Need advice on changing laptop that dell support is offering me

[baronvontito]

hi all, first off i want to say that this is a great community and that ive learned a lot with the YouTube channel aswell.

 

this is a looooong story about Dell Support so i will try to sum up.

 

lets say that i have a "Alienware 15 R3", and i needed a left speaker change because of some buzzing, since here in my country DELL has no official support they just pay some company to do that job, the technician made a short-circuit on the motherboard, they took my laptop 3 months, they returned it with the HDD disconnected and with a downgrade on the CPU.

So basically they changed my speaker, broke my laptop and had to change (speaker, display, flex, motherboard and several attempts to repair it) DELL cannot give a Alienware product here so they are trying to give me a precision 7730 that im feeling that although is a great laptop maybe is not the best choice for me. my current "Alienware 15 R3" (old model) with 16gb, nvidia 1070 G-sync, 7700HQ since downgrade. but maybe is not a bad choice to get the precision mobile workstation 7730 with i9 o xeon procesor? idk about the graphics either, since quadro p4000 or 5000 are great cards but focus on different things.

 

i would really apreciate some opinions, since i don't know what to do.

[Jurrunio]

the Xeons are fine, they are Core i7 or i9 of the same core count with extra features (Support for ECC and RDIMM added) with frequency differences.

 

The Quadros are slightly cut down versions of the Geforce cards that share the same GPU core, but shouldn't bring noticeable differences. In workstation uses (Solidworks, CATIA etc) they will slap Geforce cards though, so think of it as a downgrade (slightly) in performance, upgrade in resale value.

 

As for the monitor, Precision surely doesnt have high refresh rate or adaptive sync panels that Alienwares do. However I believe they have better colour reproduction. I don't know how you think about this, but I don't consider this a downgrade. Just different.

 

Then the laptop itself. I want to say the Precision doesnt have that good of cooling, but that's the same case on the Alienware. Not a downgrade here. However there will be much less gamer looks, so this depends on your taste.

 

Oh and btw, the Precision cost a lot more to buy than an Alienware. In fact I would go as far as accepting the Precision, selling it, then get another gaming laptop (that's not an Alienware, other brands do better).

 

@GeneXiS_X your two cents?

[genexis_x]

10 hours ago, baronvontito said:

precision 7730

1. i9 8950HK is about the same performance with 8750H in multi core tasks due to thermal limitation

2. You will not get GSync or high refresh rate, however you get a good quality display (do you know which one you will get?)

3. The most obvious upgrade IMO is the overall QC+QA. Mobile workstations are the highest quality laptops you can buy IMO

4. Quadro GPU still can game well. I don't see any downgrade overall TBH

[baronvontito]

thanks you guys for the opinion, i really appreciate it!

 

@GeneXiS_X i will try to get this display:

- "17.3" UltraSharp UHD IGZO 3840x2160 AG NT, No WWAN, Cam/Mic, w/Prem Panel Guar 100% color gamut"

 

btw would it be better for me to choose between:

- Intel Core i9-8950HK, Six Core 2.90GHz, 4.80GHz Turbo, 12MB 45W

- Intel Core Xeon E-2186M, Six Core Xeon 2.90GHz, 4.80GHz Turbo, 12MB 45W

[genexis_x]

10 hours ago, baronvontito said:

- Intel Core i9-8950HK, Six Core 2.90GHz, 4.80GHz Turbo, 12MB 45W

- Intel Core Xeon E-2186M, Six Core Xeon 2.90GHz, 4.80GHz Turbo, 12MB 45W

Get the i7 if available

[baronvontito]

@GeneXiS_X

I have 3 options, may i ask you why to get the i7 instead of the i9? maybe im missing something here! thanks anyways

 

- Intel Core i7-8850H, Six Core 2.60GHz, 4.30GHz Turbo, 9MB 45W

- Intel Core i9-8950HK, Six Core 2.90GHz, 4.80GHz Turbo, 12MB 45W

- Intel Core Xeon E-2186M, Six Core Xeon 2.90GHz, 4.80GHz Turbo, 12MB 45W

[genexis_x]

14 hours ago, baronvontito said:

I have 3 options, may i ask you why to get the i7 instead of the i9?

Get the i7-8850H. You won't achieve full turbo clock in 8950HK and Xeon due to thermal limitation. Unless you really need the extra cache and single core performance (and ECC RAM in Xeon), there's no reason to get them. TLDR: runs too hot