Aaron44126

Looking like a no go since Intel is not releasing "business" "HX" CPUs for 15th gen. (And there's nothing new from NVIDIA, either.) We will have to wait and see what they have for 2025.

You can get this by installing the package "smbios-utils" from the Ubuntu repos. These commands (run as root) will allow you to change the thermal profile. smbios-thermal-ctl --set-thermal-mode=balanced smbios-thermal-ctl --set-thermal-mode=cool-botom smbios-thermal-ctl --set-thermal-mode=quiet smbios-thermal-ctl --set-thermal-mode=performance

I agree more or less, these days I find it fine to do the base Windows install, get it online (install Ethernet or Wi-Fi driver), and let Windows Update take care of everything. I think that it will get every single driver. I'd still install the GPU drivers from Dell, and maybe some extra non-driver stuff like Dell Optimizer if you think you actually need it.

I used Linux (Ubuntu) on Precision 7770 for a while and the only issue that I really had was poor power balance between the CPU and GPU (which I also observed on Windows), and the fingerprint reader wouldn't work consistently. Which Dell Command app are you trying to use from Linux, and why?

Yeah, next thing I would do here is: Switchable graphics back off Run DDU and tell it to whack the Intel graphics driver Switchable graphics back on Install the current Intel GPU driver from Dell's site HDR does allow for some more vibrant colors, but situations where it is useful are minimal (IMO) — certain videos, and certain games, which should automatically trigger it when running full screen (no need to switch the entire desktop to HDR mode). I guess, you could also be working with HDR imagery (photos) and maybe then you'd need to switch it on. Please do not disable NVIDIA graphics from Device Manager if the system is running with hybrid graphics disabled. You'll lose the internal display.

1.20.1 is the one I think people were complaining about, with poor CPU performance? The whole reason that bridge BIOS was posted was to get back to an older version to get full performance back, before 1.21.1 was posted. My 7770 has been fine with 1.21.1, or as "fine" as I'd expect it to be anyway given this system's issues, but I have not attempted to enable HDR. (I only use it remotely now anyway.)

I don't have the BIOS bridge file, but you might be able to get around this by ... Toggle "switchable graphics" in the BIOS setup. (Enable it if you have it disabled, or vice versa.) This will switch which GPU is driving the laptop internal display, should have the internal display show up as a "new" display to Windows, and might change the behavior you are seeing with HDR. Get into safe mode, and run DDU, which should reset a bunch of display stuff. That might help you get past this too. ...I don't know why the HDR implementation in Windows is so shoddy. When I tried setting the whole desktop to HDR mode, I couldn't stand it, everything looks so washed out.

Yeah, I get that... just interesting in this case as a way to compare how well the Prism emulator works when faced with a high-CPU-load job.

https://www.theverge.com/24191671/copilot-plus-pcs-laptops-qualcomm-intel-amd-apple Nothing surprising... Snapdragon X Elite holds its own against most of the competition in both single-core and multi-core Geekbench and Cinebench, beating every Intel Core Ultra 7 system tested here. It is not able to beat Apple M3 in single-core (as already shown). This is the first comparison I have seen that includes Apple's higher-end chips, M2 Max and M3 Max, which both win out against the Snapdragon in multi-core tests. M3 Max gets almost 50% higher performance in Geekbench and almost 75% higher in Cinebench. Not a fair comparison, sure, since "Max" systems cost a fair bit more than the Snapdragon systems. I don't see any high-end 55W Intel "HX" CPUs in the performance comparison. GPU performance is totally meh. I mean, I guess it could be worse, but both AMD and Intel integrated graphics are markedly better than the Qualcomm integrated GPU. Never mind pitting it against M2/M3 Max or any system with even a low-end discrete GPU. There's also a test comparing Blender running a CPU-heavy job and comparing the performance of it running natively or via x86 emulation. Looks like emulation via Prism gets you about a 40% performance penalty. I've seen similar benchmarks of apps running on macOS under Rosetta 2 that show only a ≈25% loss in performance compared to running native, so I think Microsoft still has some work to do here as well.

CAMM2 is an official JEDEC standard now. Other manufacturers are adopting it. You should be able to find modules anywhere you'd expect to find RAM on sale. ...For those of us who have a system with CAMM (1) memory (Precision 7X70 + 7X80 systems), tough luck, we were the guinea pigs and upgrade modules are only going to be available from Dell or aftermarket sites. Hopefully, Dell switches to CAMM2 with the next iteration of systems in 2025.

DDU is "Display Driver Uninstaller" which is a good tool to remove traces of the NVIDIA / AMD / Intel drivers on your system and start fresh. I have used it many times myself. https://www.wagnardsoft.com/display-driver-uninstaller-ddu-

I am on the version right before this (1.30.1) and it has been fine... Planning to do 1.31 next Tuesday (July 9) since there will be Microsoft patches that day and I'll have to reboot anyway.

Rather doubt it in this case; its a Turing GPU, and NVIDIA has been supporting eDP only starting with Pascal. I thought other users had reported success with this GPU (and T2000 as well) in the M4800, but I haven't been paying close attention to what display was being used. I think M4800 with a 1080p panel is more common. Maybe flashing a different vBIOS will help. Just make sure that you back up the original one...

Works fine for me with Precision 7560, also switchable graphics off. What NVIDIA driver are you using? I've heard other mentions before that screen brightness can break if you use the "upstream" driver (i.e. from NVIDIA's web site) rather than the driver from Dell. You can also set the screen brightness in BIOS setup. Clunky but I think it should stick when Windows boots up?

Read impressions on the Surface Laptop 7 which seems to fare better than the Asus Vivobook. Benchmark results are mixed. Surface Laptop 7 beats MacBook Air M3 in multi-core Geekbench and Cinebench. (You could argue the comparison isn't quite fair since MacBook Air does not have active cooling but Surface Laptop does. I didn't see any comparison against the MacBook Pro 14" with M3, which does have active cooling.) MacBook Air M3 wins in single-core Geekbench and Cinebench, though. ...Sounds like The Verge is going to do another piece specifically focused on benchmark comparisons, so more to come soon. Battery life seems quite good, actually, easily meeting the "all day" claim if you aren't running an intense load. The "translation layer" in Windows 11 to run x86/x64 software seems to be hit-or-miss. Lightweight apps seem to work fine (which has also been my experience with Windows 11 ARM), but the article mentions Adobe Premiere really struggling to run. The system also struggled with a number of games, and by that I'm not just referring to performance, but the fact that they just don't quite work right running under Prism (crashing, limited options for resolution, ...). I don't think they've caught up to Apple here yet. Also, some apps like Google Drive refuse to run at all. Blender can't "see" the Qualcomm GPU so it falls back to CPU rendering. Anything that needs a "driver" (VPN apps, security apps, backup apps, ...) will definitely not work unless there is an ARM version available, and that kind of support is still quite spotty. Still, there are now ARM64 builds of all major browsers, and many productivity apps like MS Office and Photoshop. Some other apps mentioned here (Premiere and Blender) have ARM64 builds in development. Depending on your use case, you may be able to run an all-ARM software stack, if not now then "soon", which would make this system pretty fine to use. This situation should only improve over time, if ARM-based laptops are finally here to stay...

I think there is recognition that, if Qualcomm is able to offer a platform that offers a MacBook Air-like laptop experience (respectable performance + great battery life + low heat/noise), then that's not something you want to let your competitors be ahead on. I wonder if Qualcomm had an "internal marketing blitz" to try and get OEMs onboard, similar to what we have seen from them and Microsoft when these were publicly announced in May. For the moment, I haven't heard about one of these being offered with a discrete GPU. However, I already mentioned that NVIDIA is strongly hinting about launching their own ARM SOCs for Windows laptops in 2025, and they also appear to be partnered with Dell in that effort.

This was an incorrect post, you can't use that CPU, I think he was actually talking about a M6800. GPUs have been rehashed recently. You can use GeForce 980M or Quadro M5000M without trouble. With Pascal, you can only use P3000/P4000/P5000 with "engineering sample" vBIOS (must be flashed separately, you can't do it in this system). Even then there might be stability issues. (I tried P5000 myself but got rid if it because it would cause a BSOD once every day or two.) No other Pascal cards will work (Quadro P5200, GeForce 1070, ...). With Turing, it has been reported to work if you use an HP Quadro RTX GPU but they do not have standard layout so you will need to mod the heatsink and chassis just to get it to fit. With Pascal and up, LVDS is not supported. If your laptop has an LVDS display panel you must use it with Optimus enabled.

Born in mid-80s. I consider it to be a good time to experience technological progression. I am able to remember what the world was like before the Internet and cell phones, experienced the world of the early Internet and dial-up, and broadband was mainstream by the time that I went to college. Still a long way to go, too. Lots of "dangers" but lots of potential for progress as well. I do miss the days when computer specs were doubling every couple of years. Things have flattened off a lot. Funny how I have come to think of myself as an "old school" tech guy. I prefer spending time on my laptop over spending time on my phone, I prefer forums like this to big conglomerate sites like Reddit, and I don't consume social media and have never spent any time on TikTok. I also appreciate being able to experience the progression of video games; I missed the Atari, but definitely remember spending a fair amount of time with the NES. I am a bit wary of the games that kids are into nowadays ("live service" / microtransaction style games seem to be in the mainstream). Though on the flip side... I've been playing through some older games with my kids and they have never, ever complained about bad graphics, ha.

Eh. I knew about the GPU being meh (complained about it in a post above). You might be able to play current-ish games ... if you are OK with 1080p / 30 FPS / low settings. But the main disappointment is that it doesn't seem to hold up in terms of power efficiency / battery life / low noise. They really touted how favorably these systems compare against M3 MacBook Air in the press bonanza last month, but it is not looking like those claims really hold up. And if you can't even beat x86 systems in these areas, then why would someone buy one of these — with potential compatibility issues, but no "upside" to balance that out? There's also the stink in the air regarding Microsoft's attempted rollout of the "Recall" feature. I can't understand... how they were not able to foresee what the reaction to that would be like? And why do they have this tiered system for testing new features (canary/dev/release preview Insider builds) and then just push something like this through with an announcement just a few weeks away from launch, without going through the process? Anyway, I'm interested to see some reviews of the business models (from Dell, HP, Lenovo). If I run into any of these systems, it will be one of those. I will try to poke around and see if there is anything out yet sometime today. Wonder if anyone else can do better. In addition to NVIDIA, it looks like MediaTek is going to get into the game next year, plus there have been rumors in the past about AMD being interested in launching ARM systems. (Qualcomm has also made comments about wanting to push into the desktop space.)

I saw something similar on another model a couple of days ago. Seems like Microsoft and Qualcomm maybe over-promised a bit… (Never mind M4, currently only available in iPads until the fall, but which seems to kick single-thread performance up another notch yet, beating Intel’s flagship *desktop* chip? https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/apple-m4-scores-suggest-it-is-the-new-single-core-performance-champ-beating-intels-core-i9-14900ks-incredible-results-of-3800-posted)

I haven't heard for sure, but I do not expect them to work. It looks like the module shape and connector are a bit different. Precision 7X70 and 7X80 users were "proof of concept" guinea pigs ... a good idea, but maybe put into production too early? (Dell does sell standalone modules for upgrading these systems on their site, but the price is probably not what most people would like to see.)

You might have been meaning to cut the CPU speed down by 5%, but you did way more than that. Setting any limit below 100% will also disable Intel turbo boost, so the max clock speed will decrease from 4+ GHz to the high 2 GHz range. (Check the speed in Task Manager, Performance tab while you have a load running. You'll be able to see the change immediately after "applying" the configuration change in Power Settings.) I regularly run my laptops with turbo boost disabled because it is not "necessary" for many workloads and makes them with less heat and noise. I have a link in my signature about different ways to quickly toggle turbo boost on and off.

Yes. There is a PCIe version of the AX card which is AX210. The CNVi version though isn't a full Wi-Fi card, it's just some parts of it, and the rest is handled by the system PCH (chipset). The Wikipedia article linked explains that somewhat. For this reason, if you have a system with a CNVi Wi-Fi card, upgrading it might not be possible if the slot doesn't also accept PCIe. To get Wi-Fi 7 ("BE") using presumably the BE201 card, it would have to also be supported by the chipset/PCH, which is not the case in these systems.

AX211 is CNVi. BE200 is PCIe. They are not the same thing, even though they are physically compatible. I don't know if anyone has confirmed that PCIe-based cards work in this slot...? If it supports CNVi only, then AX211 is probably the only card that will work there.

Apple announced GPTK2 today. https://developer.apple.com/games/game-porting-toolkit/ People are still digging into it, but apparently it supports both AVX2 and ray tracing when running Windows apps on macOS. AVX was previously a hard-blocker from running certain newer titles on any ARM system (Microsoft does not support it on Windows 11 ARM). (I've been using GPTK under CrossOver to play through Horizon Zero Dawn, and while I have seen some small graphical bugs here and there, overall it works quite well and is super smooth.)