Dell Precision 5510 Owner's Lounge

Rendered a heavy sequence on the precision-the processor temperature rounded about 72 degrees-i guess it's a borderline ok,considering the 500 frames of heavy script it had to render.It was quite noisy but since it's not a tower workstation i am fine with that.Got to say i keep getting surprised how well this laptop performs.Added 16 more gigs of ram,it is a f*cking beast.

I was wondering what cpu temperature is considered dangerous and if the precision has any self preserving mechanisms to prevent overheating(when critical temp reached it warns you or just shuts itself down)?


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70C is relatively cool. You have plenty of thermal headroom. The critical temperature for the CPU (Tjunction) is 100C and the system will automatically start to throttle when the temperature gets into the 90s.

Fully loading the dGPU while giving the CPU a workout is the worst thermal case and the fans will get noisier but I would be surprised if the temperature reaches 90C.

John

 

Does anyone know how to get Dell's extensions added to Windows Mobility Center in Win 7 for the m5510? I've installed the feature pack from here (http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/ukbsdt1/Drivers/DriversDetails?driverId=MHVWP), and while it gives me some tools to work with, it doesn't add the extensions to the mobility center. Thus, I don't have easy access to toggle bluetooth, nor to function key settings, etc. Any thoughts? Thanks...

 

The 5510 is a bit squatter than some other 15 inch laptops. Anyone have suggestions for neoprene sleeves that fit it well?

 

I use a nice and cheap sleeve like this which was originally made for 15.4" notebooks. A sleeve for a Macbook Pro should be a reasonable fit for the 5510 as that has a 15.4" panel.

John

 

anything for the 15" MBP Retina will work very very nicely. I personally use the thule gauntlet 3.0, but the choices out there with this MBP form factor are pretty extensive.

for reference:

Mac Book Pro 15 Retina: 359mm x 247mm x 18mm
Dell XPS 15 & Precision 5510 : 357mm x 235mm x 12mm

The gauntlet 2.0 is even slightly better with a water resistant zip, on at a good price on amazon at the moment

 

considering buying 5510 or 5520 with quadro.
can anyone confirm the integrated graphics can be disabled in bios and windows is completely driven by quadro card? has anyone successfully ran vr headsets like pimax, htc vive or oculus rift in direct mode (which requires directly wired dedicated graphics, not optimus in extended mode) ? please skip comments "this is not a gaming laptop" i need for VR development.

 

Your understanding is incorrect. Dell 5510 uses "Optimus" graphics, meaning the Quadro works in conjunction with the always-on integrated Intel HD (which cannot be disabled in BIOS).

 

As mentioned by @PrecisionBassed, you cannot disable integrated graphics on the 5510 and the Intel GPU will always be active. (Not sure if we know about the 5520 yet, but I'd be surprised if it is any different.) You can disable graphics switching and use the NVIDIA GPU only on the 7510.

 

thanks good to know. Dell support answered about 5520 that it doesnt have switchable optimus. that leaves me to 7510 (if youre correct) and alienware that even have a shortcut key on keyboard to disable IGP