Precision 7530 & Precision 7730 owner's thread

Wow, this is exciting. Curiously, the new Quadro Experience app does not show a driver update to 450. I'll download it manually and play with it tomorrow on the 7540.

I never understood why Quadros were excluded from G-Sync in the first place. As though devs and professionals somehow enjoy screen tearing or v-sync latency more than gamers. Maybe if we're lucky, they'll bring back overclocking to Quadros too.

 

Is this the new GeForce Experience-esque app that 'auto-configures' everything for you? If so, thank goodness I'm still installing my drivers manually. Can do with less manufacturer auto-configuring crud—it seems every driver nowadays comes with a huge Electron program to configure pointless, contrived settings.

Same reason why:

1. NVIDIA didn't support VESA Adaptive Sync/FreeSync until last year;
2. It hasn't open-sourced its Linux drivers yet;
3. It implemented its own protocols with EGLStreams instead of GBM for Wayland on Linux
4. Why GameWorks exists;
5. Why CUDA is locked to NVIDIA GPUs, whereas OpenCL can be used on anything;
6. Why the retail prices of GeForce cards have trended upwards, far outpacing inflation,
7. Many more.

In other words:

 

Yes, I gave it a shot. My expected conclusion is it's a hot pile of telemetry filled garbage.

Silly me. Of course everyone should need to buy both a Quadro and a GeForce card for a complete feature set.

 

If you use a RSS feed reader (everyone should), I have some feeds set up to be alerted on NVIDIA driver updates.

https://rss.aaron-kelley.net/nvidia-p5000/
https://rss.aaron-kelley.net/nvidia-rtx5000/

 

Are any of you guys able to view the UEFI firmware and the pre-boot menus on your monitors?

I can't get that, and have to open up the notebook to navigate the firmware setup. I get a feeling the DisplayPort connection is a little finicky...

 

I never realized you could use an RSS feed for useful stuff. I always thought it was for getting news or blog posts.

 

Quick question: what is the lowest wattage power adaptor that I can buy, that still charges the 7530 (despite any warning of a slow charge)? I want to downsize my backpack, and plan to retain/upgrade the 180 W charger for the 240 W one, while using the lower-wattage one for travelling.

 

If you are OK using the laptop on battery most of the time and charging it while it is sleeping or powered off, 65W should do.
(Maybe also a decently high-powered USB-C charger would be fine for this? It doesn't take that many watts to charge the battery over the course of a few hours. Seems like 30W would be adequate. I haven't tried it.)

If you want to be able to "sort of" use your laptop and charge it at the same time, you will need at least 90W. Performance will be terrible. Even when not charging, it throttles way harder than it does on battery (even though you can only draw 100W from the battery).

If you don't want throttling, 180W or bust.

 

It appears the stock 180 W AC adaptor provides 45 W to charge the battery, and 75-80 W in ExpressCharge mode.

Another one of Dell's terrible design decisions. That said, I don't think I will game or render anything on the go—probably writing code and docuimentation at the very most, or taking down notes during a lecture. I don't expect the CPU to hold at PL1 60 W for extended periods of time, just appropriate boosts when compiling or loading pages so that things don't stutter around. Going by what you said, however ('throttles harder than it does on battery'), I don't expect this. I think I might even go for the charge-while-sleeping thing.

The 240 W upgrade is so I can perform a shunt mod and try and see if I can boost the GPU power limit to 120-130 W, and this to be used when the notebook is at a desk.

 

Today I updated the BIOS of my 7730 from 1.4.2 to 1.13.1. After doing so, I can no longer undervolt my i9; the voltage offset option is greyed out, along with a bunch of other settings.
On the Dell support forums, someone suggested restoring the BIOS to default settings. I tried that but it did not help.

There's a heatwave going on in my country. Without the undervolt, even the slightest task (such as starting an application) triggers thermal throttling. With the undervolt in place, that wasn't an issue.

Is there anything I can do apart from rolling back my BIOS?