E6410 Owner's Thread

I found a used Latitude e6410 on Amazon a few months ago and bought it. The laptop came with 2gb ram, an i5 540m, 250gb WD hdd, dvd burner, the regular 1280x800 display, a legitimate copy of Windows 7 Pro with the original Dell system restore dvd. The laptop was advertised as having a backlit keyboard on amazon (mine did not come with one unfortunately). However, I was pleased to find that my laptop came with the NVIDIA NVS 3100m instead of the Intel Integrated graphics. So far I have upgraded the laptop to 8gb of corsair Ram, mildly overclocked the GPU, and other random tweaks. I plan on adding a 7200rpm 750gb hdd because I need the space and because a similarly sized ssd is obscenely expensive. So far it has been a great laptop. The battery is almost 5 years old so it only holds about half of its original capacity. The i5 is a great cpu but I plan on installing a quad core i7 to max this thing out. Has anybody successfully installed a 740qm or 840qm in one of these laptops? Will heat be an issue? Is the motherboard capable of handling the extra 10 watts to the cpu socket? There seems to be a big lack of information on this topic so hopefully somebody can help. I know the first gen i7s are incompatible with the integrated graphics but because I have the Nvidia card this shouldn't be an issue. Any help is appreciated. Glad to be an e6410 owner

 

To answer the question regarding a quad core i7: yes, you can do it!

I posted my experience with the 740-QM in the below thread:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/dell-latitude-e6410-i7-720qm-works.548126/page-4

Update to the latest BIOS and you'll be fine. Heat WILL increase and even using crazy Coolaboratory liquid metal thermal material between the CPU die and the heatsink, expect a guaranteed 10 degree C temp increase at idle. The fan will turn on more often but not too heavily. Using Prime95 to stress the CPU gives low ~80C's temps which is more or less what the i5 reached without the liquid metal thermal material so max heat isn't too bad either.

The Nvidia GPU gets hot when used heavily so I'd advise against the quad core if you're going to be regularly using programs that load both the GPU and CPU - for my usage this isn't a concern but bare it in mind.

 

Hello
I bought a wwan card (gobi 2000 HS-USB QDloader 9204) and installed it but i cannot use it please help me .

 

Guys I need your help. My E6410 has heat isssues caused by the GPU

I replaced the thermal paste on the CPU and got new a thermal pad for the GPU.

The CPU temperature is fine in idle (~40C) and under load (~50C), but the GPU is at 78C and goes up to 98-100C when watching a flash video. This is shortly before thermal shut down of the system.

As I said the thermal pad is new and it worked fine the first 2 Weeks (fine as in the GPU temperature was at ~95C when watching youtube)

What are you're GPU themperatures?

Thanks

Array

 

Hello to all,

I've just got an used Dell E6410 (with i5 560M) and I'm trying to configure it for a digital audio workstation ((Win 7 x64, 4Gb RAM, HD 250Gb). I need it to have a 'fixed' clock (not going up and down) - it could be the maximum of this machine (2.6GHz) non-turbo, or a bit lower, but it must be stable to get low latency and audio stable (for Firewire 800 audio, Dante, etc...)

I believe that Throttlestop is the tool to achive this, as I did on another machine (Clevo i7), but I'm having no luck with this E6410, it keeps throttling up and down...

Someone could please help me?

Which version of Throttlestop and configuration should I use? BIOS?

Thanks a lot!

 

What CPU options do you hve in the BIOS? Is there one for disabling Speedstep? If so, that probably leaves the CPU running at full speed.

John

 

Hello John,

I'm using BIOS rev A16 (which I believe is the latest from DELL) on this E6410 (i5 560M 2.6GHz):

Multi Core Support [X] All
[X] Enable Hyperthreading Support
[ ] Enable Intel SpeedStep (off)
[ ] Enable Intel TurboBoost (off)
[X] Enable Intel Virtualization Technology
[ ] Enable VT for Direct I/O (off)
[ ] Trusted Execution (off)

I installed ThrottleStop 7 so I can at least monitor CPU speeds and temp.

While running a proc. load (like TS Bench), ThrottleStop 'works' for a while: I can set Multiplier/FID (from 9 to 20 ~ 2.7GHz). Enabling Turbo, (also while a load running) it gets 22 (almost 3GHz).

But as soon as load ends, Multiplier/FIDs goes from 11~13 'randomly', while last core (4th/HT) goes 12~16. General speed goes from 1.8 to 1.5 GHz. Clock Modulation/CMD and Chipset Clock Mod does not seem to move from 100% (both).

Win 7 system Power Options are set to 'High Performance', and advanced power settings are set accordingly:

Processor performance core parking min cores 100% / 100%
Minimun processor state 100% / 100%
System cooling policy Active / Active
Maximum processor state 100% / 100%

What am I missing?

Thanks again John.

 

Try minimum processor state at 99 rather than 100 maybe?


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Hello Alex, I tried 99, 95, 90,... same results.

That's why I'm really confused.

Thanks anyway!

 

Something is being too clever. Possibly the Intel chipset driver or similar.

I'm wondering if good old RMclock could do something which ThrottleStop can't. Or try Intel's XTU.

John