Dell Precision 7560 & Precision 7760 pre-release discussion

Is there any downside to getting a Xeon over an i9?

 

Because it's cheaper!
(I honestly don't know if it would work, don't remember ever hearing about someone trying that.)

Other than cost... In prior systems it was noted that it's more difficult to get into overriding the CPU power limits with a Xeon. If you're not planning to mess with that, I can't think of a downside.

 

I don't think I would be messing with that. Thanks.

 

ECC memory is cheaper!?!?

 

Overriding PL's would be pretty much useless with Dynamic Boost 2.0 (assuming they allowed the CPU to boost over 75W)

 

From Dell it is apparently
ECC $219 https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/sho...8-ddr4-sodimm-3200mhz-ecc/apd/ab489615/memory
Non-ECC $361 https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/sho...-2rx8-ddr4-sodimm-3200mhz/apd/ab120716/memory

 

Wow. This was how much I paid for 1x 2666 MHz DDR4 ECC CL19 in 2018...

 

The normal crucial 3200mhz ram should work. When it's on sale, it's ~$100 for 2x16 gb

 

I was checking out different configs on the 7560 with the i9-11950H vs the Xeon 11955M and the price difference of the i9 with non ECC and Win Pro and the Xeon with ECC and Windows for Workstation, the Xeon is only around $100 when looking at 64GB 2x32. Other memory amounts the difference is around $400. So if you want 64GB it is not a huge difference between the i9 and Xeon.

I am still not clear if a Xeon is better or not for a new college student that games as well. I am sure the 7560 i9 64GB is plenty for him and I do not think the Xeon is needed (now), but sounds like there is no negative (other than cost). If I had time, I would look at canceling my order I placed on 6/16 for a 7560 i9 64GB and change to the Xeon. However, I don't want to cancel now since I do not want to delay the estimated ship of 8/6.

Another question I have on going with the Xeon is the Windows for Workstation. From what I read it is the same as pro with some features to include a new file system (ReFS). I also read that this is not used for the boot drive and the boot drive is still NTFS (I am not sure if that is 100% correct). So going with Xeon and forced to use Windows Pro for Workstation, is that a negative in any way (other than the added cost)?

 

Honestly, windows for Workstation is pro and it feels like pro. Has 3 more features that you usually never will use https://www.microsoft.com/de-de/windowsforbusiness/compare

you can serve a network faster with SMB direct, and thats not really useful beside small edge cases; reFS: even on server I would stay away from it yet; persitent memory with NVDIMM-N: not available in 7760

thats it - more a marketing/ milking decision by MS - you use windows 10 pro and thats it...