Hands on Dell Precision 7710

Yea. And people complain when new laptops coming out only use USB 3. Way less confusion and there's barely anything USB c out yet. As for speed difference, youd need a really fast ssd external to make use of surpassing USB 3 capabilities. And when those do come out, small and or very expensive.

Sure USB c will be the future, but in the right now it's not so much. And very confusing.

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Thanks for the clarification on the USB-C and Thunderbolt. For those that got this without Thunderbolt, can that be added or is the Thunderbolt/USB-C on the MB and not a simple as adding in a card?

 

It can't be added after, it's part of the motherboard chipset as well as a physical slot/port on side of laptop

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Yeah, I'm hoping that Bokeh can still get hands on a 7710 (with thunderbolt3) and do thorough review with these type of tests. Most recent postings in the Precision forums are from those having specific issues or questions but none with complete review and testing. I need to see results from a user we are well familiar with. (*not that I don't trust you other guys)

 

I don't know, it makes me take pause. If I spend so much money on the M5000M and at the end of the day it throttles when most needed...

 

Looking for M.2 NVMe. I think in this moment the best are the samsung drive: Samsung 950 pro o SM951 ? The first one more warranty and V-Nand Flash (this means more TBW). Anyway SM951 with 150 TBW outperform many standard SSD liftcycle. Performance very similar (950 better read) but the SM951 price is better
Both are very very hot during heavy work, I see in some review they hits 100 °C ...do you think this could be a problem? Better solution?

Looking for high performance ram, I'm seeing:
http://www.gskill.com/en/product/f4-2666c18d-16grs
do you think there could be any problem of compatibility?
Does exist any single 2.67 mhz 16gb single module (since the gskill in the link are 2x8gb but I'd like to hit 64gb).

Dell reports compatibility here:
http://euro.dell.com/eu/en/gen/Dell....aspx?refid=precision-m7710-workstation&s=gen

Also from the above link I read: "Intel Core Xeon Ex-xxx Z3+ Quad Core Xeon x.xxGHz, x.xGHz Turbo, 16MB 45W (coming soon)"
What is this CPU ?

About display card: read the review posted some pages ago. I saw W7170 throttled...Will the M3000M throttle too ?

Final, about Thunderbolt "coming in January". But nothing came. Now we are in February. Any news if Thunderbolt really come?

Thanks!!
ciao

 

NotebookCheck has reviews of BOTH P70 and 7710.

 

Well, the M500M and M4000M are 100W chips, and the 7170 maybe 100-125W, so they'll get hot. Fast. I suppose many people want the higher speed GPU, but don't want to tolerate fan noise, which to me is inevitable. No word on the review whether they used Dell's Precision Optimizer when running the tests? It would be nice if SOMEONE did...

 

Very true. Not buying until I know which is better/best. Or even worth it for that matter.
Lenovo is just unknown, Dell doesn't have thunderbolt yet and still unknown.
Sigh

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What would really be nice is some stress tests with linux. No software handicaps. Anyways I'll do it once i get mine and i won't be lenient. It better perform like a 5000$ cad system.