VirtualLarry I have a different take on the Long-term install of Windows, either 7 or 10, please bear with me. IMHO the long-term install of Windows generally is 5-7 years or more. Now considering this lifespan, and little to moderate load (browsing+video viewing + word processing + worksheet +...
Does it not make sense to have the cache and temp folders on a separate HDD and not on a SSD? There are applications, Firefox is one which comes to my mind, which write massive amount of data less than 4KB in size. If we have the cache along with the temp and page file systems in a SSD then due...
Well the final update from my side. Running Linux on the machine did not help. The laptop still slowed down considerably, I could see that the speed was throttled upto some 200 Mhz for both the cores. Also Mrs was getting pretty annoyed with the laptop. Had to dispose of the laptop and get a new...
The laptop choice is pretty good. Before you do please ask yourself the following questions
1) Is the RAM and SDD replaceable?
2) Is the battery replaceable?
Also consider how long are you willing to keep this laptop before buying a replacement.
In India the Dell XPS has only one option, i.e. with a 33 cms/13 inch screen. Unlike US where a 15 inch screen variant is also available. We have been stuck with the 13 inch one for a long time now in India. And considering the price point at which it is offered, it is surprising that even the...
Previously my laptop was set to "Portable/Laptop" power profile. I have changed it to "Home/Office Desk". I will update this thread with more details.
Using a different OS, I will try to install Pepermint Linux or Lubuntu or any other Linux OS on a pen drive and try to use that and see the...
Please find the screen shot of HWMonitor along with Task Manager.
HWMonitor along with Windows Task Manager after 5 minutes of booting of laptop. 4 applications were opened over here, Mozilla Firefox, MS Paint, Windows Task Manager, HW Monitor 1.29
HW Monitor along with Task Manager after 10...
The reason that I am so insistent on this is that I plan to convert this old laptop to a home cum media cum NAS server running Linux. And I want it to be able to sustain a particular amount of load. So I need to fix this CPU slowness and possibly the heat issue too. I believe that they are inter...
My point of contention is that the CPU frequency in real time as reported by HW Monitor or Core Temp never goes above 1017 MHz once the temperature crosses 60 degree mark. Even under heavy load. Also the bottom of my Laptop is hot to touch after 30 minutes of work. You are possibly right that...
My two cents to this. My company has given me a Laptop with 16gb of RAM. I use it to open Outlook and Lync/Skype, 20-25 Tabs of Chrome, Word Processor, Excel and other servers+Tools. I have seen that even at the end of the day or peak of the day RAM utilisation never crosses 10 gb. Neither is my...
If you look at image that I have uploaded of HW Monitor under the heading "After opening of Firefox Browser, Word Processor, Paint and HW Monitor" there the "Max" value of Temperature is "51-53". At the same time under the Clocks and the Column "Value" the reading is of 1663Mhz.
Now look at the...
HW Monitor at the bootup of the Laptop
After Opening of Firefox browser, Word Processor, Paint and HW Monitor
10-15 minutes after running all the applications together.
Yes the temperatures that are shown above are the ones that I see too, though the values shown in my case are different then the one shown above. Further the image shown above also has a reading for Package under the Temperature. That is one value that I do not see.
Further the hierarchy of...
HW Monitor shows reading in a tree hierarchial structure. The top most is the my desktop's Name along with a ID. Just below that is the Processor details node. Just below Processor petails nodes is the "Temperatures" node. Under the "Temperatures" node there are the cores listed. In this node...
So in the past few days, I have observed the following
1) I have still to complete 200 hrs. The threshold of the BreakIn of the thermal paste.
2) I have seen minimum frequency of 197 MHz in HW Monitor 1.29 32 bit.
3) I have seen the max temperature cross to about 68 degrees centigrade. And...
You are right, Dell does not give that level of control in BIOS, where I can change the CPU Speed based on temperature . I will observe the temperature, CPU Frequency and the CPU load for the next few days and update this. thread once again. Hopefully I would be able to see an increase in CPU...
Hi,
I am trying to attach images or links to Drop box images in my forum posts. However the image is not shown when I preview the post. The image that has been uploaded into Drop box is available for public viewing by everybody and I have a HTTPS link for the same.
Can you please help...
If you have one more laptop or desktop can you please try to put the crucial MX300 SSD into another Desktop or laptop and see if you can install Windows 7 over there? If the installation of Windows 7 works over at another machine then it highly likely that it might be something on the laptop...
Have been using HW Monitor since yesterday. Have again observed that the CPU gets throttled, once temperature crosses 60 degrees. The maximum value of my CPU is 1667 Mhz which gets throttled to 998-960 Mhz for both the cores. I have even seen speed upto 810 Mhz. Once the temperature peaks at 60...
Allright will get CPUID HW Monitor today in the evening and use that to log the temperature and CPU. Till now I was using CoreTemp and SpeedFan. SpeedFan always flags anything above 50 degrees Centigrade as burning. Moreover I have not been able to get SpeedFan to log the temperature along with...
I ran CoreTemp 1.0 in Logging mode before I replaced the Thermal paste. In that mode I capture the temperature and the CPU Frequency for each core. Each time the temperature of the CPU's crosses 60 degrees centigrade I can see the core speed in Mhz drop from 1661.47 to 996.88. Once that happens...
I did some reading on ThrottleStop. Part of it has generated concern regarding the impact on the CPU and the possibility of permanent damage. It does not look like a safe option.
Also the documentation of AS5 said that
Also can you please let me know how you applied the thermal paste? Was it...
Well it appears i cannot upload pictures from drop box to this forum.
VirtualLarry, to answer your question, I am still observing CPU throttling once the temperature crosses 60 degrees centigrade.
According to the documentation of Arctic Silver 5...
This is a newbie question so please bear with me. Why would the RAM cause installation to fail with a SSD when the same RAM appears to work fine with the old HDD and does not report an issue with MemTest86? Shouldn't it be the case of the BIOS or motherboard which is causing this failure? For...
So today I finally got around to replacing the paste on my Laptop. First spent a significant amount of time going over videos on YouTube as well as documentation on the Artic Silver website. Cleaned up the heat sink and the CPU. Kept two items in mind
1) Did not touch the surface of the heat...
Got my Thermal paste today, it is Arctic Silver 5. The isopropyl alcohol is on its way. It has been crazy for the past 2 months at work hence could not do anything related to my old computer. Funny thing is I could not get isopropyl alcohol at any of the chemist and druggist near my place. We in...
I was doing a bit of reading on the subject of CPU cooling and I came across the option of Thermoelectric cooling using Peltier Plate. Some of the people in other forums have suggested that using this we should be able to keep the temperature of the CPU down to 20-30 degrees centigrade...
Allright just finished cleaning the laptop from the inside. Disassembled it completely, and then cleaned it. It was not that much dusty. In fact my daughters netbook had more amount of grime inside the laptop then my ancient laptop. Today I was reminded why I still love Dell Laptops. The heat...
I ran Core Temp 4.5.1 in logging mode over a period of 6 hours or so. Over this period I observed that once the temperature increases to or crosses 60 degrees centigrade mark the CPU throttles. I mean all the cores of the CPU throttle. The rated capacity of my processor is 1.66 Ghz and after...
This will appear to be a newbie question, so please bear with me. How did you make the determination that the thermal compound had dried out?
What thermal paste did you use? Read in a few forums that the thermal paste with metals or ceramics is the best.
Is there a possibility of using liquid cooling for laptops like some gamers and over clockers do with their desktops?And are they recommended?
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I am in a place where I want to reuse this particular laptop by converting it to a media server cum NAS cum bit torrent client cum home server. This will depend on the fact that the laptop performance becomes more acceptable than it is now. I just do not want to throw the laptop away, but use it...
Recently I observed that my Dell Inspiron laptop was running a bit slow. On observing the temperature using SpeedFan I found the following readings
1) CPU core temp 59 degrees centigrade *at 100% CPU Load.
2) GPU temp 57 degrees centigrade at 50% CPU load.
3) HDD temp 47 degrees centigrade...
Recently I observed that my Dell Inspiron laptop was running a bit slow. On observing the temperature using SpeedFan I found the following readings
1) CPU core temp 59 degrees centigrade at 100% CPU Load.
2) GPU temp 57 degrees centigrade at 50% CPU load.
3) HDD temp 47 degrees centigrade...
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