Precision 7530 & Precision 7730 owner's thread

I'm having some odd issues ... just did a clean install of 1903 (same build as you), and the Realtek USB Network driver is flaking out. I've installed the latest drivers, but whenever using the ethernet through the tb18dc dock, it kills the entire usb system on the dock when there is "internet traffic". if it's just local network traffic, it isn't affected. I'm truly stumped

 

IT just ordered my WD19DC. I'll be on vacation next week, so it should be waiting for me when I get back. See ya'll then!

 

Recommendation for thermal pad placement

I am looking for suggestions on where to add thermal pads for temperature control. I have a Dell Precision 7530 with an Intel 8850H base 2.9 turbo 4.3. It has a Samsung 970 PRO SSD. I use this computer to develop web applications using Java code, so I am building large projects in Eclipse and testing. I use VMWare Workstation. I don’t run anything that uses the Nvidia P1000 currently, but may in the future.

I am having the machine repasted using Artic-MX4 since I see occasional thermal throttling. While I was having that done if there are recommendation for the addition of thermal pads I will do that too. I found a previous forum post regarding putting pads over the CPU VRMs. Is that generally recommended and are there any other places to consider?

Besides repasting the CPU and GPU are there other components that should be pasted or repasted?

 

Have you tried undervolting the CPU yet? That's going to be your best bet for reducing thermal throttling.

 

Yes. Setting cpu and cpu cache -148 mV has helped.

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I installed those yesterday too. So far no issues, but it's early to say if these are an improvement.

 

Too bad. Just double checked with copying a few mega bytes from local to a USB disk attached to the dock - no problems with concurrent LAN and USB.

I see "Realtek USB GbE Familiy Controller #2" in Windows device manager. Version 10.32.328.2019.
Not sure why "... #2" - I did an inplace upgrade from 1809 to 1903, so maybe that uninstalled/reinstalled the network device, maybe the driver update itself did that.

You might try to uninstall your device from device manager and have it reinstalled by re-plugging the Dock or an explicit Scan for hardware changes from device manager.

Do you see any errors or warnings in device manager?

 

@Aaron44126 any more thought about my monitor setup and why it wouldn't be working? I have an older external USB video device that I might try if the dock doesn't run three monitors and I can find it the device.

 

Nope, unfortunately I don't have anything between 1080p and 4K to test with. I suspect that the "only two 4K monitors supported" rule (which is in the specs) might actually be "only two >1080p monitors supported" (for no good reason). I suspect that a USB video output device would work fine, but then I think you don't get GPU acceleration on that monitor.

 

Yeah, it sounds that way. The USB video device would only be driving a monitor with a browser running on it, so acceleration won't matter. But I remember the device being flaky. Between the TB18DC and that device the flakiness might drive me mental.