Hands on Dell Precision 7710

Can anyone comment on the FHD compared to the UHD screen? I am concerned with the UHD, things will be much smaller on the screen. I have not seen a UHD screen, so I have nothing to compare it to.

 

From what I have understood, there is no question comparing IGZO vs others. But it's important to use Win10 because of scaling. And win10 do it properly. So I expect you won't have any problem to see things. (keep in mind it's also mounted on smaller screen).
Of course, in this transtion period, you could have some troubles with some softwares. But, with a bit of patience, all the software will be correctly support UHD panels.

 

Scaling overall pretty good. No problem with Illustrator CS5, and OneCNC XR4. Weirdly, I have some issues with Photoshop CS5, but still usable.

Ironically one software that does not seem to scale is Samsung's utilities. My eyesight is still pretty good (I also build acoustic and electric guitars) but man, that Samsung window is TINY...

 

The text on the uhd screen is small but readable


http://i.imgur.com/AWmqRa8.png


Some freeware apps like unigine valley has text that scales badly but more or less all other software works well enough

 

Thanks for the screenshot, I see that you have two partitions or drives. May I ask, is the 2nd volume a 1TB PCIe? If so, have you happened to run any benchmarks on it, or how do you like it's performance?

 

The C drive is a 512 GB SM951 and the E drive is a non Dell 1 TB solid state hybrid.

So far the only large data transfer on the SM951 was when I was transferring previous files via a USB3.0 external drive. I got 100 MB/s actual write speeds from the SM951. This of course was probably limited by the external drive.

For everyday use (opening apps like Matlab etc), the difference in performance is a little faster (but not radically different) than the Liteon SATA SSD on my old M6700

 

Windows 10 can deal with different DPIs on multiple attached monitors but most of the applications do not. So Windows will scale up or down the application window which will make its content blurry. Hard to tell how long it takes other apps to implement HiDPI/MultiMon support. If I remember correctly not even Office does it correct for all Office applications. So it might be an advantage if all your displays use a similar resolution that you can use the same DPI settings for all attached monitors. So if you buy an UHD laptop your external monitor should be 4k as well which would be still different DPI due to the different display sizes.

 

Reading the specific of i7 6th gen, it mounts DDR4 but is compatible with previous DDR3, does it correct?
If yes, is it possible to use my actual 1866 DDR3 32gb Vengeance in the 7710 ?
'cause I was preparing myself to buy 4 x 16gb g.skill DDR4 2.666mhz but maybe I can save money for at least 1 year, waiting for the price decreasing...

Also see this test:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/9483/intel-skylake-review-6700k-6600k-ddr4-ddr3-ipc-6th-generation/7

Thanks,
Ciao

 

Thanks for the replies on FHD vs UHD. I think I will go with the FHD. Most of my use is with three external monitors and currently they are not 4K. For the times I do use out of the dock, I think the FHD will work.

 

I'm not sure if this is even possible? The only apps that I've seen that adjust the DPI when you move them to a different monitor are the Windows "modern" apps (Microsoft Edge, or apps from the Windows Store)... I haven't seen any Win32 apps that do this, has anyone else?

Best bet is to get monitors where you can use them all at the same scaling level, if you'd like to avoid the blurriness. However, the option to adjust the scaling level per monitor (with blurriness added) is better than being forced to use them all at the same scaling level if the DPI's are vastly different.