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日本Top 5 reasons to BUY or NOT to buy the Dell XPS 17 9710
We are always amazed when we see tightly packed slim laptops with crazy specs. This is one such case, as the Dell XPS 17 9710 boasts a thickness of only 13.15 mm while packing up to a Core i9-11980HK and an RTX 3060 (70W).
One concern is the cooling, which will have to do an exceptional job for the hardware to be pushed to its limits. This is hard to do when you have everything neatly placed with next to no room for airflow.
Today we are presenting you with LaptopMedia’s top 5 picks about the Dell XPS 17 9710.
Dell XPS 17 9710: Full Specs / In-depth Review
4 reasons to BUY the Dell XPS 17 9710
1. Design and build quality
Being such an expensive laptop, we expect premium materials. Dell knows that and they delivered. The CNC-aluminum chassis feels great to the touch, while the carbon fiber base gives some grip when using the touchpad, keeping your hands from sliding around. Despite its thin profile of 13.15 mm, the chassis boasts exceptional rigidity. Its lid opens with a single hand, revealing the slimmest possible bezels, along with a Gorilla Glass 6 display cover with an anti-reflective coating.
2. Display quality
The laptop is offered with two 16:10 IPS display options. The first one has an FHD+ resolution, while the second one upgrades it to UHD+, which was the display that we tested. It has excellent viewing angles, along with a max brightness of 467 nits and a maximum deviation of 13%. There is a brightness unevenness in the bottom left corner, otherwise, the panel has uniform brightness. The contrast ratio is very good – 1670:1. The display fully covers the sRGB and AdobeRGB color gamuts, with an additional 98% DCI-P3 coverage.
The color accuracy does leave a lot to be desired, however, as even after we applied our Design and Gaming profile, we got a dE value of 3.9. Here are the results of our test with the factory settings (left) and with our profile applied (right).
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Office Work
Office Work moet vooral worden gebruikt door gebruikers die de meeste tijd besteden aan het bekijken van stukken tekst, tabellen of gewoon surfen. Dit profiel is gericht op het leveren van een betere helderheid en duidelijkheid door het behouden van een vlakke gammacurve (2.20), native kleurtemperatuur en perceptueel accurate kleuren.
Ontwerp en spel
Dit profiel is gericht op ontwerpers die beroepsmatig met kleuren werken, en ook voor games en films. Design and Gaming brengt beeldschermen tot het uiterste en maakt ze zo nauwkeurig mogelijk in de sRGB IEC61966-2-1 standaard voor Web en HDTV, bij witpunt D65.
Health-Guard
Health-Guard elimineert de schadelijke Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM) en vermindert het negatieve Blauwe Licht dat onze ogen en ons lichaam aantast. Omdat het op maat is gemaakt voor elk paneel, slaagt het erin de kleuren perceptueel nauwkeurig te houden. Health-Guard simuleert papier zodat de druk op de ogen sterk wordt verminderd.
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3. I/O
The I/O here is full of ports, including four Thunderbolt 4 ports, an SD card reader, and an audio jack. We don’t end there, as you get a USB Type-C to USB Type-A and HDMI 2.0 dongle inside the box.
4. Input devices
The keyboard and touchpad are really comfortable. The keys are big enough and while the lack of a NumPad is weird on a laptop with a 17-inch display, the front-firing stereo speakers on the two sides should be a good enough substitute for something not that many people use. The keyboard has long key travel, despite its thin profile, and clicky feedback. The touchpad is also just enormous, with dimensions of 15 x 8.9 cm. It is very accurate and responsive.
1 reason NOT to buy the Dell XPS 17 9710
1. Cooling
As we thought, the cooling here lacks the effectiveness to keep the Core i9-11980HK running at the highest possible speeds. The vapor chamber was a good idea, but a low profile and next to no airflow are a death sentence to any laptop.
Max CPU load
| Intel Core i9-11900H (45W TDP) | 0:02 – 0:10 sec | 0:15 – 0:30 sec | 10:00 – 15:00 min |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dell XPS 17 9710 | 3.39 GHz @ 99°C @ 77W | 3.15 GHz @ 99°C @ 66W | 3.05 GHz @ 99°C @ 59W |
Still, the CPU kept a decent clock speed of 3.00GHz in the last stage of our stress test, albeit it could have gone much further. This was at the expense of temperatures, as the CPU ran at 99°C during the entirety of our testing.
Real-life gaming
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 | GPU frequency/ Core temp (after 2 min) | GPU frequency/ Core temp (after 30 min) | GPU frequency/ Core temp (Max Fan) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dell XPS 17 9710 | 1396 MHz @ 71°C @ 70W | 1403 MHz @ 71°C @ 70W | – |
The 70W version of the RTX 3060 kept decent temperatures, while the clock speeds hovering around 1400MHz.
Comfort during combined load
Regardless of the firestorm that is going on inside the CPU, the outside temperature was nowhere close to hot, with the keyboard being the hotspot, maxing out at 40.3°C.
