E6410 Owner's Thread

Is the fan from M4500 compatible with E6410? There are different kinds for M4500 and I am trying to snap in with ones that come with quad core i7s. Yes the E6410 is having heat issues but that beefier fan should do it.

Was wondering if the pin connector and the size is compatible.

 

No, the whole thing is beefier and too large to fit (not to mention, the mounting points are different).

What are the temperatures like? With the stock thermal grease replaced, the E6410 usually runs quite cool.

 

Running the model in the sig. Hit 96c running BF3 in low setting. I should be repasting and doing the copper mod, which I assume should help. But I am thinking of upgrading to i7 quad down the road as well.

can I just take the fan out of the whole fan enclosure of the M4500? and replace the bare fans?

This is the beefy fan I want:
Dell Precision M4500 CPU Heatsink CFFP7 Fan DFB601505M30T | eBay

This is what I mean by bare fan:
Dell Precision M4500 CPU Cooling Fan DFB601505M30T New | eBay

Edit: Man it looks like fans can't really be bare stripped on the E6410. Urggg this fan is just too slow.

 

Replacing the fan probably won't do anything useful, even if it was possible.

"Upgrading" to an i7 Quad won't help with either heat or performance. Most games are not CPU intensive and rarely use multiple cores, which means that clock speed will be more important. I wouldn't plan on gaming with the E6410...

 

It gets up to 85ish even without gaming. Flash contents + a lot of office work. I found a "beefy" fan for the e6410 and I am gonna give it a try with a copper mod.

 

It's been warm for the past couple days, but with 68F room temperature, my system usually idles around 120F for the CPU and 140F for the GPU. Even working on large Visio drawings, the temperature never gets over 150F with moderate fan speed.

Are you sure your fan isn't defective and spinning at lower RPMs than it should be? Even an E6410 with i7-640M and discrete graphics doesn't get that warm during normal use. Although 1080p Flash videos are something else...

 

The fan is running alright. Just disassembled to check the dust. I had the M4500, M4400, and E6400 so I know what kind of fan blow to expect in full load. My fan is the weakly small one. Just isn't blowing right. But I figure copper mod will help as well.

My mobo is likely needed to be replaced so I need to wait on the copper mod till after warranty transfer and mobo swap.

But meanwhile if you have any other tweaks I can try, let me know. Thanks man.

I just realized we have the same specs! What do you get with Prime95 with your cpu at full load?

 

Get your heatsink replaced with the motherboard, it'll help to have new thermal pads. The stock cooling should be sufficient unless you want to game.

It's peaks around 175-180F, but never more than 185F. With 77F room temperature, it got up to 182F running at full load.

On the other hand, my Optiplex 980 idles at 86F. Got to love the BTX chassis...it takes a fair amount of load to make it go above 100F.

 

any reason as to why an e6410 with 64 bit windows 8 and 8gb ram shows only 7.86 usable?
i am using the discrete card (nvidia)

 

some hardware device in the system has addressable (and non-remapable) memory in that 8GB range, or memory is being reserved for on-board graphics