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
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.
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.
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
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 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
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)
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.
wow do you daily those? my dad has a like 2006 atom netbook running whatever the last mint ubuntu was with 32 bit support but doesnt use it as a laptop really ignore my comment i misheard and thought the machine was older.
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 😂
I also have 6420 with 120gb of ssd and 8gb of ram. Runs Windows 10 perfectly, I can also play some older sim games like fs15 with decent fps. My only problem is lack of storage. 120gb is not cutting it
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?
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.
@@betapyteag Disable turboboost. By the way, depending on your thermal solution, you might be able to replace a dual core CPU (35W) for one I7 with 45W (and 4 cores!), as long as you disable turbo boost as well. In most cases, the extra cores compensate for the loss of turbo boost and lower single core performance. Liquid metal might make wonders, but even arctic MX4 might drop your temperatures by a good margin. And depending on your temperature, you can enable a "limited" turbo boost on windows via throttlestop. These are pratically your only options outside of crazy modding.
"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)
currently watching this video from a E6410 with a ssd upgrade and linux!
avg i3wm user
I still have this laying around not working anymore. Keeping it just for nostalgia. This brings back memory
I own a i7 E6440. Rock solid. Installed a Samsung EVO 500GB SSD and 16 gigs of ram. Dual booting Windows 10 pro and Xubuntu 22.04 LTS. Love it. ❤
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.
it has the Quadro NVS 4200M, i can't believe at how i used to regularly play Genshin Impact on it
@@abiepr_328Must be nice to have the version with a gpu! I can’t even play Minecraft 1.17 when it came out because it lacks the instruction sets
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
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.
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.
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 was able to get 2 of these and install batocera for retro gaming and it works great.
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 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
I revived this laptop not long ago, and it hit Tj. max even in the BIOS. It truly is a hot potato!
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 own this laptop and it’s still amazing
I have the rugged version of this laptop, the Dell Latitude E6420 XFR.
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.
cool????
@@betapyteagNot really, I am getting old and I don't like it.
Ok grandad
@@Wither5000ok bud
wow do you daily those? my dad has a like 2006 atom netbook running whatever the last mint ubuntu was with 32 bit support but doesnt use it as a laptop really
ignore my comment i misheard and thought the machine was older.
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 😂
I also have 6420 with 120gb of ssd and 8gb of ram. Runs Windows 10 perfectly, I can also play some older sim games like fs15 with decent fps. My only problem is lack of storage. 120gb is not cutting it
My one is an i5 and it’s lagging on windows 10.Can i fix it by installing a 128GB SSD?
Same question bro did you bought it is it fixed now?
@@FURQAN.- use ssd then its work properly
Why only 128gb ssd? Why not larger ssd?
Solid laptop, can be upgraded with SSD and add extra RAM for Windows 10 , even the bootleg version of Windows 11 can run on it
Own a dell latitude e6400 atg and e6540. Both amazing, but the e6400's screen is failong by the matte coating delaminating
daaaaaaamn this PC came free ?
This is a very good PC ! <
only bad point is the battery
Also use Speedfan to monitor your CPU and GPU temps
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?
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.
this has already been repasted, and the cooler is a dual pipe one.
@@betapyteag Disable turboboost. By the way, depending on your thermal solution, you might be able to replace a dual core CPU (35W) for one I7 with 45W (and 4 cores!), as long as you disable turbo boost as well. In most cases, the extra cores compensate for the loss of turbo boost and lower single core performance. Liquid metal might make wonders, but even arctic MX4 might drop your temperatures by a good margin. And depending on your temperature, you can enable a "limited" turbo boost on windows via throttlestop. These are pratically your only options outside of crazy modding.
And my VAIO laptop from 2013 seems like almost as functional as this thing except the BIOS and I still don't have an 8GB upgrade😑
can my dell latitude E6420 Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2520M CPU @ 2.50GHz 2.50 GHz can have 16gb RAM? can anyone advice please
i ued the atg 6410 i had the one with nvidia gpu and installed the i7 840qm
"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
nice vid bro
GPU is overheating so it's running on its minimal performance plan I guess
i will try my best to make money from this and move to dell inspiron 15 soon!!
what were they thinking back in the day shipping i5 cpus with 2gb of ram
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.
according to the dell service tag it shipped with 2gb.
@@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.
wasn't the 1st gen i3 released in 2010 i had a 2011 toshiba with a 1st gen i3 and it cam stock with 4gb of ram@@BilisNegra
the i5-2540m and the nvs 4200m sku is unbearably hot and can only be sated with the magnesium case
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)
Install Windows ME on an old laptop and try to game on it, why? Why not
420
Weed number
needs a ssd.
"E6420"💀 ill leave u to the joke