Precision 7720 Owner's Thread

With all due respect, I would stick with one of the big three workstation laptop manufacturers and get a really good warranty. With Clevo et al you're only option will be to mail it back and wait for them to fix it and ship back. If it's a work machine then forget it for sure as it'll be gone a long time compared to any NBD repair.

This is a bad time to be using laptop workstations right now.

 

It's a bad time for portable workstation because QC for laptops are worse than ever.

 

If i bought a dell 7720 but without a dedicated GPU is the heatsink just single ? (single fan)

because if i ever wanted to get a gpu in the future would i need to buy also a different heatsink + fan ?

 

Yes exactly. That make me forced to get a P3000 just to get the heatsink for P5000, I can't find any place selling heatsink alone 5 months back (now not sure). It is still cheaper to buy this way and I have an extra P3000 in case P5000 dies.

It seems like 7720 full heatsink suits for both AMD and Nvidia card, someone pls confirm. 7710 they are separate.

 

Can't you get the heatsink part by calling dell or from parts-people (dell parts reseller)?

 

I purchased a CPU heatsink for my Precision M6700 from Dell's spare parts department back when that machine was pretty new. (I was upgrading to the "better" heatsink that only came with the "extreme" version of the CPU. It was rather cheap, too.) Unless things have changed, I don't know why they wouldn't be willing to sell a heatsink assembly for the newer Precisions.

 

I did call Dell, they refuse to sell it that way. Back to the time when i bought M6700 i can buy separate CPU heatsink special for Extreme CPU (with double heatpipe) from Dell. Now it seems they changed policy (at my place could be). Precision series is no longer able to purchase online, have to go through their partners. Only consumer grade or Latitude is still online.

Somebody said 7710 GPU heatsink fits in 7720 just get the respective type AMD or NVidia, but I do not want to take the risk because there is also saying 7720 GPU heatsink no longer separate AMD and Nvidia, so there might be some minor changes to either the heatsink or even the GPU design itself.

 

That sucks.

Is this in the US?

 

Of course not US, is in Malaysia.

 

oof

maybe it's possible to order from the US and have it internationally shipped?