Dell Precision 5510 Owner's Review

As someone interested in purchasing, I would love to see your video/pictures on the 7000 series and any other info you may have to share. The more the merrier. If the post is similar or duplicate to what Bokeh is working on presenting then I think that is okay. It could help in giving more confidence as I decide on my purchase.

Good question regarding the PCIe lanes. I wonder how many lanes the CPU/chipset has. *Edit: Answer is 16 lanes according to intel ark http://ark.intel.com/products/89610/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E3-1535M-v5-8M-Cache-2_90-GHz

 

Thanks, I tested the machine with the 950Pro installed and re-ran video benchmarks and most scores went up slightly after drive was in, so those 16 lanes should be good.

I will be working on video next week with all precision's. And will do an owners thread for 7710

 

Here are my calibration and uniformity results of the 4K display

I use i1Display Pro with DisplayGUI + Agryll for the best result. To everyone who owns a Spyder, throw it out.

I use 120cm/m2 and here are my measurements of the brightness steps:
0: 46 cd/m2
1: 80 cd/m2
2: 121 cd/m2
3: 158 cd/m2
4: 194 cd/m2
5: 230 cd/m2
6: 261 cd/m2
7: 294 cd/m2
8: 329 cd/m2
9: 361 cd/m2
10: 295 cd/m2

120 cd/m2, 6500K, Gamme 2.2












Download my calibration profile here
http://www.gudi.dk/cal/Dell-5510-4k-7PHPT.zip

/ Gudi

(Precision 5510, Xeon, 16gb, M.2, 84w, 4k display)

 

I am only one question away from finalizing my purchase of the 5510 and I would appreciate it if any of the owners could chime in on this one.

According to the notebook check’s review, under the processor and the battery sections, the CPU caps at only 1.6 GHz on battery. It is also mentioned that this does not change even after reconnecting the power supply and needs a restart to fix the issue. I was wondering if you could confirm or deny this happening on your machine.

I am constantly on the move and need to be able to use the maximum processor clock on my processor intensive computing tasks. If the 5510 actually does throttle the CPU to 1.6 GHz, without any option to turn this feature off, I am going to have to look elsewhere for my next laptop!

Thanks.

P.S.

I was under the impression that the 5510 with the Intel Xeon CPU will support ECC memory especially since it has the right chipset, The CM236. But I was just told by a very abrupt dell sales agent that this model does not support ECC memory!!! any thoughts on that front?

 

That issue was solved by a BIOS update. Lack of ECC support is fact, was committen in these forums.

 

Thanks for the reply.

It is stupid really how it supports an Intel Xeon, It has the right chipset on the board, the Intel CM236, and yet it does not support ECC memory! I wonder which genius at Dell is responsible for that masterpiece!

I don't think it is something a BIOS update could address or else they would have taken care of it by now! What a pitty!

 

The Xeon compatibility with non ECC RAM was intended originally as an option for an easy, more available fix in the event of an emergency, not to supplant ECC. The past few Xeon generations were pin compatible with Core series, and indeed many folks made servers on the cheap with Xeon pros and ECC on mainstream motherboards. Likely Intel caught on. Frankly I don't see why the would offer ECC with 7000 series but not 5000.

IIRC, it was the early 90s or late 80s, when Intel ditched use of parity memory in their mainstream offerings. Maybe with the 386-486 processors or the first Pentium. Can't remember. But it was cheaper because memory did not have to be matched and installed in pairs anymore, and memory of different size could be used.

Today's fab processes are so much better than the days of yore, making memory errors less of an issue. In fact it's so good that for a long while now memory is read on both rising and falling edge of each clock pulse, hence DDR memory is prevalent.

Plus if there were a crash due to a memory error a reboot would cause the BIOS to do a memory check, so you'd know if you had failing RAM...

 

Made an update for Windows 10