Precision 7680 & Precision 7780 Owner's Thread

[iieeann]

Seems like someone has tried with the new BE201 CNvio3 on 7680 but without driver.

https://community.intel.com/t5/Wireless/Intel-Wifi-7-BE201-driver-download/m-p/1621538

 

He mentioned the device shown up under device manager.  Whether a correct driver will make it work or not is unknown.  Earlier when i tried BE200 on 7780 it was not detected at all nothing appeared.

 

Not sure from where he got the card, i can't find it yet in the market.

[woffe]

Hi, 

that's me who tried it :)

but still mo driver available. The Intel support is useless...

In Germany you can order this card without any problems.  https://www.alternate.de/Intel/Wi-Fi-7-BE201-non-vPro-WLAN-Adapter/html/product/100044906?srsltid=AfmBOooN-Pvg3ZHnmPNJmMC0Sr2iglrINY8H5BzW8d-hAROWxvv_hpNk

 

The only reason why i will try the BE201 is the slow speed/inconsistent speed of the AX211 in this device. In my office i have 500 Mbits download speed, all other devices (Dell Latitude, HP Zbook) will have 900 Mbits Download speed at the exact same place. This devices connected to the Accespoint with 2401 Mbit, the 7680 only with 800-900 Mbit. Maybe the antennas are not so good on this device.

[iieeann]

I see.  The reason i get this card is purely for fun, i seldom use wifi.  I use the laptop with 95% of the time lid closed, using TB3 external enclosure LAN card.

 

Hopefully the driver will be available soon.  Did u ask the seller about that?

[Aaron44126]

The driver will eventually be available through Dell or other OEMs, just need to look / wait for systems that ship with BE201 preinstalled.

That said, I highly doubt that this will work even after the driver is made available.  Most likely, there will just be an error in Device Manager and the driver will fail to load.  Best case, it "works" but just gives the same Wi-Fi 6 speed.  CNVi cards are not a full Wi-Fi implementation; the most important stuff is in the PCH, and the PCH in this system predates Wi-Fi 7.

[yslalan]

Just updated to BIOS v1.15, Dell has updated the CPU microcode to 129h to avoid BSOD issues in 13th/14th Gen CPUs. Not much change in multithreaded performance, but the maximum CPU voltage is now capped at 1.5v.

 

[yslalan]

It is hard to tell, but there is some degradation in multithreaded performance in R23.

It used to be 30K

Now:

 

[nero519]

1.5 still seems high, what was the limit before? I would assume enabling undervolt would make much more sense...