Precision 7530 & Precision 7730 owner's thread

I just checked and the 7530 isn't on sale like the 7730 is. Without the discount the 7530 is out of my price range.

Interesting. I've been skimming through the Puget Systems data. It seems that for Lightroom specifically, better hardware makes a negligible difference. For Premiere, the difference is much more significant.

Thanks for that link. I hadn't found that one while Googling.

I've been using a 2-3 year old Dell XPS 15 for my work. I'm hoping to see a large jump in performance with moving up to a current 7730 but I'm cobbling together data and benchmarks from so many sources that I'm reaching analysis paralysis. I'm hoping others can chime in.

 

Ah yeah, that's a bummer then. I wonder if the lack of P1000s and P2000s on the 7730 can be blamed on the new graphics form factor? Either way, it's a lowsy situation.

I think your budget would probably limit you to either just Intel HD Graphics or the WX 4150, right? I'd probably lean towards having a dedicated GPU than not, in any case. There are some applications which simply don't play nice with Intel graphics, and in those cases I can at least shut off switchable graphics and rely solely on the dedicated GPU.

Hopefully others can share their experiences. I know what you mean by analysis paralysis... good luck!

 

The DGFF cards for the 7530 and 7730 are actually different physical sizes... So yes you are right here. Dell probably didn't want to produce two versions of the P1000 and P2000 (they're already doing this for P3200). Though it is also typical for them not to offer the 1000 and 2000 level cards in the 17" system, even though it was possible to do back when they were using MXM cards; I think the 7720 was the only time that they did this.

 

It's basically analogous to MXM-A vs MXM-B, although the highest-end GTX GPUs are in some really odd interpretations of PCB layouts—just about the only thing these custom cards have in common with the standard MXM-B layout is the connector.

This was probably the primary motivation for Dell to move to the DGFF, because no one follows the MXM spec anyway nowadays, so they probably thought—might as well design a cleaner form factor from scratch.

 

Key difference, though, you could insert a MXM-A card (15") into a MXM-B slot (17") and it would fit and work fine... With DGFF, the layout differences between the cards block any sort of small-card-fits-into-large-slot compatibility.

Rather interested to find out if they will stick with this form factor or if DGFF really means "we'll just invent whatever works for us with each new generation".

 

I bought 7730 3 months ago and barely used it .But now a lot of parts rattles , even when ibpress the left palm area the panel make some noise . really bad build quality considering it is so expensive and designed to be solid for outside environment. So do you have have recommendation what should I do.

 

Didn't they used to have more affordable Quadro options for the 7730? P1000, P2000?

 

No, P3000 has been the minimum (NVIDIA) from the beginning. I remember because I was speccing out both 7530 and 7730 to purchase when these machines first went up for sale, but couldn't get onboard with the 7730 because of the increase in cost, mostly driven by the requirement to purchase a P3000 (when I could get by just fine with the P1000).

 

Thanks. I didn't want to miss out on that $1000 discount so I place an order yesterday for a 7730 with a WX 4150. Fingers crossed that this expensive purchase helps with productivity.

 

I don't know, but those aren't listed as options now.