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It's normal

Based on the PCIe topology of this generation, it appears that the PCH is not connected to the SSDs. Instead, the NVMe devices are connected directly to the CPU (i.e., two are connected to the IOE tile, and one is connected to the SoC tile). IOE is shared with Thunderbolt 5 and dGPU; PCH is pretty idle from what I can see (WLAN and SDXC reader only). It's not a surprise to see a bandwidth difference across different tiles.

It does support and works pretty well on Pro Max Plus.

This control centre has been deprecated. All settings for USB4 device(i.e., USB4 and USB4V2) have been moved to the USB submenu under Windows Settings. All CPU-integrated Thunderbolt 4 controllers (except for TigerLake CPU), and dedicated Thunderbolt 9000 series(TB4 & TB5) controllers are recognized as USB4/USB4V2 under Windows.

Just out of curiosity, did you face any touchscreen issues when using the Qual Sample dGPU board? I heard it will cause the touchscreen to be non-functional.

I highly suspect the Pro Precision 9 won’t be released this year. Intel has only provided a refreshed Arrow Lake SKU (e.g., 290HX Plus), which lacks vPro support. This situation is similar to 2024, where the Precision 7x90 was absent due to the limited update from the 14900HX refresh.

I’m satisfied with what I got from the Pro Max Plus 16-inch model, the build quality and performance are decent. It’s better than any of the Precision machines I’ve owned before, including the 7550, 7760, 7670, 7680, and 7780, in many respects. Plus, the 4K 120Hz Tandem OLED is wild, if you are not sensitive on OLED panel, don't miss that option. In my opinion, if you’re looking for a true workstation-class machine, I would not recommend the ThinkPad P16 Gen 3. This model is heavily limited by its preset power limits and power adapter. The combined power budget is only 15W for the CPU plus 115W for the GPU. If you don't care about performance, P16 Gen3 is still acceptable. HP ZBook Fury is probably another option worth exploring. Honestly, I don’t have any experience with HP laptops, so I can’t comment on it.

It's literally a 4-cell battery; why does Dell state it comes with a 6-cell battery option?🤣

CPU PowerLimit isn't affected

The issue I am currently facing is related to the power adapter. When I travel, I use a 28 V 140 W adapter. I have noticed that once the system is connected to the 140 W adapter, the dGPU TGP becomes locked at 115 W, even using the genuine 280W brick. The only way to restore the 175 W TGP profile is to reset the BIOS to factory defaults. I am not sure how Dell has implemented the relevant BIOS logic, but the overall behavior feels quite buggy.

WHEA errors are commonly observed in daughterboard designs that rely on PCIe bridges (such as DGFF), especially on PCIe 4.0+ systems. Replacing the motherboard alone will not resolve the underlying signal-integrity issues. I have observed this problem on my Precision 7670/7680, so I am not surprised that it has not been fully addressed by Dell in this generation. I noticed that Lenovo uses CAMM as the dGPU board interposer. How is your friend’s P16 Gen 3? Has he encountered similar issues?

R23 is definitely around 35000 for 285HX

My guess is: Precision3000tower->ProMaxT2->Pro Precision 9 T2 Precision5000tower->Not updated last year in ProMax->Pro Precision 9 T4 Precision7/9000tower->Not updated last year in ProMax->Pro Precision 9 T6

Ironically, they are once again renaming the product line.

Just have a double check, even Bluetooth audio has that unexpected noise