I am running a Dell Precision 5530 with i9 and the NVidea Quattro 2000. Usually I just use the NVidea GPU when doing heavy work and most of the time it is deactivated, so my computer runs very quite. However, as soon as I connect it to the USB-C dock the fans run on full speed almost all the time, event though I do I just do some text processing in LaTex and browse the internet. Doing the same things without the dock connected the computer stays quite all the time.
Anybody else has this issue and might have a solution?
Yes am using a Precision 5530, i7, not with the Quattro, but same behavior concerning the USB-C dock. I'm guessing the throughput of the USB-C spec dell is using isn't that great. I've used a macbook pro 2018 15 inch on the same USB-C dock and no problem, but Apple's thunderbolt 3 spec has a really high throughput ability. I think the precision is unable to manage the power coming in through such a small input, and thus the fans take over for managing the power. I'm guessing dell didn't design with this use case in mind, but spec'd the USB-C port for a one use device such as monitor, ethernet, etc, versus 2+ devices on a dock into one port. Best case scenario it could be fixed with a firmware update, more realistically we will be plagued with fan problems until future iterations :/ but that is just my impression, not solely fact based.