E6410 Owner's Thread

Hi. I just came from our university store and checked E6410 with i5-560M, Intel GMA. It is a very nice machine and I really thinking to buy it. But the only thing that keeps me from this is the fact that it was really hot at palmrest area even in idle. Do you have a similar observation? It can be a big problem for me, because I do a lot of paper work. I will really appreciate any information.
Thank you in advance.

 

Really hot? Was the machine properly ventilated?

Edit: If the palmrest is really hot (not normal), then the whole machine should have been overheating and blasting out hot air.

GK

 

Hey, thanks for your reply. I see you've got pretty the same configuration like I do (i7-620M+nVidia GPU+EC). Would you mind performing few consecutive suspend/resume cycles on battery power? I would understand that you wouldn't want to, considering my appeal as a joke or just because of few useless HDD spindowns and spinups (unless you have an SSD). Dell replaced in fact everything in my laptop and the problem is still there so I really attribute it to the particular E6410 configuration.

 

I can't imagine why the palmrest would be hot - no obvious heat sources there. Overall, the E6410 seems to run cooler under sustained full processor leads than when idle due to how the internal fan is set up.

Just keep in mind that metal is conductive as far as heat. If you leave your wrist on the palmrest long enough, you might notice your own body head.

 

Thanks a lot for your kind responses.
The machine was just between E6510 and E4300. The guy in store said that they run them 24/7 with putting to sleep overnight. I would like to think that this was a reason for E6410 being so hot (really uncomfortable). I really like these machines and thinking to buy one. If you own E6410 – what is your experience with temperature at palmrest area?
Another question would you consider reasonable upgrade from i5-560M (2.66, 3Mb L3) to i7-680M (2.8, 4Mb L3) for 90 USD?
Thanks again.
YR

 

Yurko, temperature of E6410 is more than fine even with Core [email protected] and nVidia discrete GPU. No more cooling issues as observed with E6400 and its early BIOS revisions. Palmrest area gets never remarkably hot. I've got only two objections against this laptop: 1) Glidepoint users like myself tend to accidentally touch the touch-pad while clicking the physical left mouse button below spacebar. 2) freezing from resume when suspended to RAM and resuming on batteries (only under certain HW configuration; not yet confirmed by others)

 

I'll see if I can get the user to test this... its away at college and heading into final exams. But have not seen this issue here.

GK

 

Sounds like a driver issue or conflicts. Fixing driver conflicts, especially that you don't know what the setup does exactly, is extremely time consuming. I just re-install Windows. Short, simple, and most of the time fixes the problem.

 

I agree, usually it is a good idea and huge time saver to reinstall. In this case reinstalling Windows did not help. The issue occurs on both cleanly installed Windows and Windows loaded with all the bunch of chipset drivers recommended per service-tag.

 

I wonder.. as the drivers found on Dell website are really not up to date. Go and download the latest drivers from the manufacture (be sure to uninstall > restart before installing the new one, to ensure all old files are gone, and old settings of the driver).

Go to Intel website for your motherboard, same if you have the Intel wireless card and graphic card (I thing if you have the Intel GPU - I don't know if it's put with the motherboard drivers), or Nvidia website (Nvidia uses 1 drivers for all desktop, and 1 drivers for all laptop graphic card. Picking the right Windows version is all you need to care about on the driver page. Best and easiest driver download website I ever encounter), and so on for everything else. Please note that for the sound card and touchpad, the manufacture doesn't make drivers.. it's the OEM that sells the cheap too (Dell in this case), so for that you have no choice (just to keep in mind, if it's the sound card, try the older version)

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