Precision 7530 & Precision 7730 owner's thread

Hi,
I just have a quick question to those of you who have experience with replacing dispays in Precision laptops. I expect that if I do it on my own I lose the whole on-site warranty, is that correct?
Also is there an official way for Dell to do it for me? Either have buy some display directly from Dell or provide my own supported display.

 

I've replaced the display on my m6800 and not lost warranty...you should be fine as long as you don't break anything or ask them to replace your 3rd party purchased components

 

You do not lose warranty for installing your own aftermarket parts in Dell systems.
Dell does not cover damage caused by the replacement process (unless you have purchased accidental damage protection).
Dell may request that you restore the system to its original state before performing warranty service, if there is suspicion that your changed parts may be causing the problem. (In practice, I've never had them do this to me...)

 

I may CTO a 7530 today as my primary video editing workstation. I've skimmed the 140 pages here—is the general concensus that the i9 throttles down to i7 levels pretty quickly in this system / the i7 is better for this chassis? Looking at:

i7/i9
4k AG NT
P3200
1TB Class 50
2x16 GB

Thanks!

 

In my case, i9 with undervolt at -145 mV, I get a stable 4.6 GHz on single core. Multicore gives 4.2 GHz and then throttles down to 4 GHz, but stays there.
To my understanding this is slightly higher than what i7-8x50h CPUs give, but the latters are much cheaper.
*edit*
My mistake, the above values are for a -100 mV undervolt, not -145 mV.

 

Hey folks,

I just received my new Dell Precision 7730 and I'm about to fire it up and begin migrating my software and data to it.

The big question I have: should I reinstall Windows? It seems that is a best practice to eliminate bloatware with other Dell lines like the XPS, but is that also a good idea for the Precision line?

 

Did you repaste?

 

I always reinstall... But, the business lines (Latitude and Precision) come with much less bloat than the consumer lines, so you should be fine if you don't.

 

Or simply uninstall what you don't need.

Like Aaron44126 said, there's not that much bloatware on the Precision line.

 

Would you bother with this machine?

If I use the restore partition in Dell, I'd be restoring what's already there, correct? When you do clean installations, where do you get the OS installation files? And how do you validate Windows? It used to be (XP/7/etc days) that the OS activation code was on a sticker on the machine, but I don't see that now. Does that get handled by logging into your Windows account on a new installation?

Lots of questions -- sorry. I'm just eager to get started migrating to this machine.