Precision 7510 Owner's Thread

Sorry about that, I thought you were providing input on an earlier topic regarding reducing power consumption of the AMD gpu.

 

edit: I discovered the power brick had become unplugged from the wall. The battery must have been near zero when the panel came on. Not sure why I didn't get low power notices, but I can't claim the unit just died.

I had an odd occurrence today. With the unit plugged into power and feeding a 1440p monitor via HDMI with the laptop screen off, I unplugged the power and HDMI in quick succession. The unit simply turned off. Flat off.

 

That happened to me the other day. In my case, it happened almost immediately after I plugged in the power cord. The computer just shut itself off. My battery was definitely not low, it was somewhere in the neighborhood of 90-100%. It was the strangest thing! Luckily, I didn't lose any data from it.

(I also had the Thunderbolt dock plugged in at the time - not sure if that could be related. The dock has an HDMI monitor, ethernet, power, speakers, and a couple of USB peripherals plugged into it.)

 

Just got my 7510 in, and had a couple questions for other folks here with them: If you got the Long Cycle Life battery, what part number/type did yours have on it? I'm not sure that I actually received the long cycle time version considering that it actually says "Standard" on it. Actually searching for the part number seems to be nigh impossible, and Dell's own accessories site only sells the normal 70whr battery and the 91whr model.
Here's what I've got:


Also, I know I'd seen it mentioned here earlier that if you ordered the laptop without an M.2 SSD that you would need a screw to install your own- I ordered mine with only a normal mechanical hard drive with the intent to put a 950 Pro in it, and my unit had both the hold down mounting screw and the copper M.2 heatspreader cover included. So good news there!

 

Welp, answered my own question after a good poke in the BIOS. As un-intuitive as labeling the battery "Standard" may be, the BIOS does say that there is a long cycle life battery currently attached.

 

In BIOS -> Power Management -> Primary Battery Charge Configuration

it should say Long Cycle if you have the Polymer Long Cycle Battery. The non-Polymer Long Cycle battery gives the option to use "Express" charging, where the Long Cycle Polymer does not.

I was confused by the Battery label also. Mine also says Li-ion MFKVP Standard and I too ordered the Long Cycle. Polymer batteries are a types of Li-ion. It is confusing because the sticker label on the battery gives no indication it is a polymer long cycle. If it was not for the BIOS indicating the Long Cycle I would probably be complaining to Dell.

The tradoff of Polymer Long Cycle is that it takes much longer to recharge than the non-polymer. There is no Express charge option. I'm almost always connected to AC adapter so it doesn't affect me a whole lot. I may purchase a normal Li-ion Non-Polymer as a backup in my travel bag though.

 

Hey guys,

I'm currently thinking about getting a 7510 as my only workstation (I'm a software developer). Currently I own a very old Lenovo W520.
Whats quite annoying for me (including on the W520) is the CPU throttling during battery power.

I looked everywhere but couldn't find the info how far the 7510 is throttling the CPU power/clock under battery.

Could someone please let me know? It would be great to know for the Xeon E3-1535M v5 CPU.

thx guys, highly appreciated
Soko

 

Would it be possible to fit a m2 drive in the empty wwan port on the 7510? I'd need just a small drive (128gb) and speed wouldn't be a concern. Has anyone tried this? Is it even possible?

Both of my NVMe slots are already filled.

 

Hello Gents.
I haw a question
If i order M7510 with 256GB M.2 PCIe NVMe Solid State Drive
Can i later add HDD?
Wold it be possible to install OS on SSD?

 

I've just tried Stockfish with Ubuntu 16.04, under battery.
Power usage : Xeon 1535M, Intel graphics used, 8 CPU used, roughly 60 W, 3.4 GHz turbo mode (always max. during 10 minutes Stockfish analysis)
The 2 fans run, maybe less than when SolidWorks (under W7) computes a real view using Nvidia graphics...