E6420 Owner's Thread

I have the nVidia GPU installed. It's driving me crazy. I can't even get into the Bios with the dock connected.

 

Beware with the Artic silver 5 since it is a metal based (silver) compound and it is not completely not-conductive:

The Artic Silver 5 was the best themal compound on the market 5 or 6 years ago, but that is not longer the case, nowadays there are much better thermal compounds out there.
The problem is that when people read the reviews and comments in the specialized forums, they don't pay attention to the year in which the posts and reviews were written, and that's why many people still think that the Artic Silver 5 is the best thermal compound on the market.... when that is not longer true.

Just my 2 cents.

 

Hi,
I have an AUO313E screen and its absolutely grainy... When looked from about 1 feet far, I can clearly see dotted squares on the screen.

It just seems like luck of the draw, from what I read on here, the samsung screen is much better.

 

Thermal paste is thermal paste. The cheap, non-branded white goop is just about as good as any.

 

This is only half true...there are differences that lead to a few degrees better thermal transmission...though, it probably makes little real world difference.

It all comes down to: Measured difference vs observed difference.

 

Curious, has anybody come up with a part number for the OEM DELL MODULAR BAY HARD DRIVE CADDY?

...or...is anybody selling their caddy?

 

You can tell me that you don't care about your machine being some degrees cooler but you can't tell me that its the same a cheap non-branded thermal compound than an expensive good-reviewed branded one, because this is not true, a good thermal compound will make cooler your machine.

This is a fact: the Artic MX-4 is making my laptop 5ºC degrees cooler than previously with the dell's thermal compound.... and 5ºC degrees is the difference between my laptop at 95ºC under very continue high load without throttling down the speed or at 100ºC with the CPU throttled down.

So... probably this don't matters if you don't put your machine under high loads continually, but otherwise it matters.

 

That is what I thought but I am getting it exchanged because of the keyboard, left mouse button and the screen is horrid it looks like I am looking though a window screen so hopefully the new one will be better.

 

Here's the part number that was on my invoice:
[#342-2284] 320GB E-Modular Hard Drive 7200RPM, Dell Latitude E

 

Many thanks! Still no hit with these DPNs on the Dell Parts website, but I will keep searching...