Dell Precision 16 7680 review – overheating and underdelivering on battery life
Disassembly, Upgrade options, and Maintenance
This laptop is equipped with a service cover. Pop it open to access one of the M.2 PCIe x4 slots. To continue the disassembly, you need to undo a total of six captive Phillips-head screws. Then, pry the bottom panel with a plastic tool, and lift it away from the chassis.
Inside, you find an 83Wh battery pack. To take the unit out, you need to unplug it from the motherboard. Then, undo three Phillips-head screws.
Here, you can see the new CAMM memory. It takes less space but has the downside to be more difficult to upgrade. That’s because it is held in place by four screws, two of which are used to mount the CAMM connector module to the system board. Coincidentally, the same connector is used to put a SODIMM adapter, should you prefer the traditional memory type. In terms of storage, you get two M.2 PCIe x4 slots, which fit Gen 4 SSDs and support RAID mode.
Cooling-wise, there are two heat pipes shared between the CPU and the GPU. They are connected to a large heat sink, where two big fans blow the heat away. Furthermore, there are a couple of heat spreaders over the VRMs and the graphics memory.
Author: Alex Iliev
Author: eng. Kroum NikolovHead of Engineering at LaptopMedia.com, inventor and innovator with 40+ years of experience in electronics and high technology.
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No 2.5G ethernet for the top tier mobile workstation model!? That’s ridiculous
“+ Decent battery life – Horrendous battery life”
Are you serious ?
Unfortunately, the latter is the right one, my colleague has made a mistake, and thank you for pointing it out! The Precision 7680 is indeed one of the laptops with the shortest battery life we’ve tested, despite having a decent battery capacity.
keyboard arrow keys completely unusable, no page up or page down. micro return key. laptop tries to heat whole house. at least its a work machine for just email and i have a non dell machine for software development
feel sorry if you actually bought this machine