Precision 7560 & 7760 Owners' Thread

Ah, crap. I don't think we'll be able to get any more information about the panel without actually disassembling the lid. It's a 60 Hz 4K with Adobe RGB coverage, and HDR 600... Only a few results on Panelook.

 

I notice unacceptable throttling when stress-testing with Cinebench R23: the Xeon CPU ramps back to base clock and draws 35 W. The fans at full tilt can perfectly cool the CPU—I don't see a problem here. I think I need to see what's happening using ThrottleStop.

 

And ThrottleStop 9.4 fixes the problem! This deep throttling is caused by the MMIO power limits, and these can be disabled by going to FIVR -> Disable and lock Turbo power limits (checkbox on the right). Now the CPU hangs around 75 W effortlessly, and trounces my old Xeon.

 

Well great... c'mon Dell...
I did some research on it and found this guy explaining my issue, but with their 7530: https://www.dell.com/community/Prec...Precision-7530-multiple-problems/td-p/7194380
And also this screenshot, which shows the power draw discrepancy very well: https://i.imgur.com/jfZjALy.png

 

Both are mine

 

Haha no way! It was the first hit on google when I looked up 7530 battery drain.

 

Yeah, I've been quite vocal about it. I even got my 7530 replaced in 2019, a year after I first got my original 7530 to attempt to fix the problem, but no dice. I wanted to try to escalate this to the engineers themselves to see if I could have a direct line of contact with them, but to no avail.

Incidentally, I don't see this issue on my 7560. Idle power is around 6 W, and I haven't charged the notebook since I unplugged it around 5 hours ago (at 80%), and it's sitting at around 45%. I'm pretty pleased with it, but unfortunately my Windows profiles aren't syncing, so I need to fix that.

 

That's interesting. What Nvidia driver is installed?
I'm also wondering if only the earlier batches of the 7560/7760 have this problem, and not the newer batches. I ordered mine two days after it became available on Dell's website, and I got it delivered late June (two weeks ahead of schedule, too)

 

463.02, the one from Dell. My notebook also came with BIOS 1.2.2 installed as default.

 

Mine came with I believe the same Nvidia driver (it's the first one that supports the T1200-A5000 series I think), but it came with 1.1.2 installed default. I am on 1.2.2 right now, and I've experienced the odd power behavior on both BIOS versions.
I slightly remember having very good battery life when I first got the laptop, but one day the battery life just tanked, I'm not sure though, my memory of it is bad.
I have a feeling it happened when I installed MSI afterburner and messed around with it some. I wish I could factory reset this laptop, but I don't want to go through that long process right now.