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My company provided Dell Precision 5750 i7-10875H 8core, 4K, is a beauty beast from the specs and looks. However I HATE IT with a PASSION because there is no w
by nomendos 5y ago
My company provided Dell Precision 5750 i7-10875H 8core, 4K, is a beauty beast from the specs and looks.
However I HATE IT with a PASSION because there is no way to make it quiet as it is LOUD!?
In my opinion the whole thermal managing team should be fired as incompetent and I speak from my indepth knowledge of working for Intel in a central Arch team in the past. I even meet a number of Dell key people presenting them what is coming and shared best practices how to do each part of the design. They used to do decent job before, but now seems incompetence has won. I am sure there are still lots of good engineers and people there, but result-wise team that did thermal management on 5750 SUCKS TO HEAVEN!
In 5750 there is massive cooler, yet fans start going loud (mid-jet sound) when any audio conferencing or any ~5% CPU only load happens and CPU temperature is still well below 50C most of the time, yet this junk goes Wuuuhuhuuuuuusshshshshsss ALL OF THE TIME with rare bit quieter moments! I tried all setting such as Quiet in BIOS and in Dell Power Manager and no setting can help, just make it worse. CPU is 45W TDP one of a later gens.
On top of all of the misery with this laptop, in BIOS they locked control of voltages, so ThrottleStop can not work!!! So they can "protect us" from Plundervolt, how ironical. There is no known bypass :-( I also tried turning off different number of cores and turbo, etc, nothing worked well enough. The only point when it started be more quiet for longer periods is when I left it with 2 active cores, turned off turbo, but that makes this machine stupidly slow!
For god's sake, add if needed in BIOS option to disable dGPU and add "real Quiet" option that will make it lower TDP or whatever. Please ease off temperature thresholds as keeping it below 50C to start ramping fans to mid-jet-sound is RIDICULOUS, as with this massive cooler you can comfortably have thresholds ~70C or so and even allow undervolting.
I ended up using it as a "decoration" and still use my personal T460p which has 6th gen i7 45W TDP CPU + dGPU, but BIOS still allows ThrottleStop and even without it T460p is waaaay more quiet than 5750, but with ThrottleStop nice stable setting I got it to whisper quiet and even faster.
I contacted Dell on their forums but their arrogance seem not to allow them to do anything, but leave it as is! Sick situation and now I have to live with 5750 at my work next ~2.5y until next refresh and one thing is certain Dell NEVER AGAIN! I'll keep sharing this experience everywhere as this really made my life miserable. The only thing that can change that is that Dell either fixes this problem with public apology and/or fires the responsible team.