Dell Precision 5510 Owner's Lounge

I've never seen it throttle with the i7-6820HQ. I'm not doing much with either GPU, but in some very heavy CPU workloads (both real and synthetic) it goes to 3.2ghz on all 4 cores and sits there -- the theoretical turbo bin for all 4 cores is 5 steps or... 3.2ghz. No weird C-state throttling, and no thermal or power warnings in the logs (unlike the i7-4712HQ in my M3800, which got a ton of them.)

It's certainly possible that a heavy enough CPU+iGPU workload will limit it. I only do some fairly light gaming and entirely on the dGPU so I have no idea how the iGPU impacts CPU performance. The dGPU will run SWTOR at Very High at 1920x1080 capped at 60 FPS very smoothly, but that's a 2011 vintage game (on iGPU-only on my 5470 -- same CPU -- I get about 40fps on Medium at 1920x1080, which is about the same as I got with the dGPU on the M3800.)

Cooling appears to be a pair of pipes shared by both the CPU and the dGPU, so I suppose it's possible that a heavy enough CPU+dGPU workload might cause throttling as well. If someone can suggest a dGPU stress application for Linux, I can test it

 

Yes, you can.

 

Good to hear that CPU intensive tasks don't cause throttling. What kind of intensive tasks have you performed?

 

8x CPUBurn for the synthetic test, and also some very large builds (e.g. Firefox at "make -j9", and some similar things.)

 

Hi all,
I still want to discuss if M5510 can use the ECC DDR memory. Here are 2 reasons:
1 I talked to some local dealer recently, he told me the firstly released M5510 actually did support ECC memory, but after that dell seemed block such supporting.
2 I checked my M5510 with sisoft sandra, and it told me M5510 could support the ECC.

However, I also got some frustrating news from the dealers, they told me somebody tried hynix or kinstone ECC memories before and they failed.

Since I updated the bios before running the sisoft sandra, I could not tell if that was the bios issue or just some mistaken report by the software.

Hopefully someone can try it again and tell me the true.

 

5510 does not support ECC RAM. The machine will not boot if ECC modules are installed. Already been tried earlier in this thread.

 

I mentioned that someone did try before if you read carefully. I also explained why I think it was possible. I still think there is some potential possibility that M5510 can support ecc ram.

 

A quick question for all those who has upgraded the internal NVMe drive with a Samsung 950 Pro like I did.

What external enclosure, if any, are you guys using to house the internal drive externally?

I have made the upgrade the very first day I received my 5510 from Dell and the 256 NVMe drive that came with the device is sitting idle on my desk and I can not use it externally since I can not find any NVMe to USB 3.0 or Thunderbolt enclosure to buy for it.

 

Has anyone with the Thunderbolt dock TB15 experienced an issue where it will not charge the battery and throws an error when you boot the system that only a 60W power supply is connected?
I'm trying to set one up with a new 5510 and this is what it is doing. I did "authorize" the dock in the Intel Thunderbolt software and other dock functions (audio, network, video) seem to be working fine.

I have five TB15 docks sitting here... I've tried two of them with the same issue from each.

[Edit] Took to someone else's desk with a different dock and power adapter, and it doesn't throw this error. Will do some troubleshooting. Might be the power adapter connected at my desk.

 

I've had Dell power adapters go bad and start giving that error for years, all the way back to whenever they started checking wattages (vague, and probably incorrect recollection: the D600 didn't, but the D610 did?) Dell is pretty good about replacing adapters that give the error, if the machine is in warranty.