Precision 7560 & 7760 Owners' Thread

It has been a month users started to receive 7760, but there is no corresponding TB4 dock from Dell, no any announcement too. I have been waiting for this before i decide on the upgrade. Conventional dock is just superior than all those TB docks from Dell released so far.

 

It looks like Alder Lake CPUs will still be capped off at 128GB total (looking at memory bus width on now pretty widely available specs). However we could certainly see 256GB in another generation or two.

 

I'd imagine that the high bandwidth would be more capable of hosting many virtual machines at once, especially if they all get really busy with database serving duties, compiling software, working with containers, and so on. Because it can do smaller tasks more quickly, it allows everything else to scale to a larger extent and the system is spending less time waiting for individual I/O events to complete. To me, the "7GB/second read speeds" is not especially important - it's the ability to kick off a compile and see results faster.

 

Database work is a good example. I do a lot of dev SQL work on my 7530 (not even utilizing a VM) and I find that big tasks are often constrained by disk I/O speed so faster drives will always help.

 

Finally figured out the issue that was preventing me from loading my Precision 7530 Windows install on the Precision 7560. I don't think that it's an issue that most people would have. It's our security software, Cortex XDR, loading a driver that causes Windows to fail to boot on the 7560. I'm not sure if it's because it doesn't like being moved over in this manner or if it is because the Cortex XDR software needs an update to work on the Tiger Lake platform. More testing this afternoon to figure that out. I hope to be "up and running" on the 7560 by Monday. (Will spend some time this weekend getting my data drive stuff copied over; this is the M.2 SATA drive which won't work in the 7560.)

Anyway. Another thing I discovered is that you can't access USB devices after the transfer without first loading the Intel chipset software package. ...Which is tricky to do when you stuck all of the drivers on a USB drive to have handy USB works from safe mode though, I guess Windows loads a generic driver.

 

I wonder if the Other SSD Slots (not the Gen 4 slot under the SSD access door) run cooler due to location. I do not have any installed yet. In comparison, when idle, my 7710 the SSD C drive is 44 degrees and the second drive is 41 degrees and the SATA is 29 degrees.

I doubt there is an issue of the SSD on the 7760 running 60 to 65 degrees. Just something I noticed.

 

@Aaron44126 Were you able to figure out the issue with the drive disappearing? There is another user that posted the 980 Pro is in the Gen 4 slot and does nto seem to have issues.

 

Nope... Haven't spent any time looking into it in the past day or two but it is still on the list to figure out. That's my coworker's machine and at this time it's on hold while I work on getting mine set up.

 

What Dell Apps are you running on the 7x60?

Out of the box, it looks like I have installed what is shown in the below clips. One is for the Apps & Features and the other is under Programs and Features. It looks like Dell Premier Color is not under Programs and Features and I guess is just a windows 10 app store app. Dell Command Update is showing a critical update for "SupportAssist OS Recovery Tools" released 7/8/21 (first clip below) but this is not listed on the Dell Site. And clicking the arrow brings to a dead link.

I have no Dell Digital Delivery so assume I can remove that.

I am not sure what Partner Promo is.

I plan on keeping

• Command Update just to check. Sometimes to install
• Optimizer
• Power Manager
• Premier Color (have not used)
• Support Assist

From Command Update


Programs and Features


Apps & Features

 

Myself, just Dell Power Manager and Dell Command Monitor…. And I think I could get rid of both of those since I now have the functions that I need in my own custom software. For updates, there is a function on the support/driver page that lets you have it send you emails when updates are posted.