I am a Ceng student at university and planing to buy a laptop to use at my 3-4 year university career and maybe at future freelance jobs. I am looking for second hand laptops and found this laptop. It has i9-8950hk processor do you think it is enough for ceng student in 2024?
Heyy I am planning to get a used dell precision 5530 2019 model These are the specs Is it a good idea to get it in 2023 ? I am getting it for around 690$ Is there any issues with this model ? I am just getting it for normal work use and small level gaming. Or should i get any other dell model for similar price range ?
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Heyy I am planning to get a used dell precision 5530 2019 model These are the specs Is it a good idea to get it in 2023 ? I am getting it for around 690$ Is there any issues with this model ? I am just getting it for normal work use and small level gaming. Or should i get any other dell model for similar price range ?
Would a Dell Precision 5530 with the below specs be a good fit for someone attempting to use Solidworks, Matlab, other CAD type software at an intermediate to advanced level?
Dell Precision 5530 15.6 FHD, Core i7-8850H 2.6GHz, 32GB RAM, 1TB M.2-NVMe, Windows 10 Pro 64Bit, CAM, NVIDIA Quadro P1000 4GB, NO Touch, (Renewed)
How reliable (in terms of durability and QC) are the 5530s? I know they are essentially a retooled XPS 15 with different options. I'm already aware of the DPC latency, battery expansion, and lackluster thermals on the XPS, but information on the 5530s is a bit thin. The computer will be a daily-driver for college, hence the reliability factor I'm looking for. Prospective setup is i7, aftermarket 16gb ram and Samsung 970 1tb, 1080p panel, and the 97w/hr battery.
I dont expect it would be any different from the one of the XPS 9570. However, with the Precision you should be getting next business day “white gloves” Pro support. So, likely to break, but if it does, it should not cost much downtime.
They are the same as the XPS 15, with Xeon CPU and ISV GPU options. Reliability wise expect them to be the same as the XPS (i.e. very hit and miss)
As in title, is it worth it?
specs: cpu i7 8850H 32 gb ram 512 SSD m.2 PCIe nVidia QUADRO P2000 4GB 15,6" 3840x2160 60hz
its a used laptop in pretty good shape (A-)
Hi everyone!
It's a few days that I'm struggling to choose a new laptop for web development. I'm digging into vanilla js with html and css. Then I programmed to study React, Node with Mongo or MySQL. I'd like to run a vm. I don't think I'm gonna use 3D so much. Just tinkering around a bit with three.js.
I found a Dell Precision 5530 for 489$ with this specifications:
15.6" UHD Touch 3840 x 2160
Intel Xeon E E-2176 (6 core, 2.70 GHz)
32 GB
1 TB SSD
Nvidia Quadro P1000 (4GB)
No Operating System
I really don't know what to do because I saw some Lenovos first, then some MacBook Air and then this one. What do you think? Is there anyone working with this machine? How do you feel?
Thank you!
Hello,
I am willing to buy a laptop and had this laptop on the top of my list, it has these specs:
I7 8850H, NVIDIA P1000 4GB, 15.6 FHD 1920 * 1080.
I have two questions, the first is it worth it to buy an older laptop like that and would it be able to handle my work.
the second is how is the screen, like how is the SRGB, becasue some people say it has a shitty 72% SRGB screen while others say it has %100 SRGB, and I think they just got mistaken with the other 4K panel which have 100% Adobe RGB
Hey guys, I can get my hands on a lightly used Dell Precision 5530 with a 6 core Xeon, 32GB RAM and a Quadro P2000 for 300€. How well do you think this would perform for programming, light machine learning / deep learning tasks and light gaming?
I already have a main setup but I was looking for something to bring with me when I'm not home, and this seems really solid at its pricepoint.
For 300, that's a decent deal. I don't know how heavy ML is, but the laptop should still have some grunt despite being a few years old at this point (it's the same body as an XPS 9570, came out the same year too). Best ask the owner what issues they've had with it though. If anything, 300 seems a little cheap, I've seen older XPSs with worse hardware go for more.
Sounds good, just keep in mind the performance when gaming will be abyssmal if that's your thing. Had one before.
Hello,
I'm looking for a laptop (i'm mostly using things like adobe suite, video/phopto editing and web browsing with a lot of thumbnails) and I have the opportunity to buy this Dell Precision 5530 i5-8400h 32gb Ram 1To SSD for 300€ (perfectly in my budget)
But it have this sort of stain, that seems to not be visible when it's in use, what do you think it is ?
In your opinion is it a good deal ?
I will go and check the laptop tomorow at the seller's home, what should I check before buying ?
Do you have any experience with this model ?
here are all the pictures by the way:
https://imgur.com/a/aC2fi2U
The 5530 are great laptops for work, video/photo editing. I'm pretty sure this has an nvidia quadro card with at least 2gb ram. I don't really see any screen issue, where are you looking at? If you can get an i7 that would be even better but an i5 should do as these are tuned for work applications. I've never purchased a 5530 with an i5 but the i7s are beast. Still have some 5510, 5520s and they are still going. When you get there, check the service tag, with any luck its still under warranty and you won't have to worry about the screen or anything, you can just call dell and have them change it. If you can, run a diagnostic from boot and thay will give you a better idea if any components are failing. Some dell precisions carry a 2, 3, and even 5 year warranty. This model was released in 2018 so with any luck it might still be under warranty. Good luck
Video and Photo editing without a dedicated GPU isn't going to end well.
On top of that, if you intend to do photo editing, I wouldn't do it on a device that has obvious display damage/burn in. Your color accuracy will likely be off and if there's one display issue, there'll likely be others. Also, if that display needs replacing, which it does, it'll be about half the price of what it sold for new in parts alone.
I have tried everything. I have installed windows 11, updated all drivers, downgraded to Windows 10, the stupid desktop windows manager eats up the intel gpu and the stupid nvdia is chilling at 0% all the time. I'm seriously considering switching to Apple silicon. It's expensive but it's worth it. The laptop is literally unusable 50% of the time on battery, the performance drops 90%
I use my laptop for work and for home. Programming (Python, Django, React, Matlab, etc), watching movies in bed, docking it at my job, working from my fav. chair at home...
I use to work and do home stuff from my MacBook for years but i got sick of using my personnal laptop for work and decided to stop bringing it in so my employer had to buy me a laptop. They would only buy HP or Dell so i picked the Dell 5530. So many annoying things compared to my Macbook Pro:
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Thicker and heavier for mostly the same specs
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You can't open the lid having the laptop staying put, you have to use both hands to pry it open
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Trackpad is not as smooth and functionnal
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The power adaptor has a light that stays always on even when not plugged in. My MacBook only lights up when plugged in and let you know if it's charging or not
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Battery life is below 4 hours compared to 9 hours on my macbook (still has original battery) doing some programming with 2 VMs running.
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Fan runs 60% the time when i browse reddit.
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16:9 aspect ratio is not as nice as the 16:10
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Keypad backlight does not stay on for more than 10 seconds without activity so if you are in the dark you have to press something to have it come back up. Dell told me to download and use a utility that i could never get to work. Looks like it was built for windows 3.1.
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The air intake is straight underneath instead of on the sides like the macbook so when you have the laptop on your LAP (or any soft surface) no air go in and the thing heats up real bad real quick.
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It won't go to sleep / hibernate properly. If i close the lid with 100% battery and unplug the laptop, it will be empty within 6-7 hours on windows and 9-10 hours on Ubuntu.
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The docking station (TB16) is not good. Had to have it replace and update firmware and software and bla bla bla and i often still have to restart my laptop and/or unplug it to have the TB16 recognize my peripherals.
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Did i say this 2019 laptop is heavier and bigger than my 2013 macbook for the same specs?
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The play pause back and forward buttons won't work with google play on Chrome (Windows or Ubuntu), works on my MacBook.
That's all i can think of for now but i'm sure i could come back in 10 minutes with 3+ cons.
The only pro is the quality of the colors on the 4K screen but that is it.
This Dell laptop feels like a computer was forced into a laptop body without much thoughts compared to my MacBook and i'm dissapointed of this 3000$ piece of hardware. When i'm ready to replace my Macbook Pro, it'll be another Macbook Pro just for the usability and quality of the package.
I had to put it out there since for the same specs and price point (16gb ram, 512G ssd, high dpi screen, 15 inches, i7 intel cpu, nvidia integrated gfx, etc for about 3000-3500 CAD) the quality and usability is SO different.
Maybe i'm missing something but i doubt it. Hope this helps someone.
Edit: typos
Can we just have a rant here on how much of a POS the Precision 5530 is? Terrible for OSD, drivers are a PITA and have been nothing but problems for me and my company. I can not wait until the system refresh this year and hopefully we get these out of our environment.
Strange, I have a 5530 and have had nothing but good experiences with it. I'll admit that the sleep function situation isn't ideal, but other than that I've been very pleased with the performance.
We've got about 20 precision 5530s in our office. What kind of issues are you having? We really had no problems imaging, load up the Intel RAID driver in the PXE image and created a driver package from a dell driver download blob. Our task sequence applies drivers based on the model, so we've been pretty good out of the gate.
The only hurdle we've really had with imaging the precision 55x0 lines were sometimes the Realtek USB-C adapter failed to connect again after the driver loaded on first boot. This caused a cascade failure where the computer wouldn't join the domain so all other TS steps would fail because it couldn't authenticate to network shares and such. Our bad solution to that was to watch the lights on the adapter and if they go out after drivers are installed, just unplug and replug to get the adapter working.
Now we've had a myriad of other issues of course with the TB16 and some generally shit quadro drivers, intel thermal management framework... but imaging's been pretty ok.
Hey there,
here is the link: http://www.dell.com/en-uk/work/shop/dell-notebooks/precision-5530/spd/precision-15-5530-laptop/xctop5530emea
so as I am really in desperate need of a good laptop I was looking into the XPS 15 first but then stumbled upon the new Precision model.
It is supposed to have better cooling and build quality from what I've read. How would you compare pricing to the XPS 9570? It seems really expensive when I choose some similar components.
Plus the options for the chassis are weird (it is supposed to be siilver and black)
I was so pleasantly suprised by the pricing of the XPS somhow but this seems out of reach. I thought I could save some cash on an ubuntu version and install my own Windows 10 license.
Anyways, let me know what you think!
It is supposed to have better cooling and build quality from what I've read
Better cooling isn't expected - in the 5520 it was the same as in the 9560, and no difference see in the 9570. You will likely need undervolt + repaste to get rid of direct thermal throttling. Per Azor, cooling isn't designed to support full CPU + GPU loads at once - power limit throttling tends to kick in after a few minutes. iunlock's mod (kinda involved) shows the cooling is actually adequate for the chips inside the 9560, but the lack of active cooling to the VRMs is the issue. It is not clear yet how the higher-powered chips (i9, P2000) will survive with this cooling under CPU- or GPU-load-only workloads.
Build quality? The XPS 15 sure looks well built. Precision might get some QC at least??? But bad paste was reported on Precisions too (though most have pro support so you don't have to repaste yourself). I'm afraid the Precisions probably got the same share of BIOS and driver issues as XPS - we see less complaints because less are sold, but are the same machines essentially.
Two things you get with Precision
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individual configurabilty
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"pro" graphics with "certified" OpenGL drivers for design software. In the past generation, the M1200 was computationally weaker than the 1050; in this one, the P1000 is weaker but the P2000 more capable than the 1050Ti
Does anyone have any info on the Quadro P1000 or P2000 cards? All I can find are the desktop versions. How do these compare to say the M1200 on the Precision 5520?
Not too long ago i bought a used Precision 5530, specs i7-8850H & Quadro P1000
When i got the system it was instantly overheating & cpu 100c while also being thermal throttled just by doing couple of windows update.
As someone that been building and troubleshooting PC for a long time i figured it's just a dry thermal paste. I opened and cleaned it, but there wasn't much dust to clean. The thermal paste was somewhat dry but not solid dry. I reapplied the thermal paste and the same issue, instantly overheats & thermal throttle. I checked my thermal application again and it was squashed and well applied, so there is no contact issue, fans are working and the heatsink also gets toasty so there is definitely a heat transfer.
What i ended up doing is disabling turbo boost in the bios, which prevents the cpu from turboing this managed the temp to sit around 83c and in an actual stress test.
Now the question i have, did these laptops originally ship like this, where they just cannot turbo at all due to being overspec'd for what the cooling system can handle? This is unheard of for me unless the device is faulty but then again i don't see any other issues.
Bios is up to date
GPU is not even doing anything (in sleep mode) to be a part of the problem
The battery was dead and swollen so i throw it away, i don't need a battery because the laptop will always be docked.
Tried Windows 10 & 11
With Turbo Boost off in the bios, the system idles at 37c and in a stress test (CPU only) it maxes to 83-85c esh
Edit: Here are some stress test results
One thing that i just noticed, the fans takes few seconds before they ramp up, by the time they go full blast the system already thermal throttled.
Hi all,
sorry for the atypical post. My team uses GIS as a large part of our job, so we have very powerful laptops that run slow as hell. Microsoft teams opening itself on startup is enough to make the fans run loudly. When the laptop is cooler, it does a bit better, but I need help understanding *why* its overheating.
All 5 laptops on our team have this issue.
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It is a Precision 5530
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ntel(R) Core(TM) i7-8850H CPU @ 2.60GHz, 2592 Mhz, 6 Core(s), 12 Logical Processor(s)
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Pen and touch support with 10 touch points
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32.0 GB (31.7 GB usable)
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NVIDIA Quadro P1000
I asked my boss to spearhead the investigation into why these expensive computers are such garbage. If you restart it and have no programs open and unplug it at full charge, it has a battery life of ONE HOUR.
I had a Lenovo thinkpad with 16GB RAM and i7 maybe 10th gen and no dedicated GPU. It could do everything I needed and its battery lasted hours. I know that is a better CPU (10th gen whereas these are 8th) but am unsure id that is what is making the difference.
These computers have some bloatware from Big Brother management, but watching the computer freeze when attempting simple tasks makes me think that's not the only thing.
My guess? The dedicated GPU. Maybe its trying to use NVIDIA Quadro for everything rather than only when heavy lifting is needed. We are not doing much rendering of stream order systems based on DEM/Elevation maps... mostly overlays and live layers. I am guessing the GPU overheats the machine and then the CPU throttles and we are left with a POS laptop .
What do you think might be going on? Is it the GPU like I suspect? I am pushing my boss to get us inter 12th generations with no dedicated GPU because I think it will run cooler and faster. But maybe I am missing something and would love it if the community could share some of your expertise with me and help me look good for my new boss, haha.
Also open to suggestions for new laptops or specific specs to focus on when searching for a replacement, as well as things to avoid.
I am the owner of a Dell Precision 5530 with the Intel Core i7-8850H CPU and Nvidia Quadro P2000 GPU. Based on my understanding, this Precision is simply a 'badge-engineered' version of the infamous XPS 9570, hence the reason why I used the 'XPS HELP' flair.
Ever since I purchased this laptop back in August, I appear to be running into an issue where HWInfo reports that the Nvidia Quadro dGPU is undergoing power limit throttling by displaying a 'Yes' next to 'Performance Limit - Power' whenever I run FurMark. I have also noticed on HWInfo that the GPU Core Output Power stays confined within the range of 18-20 watts.
My previous workstation was a nearly flawless HP ZBook with the same CPU and GPU that I regrettably traded in for this Precision. The Quadro P2000 on the ZBook would easily consume upwards of 30 watts when loaded with FurMark.
However, despite the power limit throttling and abnormally low power consumption of the GPU, I manage to get close to 29 FPS running FurMark at full HD resolution. This framerate is almost consistent with what my prior ZBook managed to achieve, albeit at a higher power consumption.
So my question is as follows: is there any workaround that I can use to prevent the Quadro GPU from undergoing power limit throttling? Can I utilize MSI Afterburner to improve the GPU's performance, or is this the maximum quantity of power that I can obtain from the P2000?
Also, is the 10 watt difference between the Quadro P2000 in the current Precision 5530 and my prior HP ZBook due to the fact that the Precision 5530 uses Nvidia Optimus? The HP ZBook had a hardware MUX which allowed me to switch between driving the display with the dGPU or the iGPU. The Precision, unfortunately, has its pixel-heavy 4K display physically wired only to the weak Intel HD Graphics, with the Quadro only acting as a co-processor.
Also, I have provided a screensnip of HWInfo along with my GPU Core Power Consumption graph (top right) with FurMark running. I also have the 'Performance limit - Power' entry under HWInfo highlighted in blue.
Thanks in advance.
Hey, I have a dell Precision 5530 (essentially a XPS 9570 with a Quadro) with the 97Wh battery (with 98% battery heath), and a 4k screen. All the reviews that I have read said this laptop should get 6 1/2 hours of battery life. However, when I look at the screen on time in windows it says that I am getting only 2 1/2 hours of screen on time. Does anybody else have this issue, and is there a way to fix it?