Dell Precision 5510 Owner's Lounge

You posted this in December, but anyway:

I tried several adapters to connect to a dual DVI-D (Apple Cinema Display 30") and failed, at least to get the 2560 x 1600 resolution. I ended up shelling out for a new monitor sooner than I'd have liked (Dell UP2716D), but ended up very happy with this purchase. Slightly smaller screen real estate, but vector CAD and raster renderings look much crisper.

 

Did you ever get the Optimizer profiles working? In the 2 weeks or so I was on the Precision, I found the ACAD and Revit profiles seemed unstable, possibly in conflict with one another.

 

About to get a usb-c to ethernet adapter, could you post your models and advice?

 

Update on my situation for everyone:

It seemed to be pretty consistent that w/ the Samsung NVMe drivers BSOD ceased. However, the "Hard Drive Not Found" on restart error has been perfectly consistent every reboot (cold shut down and turn on does not do this). After contacting Dell, they actually volunteered to send me a new computer. This was good because the computer also developed issues with the keyboard not being recognized which was WEIRD - this may be a problem with Logitech drivers for the wireless mouse I added, but even after uninstalling everything they persisted.

Anyway, they replaced my system with a new one that I received yesterday. I am debating weather or not to re-install Windows with an AHCI setup or just be okay with the RAID until the bugs are worked out. The NVMe drive clearly works faster on my AHCI laptop by about 250 mb/s (1500 vs 1750) (I will be sending 1st machine back in the next couple of days) but at those speeds I am considering just leaving it in RAID mode for now. I have not had any problems when computer is in RAID mode. Didn't re-install Windows either - just immediately uninstalled all Dell bloatware. (off topic: WTF is dell doing SLOWING DOWN their machines with all of this crap? It makes their PREMIUM machines feel like a POS.)

I have the unique ability that I currently have 2 machines and will install new, Feb 5th BIOS on both RAID and AHCI machines and see what happens. Will report back here.

 

I also do want to point out that, IMO, the keyboard is fine. I think people are making a lot of noise about this that's not worth it.

 

I will say that an SSD instead of M.2 drive will probably not make you see a very large performance hit, but it means that you won't be able to run a larger battery, which is a big downside. I would say go for the NVMe and hope Dell gets their **** together with the M.2 NVMe support.

 

Thanks. This is how I'm leaning.

Are you still getting the diagnostics error messages, though?

Point of information- I rarely got a BSOD or error messages at startup, consistently if I ran the diagnostics, though. I believe I did experience slow down and sleep/wake issues, but ever timed my processes.

Would really appreciate that.

 

Hi all, my 5510 is on the way, the build is E3/8G DDR4/1T 2.5' HDD/56W/4K display.
I just wonder how long the 56W battery will stand, is that necessary to order a 84w battery?
I am thinking about getting a 512G 950 pro and replace the HDD with another 500G ssd, but if 56W battery will not last so long, then I will just get the 84w battery.

I also notice that in the detail describe of 5510 from dell, the DDR4 will support the 2666MHz but only with 16G capacity, so I ordered a pair of Kingston DDR4 2666MHz from amazon. Is that necessary and will that make any big difference compared to the 2133MHz?

 

The 4K display will suck the life out of the battery. You get ~6 hours on the 84 Whr.

 

So i'm still having the same issue after mobo has been replaced.
Although i note that most people haven't had the same issue or haven't reported it on win 10, but i've seen some similar reports with the ethernet port on the thunderbolt dock.

I'm using Win 7 on a Precision 5510, 950 pro. Fresh enterprise install, and installed all drivers from dell website.

As a note i bought a seperate usb c to ethernet + 3 usb hub. and has the same chipset in it. hub works fine, but the ethernet also crashes and drops out. Original one is the Dell USB C to gBE ethernet.

So i'm thinking its the usb c port cant handle ethernet properly. Maybe get a normal usb 3.0 type A to ethernet.