7710 performance problems

Recently picked up the new 7710 after looking to 'upgrade' from a M4800. I built it with FirePro W7170, Xeon E3-1535m cpu, and added in 32GB DDR4 & 950 Pro SSD myself.

Right off the bat the full setup seemed sluggish. Posting took 'forever' (40 seconds as compared to my m4800s sub 20 to get to windows). This slowdown was especially noticeable between the 'dell' logo and actual windows loading up.

Ran just a quick super-pi cpu benchmark (which is of utmost importance for simulatons I need to do) and the results of this machine vs the m4800 were actually slower! Albeit not by much, but really expecting better results for dropping all that $. Went through all the typical bios settings changes, confirmed with Dell Tech support. I restored everything back to factory hardware (stock HDD, stock 8gb memory) and as expected the exact same performance!

Dell is replacing it for me as I don't want to deal with a full refund just yet, I am will to give it another go. But I have to say, I am a little peeved! The quality of the build just isnt the same as past models. Missing Keyboard screws, poorly thought out memory locations, ect. Not to nit pick, but when you drop this kind of cheddar on a computer I expected somthing different (previous build qualities).

Anyone going through something similar? Dont really see any other 7710 owner threads of substance (who wants to start one?)

 

There's a 7710 thread over here, but it doesn't seem like many people have picked one of these up. Maybe waiting for Thunderbolt...
http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/hands-on-dell-7710.785166/

 

That is somewhat suprising, CPU should be faster by a small amount.

Is it throttling? Is it able to keep full turbo? That might explain it.

 

No throttling, would have been great if that was the issue! Wouldn't explain the weird posting behavior thought.

 

Well at least there is no throttling, that is something positive.

 

What are you using to detect throttling? Have you confirmed it's getting the proper turbo speeds?

 

Was your problem resolved?

 

I'm expecting my third 7710 at my door any day now. The first two had unstoppable BSODs with bad pool header errors. The first two have been sluggish and sometimes unresponsive to mouse clicks. Windows 7 seems to be a bit better than 10 for responsiveness.

Also, make sure you disable the serial and parallel ports in the BIOS due to IRQ conflicts with the USB 3 ports.

I will give this third one one week to perform, if I get any BSODs I am RMAing it and switching to HP ZBooks.

 

I got the replacement in, exact same 'sluggish' issues as the first one. Really disappointed in this build. Its not that the computer isn't working. It probably is working quiet well. But the fact that it cost as much as it did but runs slower than my M4800 it what is killing me.

 

NotebookCheck has a review out. They had the same weird performance issues. I wonder if it is some driver/firmware issue.