The problem is exactly same with the 7400 that's the 14-inch model. I like how they do reviews they have sitting right on the table, and it works fine. BS. I have worked on many of these. All are the same. You can put new thermal grease, doesnt help. The cpu and gpu are on the same chip. They both heat each other up, the copper heatsink is so thin it cant displace the heat at all, and the copper heatsink going to the fan is so thin you have to be careful taking it off or it will bend. The fan is 1/4 thick inches in diameter, and the fan is 2 inches in diameter, really what can that do, you can feel a little heat come out of the vents, but it needs to be a bigger fan that can move air. The turbo is what is causing it, every time you click on something the turbo maxes out the cpu and gets supper hot. Its a big jump from 1.6 ghz to almost 4ghz. Thats why the old laptops separated the cpu from the gpu and so they wouldnt heat each other up, and they had beefy heatsinks, with fans twice as big. The only way you can use these junk design laptops, is to go to power settings- then change the max power on the cpu to about 95 percent. After doing that to many of these, the turbo wasn't able to kick in and ran pretty cool. You can go to bios and turn off the turbo, but most people might mess other things up, so through power settings is better in my opinion. These days nothing is tested, they just design and start mass production, without testing, then someone gets one, they call dell support, and you talk to someone in India that gives you the run around. I love the older dells, the newer i think the design is worse. Maybe dell should take apart one of apples laptops, they have no vents underneath, but they seem to run cool sitting on a flat surface. Then you will hear, your updates have to be the newest, that's bull also. Have some laptops havent been updated for many years but they are older and still work great. I have dells from 2008 dell d630 830 they are still running strong. Any new laptop out, lucky you get 2 years out of it. Thats what was planned get rid of older laptops that are still running good. Force people to buy new, and then they can buy a new one every 2 years making computer companies good money. Make them like the tv's, just throw out every couple year and buy new. Kind of got of the subject.
UserOfLaptops
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October 18th, 2020 20:00
Does this still happen? I would recommend repasting the thermal paste on the heatsink
Gladpants
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October 19th, 2020 09:00
We found it was related to the sleep state. https://www.dell.com/community/Tablets-Mobile-Devices/Why-has-Dell-crippled-the-Windows-control-panel-advanced-power/m-p/4412180#M25436
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The problem is exactly same with the 7400 that's the 14-inch model. I like how they do reviews they have sitting right on the table, and it works fine. BS. I have worked on many of these. All are the same. You can put new thermal grease, doesnt help. The cpu and gpu are on the same chip. They both heat each other up, the copper heatsink is so thin it cant displace the heat at all, and the copper heatsink going to the fan is so thin you have to be careful taking it off or it will bend. The fan is 1/4 thick inches in diameter, and the fan is 2 inches in diameter, really what can that do, you can feel a little heat come out of the vents, but it needs to be a bigger fan that can move air. The turbo is what is causing it, every time you click on something the turbo maxes out the cpu and gets supper hot. Its a big jump from 1.6 ghz to almost 4ghz. Thats why the old laptops separated the cpu from the gpu and so they wouldnt heat each other up, and they had beefy heatsinks, with fans twice as big. The only way you can use these junk design laptops, is to go to power settings- then change the max power on the cpu to about 95 percent. After doing that to many of these, the turbo wasn't able to kick in and ran pretty cool. You can go to bios and turn off the turbo, but most people might mess other things up, so through power settings is better in my opinion. These days nothing is tested, they just design and start mass production, without testing, then someone gets one, they call dell support, and you talk to someone in India that gives you the run around. I love the older dells, the newer i think the design is worse. Maybe dell should take apart one of apples laptops, they have no vents underneath, but they seem to run cool sitting on a flat surface. Then you will hear, your updates have to be the newest, that's bull also. Have some laptops havent been updated for many years but they are older and still work great. I have dells from 2008 dell d630 830 they are still running strong. Any new laptop out, lucky you get 2 years out of it. Thats what was planned get rid of older laptops that are still running good. Force people to buy new, and then they can buy a new one every 2 years making computer companies good money. Make them like the tv's, just throw out every couple year and buy new. Kind of got of the subject.