DELL LATITUDE E6430 I5 pro

paul1149 said:

How hot is the air coming out of the machine?

TBH it's not that warm that it's 2 hot I could hold my hand there no problem and the bottom is warm not crazy hot.this dell e6430 I have using it looks nearly new with few scratches on the lid other than that it's class. I pulled the back off it and keyboard looked around the fan and it's clean. Pity dell did not make the fan separate from the heatsink so easy to take off without the heatsink

paul1149 said:

How hot is the air coming out of the machine?

its warm tbh but im just going by the temp numbers. bottom seems warm but not crazy hot though

2009joseph said:

TBH it's not that warm that it's 2 hot I could hold my hand there no problem and the bottom is warm not crazy hot.this dell e6430 I have using it looks nearly new with few scratches on the lid other than that it's class. I pulled the back off it and keyboard looked around the fan and it's clean. Pity dell did not make the fan separate from the heatsink so easy to take off without the heatsink

its warm tbh but im just going by the temp numbers. bottom seems warm but not crazy hot though

This doesn't add up. If the unit is running hot the case should reflect that. And if the fan is doing its job the exhaust air should reflect the heat. It may be that your sensors are messed up, or the bios.

The fins must be thoroughly clean. The fan must be spinning freely. The thermal paste has to be good. Those are the basics. Having the right drivers - and not having ghost drivers - can help. Having enough RAM can keep the HD cool. An SSD will keep temps down a little.

paul1149 said:

2009joseph said:

TBH it's not that warm that it's 2 hot I could hold my hand there no problem and the bottom is warm not crazy hot.this dell e6430 I have using it looks nearly new with few scratches on the lid other than that it's class. I pulled the back off it and keyboard looked around the fan and it's clean. Pity dell did not make the fan separate from the heatsink so easy to take off without the heatsink

its warm tbh but im just going by the temp numbers. bottom seems warm but not crazy hot though

This doesn't add up. If the unit is running hot the case should reflect that. And if the fan is doing its job the exhaust air should reflect the heat. It may be that your sensors are messed up, or the bios.

The fins must be thoroughly clean. The fan must be spinning freely. The thermal paste has to be good. Those are the basics. Having the right drivers - and not having ghost drivers - can help. Having enough RAM can keep the HD cool. An SSD will keep temps down a little.

i loaded on the new bios on this and its got 8gb ram and a sandisk extreme pro 480gb new ssd.i took it apart and cleaned the fans myself i even did a dell test on the fan with back off and keyboard up so i can see it spins great with no noise.im sorta thinking my last call is new cpu paste and then god knows.the guy sold me this laptop told me the laptop is serviced and dont need that as all has done to it new cpu paste as well.as i bought it from him and he seemed really sound.also yep the bottom of the base is cool to touch all good there 2 just those numbers puts me off

If the cpu is hot, but nothing else, it could mean the paste job got messed up.

paul1149 said:

If the cpu is hot, but nothing else, it could mean the paste job got messed up.

might try that all right.i was chatting with dell no software to make fan go faster and any 3rd party software wont work.i was thinking what if i soldered into the main board beside the power jack a fan control and connect the fan up to that

paul1149 said:

If the cpu is hot, but nothing else, it could mean the paste job got messed up.

funny enough i took off the back asap and put my finger on the cpu heatsing and was not that bad dont know why im getting those numbers

Four possibilities. The heatsink is not receiving the heat, the cpu or its sensors is defective, the motherboard is not reporting correctly, or the bios is defective. A repaste will eliminate the first, a known-good replacement cpu the second. You could try a dif bios version for the last. And that leaves the third.

paul1149 said:

Four possibilities. The heatsink is not receiving the heat, the cpu or its sensors is defective, the motherboard is not reporting correctly, or the bios is defective. A repaste will eliminate the first, a known-good replacement cpu the second. You could try a dif bios version for the last. And that leaves the third.

you are right buddy im going to do that but might upgrade the heatsink to the twin pipe one.sould that be better.after the paset is good im just going to leve it it can then blow up then for all i care then lol.well i cant thank you enough because dell online was not much chat.i said about it they told me always have the bios updated to the newest