Precision 7530 & Precision 7730 owner's thread

I stated 28°C in my original post, which was my indoor temperature during the heat wave we had this summer.

 

Hi, are you using RAID with your SSDs ?

 

Hey Guys.
I'm thinking about buying 7730 with either i9 or xeon 2.9 for processing purposes.
Laptop will be operating constantly for about 30-60h at 90-100% cpu usage. I've read that 7730 tends to overheat, anyone using it for such long periods can confirm?
GPU won't be used during the processing time.

 

The CPU speed will throttle somewhat to keep the temperature at a safe level, but otherwise there are no problems with keeping it under constant high load. I haven't heard any reports of it shutting down under the heat load, or anything like that.

(I've had my M6700 for six years and it has run at 100% CPU for days on end at times, no problems...)

 

Does anyone know if it’s possible to add a nvidia p3200 further down the line if I opt for just the intel built in graphics? Are these graphics cards “removable”?

Can anyone tell me where the webcam connects into the motherboard? Is it separate from the screen?

Can anyone tell me where the fingerprint reader plugs into the motherboard?

Thanks

 

The graphics cards are removable. However, you get a "worse" heatsink if you order the machine without a dGPU, it does not include the heat pipe coming off of where the dGPU would be. Adding a dGPU later would require sourcing both the GPU card itself and the better version of the heatsink. (The GPU cards are not standard MXM, they are a proprietary form factor, no telling if there will ever be anywhere to buy them from.)

Someone else was saying that the display port on the motherboard connects both the display panel and the webcam. I haven't checked myself. Look at the online manual, it details where all of the motherboard connectors are when you look at the disassembly instructions.

 

Do you know if the cheapest Radeon ex 4150 card we can get here in the UK shares the same heatsink as the quadro p3200?

 

How does the intel i7 8850h compared to the 8750h? In some laptops I’ve been reading that the added clock speeds can have a really bad effect on thermals etc

 

Has anyone update date to windows October update yet. any issues?

 

As @Aaron44126 mentioned, yes, they're removable and replaceable, but they're Del''s proprietary form factor, the DGFF, and not the standard MXM that you'd usually see.

@Aaron44126 is correct. The cable to both the display and the webcam are one; the cable plugs into the 40-pin eDP connector on the motherboard:
And then splits to feed both the webcam and the display:

The fingerprint reader is connected by a ribbon cable to an interposer board on the palmrest assembly, somewhere under the keyboard. The former in turn connects to the motherboard through another ribbon cable:


All in all, the Precision's components are all removable and replaceable; there is just a certain level of tedium to it because of the rather unusual assembly of the laptop, with the heatsinks facing upwards rather than on the underside of the motherboard.

I have the Xeon E-2176M, which is clocked equal to the 8850H. The cooling is great; the CPU consistently hits 4 GHz with an undervolt (absolutely necessary on most Intel CPUs nowadays) running CineBench, with temperatures not exceeding 80 °C.