E6410 Owner's Thread

The left side vents is about my only gripe with the E6400/E6410 series. The backside vents on the D series were perfect, but then again you had the battery up front. Dell had no choice I supose but to put the vent on the left side knowing that most people were right handed.

I have a bench where I image laptops for the enterprise, with many laptops sitting side by side. With the D series I could get the laptops up close with the vents in the back. But when the E6400 came about. I had to remember to keep the replicators pushes out a little bit to give the beasts room to breathe. But if I don't watch the E6410s will get the neighboring laptops DVD drive a little toasty for comfort. Even though I am right handed, with laptops so close in on my bench, I feel the neighboring laptops hot exhaust on my hand. Not had any burnt hair yet though. LOL

Now the E4300 and especially E4310 fans I will hear a bit when I am imaging the laptops, as our imaging process is pretty intensive on the CPU and drive.

 

Well the D series Latitude notebooks were a funky design indeed. The battery in the front and the extended battery stuck out the front, heat exhaust vents in the rear. The E design was back to the traditional notebook design, battery in the rear and the heat exhaust off to the left. In all honestly I don't mind the heat, our tech shop is so cold it acts as a mini space heater.

 

I have done the same, We took some 745 with 3.4ghz Pentium Ds (P4 tech and high TDP) and loaded distributed.net on them. 100% CPU utilization. LOTS OF HEAT for a cold shop.

One thing I liked about the 9 dell D630 battery, it made a nice wristrest.

The heat issue on the E6410 is a minor annoyance, and there was not much dell could do about it anyway, heat has to come ot somewhere.

 

The low noise sounds good but, I hadn't thought about heat. Is the heat really that bad or do most laptops have similar issues? I know in the past I've looked on (I think) notebookcheck site and the reviews here and I hadn't really taken in what the heat could mean except where the review pointed out when they thought it got too hot.

 

The heat I speak of is not the heat inside the laptop, but the heat of the air comming out of the laptop, it's noticeable.

 

Thanks, the heat is putting me off, maybe I need to think about this some more.

The linux distribution I use is probably not going to support the next generation intel for a while, but I do wonder how much longer my old laptop will continue.

 

As CPUs/GPUs get faster, they consume more power and emit more heat. Managing both has been a principle design consideration. Smaller-scale chip technologies have helped to bend the curves down, but a completely new chip technology, like light-based will be need eventually. Meanwhile, heat and power consumption are a universal issue. The E-Series Latitudes do a fair job of managing both. Given a fixed chassis and cooling design, you can expect some variation in heat and power consumption with variation in CPU/GPU, ambient conditions, and loading. There does not appear to be any extreme builds so far.

GK

 

I used GKDesigns' reimage notes, but still I'm left with some questions regarding the installation sequence.

• BIOS (A06 > set to AHCI)
• Samsung SSD FirmWare
• Win7 Ultimate x64 (which installed a default AHCI driver)
• Intel(R) 5 Series 6 Port SATA AHCI Controller (downloadlocation) (manually through Device Manager > IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers)

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The question:
Do I need to install the:

• Intel Chipset Software Installation Utility from the Dell site?

or can I jump to installing the:

• Ricoh SD driver

Many thanks,

Poison

 

Yes, you should have installed the Intel chipset software first after the OS. And then the Ricoh SD driver.

GK

 

Thanks GK,

I will be testing all the latest drivers to see if they work flawlessly for a week or so, then I will do a reimage (once again) in the following order:

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2. Win7 Ultimate x64 (which installs a default AHCI driver)
   
   
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3. Intel Chipset Software Installation Utility
   
   
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4. Ricoh SD driver
   
   
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5. Update driver: Intel(R) 5 Series 6 Port SATA AHCI Controller (manually through Device Manager > IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers)

Correct?

Many thanks,

Poison