E6520 Owner's Thread

I did get past the driver signing error, but I could not select the flash option and people in other forums said you have to pay (or keygen) to be able to flash.

Speedfan doesn't even detect my fan, even though I have the dell checkbox checked. The fan control seems pretty good to me anyway. The fan seem to kick in at 60C, and go full blast at 80C.

 

The HDMI is only output port.

What is your room temperature?

 

Usually around 72F.

The fact that the port is an input is absolutely amazing for me. That means I can send the 460's output over the HDMI cable to the laptop instead of having to go over pci-e, which lets me use the FHD screen at no performance loss.

 

The HDMI port is an OUTPUT only port and is NOT bi-directional.

Scott-

 

Sorry for my mistake, it's an hdmi output port, not input.

My room temperature these days is about 30C (86F). My i7-2720qm will be over 90C when 4 cores are all full load. Turbo boost turns off when the cpu temp is over 95C. But the temp of nvs 4200m is lower, it is always below 80C when it's in full load.

 

Yeah I just checked the HDMI port on our TV. Definitely an output. Sucks for me, but good for almost everyone else.

Interesting that your turbo boost shuts off. Mine stays on even in the high 90s. When I 1st start Prime95 the cpu will be at 2.7ghz, and drops down to 2.5ghz in the high 90s.

I am going by the clock readings of throttlestop by the way. It gives you an average over time instead of an instant in time like cpu-z.

 

Turbo boost will not shut off until cpu temperature reaches 95c. When the cpu reaches 95c, 2720qm drops to default 2.2GHz for a few seconds. Then the temp drops to 80s, Turbo boost starts again.

 

ebay has 2nd drive caddy for $17, did anybody try this before?.

 

The ebay caddy is missing the faceplate and has no latch mechanism. Pretty low quality and will fall out if you travel with the laptop. Go to newmodeus.com and look at thier caddy. Top notch and much cheaper than Dell's

 

I have a latitude with a 250 gb hard drive, and am thinking of upgrading to a larger size. However, looking on Dell's site, it seems that the maximum hard drive size is 500 GB and the orginal hard drive is 7mm. Is the 500 GB hard drive the max size dell offers, or is it the max limited by the motherboard? Also, will 9mm hard drives work in the hard drive caddy?(not the optical drive replacement caddy, the orginal caddy)