Precision 7510 Owner's Thread

From my order :
391-BCFG
15.6" FHD(1920x1080) Anti-
Glar e LED-backlit (45% color
gamut )

From my config seen in Dell's support website and service tag :
391-BCFG : 15,6" FHD (1920x1080) Antireflet Rétroéclairage LED (gamme de couleurs 45%)
Part Number
Quantity
Description
99CDX
1
LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY, 15.6FHD, IN PLANE SWITCHING, AG, EDP1.2, BOE

 

That's odd, it lists yours as IPS and not IPS?

 

Yes !!
And as far I can think, it is an IPS display, as I noticed excellent viewing angles (in fact it was the start of my research of truth...).
Ubuntu shows me (hwinfo) :
Vendor: BOE "99CDX NV15N41"
It should be related to this model :
http://www.panelook.com/NV156FHM-N41_BOE_15.6_LCM_overview_25578.html
This shows that this panel runs ADS technology, included in the IPS family.
IMHO, the other Dell FHD IPS should be this one :
http://www.panelook.com/NV156FHM-N43_BOE_15.6_LCM_overview_26503.html
Exactly the same technology, but better model.

 

From my 7510, hwinfo found an LP156WF6 variant. All of them are 72% and AH-IPS. So it looks like the correct panel. HWINFO64 under Win10 returns the same model: LG Philips LGD049B, 156WF6, Dell p/n F7HH2. http://www.panelook.com/LP156WF6-SPB4_LG Display_15.6_LCM_overview_26557.html

But it's a step back from my old XPS 15 panel. I'll use it a few days and see if I can stand it. The screen door effect is just so over the top. I've never had a laptop with it this pronounced. Sad weakness on an otherwise seemingly nice unit. Text rendering looks cheap, solid color areas on the screen look washed out because of the screen door lines, and overall sharpness is lacking. A mediocre panel.

 

I too have the LGD049B, but I have certainly seen worse panels.

sRGB coverage is around 89.5% and gamut is 103%, which isn't terrible but is worse than my 3200x1800 IGZO on my old m3800, but that's to be expected. I don't really notice the screen door effect unless I look really closely either, maybe I'm just not as perceptive to it which is weird because I'm generally super picky.

Edit: Here's a notebookcheck review on the screen. They don't seem to bring up the screen door effect, but otherwise give the screen some fairly high praise. I only wish the sRGB coverage hit closer to 100%.

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Asus-N552VX-FY103T-Notebook-Review.161311.0.html

That said, I do see the screen door effect on certain colors if I'm looking closely enough. Perhaps one day (once high dpi is more widely adopted) I'll upgrade to the 4K screen.

 

From the CPU point of view : absolutely no throttling when using no graphics ressources and 8 threads on the 8 virtual CPU of my Xeon 1535.
I run Stockfish since 10 minutes, every core runs at 3,4 GHz (turbo mode).

What do you run with W7 to see that ? I could test when SolidWorks computes a photoview picture.

 

I’m looking for a Thunderbolt 3 Drive Caddy/Enclosure to use as a backup device. I received a Dell TB15 Thunderbolt 3 dock last week, but it doesn’t have an esata port so my Thermaltake esata caddy can’t be used. This has led me to look for a Thunderbolt 3 drive caddy. So far I’ve only found the AKiTiO Thunder3 Duo Pro which costs $390 without any drives included. This unit supports hardware RAID and monitors which I don’t need. Looking for a lower cost model that is nonRAID, toaster-style so I can swap SATA disks. Anyone know of a TB 3 drive caddy?


Until I find a TB 3 external drive solution I am going to have to keep using my old e-port dock since I don’t want to fallback to USB 3.0 connection for my backups.

 

I've been researching for the same thing to replace my older eSATA, USB3 toasters. USB3 is actually a little slow (not sure if the firmware) at about high 30s-low40s MBps writes to the platter drives. Same drives using eSATA get 100 - 120MBps.

Plug in a drive, backup , unplug the drive, then store it someplace safe. simple

I'm not looking for a fancy drive array solution that involves NAS or RAID. I already have a linux box for smb file shares and I backup my data in compressed files to a cloud automatically. What I need is to quickly attach a single drive, make a baremetal image backup (or file-folder backup or clone or whatever), remove and lock away drive when done. I rotate through numerous backup drives so I can rotate to one of the other recent backups when a backup drive fails. It also allows me to keep some onsite in a firesafe and the others offsite.

I use conventional platter drives for backups. Ranging in capacity from 1TB to 4TB in size. And considering that I'm not planning to use RAID striping, I would not be able to saturate a Thunderbolt, let alone a Thunderbolt 3. So I'm basically looking for something that will give performance on par with eSATA. USB3 has never been very speedy in my experience. Usually only marginally faster than USB2 when used for backups.

Here is what I've been considering:

http://www.amazon.com/HighPoint-Dua...tStor-5212/dp/B00DJ3YEH0/ref=cm_cd_al_qh_dp_i

$150 USD is still a little high for what it is though. But it is the best price I could find so far. It is only thunderbolt1 (not TB2 or TB3), but as I mentioned, that is plenty fast for writing to a mechanical platter disk for backups. I should be able to get fast writes limited only by the max platter write head speeds.

There is also this OWC Thunderbolt 2 toaster... http://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/TB2U3DKR2/
for $250 USD

I have considered a larger DAS JBOD enclosure that can house 4 or 5 or more drives with a backplane and trayless hotswap setup. But then I would be defeating the purpose by not removing the drives immediately upon completing the backup, locking them in a safe and rotating them offsite location. If I had a large encloser I would get lazy and A toaster dock setup is perfect. I just wish SSDs were more affordable as a backup medium so I could take advantage of thunderbolt speeds.

So I'll probably get the thunderbolt (1) RocketStore for $150. It won't be faster than my old eSATA toaster/dock, but it will be faster than the USB backups.

 

It looks like Thunderbolt to eSATA adapters are a thing, so you could plug one of those into the Thunderbolt dock as an interim solution until more TB3 enclosures become available. They're not super cheap, but way cheaper than $390.

 

Hi,

today I got my machine 7510, looking good and display is better.

Slowly now I am shifting data to new machine.

But I didn't find Dell backup & Recovery on it.

How can I get it ? it has an option for Create Recovery Disk that is by Microsoft.

will it cover drivers also ? or we need Dell back & recovery software only.

Thanks