E6410 Owner's Thread

Are you positive about that? Because notebookcheck review seems to confirm both 6510 having an excellent screen and the 6410 having a low contrasty/small colorspace screen and it seems very much in line with what I have observed.

6410: Review Dell Latitude E6410 Notebook - NotebookCheck.net Reviews
6510: Review Dell Latitude E6510 Notebook - NotebookCheck.net Reviews

I know that my 6510 had an LG screen. This 6410 has the AUO.

I suppose I'm not upto the lottery game if that's been the consensus about the 6510 display. I always believed the WLED FHD panels for the 6510 were far superior and that's one of the biggest reasons I chose the 6510 in the first place back then. I got the 6410 now because I didn't have a good 6510 listed, but it promptly showed up once I made this purchase.

 

It may be slightly above average, since it's the premium 1920x1080 panel, but that's about it.

You can try using the Nvidia control panel to reduce the gamma to ~0.8 and see if it helps, but personally, I'm done with TN panels...sticking with IPS now.

 

I hear ya. I shall have something to update my signature soon.

 

A sweet shiny plastic "wrapped" extended 9 cell has made its way to me. Let's see if I got a deal or a dud.

The 6 cell that came with it holds charge pretty good, about 2 hours with medium-high usage (75% health.), I'm hoping to get at least twice that from this 9 cell.

 

So applied Arctic Silver 5 just now. I am a little worried as I haven't applied as much as Dell had on there. When I pulled the heatsink from the CPU, it was stuck rather snugly and when I finally got it off (gently), I saw it was totally encompassing both the cores and the gap in between them. Basically, just a huge square around the two cores.

I cleaned it out and I applied enough only on the two cores and some on the heatsink. Enough to cover the cores and not really a huge muddy layer, just a thinnish coat (not very thin though). I didn't apply it between the two cores as Dell had.

What I'm observing now (Less than 15 minute break in):

1. Not sure if true or paranoia, fan kicks in more often. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? I am assuming better conductivity is transferring more heat to the heat sink so the fan has more heat to get rid of.

2. One core is consistently cooler than the other. (by about 2-5 degree C). I'm wondering if this is a function of varying amount of past applied or is that how the nature of the two cores is?

3. While browsing with 10-15 tabs open (reasonably heavy tabs at that), temperatures are varying as follows:

Core 0: 50-60 C
Core 2: 45-59 C
GPU: 65-72 C

Is this normal? I honestly regret (knowing I would) not noting down the older temperatures for comparison. I'm afraid I may have applied too little (but wouldn't be surprised if it's actually too much).

I must mention this is under Lubuntu 64bit 13.04.

Off to perform some stress testing.

 

Between the two cores, the delta seems a bit large. Did you apply the grease as directed (thin coating spread out using a credit card)? Too much grease is no good either.

 

ur cpu temp looks fine but you might want to do copper mod on your gpu, if you havent already. You dont "need" it but nice to have it.

 

Yeah I used a credit card. The tricky part was leaving a layer on and not scraping it off completely. Can't believe I didn't take photos before and after applying the paste.

From memory, compared to what was on there originally, this is definitely 'thin.' I just don't know how thin the right amount is supposed to be.

The delta is usually at 2C between the cores but I've seen upto 5C. I'll see how it pans out, I may open it up and redo it.

I vaguely recall coming across the copper mod when I was looking for info earlier, is it just replacing the copper shim that sits on the GPU? (Googling now). I mean I don't game but a GPU that's at a high temp like that has GOT to be sucking battery life.


Ooh, I just noticed your sig, you dropped in an 820QM, interesting. I was just looking on ebay to see 720QM prices. From another post here on notebookreview, it seemed that the tradeoff with battery life was significant (not that that's a dealbreaker for me) but I am worried about temperatures and throttling.

How is it working out for you with the 820QM? I actually might end up doing this.

Thanks!

 

Did you tighten the heatsink screws in a diagonal pattern (ike lug nuts)?

Copper mod isn't necessary on the E6410 as long as the thermal pad is in good shape and the grease on the CPU is good.

 

Yeah, I did. Made sure it was sitting evenly before fully tightening all four. Perhaps it might be worth re-doing.

The thermal pad looked fine, but I don't know what fine is. I cleaned off some dust on the gpu with a blower.