Aaron44126

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Next-gen Precision: Precision "7570" & Precision "7770"
Details not confirmed; these are my expectations based on current information / leaks / rumors, and past patterns
• CPU — Intel Alder Lake (12th gen) – Intel 7 process, hybrid architecture, H55 / S-BGA, 8P + 8E cores, bump up to 55W TDP
• GPU — NVIDIA Ampere refresh – "RTX A5500" with GA103 chip; 7,424 CUDA cores; 16GB vRAM; modest improvement over GA104 in Precision 7X60; similar performance to GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Laptop GPU
• DDR5 (up to 128GB)
• PCIe4 support — Alder Lake S-BGA supports 36 lanes of PCIe4 (20 at CPU and 16 at PCH), so all NVMe slots in the system should be PCIe4 enabled
• Expected to be available to order in mid/late second quarter 2022; could be earlier, primarily depends on release timing of Alder Lake S-BGA CPUs, which is currently unclear
• 7X70 pre-release thread

General Windows tips for newer Precision systems
• Dell Precision / Windows 11 information
• Switching from RAID to AHCI/NVMe mode (same process can be used to return to RAID mode)
• Switching from AHCI/NVMe mode to RAID mode, if the Windows instance has never seen RAID mode before (...specific to 7X60, will need to be tweaked for other systems)
• Remapping keys to get dedicated Home/End, PgUp/PgDn

Precision 7560 & Precision 7760
• You can order Precision 7X60 with GeForce RTX 3080 GPU (might support 110W in Precision 7560?) (part numbers)
• Solving "disappearing drive issue" by keeping the PCIe4 drive slot switch pressed down
• Display panel and cable part numbers

Precision thermals & performance
• Great interview with Dell thermal engineer Travis North, six parts: one | two | three | four | five | six
• Notes on disabling the CPU power/throttle limit in modern Precision systems: one | two
• Notes on undervolting CPU in modern Precision systems
• Discussion on undervolting GPU in modern Precision systems
• Insights on Precision allocation of PCIe lanes
• Explanation of (lack of) performance difference between NVIDIA 4000- and 5000-level GPUs

GPU upgrades
• DGFF upgrades in Precision 7X30, 7X40
• Notes on modding NVIDIA INF file
• Notes on signing a modded NVIDIA driver, so that "test mode" or "disable driver signature enforcement" is not needed
• Dell Precision M6800 / Quadro P5000 vBIOS flash
• Dell Precision M6700 – Quadro M5000M (worked great for me), Quadro P5000 (not so much)

Other upgrades
• Using M.2/NGFF cards in Precision M6700
• Precision M6700 45W CPU heatsink replacement
• Precision M6600 / M6700 IPS display upgrade guide