Precision 7530 & Precision 7730 owner's thread

I'm measuring 41 cm wide, 26 cm deep.

 

Ah, I was thinking more of the business laptop/workstation side.

GLWS!

 

Thank you sir!!

Thanks! Yeah I plan on keeping my XPS13 and my Asus.

 

On the subject, I was just looking into GeForce Experience / Quadro support the other day (while digging into other NVIDIA stuff).

First off, PhysX is not included with the normal Quadro downloads but it is included with the GeForce download. You can download and install it separately though. I've found that this works fine. (You will want to install it for PhysX-enabled games if you use the system for gaming.)
https://www.nvidia.com/object/physx_system_software.html

Then as you have seen, GeForce Experience isn't offered at install time for Quadro cards, even if you download the GeForce driver. There is also a standalone download available for it. (I haven't tried it so I don't know if it will still yell at you if you have a Quadro.)
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/geforce-experience/

As far as I can tell there is no performance difference between the "Quadro" and "GeForce" drivers available from NVIDIA at this point. They're the same thing delivered in slightly different wrapping.

 

The Precision 7730 has a screen afterimage that will not disappear until 3-4 minutes.

 

Two more drives on the way.


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Hey everyone with a Precision 7530... What sort of battery run-times do you get? I've got the 97 Whr battery, and I average 4.5 hours. With only the iGPU on and for just mild web-browsing, this is pitifully little. I get a feeling that even though I've set switchable graphics, the dGPU is switched on and running, as there is little difference in power draw and battery run-times, whether or not switchable graphics is enabled. Direct output mode is also disabled. I've been trying to fix this for a while now, and I cannot find a solution.

Power draw averages 15-20 W. The Xeon CPU also refuses to go into deeper idle states, even when there are no foreground/background programs running.

 

I’m really starting to worry about my 7530 order. I’ve read every post in this 110+ page thread and there seem to be quite a few problems with the new 7530/7730 laptops.

Is this just the norm nowadays? Everyone on here doesn’t seem to bat much of an eye that they likely paid $3000-4000 or more for laptops that have serious issues. That would insanely piss me off, a computer so expensive should be much better built, reliable, and gone through a lot more QC.

I’ve had fewer problems with my HP ZBook G4 than some people on this thread with their new Dell, and given the issues I had on my super expensive HP I was so upset that I vowed never to buy another HP again because such a pricey computer should not have any major issues that cannot be fixed right away. For one major issue I had to wait 1 year 3 months before they made a pre-production BIOS and fix that they gave to me early.

Are people just resigned to how low quality things are?

 

Not really... As far as I am concerned, I just don't have the time to troubleshoot my notebook. I plan to do so when the semester ends in December, but until then, I'll just keep the power cord with me. I do hope that others don't experience this issue, though...

 

Why don’t you just return it before the 30 days satisfaction guarantee is over? After that you will be stuck with it.

TBO there is no troubleshooting you can do for an issue like that. It’s a manufacturer BIOS problem or other issue. Either you’ve set the idle states in bios or not, and if you have and cpu is consuming that much energy then there is something wrong that you likely can’t troubleshoot or fix on your own.