Dell XPS 15 R2 - L502x - Owners Lounge

[eriatarka]

I've got an i5 2410m and mine seems to hover around 57 Degrees C'. is this normal? the air coming out the vents is quite warm

[ningduo]

got a replacement of xps 15 from dell. really like the speaker on it.

[Veneke]

eri - I'm not sure if its normal or not, but my i7-2630 hovers in the low 50s. I have, however, disabled turbo-boost on the processor.

To disable it, right-click on the battery symbol in the lower right hand corner of your screen -> Select Power options -> Change Plan Settings -> Change advance settings -> Processor power management -> and edit Maximum Processor State to 99% you'll reduce your heat output fairly significantly.

As far as I can tell, there's no drop in performance. I just finished a two hour stint of Civilization V (which I understand is a CPU intensive game) and the processor seemed to keep reasonably cool (max 75 degrees and usually between 65-70) and I didn't notice any slowdown in comparison to when I had tried playing it with turbo-boost active.

A question of my own though: What GPU monitoring software should be used if you don't want to interfere with the fans? I've read (or rather pieced together) that some monitors, like SpeedFan which I have used previously, are causing the fan to act oddly.

[XPS15ish]

Got my XPS15 20 days ago and it was working all fine until 2 days ago when it suddenly hung and displayed the blue screen and made a ticking and whirring noise with the BIOS not detecting the drive. Obviously the hard drive failed. Had to go through a long tech support call until they accepted that the drive requires replacement. When I asked why a not-even-one-month-old-computer has a drive failure, he said, 'Well, it's an electronic device.'.

It is within the 1 month return period, but that must be a lengthy process - returning the laptop and ordering a new XPS, 'cause there's no other laptop with the features that I want. So, I'm guessing it was just a bad drive installed in my laptop and replacing it would solve the issue? I'm hoping this doesn't happen too often though, in case there's something wrong with the laptop that's causing the drive to fail? Is that possible?

This means that the week I spent setting up the drive on the new laptop was wasted.

[Sagar]

Sagar, do you have a i5 or i7 ?

Hello Tomma, mine is i5 2410. I am fine with cpu temp of 50s. But the heat at the back of laptop is worrying.

[mikeybc]

on my 2720qm right after doing the cpu test core 0 is 61 degrees C, core 1 is 65, core 2 is 56 and core 3 is 56

[Sagar]

on my 2720qm right after doing the cpu test core 0 is 61 degrees C, core 1 is 65, core 2 is 56 and core 3 is 56

You mean it reached max temp of 65 during cpu stress test? If so then it's pretty impressive!. mine reached nearly 80 C during cpu stress test.

[zjacobss]

You mean it reached max temp of 65 during cpu streets test? If so then it's pretty impressive!. mine reached nearly 80 C during cpu stress test.

I think he means after the test.

[mikeybc]

Right, didn't do the stress test, I did start the stress test and let it rum for about 60 seconds, stopped it then re-ran the normal test... Temps were still the same

[ajd2006]

I have an XPS 15 L502x with a TV tuner card. Where can I buy a dongle that will allow me to attach a standard coax cable for a normal rabbit-ear antenna or basic cable TV? The included antenna barely picks up two channels.

Also, according to the XPS manual, this dongle is supposed to be included with the laptop, but I did not get one. Would I have success in reporting this to Dell, and thus have them send me one for free (I have the 1-year warrantly with in-home service after remote diagnosis)?