lol used to have this machine, ITS A HOT POTATO, despite being the i5 version and no dgpu, it runs fine but the biggest bottleneck is the HD 3000 igpu on the 900p screen.
Sold one like this to my mom (E5420) and she uses it as a daily driver and it's good for her. Hubby uses a E6430 as his daily driver and likes it too. I use a mix of Precision T3600. Inspiron 3525 (ryzen 7), Latitude 5400 for day to day lol
Okay, no! NO! I REFUSE to consider this retro, this is still a modern machine which is NOT retro or vintage. It hurts me to even think about the fact that Windows XP machines are considered vintage now, but I can kind of deal with it now, but I draw the line at this. That is a modern PC which is in no way vintage or retro. It has an Intel I series CPU for god sake, that is better than every single laptop that I have... I am still running a Pentium M and I don't consider it retro or vintage.
So basically it's the T420's awful cousin. The GPU temps seem like there's a problem with the contact surface tbh (maybe designed with a thermal pad in mind, and now it's paste that can't bridge the gap properly?), as the same GPU in the thonkpads (while hotter than I'd like) still gets nowhere near 100C jfc
I think I remember using these models of the Latitude series in middle school. They probably were the lowest model, but I vividly remember those lunkers got hot real fast, even with just browsing the internet and having a word doc open at the same time.
I’ve had three of these Dell latitude laptops, first one was this exact model given to me by my old middle school that I had to give back. The second one was the E6430 that I bought during the height of COVID because I liked how sturdy and well-built my old E6420 was, but I accidentally spilt a full, tall cup of tea all over it and it never turned on again. The HDD still worked though, and I’m using it in my PS3 some five years later. My third Dell latitude is the one I just bought a few hours ago from eBay, another E6430 that I bought some upgrades for such as a bigger SSD and secondary HDD caddy to put in another HDD. I love these damn things, I plan on bringing it to college with me for creative work, despite their age they still pull their weight a decade later.
Got the newer E6430 decked out as much as i could. So 16GB memory and 240GB ssd a quad core i7-3740qm and a intel 7260 wifi card. It runs very nice with these upgrades.
I had that same laptop, it was the i5-2540M version, it was a very hot potato but i remember that even windows 22h2 ran perfectly fine, i remember that you had to install drivers to get sleep and hibernation (and also fast startup)
i Have this laptop upgraded it to a I7-2760QM I also have the extended battery pack (btw to fix the overheating you need to use a thermal pad and thermal paste
Get rid of the crappy thermal paste that dell has been using for decades and use something that actually works and you will drop the load temps by 15-20c easy. Also replace the thermal pads with good ones and that will help as well. One place I worked at had a bunch of these and I never had problems with them overheating. Something is definitely wrong. Could even be a bad heatpipe. I just noticed that your cooler is the single heatpipe one. Guessing that is also part of your problem. I'm thinking that the contact height is also different for the cooler for the Nvidia cards.
Thank you for the video, i have the same laptop destroyed somewhere in my hardware store, my brother destroy the screen when he was sleeping (he put some big headphones in the middle of the keyboard and screen) then i tried to use it with an external monitor and it works for 2 weeks until the HDD and the Battery failed so now is with broken screen and without battery and HDD 😂😢 i think it don't worth fixing it at this point but what u think?
"I got This thing for free from somebody who may or may not be watching this channel I don't know" Just so you know, I'm in you're house.... Touching you're Stuff... Eating You're Toast >:3
I honestly find it hard to believe. I have a first gen i3 Acer laptop from 2010 that came with 4 Gb stock. 2 Gb is more typical of the Windows Vista era (2007-8). The laptop I bought new in 2007 came with that memory size and was not high range by any means.
@@betapyteag Why, just why... 2 gb in 2012 AND it's not a Celeron or similar crap in the CPU department. I certainly did not see something like that in stores at the time.
additionally, the problems with sleep mode/hibernation are caused by the O2Micro external media controllers. it is best to disable them entirely to be able to use sleep mode (and by extension, hibernation and fast startup)
i think you messed something up i just swapped the hdd to an ssd and added ram and it runs windows 10 with a bootloader. its my daily driver, the thing can even play left for dead. I use it for wizard101, but I developed an entire roblox game last year too. Something went wrong here i swear 😂
