Precision 7530 & Precision 7730 owner's thread

You need the Intel GPU pass-through board. The system will not boot with "nothing" attached to the dGPU connector. The 7730 and 7530 cards are not compatible (different physical sizes).

 

I think you would need this:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/0057F-NEW-...raphics-630-Card-DAP20-LS-F608P-/153373404638

In order to find this, i've discovered these two very helpful links:

https://snlookup.com/dell-precision-7530-laptop-notebook-p264596#ffs-tabbed-14
https://snlookup.com/dell-precision-7730-laptop-notebook-p264597#ffs-tabbed-14

It looks like they show every upgrade part number available for both 7530 and 7730.

Just click on the "Service Parts / Upgrades" section and than search any "Card, Graphics, Unified Memory Architecture" reference.

I tried for 7530 and this is what i got (to see the part number just go with the mouse over the "show price" button and what you need will be displayed on the bottom left of the page:
So the 'trick' worked out as i got the same part number showed in this post by @Ionising_Radiation :http://forum.notebookreview.com/thr...0-owners-thread.820539/page-238#post-10923298


If you do the same for 7730 using this link
https://snlookup.com/dell-precision-7730-laptop-notebook-p264597#ffs-tabbed-14
you will find the part you need: 0057F

Just for comparison this is the hdmi board for 7530:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/GENUINE-Dell-Precision-7530-HDMI-Board-LS-F597P-KWJM2-/362656957453

 

@BotenRedWolf
Hi !

May i ask you why did you customize your 7530 with E-2186M but with NON ecc ram ?
If 128gb ram was your priority, i9-8950hk would have saved you $ 266.14
(xeon cpu is $112.06 more expensive than 8950hk; moreover it forces you to choose "win10 for workstation" which adds up $154.08 more).

They're 6c/12t cpus with 12 MB L3 cache and both have identical base and turbo boost values:

8950HK--->http://forum.notebookreview.com/attachments/tsbench-png.175216/
2186M--->http://forum.notebookreview.com/attachments/upload_2019-6-4_21-24-7-png.175167/

 

I don’t think he mentioned ECC or otherwise, did he? His signature only has ‘128 GB DDR4’...

 

32GB ECC modules are not available, so if you have 128GB it must be non-ECC.

 

The 7540/7740 have them as a configuration option, though, so perhaps it was an aftermarket add-on. But then again ECC SODIMMs are fairly rare, so I do have the same question as @xklis, then, because having a Xeon without ECC would be a waste.

But I also am not quite fond of questioning others’ purchase decisions...

 

Are you saying Arch doesn't support dGPU on 7730?

I'm planning to buy 7740 with RTX5000 GPU and install Arch. Should I be worried?

 

Was that added recently? Quite sure I checked at the 7X40 launch and 128GB ECC wasn't an option from Dell...
I suppose he could have ECC memory after all, then.

 

Yes, just checked, 128 GB ECC is now an option for 7740. $2000+

 

lol...because I'll take what they're going to give, to be fair. There's no complaints from me at this point once that thing shows up (this is an incredibly slow process, and that's the second unit swap in a month; first one showed up faulty in multiple ways)

Interestingly enough, someone has messed up in that description as well, because you can't do RAID5 on two drives, so it's either no RAID, or there's ANOTHER 2TB SSD.

My question is more "who configured this and WHY DID YOU SKIMP ON THE GPU?!"