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NVIDIA control panel shows 125W on mine. Hitting 102W in 3DMARK. How can another copy of the same thing you already have, help to improve?
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Yes, did read your helpful article about Turboboost before and will take it into consideration. Just wanted to emphasize the out-of-the-box thoughts.
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Today I finally got my 7670. Did not have much time for detailed tests or even opening the chassis. But here are some observations. Its my first "glossy" display since years. The colors and blacks are awesome but the reflections are killing me. I don't know if I can get used to it on my daily work. And man...I miss the physical touchpad buttons and status LEDs from the old series... I knew that there are thermal issues....but only clicked through the Windows first-time-startup menu and already noticed there that the keyboard went way to hot as I thought it would be. I mean when you start noticing that they keyboard is hot, you are not comfortable working the whole day with this - feels like heated keys. Just in case sb. is interested in: CPU was between 2% and 25%. I measured around 40°C (104°F) on the keys where my fingers reside and 46°C (115°F) on the top keyboard frame. Man, thats enormous for that little amount of CPU stress. Will do some further tests, but what to expect when the CPU is really doing some work..? I compared to an old Precision M4800, which had 60% CPU load. Temps on the keyboard were around 25°C to 28°C (77°F to 82°F), so not noticeable warm. Even now the 7670 is in idle with 0 percent, the keyboard is still at higher 30-ish temps. And the system will ramp up to fans regularly on full power for some minutes..... I did a quick CB23 test, out of the box with just Windows updates installed. It scored 14869 multicore and 1796 singlecore on the first/second 10-minutes run with a i7-12850HX. -> Thats even equal/better than some (not all of course) others first-time run on the 7770 with i9 here. 😉 How is that possible? I also noticed that HWiNFO showed max CPU package power 130W, IA Cores Power 120W and Total System Power 202W. Compared to screenshots of @SilverAzide with 7770 and i9, this is higher on my 7670 with i7. -> 130W/120W/202W on 7670 vs. 119W/110W/183W on 7770. I'm just wondering if this is something good..? PS: I noticed that keyboard did not get any hotter than 40°C/46°C (104°F/115°F) during CB23. But strange it will heat up also during minor CPU load so fast!
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I did not want the door, but my Dell rep said, he cannot unselect it with performance chassis. I'm glad it was possible on your machine. Another inscrutable process from Dell. 🤔 On my first order on day1 (July) I could not get rid of the SSD door and also on my second order in September, this was still the case. 😞
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7670 buyers do not have that choice. Once you get the performance chassis, you'll get the SSD door - if you want it or not.
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Indeed! Despite the facts of this review and the downsides of the cooling - I'm also very disappointed that the screen is that much reflective and at the same time the brightness with 350cd is not very satisfying according to the review. [EDIT] BTW. Dell was able to process my order earlier than expected. Marked as shipped in China 3 weeks before the schedule. Since I ordered the Laptop on day 1 when SODIMM was "ready-to-order", I still don't understand, why there are people here that already received their Laptops with SODIMM when mine at that point didn't even reach "in production". Its an inscrutable process Dell is following.
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Thought it must be, as @pintie reported 100°C after 2 secs....
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Are you going to open it to check the heatsink and the pads?
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....finally my reordered 7670 went to "in production" exactly 4 weeks after order confirmation. Curious to find out, which Heatsink they built in there. There should be a chance that they used the "Sunon" version....
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Good to know, thanks. So there is an option for a 4th drive then for the 7670 owners. 🙂
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Since I was not able to order with WWAN, can I use the slot for a M.2 2230 card or similar? Are there any limitations to that slot?
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Yes. The Interposer has 2 slots and according to Dell online configurator, you can do configuration for example with 2x16 GB ECC.
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Maybe a dumb question.... as this material does not conduct electricity, why couldn't you just cut one long stripe that covers all "chips" in a row? Why do they have to be properly made with the correct dimensions of each single "chip"?
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Understood. Just thought when you do it for CPU side, why not also doing it for GPU side the same time.
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Would it also make sense to do this on the GPU side also?
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And these 8 days made the difference between canceling & buying XPS and now keeping the 7770? 😄 BTW. the ETA for my reordered 7670 is Nov. 9th 😆
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I think it should be unlocked by default, but maybe sb. in the factory locked it. Then you have to open the chassis and move the notch to unlock it:
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I understand your frustration, but on my perspective the online configurator does quite a nice job in letting you know what is possible and what not: For Intel, A1000 & A2000 the 93Wh battery does not fit and only 2 NVMe slots can be used due to Thin Chassis Where does the spec sheet say you can have 83Wh with 3 NVMe slots? The spec sheet says "up tp 12 TB of storage with 3 Gen4 M.2 slots". And also that it has "(3) M.2 slots PCIe Gen 4 SSD (12TB)/RAID 5 support". Thats not wrong, it always depends on your config. Same like OLED is only available with 4k display and not with FHD. Same as WWAN is only available with FHD display and not with 4k. Same with OLED not having 500nits and so on. I think the spec sheet only shows the possible top configuration and the available parts, but does not say anything obout the availability of them with different combinations. For most of them, you can use the online configurator to find out.
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I think as @SvenC said. Probably they want to reduce possible permutations. Like in the past, some dependencies and limits in hardware configuration didn't make sense but to reduce possible combinations. For example for the 7670 it is not possible to get performance chassis with fingerprint reader but with no SSD door and without SC reader and without NFC. Same like they did not make it possible to get the OLED display together with WWAN. Which might have technical reasons for the antennas, but sad you cannot have a configuration with "all in".
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Door is same metal as the chassis, as it looks like it is also part of the heat transport from the first SSD: But I agree that in general that kind of parts should not exist on the market, especially not way long before the systems even hit the market. Not sure who would buy it then anyway. I don't think any company is happy to see this happening.
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The chassis shouldn't be a plastic part. It is made of metal.
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Thanks for the info, I already assumed it. Can you give some more details on how to detect such an defective part and in general what issues were found with this charge of chassis that supposed to cause the delay in building all the machines? Thanks
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Does sb. know if the Dell back covers found on Ebay (shipping from China) these days are the "faulty" ones, which Dell sorted out? Would be interesting to know what Revision is mentioned on any newly shipped 7670/7770..?
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Strange as I made the experience that price for several parts went slighly up. So the order I made on 7th July would now cost 200 bucks more if I'd order it now with the same specs. Did not bother me as I wanted to change specs anyway.
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Only thing that I am aware of, is the limit to 64GB memory size in total.
