Precision 7530 & Precision 7730 owner's thread

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Out of curiosity, how do you plan to procure a DGFF Quadro RTX 3000? Assuming they're interchangeable, that is.

Also, greatly appreciate your investigation into the abnormally high power draw - I think I may have seen your post on reddit too!

 

Ah, yeah; that was probably me. I'll not rest until I get my hands on that part, install it, and see how the power draw changes. It really grinds my gears.

As for how I'll get my hands on a DGFF Quadro RTX 3000: same as how I got all the other part numbers; wait for someone to get a Precision 7540 with the RTX 3000, ask them for the part number of the DGFF, and directly phone in to Dell. I hope the heatsinks match up; if not, I'll get them new, too.

 

Wow, had no idea it could be so simple! Would you mind sharing the line you call into to make a request like that? Such an upgrade would be incredible.

 

I don't live in the US, so I have one unified telephone number for everything; I just call in, quote my Service Tag, and quote the part number. I tell them I'm fine with installing any parts by myself, even if I get a few (virtual) raised eyebrows.

I got it once, when I said I'd change my palmrest (have other on-going issues: the NFC reader in my notebook somehow has stopped working—I get a feeling a lot of my woes would be fixed with a motherboard replacement).

 

In the US you can call the Dell spare parts line at 800-372-3355. Presumably they have a similar number that you could call in other territories. For some reason it is hard to find that number on their web site (in the US), I've just had it saved for a long time.

I've never ordered a GPU from them, if they will sell you one I imagine that it will be sort of expensive. But I've bought other random stuff from them before, including rubber feet, a DVD burner for an older laptop, and the "better" version of the CPU heatsink for my M6700 which normally only shipped with the 3920XM/3940XM CPU. The procedure outlined by @Ionising_Radiation is right... You need to do the legwork and get a part number for them to have any hope of finding the part in their system.

 

An alternative: wait until early 2020, and allow those DGFFs to sprout on eBay. You can find some there now:

Placeholder 7530 DGFF
P2000 7530 DGFF

I remember seeing a few others, but my Google-fu does not work now.

Edit: Even if they exist on eBay, I couldn't find the placeholder card without the part number. Google-fu took me only so far. With Dell, part numbers are everything, I guess.

 

Have you received and tried out the WD19DC and TB18DC yet?

 

Anyone see an OEM Dell 7730 240-watt power adapter in Canada? They are on the Dell US website but not on the Dell Canada site. The adapters on Amazon.ca that say "genuine/original" don't look trustworthy.

 

Have had an odd issue this weekend.
Tried to install an additional NVME drive into my 7730 (into the slot directly aside the battery) and everything seem to work easy and fine. The drive showed up in bios and also in Windows device manager. But wenn I tried to initialize it it failed with "not enough space on the drive" and the drive showed 0 Bytes.
After a reboot the drive wasn't visible in bios nor Windows anymore.

Removed it, installed it again (just to make sure it was seated right) and the same game: Visible in bios first, failure when trying to initialize and then gone from bios again.

Are there any incompatibilities known between the 7x30 and some NVME's? Or do I have got a DOA device or an faulty nvme port on the 7730 ?

The nvme was a ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro 512GB