Dell 17r N7720 SE - user review

[ericdabbs]

I am curious if anyone has tried opening their Inspiron 17R SE laptop to find out if the CPU and GPU have 2 separate copper heatsinks OR does the CPU and GPU share the same copper heatsink?

I will be getting the 17R SE laptop in August and I plan to open it up to replace the cheap stock thermal grease on the CPU and GPU with Arctic Silver 5 thermal grease. I was curious if anyone has opened up their laptop yet. I wish someone would do a youtube video on disassembling the 17R SE laptop.

[sirbeta]

Guys what are your idle CPU temperatures?

Mine are 45-50C measured by OCCT (room temperature ~10C).

[c_man]

You can see mine in the first post. As idle as it can be. Around 50-55°C.

Those are at 30°C room temp. You have 10°C??? How do you measure it?

[Niblet]

Guys what are your idle CPU temperatures?

Mine are 45-50C measured by OCCT (room temperature ~10C).

Mine seem to be around 44-47C at a 21C room temperature.

[KSMB]

can someone (owner) explain what this new 3 buttons does ??? (never seen this before on Dell laptops)

[X-dude]

I was deciding on this laptop as well and here are its specs as is it slightly different from the one in OP.

Windows® 7 Home Premium SP1, 64-Bit, English
3rd Generation Intel® Core™ i7-3610QM processor (6M Cache, up to 3.3 GHz)
8GB Shared Dual Channel DDR3 Memory
1TB 5400RPM SATA HDD + 32GB mSATA SSD w/ Intel Smart Response
Nvidia GeForce GT 650M 2GB
8X Tray Load CD/DVD Burner (Dual Layer DVD+/-R Drive)
Stealth Black Anodized Aluminum
17.3" Full High Definition (1080p) LED Display with Anti-Glare
48 WHr 6-cell Lithium Ion Battery
Intel® Centrino® Wireless 2230, 2x2 bgn + Bluetooth
Skullcandy Speakers with WaveMaxx 4.0
Integrated 10/100 Network Card
Dell Backlit Keyboard with Multi-touch Touchpad, English-Int'l
Power cord, 125V, 3.2 Feet, US
Adobe Elements 9.0 Photoshop and Premiere Bundle
DataSafe 2.0 Online Backup 2GB for 1 year
Intel® Centrino® Wireless 2230, 2x2 bgn + Bluetooth
I know I know the hard drive sucks but I doubt I would have money leftover for a SSD but maybe a 7200rpm hard drive but would the 32GB mSATA SSD help any with performance? Also for the nvidia card it doesn't specify if its ddr3 or gddr5. It does seem pretty awesome for the price though.

[c_man]

can someone (owner) explain what this new 3 buttons does ??? (never seen this before on Dell laptops)

Most software can be found very easy, based on this:



The link is this one Drivers and Downloads | Dell [United States]

TAG is on the back of your laptop.

You should get this APP_Quickset_W7_A03_Setup_7PFT6_ZPE as far as I could tell.

First button



Second one



Third

I was deciding on this laptop as well and here are its specs as is it slightly different from the one in OP.

Windows® 7 Home Premium SP1, 64-Bit, English
3rd Generation Intel® Core™ i7-3610QM processor (6M Cache, up to 3.3 GHz)
8GB Shared Dual Channel DDR3 Memory
1TB 5400RPM SATA HDD + 32GB mSATA SSD w/ Intel Smart Response
Nvidia GeForce GT 650M 2GB
8X Tray Load CD/DVD Burner (Dual Layer DVD+/-R Drive)
Stealth Black Anodized Aluminum
17.3" Full High Definition (1080p) LED Display with Anti-Glare
48 WHr 6-cell Lithium Ion Battery
Intel® Centrino® Wireless 2230, 2x2 bgn + Bluetooth
Skullcandy Speakers with WaveMaxx 4.0
Integrated 10/100 Network Card
Dell Backlit Keyboard with Multi-touch Touchpad, English-Int'l
Power cord, 125V, 3.2 Feet, US
Adobe Elements 9.0 Photoshop and Premiere Bundle
DataSafe 2.0 Online Backup 2GB for 1 year
Intel® Centrino® Wireless 2230, 2x2 bgn + Bluetooth
I know I know the hard drive sucks but I doubt I would have money leftover for a SSD but maybe a 7200rpm hard drive but would the 32GB mSATA SSD help any with performance? Also for the nvidia card it doesn't specify if its ddr3 or gddr5. It does seem pretty awesome for the price though.

There is like 99% chance for a DDR5 GPU.

Yes, the mSATA will help.

[X-dude]

There is like 99% chance for a DDR5 GPU.

Yes, the mSATA will help.

Thank you sir! Will be looking forward to this computer for sure. Some videos in the future would be nice like a review and a boot time video and possibly gameplay videos.

[Rassal]

I was deciding on this laptop as well and here are its specs as is it slightly different from the one in OP.

Windows® 7 Home Premium SP1, 64-Bit, English
3rd Generation Intel® Core™ i7-3610QM processor (6M Cache, up to 3.3 GHz)
8GB Shared Dual Channel DDR3 Memory
1TB 5400RPM SATA HDD + 32GB mSATA SSD w/ Intel Smart Response
Nvidia GeForce GT 650M 2GB
8X Tray Load CD/DVD Burner (Dual Layer DVD+/-R Drive)
Stealth Black Anodized Aluminum
17.3" Full High Definition (1080p) LED Display with Anti-Glare
48 WHr 6-cell Lithium Ion Battery
Intel® Centrino® Wireless 2230, 2x2 bgn + Bluetooth
Skullcandy Speakers with WaveMaxx 4.0
Integrated 10/100 Network Card
Dell Backlit Keyboard with Multi-touch Touchpad, English-Int'l
Power cord, 125V, 3.2 Feet, US
Adobe Elements 9.0 Photoshop and Premiere Bundle
DataSafe 2.0 Online Backup 2GB for 1 year

I know I know the hard drive sucks but I doubt I would have money leftover for a SSD but maybe a 7200rpm hard drive but would the 32GB mSATA SSD help any with performance? Also for the nvidia card it doesn't specify if its ddr3 or gddr5. It does seem pretty awesome for the price though.

That hard drive along with the 32gb mSATA SSD are working with the iRST feature which enables the most used files on the HDD to be cached on the SSD so this would almost put you up to SSD boot/shutdown time. This is one of the reason they could put a 1TB HDD which is only 5400rpm.

As for the video card, it is GDDR5.

[KSMB]

Hhmm i thought one of the buttons had something to do with Optimus and fan(cooling) system.

What do you really change with the second button ??
For example MAXXSENSE...whats that(and what does the other symbols do)

By the way,,,C-man i have not got my 7720 yet. Little hard to have a service tag then