Hands on Dell Precision 7710

No. Anything that you can do in Dell Power Manager that persists outside of Windows can also be done in the BIOS setup. Dell Power Manager configuration is Windows only. (There may be color management tools on Linux that can do similar things... I'm rather unfamiliar with that aspect of it.)

 

Hello,
I just wanted to say that from all the source I have seen, the Alienware 17 R3 and Precision 7710 screens are exactly the same model, so there might be some variance, or software differences (vivid mode, etc.).
I have had my refurbished 7710 for a few weeks now and love it. Considered the Alienware, but wanted the extra dimm and ssd slots.
If you go for refurbished, make sure it has firewire... seems like only 1 out of 10 does...

 

Firewire you mean usbc ? I totally understand on the dim slots, though with 16gb stick's now, 32gb I feel is sweet spot for a quad core, I've 64gb with my 8 core desktop and that fits perfect to. But that's for me and my needs, definitly a plus on the 7710 though, especially if you need it.
The ssd's though? The alienware has 2xm.2 and a 2.5? Thought that the same as my 7710.
Screens, that's what my understanding was, perhaps I received a better version of their supplier from Alienware and got the lower end supplier from Dell, both great, but definitely an edge on the alienware.
Oh, easily removable battery a definite plus on the 7710.

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Thanks for your input DGently - I'll check about the Firewire issue , not sure if it would make such a difference to me though - nice to hear of another happy Dell 7710 customer .

 

Yes, of course I meant thunderbolt 3 slot.
Also, I thought the Alienware had only one M.2 slot, my mistake.
As for the extra dimms, I have 32gb in 2 sodimms right now, but I do use some VMs so I may want to add more at some point.

 

I was just checking. I kind of thought you were implying usbc, but you never know, Dell might have released a version with firewire or esata or the like.

Alienware has 2 x m.2. One is a 4x pcie, the other is a 2x. Not sure specifics on the 7710 but probably follow this same route.

I use my 7710 for work, which is always running a vm or two at minimum. With a quad core, and 32gb, you'd be able to allow 7 vms 4gb ram a piece, if all ran at same time. Which is acceptable to me. Most my vms are xp, which is 32 bit and limited to 3gb ram anyways. My desktop is based on that same philosophy. 8 core 16 thread and 4gb ram a piece as well.

Only thing with 7710 having 4 slots, which I will upon price drops, is have 64gb, attempt to make and run a 30ish gb ram disk for scratch/browser cache.
This is now that I think of it something I wish were possible on my Alienware since that machine is my editing machine. And would save the majority of writes to my ssd, scratch disk.

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I have been informed by Dell Tech Support Pro that a Samsung PM951 in the hard drive bay with the interposer is limited to the SATA 6 Gb/s bandwitdh. It is not a PCIe lane.

I have been led to believe here that it is actually a PCIe interface.

Anyway, I have now successfully setup a 3x PM951 Raid 0 array with the default 16kB strip size and although one drive may work with a slower SATA lane, the performance enhancement over the 1xPM951 non-Raid is very substantial:

According to CrystalDiskMark I have gone from (MB/s) Seq Q32 Read/Write of 1773/928.8 to 2710/2628

Very happy with this performance. Since the times of the early SSDs I have been using all sorts of controllers/raid cards with multiple drives on desktops and have never achieved these numbers.

Thanks,

Antonio

 

********/ oh I mean bull sh-t what they said about sata3. crazy. great numbers you posted

 

I see in Device Manager two display adapters

Intel HD Graphics P530
Nvidia Quadro M5000M

It seems I am running the display with the Intel P530 during routine simple daily use.

How do I know which display adapter I am using at a given time?

I do not see Switchable Graphics when I right click on the Desktop, even though I have the option enabled in the BIOS.

I believe that by default the system will change to the M5000M when running graphics intensive programs. Is this correct? How do I check that?

I do see that Adobe Photoshop is detecting the M5000M card, though.

If someone can explain to me how the two adapters are used I will appreciate it.

Thanks.

 

Plenty of times I see menus and other areas with a very small font.

Other times the rendering is not neat.

I have a 4K display with the Intel P530 and Nvidia M5000M. Running Windows 10 Pro 64

I have found http://www.danantonielli.com/adobe-app-scaling-on-high-dpi-displays-fix/

Can anything better and more general be done done about it?