Aaron44126

This has not been my experience. Newly added drives will show up as individual drives automatically. There's not much of a safety concern. The RAID configuration (that is, which drives belong to which array) is not stored in the BIOS; it is stored as metadata on the drives themselves, so that Intel Rapid Storage RAID arrays can be "transplanted" between compatible systems with no configuration required.

It should be just like connecting any other type of drive. It "just works", even if RAID mode is enabled, if you don't put them in an array they will show up as individual drives. In BIOS setup you should be able to go to the "Storage" section and scroll down, and it will show you what drives are connected. It shows the drive model and capacity next to the toggle to enable or disable each M.2 slot. (Of course, if they are blank drives you will need to go to Disk Management in Windows and initialize+format them. They should still show up in Device Manager before you do that, though...) Note, this system will accept only M.2 NVMe drives and not M.2 SATA drives (even though M.2 SATA drives will physically fit).

I've always blamed retailers here. They should make it easier for people to buy in-demand products even when they don't have stock. Look at Apple. I know a lot of you don't particularly care for Apple products. But, when a new iPhone model comes out, it is without a doubt an in-demand hot tech item, and yet you don't see scalpers making money off of it for an extended period of time. Apple has a proper queuing system in place. The iPhone is never "out of stock" online, they just keep taking orders and pushing the delivery date back as orders come in. You might have to wait a bit longer to get one if you don't put your order in right at the start, but at least you can buy one and then just stop worrying about it until it shows up. What's the downside to doing it this way, from a retailer? They're going to make just as much money as people keep buying their stuff. And they'll have better customer satisfaction and less frustration. Whereas for GPUs, new game consoles, etc., you just see them as "out of stock" within seconds of going on sale, and for people who aren't paying attention, there is literally no way to buy one except from a scalper. Enough people are willing to pay the premium price scalpers demand, so the business survives. If GPU retailers would implement queuing / backorders, this then scalping would be either dead, or at least much less profitable. Enough people would be willing to wait a bit as long as they could actually put an order in with a realistic ETA, rather than deal with scalpers or try to fight to get one right when orders go live or when a restock happens. If you're worried about a situation like where scalpers or miners would abuse this to buy up hundreds of GPUs at once and clog the queues, just put in a limit of 1 or 2 items per physical mailing address (/ account / credit card / etc.) and keep it in place until demand settles down. (I'm aware of a case where eVGA implemented this, but it was something weird like "sign up to be on our list and we'll email you when its your turn to buy one", and if you missed the email within the time window then tough luck; to the back of the line for you. Just skip this nonsense and let people put an order in directly at the start.)

You are right, I mistyped.

I missed the meeting. Too much going on today. I can say though that my Precision 7560 fans definitely turn off on low load. They just don't make any noise when powering back on to low RPM. You wouldn't know if you weren't using a tool to watch the fan speed. (That said, I'd also love the option to have the fans never power off. I'm running a dynamic artificial CPU load to make that happen. I understand that HP has that option in their latest workstation, but if the idle fan speed is ≈2500 RPM, that's also bad...)

Inspect the shortcut properties and you should be able to find the commands it put in there.

If you press "Create clocks shortcut" does it not create a shortcut for you with the right commands in it for the settings that you have chosen?

I haven’t updated to this one yet, but past BIOS updates have left setup vars alone.

That fan is designed to push air "through" not "out the back". (Blower fan vs. axial fan as mentioned in the Reddit comments.) Also it has hardly any fins, I don't see how it could result in an improvement to airflow.

The M2 slot would be 4x PCIe4, right?

BIOS update 1.7.1. https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-us/drivers/driversdetails?driverid=XMCK4 Fixes: - Firmware updates to address security vulnerabilities including (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures - CVE) such as CVE-2022-21198, CVE-2022-26845, CVE-2022-29893, CVE-2022-27497, CVE-2022-33159, CVE-2022-26047, CVE-2021-23223, CVE-2021-37409, CVE-2021-44545, CVE-2022-21212, CVE-2022-21197, CVE-2022-21160, CVE-2022-21139, CVE-2022-21172, and CVE-2022-21240.

The PCIe info that I dropped above, along with other information, first showed up in a leak in October 2020, about 20 months before Alder Lake HX hit the market. (Here it is.) Branding was not right, people were calling it "Alder Lake S-BGA" back then, and what became "Alder Lake H" is referred to in this leak as "Alder Lake P". (Intel's marketing dept probably hadn't even decided how to name things yet.) Just about everything in that leak is spot on. (It does show that Alder Lake H systems support PCIe5, which Intel has never advertised nor do any systems support, but die shots show that the PCIe5 interconnect is present... Intel likely didn't activate it because no one would actually use it anyway.) It's not unprecedented at all for CPU details to leak over one year in advance. Mobile workstation design is a roughly two-year process. And they certainly would have fully operational 13th gen prototype systems by now. We saw Precision 7X70 parts leaking that had build dates of October 2021 (≈9 months before release) and you could actually buy them from Taobao.

Intel's been going on a pretty consistent yearly cadence with CPUs since 2018. 8th through 12th gen mobile workstation CPUs have been launching in the May/June timeframe every year. 12th gen desktop processors released a year ago, and 13th gen desktop CPUs just launched. There's been no word on mobile 13th gen. I'd expect H CPUs in the winter (announcements at CES), and we probably won't see 13th gen HX systems actually shipping until late spring — both about one year after the corresponding 12th gen models.

For clarity, because that statement makes Alder Lake H seem "better" in this regard — Alder Lake HX has 20 (16+4 or 8+8+4) off of the CPU (16 PCIe5 + 4 PCIe4), and an additional 28 off of the PCH (16 PCIe4 + 12 PCIe3). Alder Lake H just has 16 (8+4+4) off of the CPU (PCIe4), and an additional 12 off of the PCH (PCIe3). The PCH is technically on the CPU and not a separate motherboard component, though. I'm not aware of any systems actually implementing PCIe5 on Alder Lake HX, but Intel made a deal about mentioning it during their Alder Lake HX release presentations.

Microsoft: We messed up Microsoft finally acknowledges gaming performance issues on Windows 11 22H2, blocks update

NVIDIA just dropped their first enterprise (Quadro/RTX) 525.xx drivers. https://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/194240/en-us/ The 525.xx series supposedly has decent performance improvements for DirectX 12 games. https://notebooktalk.net/topic/810-nvidia-directx-12-performance-boost-522xx-drivers/ (Not applicable to those of us with the GeForce card; you can go get a GeForce 525.xx driver from NVIDIA's web site if you like.)

Yeah, I'm familiar with this rule and I also have heard "off-site" (not necessarily "the cloud") for the final bit. Basically, it's for "in case the building burns down" (or some other similar local disaster), your data will still persist. Which is why I am looking to just park the data at a relative's. Other than being a bit cheaper, this has the added benefit of being able to just go and physically collect the hard drive if I need to do a recovery, rather than wait for everything to come down over the Internet. (10+TB could take a while.) I think I also read that Backblaze doesn't let you upload certain types of files unless you take some steps to work around it? (Maybe I'm dealing with old information.) [Edit] Found it, they don't back up ISO files, VM disks, and so forth by default but it looks like you can remove this exclusion pretty easily. Eh. Maybe I will check this out too.

I also keep my personal data on a separate drive from my Windows install for similar reasons. I just strongly prefer to be able to recover my entire Windows install so that I don't have to remember / figure out all of the configuration that I have done. The restore that I did yesterday was just overwriting C : drive but not my data D : and E : drives. I do a system image of C : but the data drives are backed up with a different mechanism. (Man, this forum really wants to put emoticons in if I type drive letters with a colon but no space.) Macrium Reflect actually made it quite simple to replace the C : Windows 10 partition only, even though the image was for the whole drive. I also have Windows 11 and Linux partitions on the same drive that were not touched. (Maybe you can also do this easily with Acronis as well, but again, this was free!) Sounds interesting, I will probably pick it up. In addition to the storage in my laptop, I have around 30TB of NAS space, so should be able to hold a pretty long history of incremental backups. (Need to figure out an off-site backup solution. I was using Carbonite for a while but got frustrated with the poor Windows software which always gets hung up backing up the number of files that I have. I'm thinking about dropping a system with a big drive at a relative's house if they will just let me run it in their basement, and doing some SSH+rsync to move stuff over at night.) [Edit] If I'm going to pay for it, I might as well use it fully. I'd be interested in backing my data drives up without doing a full image of those drives so that I can have different "policies" for different folders; have you used their "file and folder backup" feature at all? Does it also support incremental-type backups for that? (I've only used Macrium Reflect for full drive images so far.)

Eh. Depending on what type of load that you are dealing with, forcing background tasks to run on P cores instead of E cores may well increase the power required (and thus heat) — even if you take undervolting the P cores into account. You should run some tests both ways and see what you prefer.

I used Acronis True Image for many years, but have more recently switched to Macrium Reflect. Acronis True Image installs too much background stuff if you install the full software package for doing live image backups (instead of just relying on bootable media). Macrium Reflect's WinPE-based recovery environment is really nice for loading all of the custom drivers that you need for disk and network access. It's also really easy to do very specific partition moving/sizing operations when doing a recovery or disk-to-disk clone. ...And it's free, but if you pay for it to get the extra features, they don't release version upgrades that you need to pay for nearly as often as Acronis does.

System Restore failed after two attempts. (Not Dell's fault, it's on Microsoft. System Restore was saying that it couldn't delete my iCloud Photos folder. Huh? I deleted it myself and ran SR again, and this time it said that it couldn't restore the same folder from the restore point.) I ended up restoring a system image. (I capture a full image every week with Macrium Reflect, and it so happens that an image was captured yesterday morning.) That caused a little bit a mess that I had to clean up with regards to BitLocker but once finished... but at least my audio services are working properly again. I'm now thinking hard about buying the paid version of Macrium Reflect and doing daily incremental backups. Seems like it would be super handy to be able to restore or browse the image for a particular day, and since System Restore doesn't even work right......

Both of the fans are on the right side... The left side only gets some passive airflow from internal air circulation. The top left is also where the hot CPU is. I can also tell that the left side of my 7770 is warmer than the right (but it's not in "uncomfortable" territory). I recommend looking into disabling turbo boost to keep fans/temperature more under control when you are not running high-CPU loads. (See "turbo boost toggle" link in my signature.)

Eh. For me, the repaste definitely helped move from "thermal throttling" to "power throttling" territory (meaning I would be able to get more performance out with Throttlestop). Assuming you are comfortable with doing it, it doesn't take very long to do so nothing to hurt by trying.

"Should" be fine as long as you keep Optimus enabled. See also:

This audio driver update caused a mess for me. I was left with the "Waves Audio Service" (WavesSysSvc64.exe) stuck in the "Starting" state. In Task Manager, I can see that it was stuck in an endless loop or something, gobbling up an entire CPU core. I do have working audio, but because the service is messed up, audio controls in Dell Optimizer are non-functional and the system won't even notice when I plug in headphones and cut over. I uninstalled the Realtek audio driver, ran DDU for good measure (it can clean up Realtek audio drivers now), and installed it again. This process probably involved four reboots and in the end I was left in the same situation, with the messed up service. So, I uninstalled the new driver and installed the previous one. Still messed up. Not sure what to attempt next. I kicked off System Restore and I'm rolling back to a restore point from before I ran updates yesterday. (My past experience is that System Restore can take hours to do its job.) Dunno what's going on here. Dell also updated the Realtek audio driver on the Precision 7560 — same version number as the new one that dropped for Precision 7770, but a different file to download — I installed that and it is working fine on the 7560.