Dell Precision 7560 & Precision 7760 pre-release discussion

I am now looking at a 7760 to replace my 7710. Is there much of a performance difference with the i9-11950H vs the Xeon Processor W-11955M?

 

These are the same, the difference is just ECC memory support. If you want ECC memory, or think that you might during the lifetime of the system, get the Xeon; otherwise, there's no point.

 

Speaking of ECC memory, has anyone gotten a line where to order from? My searches are coming up empty and while the new system won't arrive until August, I'm thinking I may need to get on someone's "backorder" list sooner rather than later to have a shot at receiving it by then. Thoughts?

 

It's pretty normal for new SO-DIMM ECC memory options to be hard to find. I don't think they make it to the "open market" right away because demand for this type of memory is so low.
You could look into DDR4-2933 modules which are more readily available, which I think "should" also work in this system (but obviously on one has tried it yet). https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?N=100007609 601190333 600006161 601322214

 

Thanks! Given the August ship date, I guess I'll just need to be hopeful and patient some will come to market by then. On a brighter note, I didn't manage to snag my SSD storage via today's Amazon's Prime sales. ~$313 for a 2TB Samsung 980 Pro....approximately 25% off!

 

The Precision 7750 caps the GPU TDP at 115 watts, though with Dynamic Boost 2.0, expect it to go higher than that in some situations (up to ~140 watts)

 

I think it's just a sticker but I'm not 100% sure

 

I promise you that when you use 4k on a 17 inch screen, you won't want to go back. And even when reading text, the clarity of 4k is extremely noticeable compared to 1080p.

For me, 4k on just a 15 inch screen makes a huge difference. It's mainly the small things such as being able to read what youtube thumbnails say and being able to easily tell what is in window previews (in windows 10, when you mouse over a taskbar icon).

But if you use an external monitor all the time, the $200 may be hard to justify.

There is also battery life, 4k is worse than 1080p although the battery life sucks on Precisions regardless.

 

A sticker and some different defaults in the pre-installed OS so that the system qualifies for Energy Star (lower brightness, maybe a change to the sleep timeout, ...). Nothing actually different in the hardware.

 

One of the reasons why I got the 4K was because I can spend several hours per day coding, and I can really make out the pixels of the text when I'm working; especially if I'm thinking something through, and just staring at the screen. It actually sometimes gives me a slight headache for some reason, and as I've noticed often happens when upgrading to nicer things, at first I really couldn't tell the difference that much between 4K and 1080p, but later on when I looked back at my old 1080p 7720 screen, boy could I tell the difference in both color and resolution. Sure it may not feel like the same jump as 360p to 1080p, but it's still a nice quality of life improvement.