to 68 degrees Celsius and with the minus 0.15 / volt under volt applied to the CPU it only dropped back slightly these are the average clock speeds for all four CPU cores while running those same stress tests we can see that with the under multiplied in yellow there's a small performance improvement but still a fair bit below the specified 3.7 gigahertz or core turbo speed of the 85 50 you as in both instances we're still capped to a 15 watt TDP which I was not able to modify with Intel X to you to demonstrate how this translates into performance I've got some Cinebench CPU benchmarks here and were able to get a small 11 % boost in performance with the under vaulting applied I'd expect performance to be worse with a combination of GPU load but us mentioned that wasn't possible to reliably test as for the external temperatures where you'll actually be putting your hands at idle the body of the laptop gets to around 30 degrees towards the left and a little warmer in the center of the screen as that's where the heat is exhausted with the CPU stress tests running there's not very difference the keyboard only felt slightly warm to the touch as for the fan noise produced by the laptop while you have listened to these tests at idle it was completely silent and then even while under load the fan only just very slightly spins up there's no real point in it going faster the CPU isn't even passing 70 degrees under load due to the power limit throttling previously discussed now for some gaming benchmarks I did mention an extended GPU testing wasn't possible and trust me it was very difficult to get the little results that I do have due to constant blue screens and crashes while loading games over which was tested at 1080p and 720p using the low settings preset at 1080p there was noticeable lag between moving the mouse and the screen updating but at 720p it was somewhat playable although that was still occasional stuttering Fortnite was tested at 1080p only I wasn't able to load the game up anymore after this test to try 720p and it took five attempts of blue screens to get into the game it was sort of playable on the low preset but not a great experience for detailed storage benchmarks I've actually got an entire video benchmarking intel's octane otherwise just quickly these are the speeds with obtain enabled in crystal dis mark honestly not a good real wealth indication of real performance as the obtained module catches the data highly skewing the results that said obtained does noticeably improve performance compared to not having it at all as we can see here with the differences in Windows boot times the first boot with obtained enabled takes longer while data is cached then subsequent boots are significantly faster but any data that's not cached will still be extremely slow and go to the hard drive here's how the one terabyte 5400 rpm hard drive performs without obtain casing to give you an idea and here's how the SD card slot performs with a high-speed card acceptable but nothing special pricing will change over time so check the links in the description for the most up-to-date prices at the time of recording here in Australia it's going for around 1200 Australian dollars and I can't really see any other pricing for it so it might be a model specific to this region converting the price without tax to US dollars my international friends that's around 750 dollars but also worth keeping in mind stuff here costs more - so probably even cheaper still so what did you guys think of the HP 15 da00 6 6 Tx a pretty nice model name I admit but overall it wasn't great mainly due to the issues I had trying to use the Nvidia graphics again no idea if that's just my model the screen wasn't very good the CPU power limit throttles restricting full performance quite a bit and despite intel's octane cache at times it still felt slow to use i personally would have preferred a 30-dollar 120 gig SSD for the same price as the 16 gig octane stick but that's just me at least this way you have one terabyte of storage I suppose otherwise the laptop actually had decent build quality surprising speaker quality and ran fairly cool and very quiet even under load so probably decent for a work machine in an office with the ability to do extremely light 720p gaming let me know what you guys thought about the laptop down in the comments I haven't reviewed many of the laptops in this price range yet so I don't really have much to compare it to thanks for watching and don't forget to subscribe for future tech videos like this one\n"