Precision 7530 & Precision 7730 owner's thread

I know it is kinda irrelevant to this topic, but apple drops ball this year on Macbook pro due to unacceptable thermal and throttling, I feel more people will look at the real mobile workstation like precision series. especially this product line because lighter and thinner than previous years

 

That's typical of IPS displays: it's called light bleed. As @Aaron44126 mentioned, try to pry off the bezel and see if the problem is mitigated.

 

I agree. That problem is usually caused by the tight bezel not the screen itself.

 

But the real competitor of the macbook pros are not precision 75x0 series but precision 55x0 series. Their thermals are a little bit better than macbooks though, but not as good as the 75x0/thinkpad p5x/zbook 15 series.

 

Yes it looks like the light leakage / bleeding. I removed the bezel and it looked even worse but I guess it's okay because I see almost the same bleed on the 7520. The brightness was at the max level, if I reduced it in half the bleeding is not very noticeable. Thanks!

 

Hi guys. How does Dells's 'Superspeed' memory work? I'm planning on buying the system with the smallest, cheapest memory possible, and upgrading to 2 × 16 GB of these Samsung DDR4-2666 ECC SODIMMs. They happen to be B-die, and I'm hoping that I can overclock them to ~ 3 GHz.

 

Could someone please clarify the following? Some folks here were able to install ddr4 ram with 3200MHz and claimed it worked. Yet, intel spec sheet for highest available CPU option says the memory types supported is ddr4-2666 (link is for Xeon E-2186M but i9 has the same specs except for ECC support). Perhaps, because of this they were getting BSOD when trying to run on 3200MHz?
Also, there are rumors that this new mobile precision line would be able to support 128GB ram. How is this possible if CPU only supports up to 64GB according to the same spec sheet? Or will dell introduce new higher end cpu option along with 128GB ram?

https://ark.intel.com/products/134859/Intel-Xeon-E-2186M-Processor-12M-Cache-up-to-4_60-GHz

 

It uses XMP which basically allows for overclocking the RAM. The XMP standard was developed by Intel but it is not referenced on the CPU spec sheets. It seems to have been enabled by Dell in these systems in the first post-launch firmware update. I believe one user reported BSOD but replaced the memory with a different brand and found it to be stable at 3200.

It's not a rumor, Dell has definitively stated that it will be possible to order systems with 128GB of RAM later on (i.e. 4x32GB modules). They have not stated that it will be possible to upgrade current systems to 128GB. So, if or how the current set of CPUs will work with this amount of memory is not clear. If you are thinking about purchasing a system and upgrading it to 128GB of RAM, I recommend that you hold off purchasing until we have more information.

 

Thanks so much. I noticed that user, too, heh.

I was wondering mainly if the UEFI firmware had options for tweaking the XMP profiles within this notebook itself, or if I would have to load the memory into another notebook, overclock them with that second notebook, and then load them back into my Precision.

 

So someone popped in G.Skill 3200MHz modules and XMP worked? Hmmm. I would like to see proof of that. A shot of CPU-Z memory tab would do.

You can use XTU to set XMP if those options are hidden in the BIOS. Memory overclocking I'm not sure, maybe you can try Thaiphoon Burner or an EEPROM programmer to change the SPD firmware that way.