E6430 Owners Thread

[alaskait]

e6x30 doesn't have msata and the dvd is still the same.

it does support 32gb memory.

how can you mount 16 gb ram memory? Have you i3720QM processor?

[siliconix]

Oh, also, which SSD does it come with, some sort of Samsung I guess ?

To answer my own question, my recently ordered E6430 comes with a 128 GB Samsung PM830 SSD.

[dekss]

Hi,
couple of days ago I got:

Intel Core i7-3720QM (2.60GHz, 6MB cache, Quad Core)
NVIDIA NVS 5200M (GDDR5 1GB) Discrete Graphics
(14.0") HD+ (1600x900) Wide View LED-backlit LCD Panel
Fingerprint Reader and Smart Card Reader (Contact and Contactless) Palmrest (Dual Pointing KB)
Integrated HD Camera with Microphone
256GB SSD - Samsung 830
DVD +/-RW Media Bay Drive
Primary 9-cell battery
Dell Wireless 380 Bluetooth Card
EMEA Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 (802.11 a/b/g/n) Half Mini Card
Memory : 16B (2x8GB) 1600MHz DDR3 Memory - Patriot - put in by myself.

It works almost great.
One thing is a problem - I can't wake it from sleep. It dose go to sleep (power button is indicating sleep state) but after pressing power button it powers up (sound of fan and dvd checking for disc) but screen dose not - it's black (not even back light). And it stays that way. In a few attempts it shut down after a few seconds.
After reinstalling from attached dell dvd clean system and installing drivers in given order the same problem
After toying around with power settings, bios upgrade, disabling devices in windows no luck - Windows event log shows nothing (between going to sleep and boot after restart).
Finally I tried swapping my 16gb ram for less before calling support and that was it. When I put 2x1gb ram, sleep and wake form it works well - problem solved
Dose anyone have 16gb ram and working sleep mode ? I would like to know if it's the memory size (8gb dice, even when I put only 1x8gb it would not work) or just compatibility with that particular brand.

[oxygen]

maybe it's related to intel rapid start. rapid start uses a partition the size of ram on the ssd for fast hibernate. maybe it breaks if you increase the ram over the size of partition.

[dekss]

I don't think so as I have it already disabled (from beginning).
And the same thing was happening when I left only one 8gb stick so it's rather the size of the stick then of overall memory.
What I didn't mention before - hibernation is working correctly and I've done memory testing with built in Dell tools and memtest++ and no problems were found so I assume RAM is not faulty - maybe just not completely compatible.

[oxygen]

i think that is unlikely. i suppose it's a software error related to the size.

[LoneNF]

how can you mount 16 gb ram memory? Have you i3720QM processor?

Even I, with a i5 2520M CPU, can mount 16Gb
Intel® Coreâ„¢ i5-2520M Processor (3M Cache, up to 3.20 GHz)
Check the the CPU parameters at this link:
ARK | Your source for information on Intel® products

[sghebuz]

Hi I've just got mine here in Italy :-) The machine is quite nice, the only strange thing to me is that they wasted a lot of space with the lcd, it's quite small comparing to the screen size (which is as wide as my 15' laptop)

Has anybody been able to make the touchpad work on linux? It sees it as a simple "mouse" so no scrolling, etc

[AndroAsc]

This is really disappointing! It seems that the heat issues that plagued the E6420 has carried on into the E6430. Is everyone not able to run all 4 cores at full load for more than an hour without throttling? Are there any competitor notebooks who can do max load on a Quad Core CPU without throttling?

[pchome]

This is really disappointing! It seems that the heat issues that plagued the E6420 has carried on into the E6430. Is everyone not able to run all 4 cores at full load for more than an hour without throttling? Are there any competitor notebooks who can do max load on a Quad Core CPU without throttling?

Would you please elaborate if this happens only in battery or on both AC and battery? If it happens on battery, how long does it take for the CPU to throttle and what is the speed it throttled to?