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    No issue unless you’ve done a Windows 10 feature upgrade (…there have not been any since early 2020) or upgraded to Windows 11. In that case the system would not “remember” the RAID driver and you’d have to take some extra steps.
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    Do you have "Core isolation memory integrity" enabled on devices with this issue? (Windows Security → Device security → Core isolation details → Memory integrity.) I've seen reports that turning this feature on can cause this issue.
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    Found this leaked block diagram and commentary regarding Alder Lake workstation CPUs. It looks like Intel might be changing up the branding and not using the word "Xeon"... or at least raising the bar on what it takes for a CPU to be considered a "Xeon", and just calling the "regular old Core CPUs with ECC memory support" (that we see here in the MWS space) something like "Core for Workstation". https://hothardware.com/news/intel-alder-lake-xeon-server-cpu-w680-block-diagram (This is for the desktop workstation CPU/chipset.) There are lots of articles discussing the W680 chipset (for desktops) over the past month or so, so it seems that Alder Lake workstation CPUs are indeed in the queue and coming "soon", regardless of what they end up being named. [Edit] I wonder if the 2.5Gb Ethernet will make it down to the mobile platform...
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    Mobile Xeon is usually just for workstations so I wouldn't be surprised if we don't see those until ≈6 weeks after Alder Lake HX actually launches. (Intel hasn't even acknowledged HX to the public yet.) Not sure about the desktop side. I did notice that there are no Xeons yet but I'm not sure what the normal timing for those is. Timing could be off from what a "normal" generation looks like because there are a lot of unusual things going on with this generation. I'm a little bit wondering about if there are process scheduling changes coming to Windows 10 in the near future that will be timed with when Alder Lake business systems (that Xeons would land in) become more broadly available. Both OEMs and MS must know that the vast majority of larger businesses aren't ready for Windows 11 yet.
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    Where did you get that from? (Just curious...) Xeon CPUs usually show up some weeks after the rest of them. If they support ECC on the i7/i9 then it makes no difference. Or, maybe ECC support from the CPU is now not so important since DDR5 requires ECC as a matter of spec? (Though this ECC required by DDR5 can fix errors on the memory module, but not errors in transmission between the memory module and the CPU.)
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    Core i7-12650HX has appeared on UserBenchmark. 6P+8E, like desktop i5-12600K. First "in the wild" spotting of a HX CPU, AFAIK. https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/50932654 https://www.tomshardware.com/news/alder-lake-hx-cpu-spotted-specs-disclosed [Edit] Updated top post with what is known so far about CPUs and GPUs for this generation. I'll try to keep that up to date as more information becomes available.
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    They've changed the 7000-series keyboard before. (7X30/7X40 layout was fine.) ...Not really holding out hope but I'd love to see it addressed. I don't especially care about the power button not being separate, but not having dedicated Home/End and PgUp/PgDn keys is quite obnoxious... LAN port has a spring jaw (you can see it in the pictures of the bottom panel). I haven't had an issue with it getting stuck, but I find it a bit tedious to connect (without looking) and also I'm worried about the spring jaw sort of loosening up over time if you use the Ethernet port a lot. Audio port is in roughly the same spot, on the right side of the laptop. I've just started using a right-angle adapter for it as well so that it is less obnoxious. (Cord pointed straight towards the front rather than sticking out to where the mouse goes.) I think opening the bottom cover is going to be roughly the same as 7X50/7X60. Looks like it has captive screws and the whole thing will come off in one piece. It "wraps around" to the sides and covers up all of the ports. The design process is about two years so they would definitely be at the tail end of it by now. One of the bottom panel photos shows an October 2021 manufacture date. Thanks for the info on the right angle adapter. I'll pick up some of these. I guess that I was just worried that it wouldn't work with 240W, or it wouldn't support passing through the info that the laptop needs about the PSU's capacity.
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    The more I think about it, the more I want to know what the heatsink/fan assembly is like. Are they going for three fans? How else does it make sense? What are those cutouts on the left/right of the back for? Precision 7X60 doesn't have that. Seems kind of big for hinges. Maybe, though, the display enclosure also seems to have cutouts in the same place.
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    Windows 11 to use carbon intensity data and schedule Windows 11 updates for when the most renewable energy is available during the day, in your location? (One of the oddest features I've seen them do. I don't feel like applying an update is that resource intensive. Or at least it shouldn't be.) https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2022/03/02/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-22567/
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    That's what I gathered from the model number change and that is what makes me think that we are looking at 16:10 panels now.... (maybe). But if that's the case, I wonder how big the difference between 16" and 17" will really be... [Edit] If this thing actually works then I don't care so much about the power connector being on the side at least.
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    I was thinking about it, and I guess, they have moved from two heat exhaust ports on the back to three. This was probably done as part of a cooling system improvement to accommodate the new higher TDP of the Alder Lake HX CPUs (and maybe to bump up the GPU power as well). Really curious to see what the heatsink/fan assembly looks like. So I guess the back ports had to go? I don't like it but I would rather have the ports on the sides than heat exhaust ports on the sides.
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    Found the one for Precision 7770. https://www.taobao.com/list/item/664909765380.htm Port arrangement is similar to 7670. I'm not sure where mDP is. I guess the rectangular ports (one on the left and one on the right) might be mDP or USB A, and it's possible that mDP is fully omitted and they just expect you to use USB-C. Also with the placement of the HDMI port, I am guessing that it is not directly attached to the dGPU card anymore? It looks like there are speaker grills on the front, so I am suspecting that they moved the speakers and they're not above the keyboard / right under the screen anymore. Also found this one with the display enclosure. Can't really discern if it is 16:9 or 16:10. But yeah. I am not liking that they took ports off of the back that have been there for over a decade. It's so much cleaner for cable management if power, Ethernet, etc. are not hanging off of the side of the system.
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    Found this. Link Hello? Precision 7770 and 7670? If they decided to change the model number in this way, that tells me that a form factor shakeup may be coming (maybe finally bringing us 16:10 displays...). I dug around some more and ran into this which appears to be the bottom panel for the Precision 7670. Doesn't quite look the same as the Precision 7X60 with SSD door. Model number Precision 7670 is clearly visible. A little bit worried about that notch thing in the top right. Is that where the Ethernet port is? I really liked having it on the back... Ok, with this one you can see where most of the ports go, it looks like there are none on the back. Blah. I do like that they have a mixture of USB A and C on the sides though, instead of having all USB C on the left and all USB A on the right. Anyway... Things are happening. (Maybe.)
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    I have not heard any rumors about a 4TB Samsung 980 Pro. For high-capacity NVMe drives you can look at the Sabrent Rocket drives. Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus 4TB has 2800 TBW and a 5-year warranty. An 8TB model will be available "soon". This drive uses TLC cache like the Samsung 980 Pro. Note that the high-capacity Sabrent drives are double-sided (chips on the top and bottom side of the drive) — they will fit in Precision 7000-series but may not fit in smaller systems. I have Sabrent Rocket Q 4TB in my Precision 7560. It's QLC, so less endurance (still plenty high if you ask me), and I haven't had any problems with it. Sabrent Rocket Q is already available in 8TB.
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    There's no threshold. The poll is closed and you can't see results unless you voted. I posted the results a few posts up.
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    No. RTX 3080, T1200, and RTX A series are supported. Dell sometimes pushes the same NVIDIA driver update to multiple systems and that’s why you see other cards listed.
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    And this just popped up today! Seems like Intel might be gearing up to distribute HX test kits to OEMs. https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-12th-gen-core-alder-lake-hx-mobile-cpu-series-to-feature-16-cores
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    Used Chrome for a long time. Chromium is a really solid engine. I started to get apprehensive about Google's data collection practices, and ended up switching to Chromium Edge when it became available. It was a pretty seamless transition because it could use Chrome web store extensions. That was fine for a period of time, but Edge has become worse than Chrome now, so I had to get off. I settled on Firefox ESR. When I tried Firefox, I was really surprised at how much it has improved from a resource use / performance perspective. (That was the main thing that pushed me off of Firefox, to Chrome, like a decade ago.) Even though I think that Firefox's extension library was better before they switched to only supporting the WebExtensions API, at least this API supports porting extensions pretty easily from Chrome so I didn't have any issue finding replacements for Chrome extensions that I was using. I disabled the Pocket/ads stuff. I like the ESR branch in particular because they only do major updates once per year, on a predictable schedule. So, instead of having to be on the lookout for privacy-impacting changes or obnoxious new features showing up at any time, I only have to worry about things changing and finding new stuff to disable once per year. ...And I kind of like supporting a world where there are browser engines other than Chromium. Also I like to think back on my browser use history sometimes. As I recall it:
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    Finally had time to finish my pagination script. It's running right now, so in a few hours, all long threads should be paginated and won't choke your browser. 50 posts per page. Example: https://www.nbrchive.net/xfa/2015-alienware-13-15-17.1119/1070 GTX Micron Memory Global Issues - GPU firmware update needed/ Next up is finishing up connecting the "pretty" version of the thread list to all of these downloaded threads. After that, it's basically just polishing / presentation improvements that I want to work on. I also noticed that Google has finally started indexing NBRCHIVE. Only a few results right now but it's been increasing over the last couple of days.
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    Yeah, I was hoping it would be a little bit quicker this year because it seemed like Alder Lake H was going to be turned around more quickly than typical for Intel... but with them saving HX until later it seems like it might be on around the same schedule as the past few years after all.
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    Not really sure, I think we will hear something from Dell pretty promptly once Intel formally unveils HX. No telling when that will be though. Maybe late April or sometime in May?
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    Still poking around. Ran across this recent post at AnandTech and came to realize that the marketing name for Alder Lake S-BGA is Alder Lake HX. Found some existing rumors about this pointing to second quarter 2022 release. Alder Lake HX looks like it will use a CPU die derived from Alder Lake S (desktop CPU) in a BGA package, with a separate PCH (like Tiger Lake H, but unlike Alder Lake H), and push the TDP higher than Alder Lake H. (This basically as expected from S-BGA rumors that have been floating around for nearly a full year now.) Wondering what this means for the laptop space in general moving forward. Both OEMs and press seem to be largely ignoring Alder Lake HX, and even acting like the Alder Lake lineup is complete since P and U series CPUs were revealed the other day. Flagship gaming notebooks have already dropped using Alder Lake H. So it seems like HX is going to be a niche CPU for the high-end MWS space (or maybe a few beefy gaming notebooks)? Even ignoring the potential CPU performance difference between Alder Lake H and HX, Alder Lake H seems like a step back from Tiger Lake H to me because of the much more limited PCIe configuration and cut down to 64GB max RAM. ...Anyway, we'll see what happens over the next several weeks. Not that much longer.
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    Dell has made the 2022 G15 system available for order. The models are G15 5520, or G15 5521 "Special Edition". Intel 12th-gen "Alder Lake" CPUs (i5-12500H 4P+8E, i7-12700H 6P+8E) NVIDIA Ampere GPUs: GeForce RTX 3050, 3050 Ti, 3060, 3070 Ti Three display choices: FHD 120, FHD 165, QHD 240 Appears to cap out at 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD There does not appear to be a 17" version. The 17" space for gaming laptops from Dell is just Alienware for now. See options: https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/sr/laptops/g-series/12th-gen-intel-core?appliedRefinements=39795
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    Was just poking around and I noticed that TechPowerUp has an entry for a mobile NVIDIA RTX A4500 GPU. I can't find any upstream source or leak for this so I have no idea where this came from. They don't seem to have any other Ampere refresh MWS GPUs in the database yet. The specs are notably different than the desktop RTX A4500 GPU so it doesn't look like it was an accidental or speculative copy/paste. Laying it out against existing other Ampere MWS GPUs: RTX A4000 = GA104, 5120 CUDA cores, 8 GB vRAM RTX A4500 = GA104, 5632 CUDA cores, 12GB vRAM (speculative, from TechPowerUp data) RTX A5000 = GA104, 6144 CUDA cores, 16GB vRAM RTX A5500 = GA103S, 7680 CUDA cores, 16GB vRAM (speculative, my own guess based on new mobile GeForce GPUs and NVIDIA's typical behavior) If the specs are accurate, A4500 slots nicely between A4000 and A5000. Upgrading to 12GB vRAM is a bit of a welcome surprise. I wonder if there is any chance for a vRAM bump for the A5500? I had seen previous rumors of 20GB for GA103S, but none of the GA103S GeForce GPUs released so far go above 16GB, and the core may not support higher vRAM amounts. A4500 might launch in systems before A5500. If we see mobile workstations with Alder Lake H CPUs, it might make sense to include A4500 as a choice but not A5500 which could be saved for when Alder Lake H55/S-BGA CPUs drop. (Also just speculation on my part.) [Edit] Based on these specs, A4500 is the same as GeForce RTX 3070 Ti (mobile), except with 12GB vRAM instead of 8GB. I noticed that there is a A4500 "embedded GPU" in the PCI IDs database. I wonder if this could be in reference to that. The specs don't line up though. The embedded A4500 has 16 GB vRAM and 5888 CUDA cores.
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    Wondering where you are getting that from? Is it anecdotal or do you have something that you can cite? Windows 7 had tons of optimization over Vista to improve performance or lower resource use. I think that you would see many cases of performance improvements after an upgrade. A good example is WDDM 1.1. Here, from the Ars Technica review of Windows 7: Windows 7 is backwards compatible with WDDM 1.0, but introduces a new WDDM 1.1 driver model. Almost all the downsides of WDDM 1.0 in Vista are resolved by WDDM 1.1 in 7. Key GDI operations are now hardware-accelerated. In turn, this means that the main memory buffer is no longer required; each window is buffered in video memory alone. In limited scenarios, this can result in a performance reduction (namely, applications that need to examine or manipulate the entire window image now have to read it from video memory, which tends to be slower than reading from main memory), but in general it means that Windows 7 has considerably lower memory usage than Vista; Vista's memory usage scaled according to the number of open windows, 7's system memory usage is constant. Now, it certainly did help that Microsoft was able to take advantage of three years of hardware improvements for Windows 7's initial impressions. Windows Vista shipped on PCs that were clearly under-equipped to handle it properly. But I don't think you can claim that Windows 7 was slower than Windows Vista, either. On the subject, Windows 8 had many optimizations over Windows 7. Windows 8.1 also had the only system requirements decrease that Windows has ever seen; Microsoft saw fit to reduce the RAM requirement after putting some memory optimizations. (That said, Microsoft's RAM requirement has always been laughably low for what one would expect for a decent user experience.) Anyway, for starters you can look at Microsoft's comments on addressing boot time, memory consumption, and power consumption in Windows 8 (...I miss the days when Microsoft would post stuff like this). Windows 10 vs. 11 benchmarks show largely flat performance (no meaningful increase or decrease in most situations). This does change a bit if you throw Alder Lake into the picture, where you can hit some cases where Windows 11 is up to around 10% faster, and some even some cases where Windows 10 performance is pretty dreadful (if you don't muck with process priority/affinity anyway) because of process scheduling improvements in Windows 11 specifically addressing CPUs with a hybrid architecture. This just highlights how pressure will continue to stay current with Windows, at least if you want to run on new hardware. I feel like Microsoft has gotten worse here, too. My home system, the Dell Precision M6700, released in 2012. Dell supports it with a full set of drivers for Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 10. Lots of systems releasing right now are supported by the OEM only on Windows 11. Again, interested to see how this plays out over the next few months as more business systems with Alder Lake become available. I can't believe that many businesses will accept systems with Windows 11 as the only choice... and OEMs have to know this, too. And I posted this in another thread but I'll include the comment here too — Windows 12 rumors are starting to fly. No idea what's going on here. Right-clicking the taskbar produces the context menu instantly for me... (On 10-year-old hardware to boot.) Context menu delays are often the fault of third-party applications hooking in to add their own items, but, I'm not sure if apps can do that for the taskbar context menu. Anyway, ShellMenuView and ShellExView will allow you to see apps that have hooked in such a way, with the option to disable the hooks. (This situation is largely why Microsoft has, to the dismay of many, upended how context menus work in Windows 11.)
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