E4310 Owner's Lounge

The fan should have 3 or 4 speeds and the highest speed is quite audible with a very noticeable increase in the noise. HWiNFO32 can report the fan speeds on my E6410 (it's on the Sensors page under CPU) so I assume it can do the same for the E4310. Give it a try. The fastest speed is usually over 4000rpm.

I would suggest Acronis TrueImage Home. It's not free but is reasonably priced and quite versatile. You may be able to find a 2010 disc at at good price since it is now superseded.

John

 

Thanks a lot. For info I just ran the built-in system tests... and while no errors were reported the machine cut out half way through the extended memory tests

 

I finally made the purchase today...

Sadly, no coupon available at this time.

I got the 3yr complete care too.

What do you guys think?

The SSD in it should be the last generation, right? The slower ones, compared to Sandforce?

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Well I hope you have better luck than me buddy.

Just for a laugh, hopefully you can see from the attached picture that my E4310 achieved a whopping 200MHz after about 10 minutes of full load (No wonder my kernel builds took so long...!)

I suppose it is something that the hardware can protect itself to the extent observed.

 

That's over-zealous throttling. Did you try using Throttlestop to suppress the throttling or are you worried about the CPU burning up. Something isn't right.

John

 

Hey John. I have seen a couple of modern E series Latitudes go into thermal protection. They keep running, but everything is throttled as far down as it can go. The ones that I saw do this do not return to normal speeds until after a reboot. If I remember correctly, it happens around 100C.

His should not be doing this out of the box. Its almost like the thermal pad was left off when the heat sink was installed.

 

I agree that something isn't right and a poorly mounted heatsink may be one reason. However, I would like confirmation that the fan speed ramps up above 4,000rpm.

I have seen my E6410 throttle once or twice. This happened when docked and running a single-threaded CPU-intensive program that took about 4 days.

Hibernate + resume will clear any throttling but it is also worth trying a few Fn key short cuts such as Fn+Z.

John

 

Hi all!
I have bought E4310 few days ago.

I weighed the laptop-1, 61 without the battery, and 1.95 kg with 6-cell battery.
3cell is about 190 grams, so, minimal weight of my system will be 1,8kgs
My E4310 model comes without camera, WWAN and fingerprint.

If I understand correctly, the weight listed on the site are valid for the model without a DVD drive, with SSD and without battery.

Never seen such a large difference between official official and real info before...

 

Yes, I had the same problem with the E6400 and E6410. If I stripped them down to get Dell's starting weight then I wouldn't have a working computer. The reported "target weight" for the new E6420 is much more realistic (or the E6420 will be much heavier than its predecessar).

I recall that the E4310 is heavier than the E4300 (it is wider) but I thought that the difference was less than 0.05kg. My digital scales put the weight of my E4300 with 6 cell battery as 1.78kg. How accurate are your scales? You could check them with something of known weight such as two 1 litre plastic bottles of water.

John

 

I have weighed also MSI X340-exactly 1,35kgs with 4cell battery (1,3kgs listed)
and Dell Inspiron 6400-2,85kgs with 6-cell battery (2,8kgs listed)


I'll try to weight it on another scales, but I think the problems are with Dell scales, not mine

Maybe, they have lightweight made from carbon fibre version without optical drive, wireless interfaces for weight control?