Dell Precision 7560 & Precision 7760 pre-release discussion

I have usually downloaded the Quadro Drivers from Nvidia since newer than the Dell Site. However, I never used the Geforce Driver on the Quadro Card. I read you can. I am not a gamer but my son is and wonder if I should install the Geforce on his 7560 with the A5000 or stick with the Quadro.

 

I wouldn't install drivers from a different device. Just stick with the drivers that are supposed to be used with the Quadro. You should still be able to download Quadro drivers from GeForce experience if I remember correctly.
As for the impact of drivers on games, the Quadro drivers, although not updated as frequently as GeForce game ready drivers, should perform pretty much identically on games that aren't brand new (GeForce game ready drivers are updated with launches of games almost immediately).

 

I recommend that you start with the drivers on offer from Dell, and consider switching to NVIDIA's only after you are comfortable that the system is in stable working order.

For business systems, if you don't have a particular need for the latest optimizations from NVIDIA or whatever, I'd say stick with the Dell releases because those are the ones that Dell has validated for this system. Dell does post an updated driver every now and then. I use the NVIDIA driver on my home/personal system (which I do use for gaming) but all of my other systems are on the Dell driver. (I have two Precision 7510's that are in active use in addition to the two listed in my signature.)

The Quadro and GeForce driver release strategy is different. With GeForce you are kind of on the "leading edge" of NVIDIA driver development at all times. With Quadro, they branch off of the "leading edge" from time to time and just apply bugfixes on each branch for a while, with parallel branches getting updates until they run out of support. (If you check you will see that they are currently maintaining R470, R460, R450, and R390 branches, and maybe some older ones too.) You can ride on a branch for a while and decide when you want to upgrade to the next one. Use this page to see all of the options available.
https://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-us

You can install RTX Experience to get "GeForce Experience" features on the Quadro/Enterprise drivers.
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/design-visualization/software/rtx-experience/

So it's sort of a trade-off between "latest optimizations for new games" and "least chance of running into issues". (But generally NVIDIA does a good job with drivers so it would be fine to just stick with the GeForce ones if your primary motivation is gaming.)

 

Defender is flagging the ProduKey downloads as viruses. Are you sure that's the correct download?

 

Yes, it's the correct link. That's Nir Sofer's web site and he wrote the tool. It's not uncommon for his tools to be flagged because of what they "could" be used for. This one in particular has a command line interface that would basically allow you, for example, slurp up all of the product keys on PCs on the domain that you have administrative access to. The tool is benign if used as intended.

[Edit]
He has an article about this actually. https://blog.nirsoft.net/2009/05/17/antivirus-companies-cause-a-big-headache-to-small-developers/
(You can contact him for clarification if you like, he's been responsive to my queries in the past.)

 

Looks like I might join the 7560 club, too. My 7530 chose the right moment to crap out, and I am currently negotiating a 1-for-1 exchange.

Spoiler: 7560 Specs

 

How?

 

thats faster than you expect... story of my 7730:

main SSD got breakdown somehow during some kind of windows initiated update, easy, they send me SSD - new SSD into it,
windows new setup -> bummer, no windows licence found .... call pro tech again, they say: new motherboard - I say: no, give me just the damn code, gotta work to do, they say: not possible, only new mainboard
so tech 1 came, motherboard change... sees also broken (he suspects warmth and time) GPU cable in it, does an emergency fix and rearranges change of it with dell, so tech 2 comes and fixes cable... but somehow an error with PCIe and quadro -> seems the clamps go a "no no" on change of motherboard. Changes clamps and all seems ok..... till i use it to full power and performane, then screen flickers, gets green by times and ... well... tech 3 comes to change the panel. Puts new panel in... and voila: it is off by more than a half cm to top so I dont have a full image as the top bezel overlaps my new display (wtf :X) - anyway, tech 3 tells this dell and they seem to have a part number ho-ho and so tech 4 comes ... now with a part for an alienware system :X
He didnt even try to install that, call dell and it seems they cant get the right panel anymore. So they put me on the replace route for an 7750... i ask for 7760, they say: not possible as not yet existing....so I accept the 7750 and wait 3 weeks... then an email comes: they cant deliver the 7750 because they cant source the needed parts :X
Fast forward: Im now waiting for my 7760 that should arrive within 3 weeks.... somtimes you cant believe the way a small thing (broken SSD) can lead to

 

That's one hell of a roller-coaster ride.

I wanted to avoid all that and was quite insistent that they escalate it immediately, because I really absolutely cannot afford any downtime over the next few weeks (thesis to submit, projects and reports due, etc etc). At least my current 7530 is working now, but the broken NVMe port means I can't use Linux. Windows works for now, but this is irritating nonetheless.

I'm curious, what are your 7730 specs, and what will your 7760 specs be?