HP Z420 Workstation

Performance Results


Gaming 18% Surfboard	Desktop 77% Battleship	Workstation 18% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (59th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 41 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 79.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	11.6% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	56.4% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	16GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 16GB also allows for very large file and system caches, software development and batch photo editing/processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

System	HP Z420 Workstation (all builds)
Motherboard	Hewlett-Packard 1589
Memory	12.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit kleuren
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150527
Uptime	15.2 Days
Run Date	Oct 27 '16 at 16:01
Run Duration	145 Seconds
Run User	NLD-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing as expected (59^th percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Xeon E5-2687W 0-$1,335 868 User benchmarks, average bench 74% CPU0, 1 CPU, 8 cores, 16 threads Base clock 3.1 GHz, turbo 3 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	79.3% Very good	Memory 89.6 1-Core 101 2-Core 191 74% 127 Pts	4-Core 372 8-Core 716 65% 544 Pts	64-Core 921 57% 921 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 79.3% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia Quadro 5000 751 User benchmarks, average bench 10% HP(103C 0770) 2.5GB Driver: nvd3dumx Ver. 21.21.13.6909 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	11.6% Very poor	Lighting 13 Reflection 20 Parallax 14.4 11% 15.8 fps	MRender 22.9 Gravity 10.3 Splatting 16.8 14% 16.7 fps
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 11.6% Great: 11%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$94 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 328GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (1^st percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 644 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 141 (B1) Unknown 99 99 2 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 63 58 37 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 99 99 2570616033	56.4% Above average	Read 267 Write 211 Mixed 220 52% 233 MB/s	4K Read 24.5 4K Write 32 4K Mixed 25 86% 27.2 MB/s	DQ Read 189 DQ Write 86.7 DQ Mixed 14 43% 96.6 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 56.4% Great: 134%
Samsung 840 Pro 256GB-$190 73,119 User benchmarks, average bench 95% 48GB free Firmware: 5B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 7764 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1178 (B1) Unknown 96 96 135 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 60 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 54 (F1) Unknown 99 99 28661980641	77.3% Very good	Read 508 Write 410 Mixed 474 103% 464 MB/s	4K Read 24.7 4K Write 43.4 4K Mixed 21.5 88% 29.9 MB/s	DQ Read 24.4 DQ Write 212 DQ Mixed 69.5 68% 102 MB/s
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 77.3% Great: 116%
Seagate ST31000340NS 1TB-$95 7,250 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 344GB free Firmware: SN05 Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 76 63 48557178 (03) Spinup time 92 84 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3171 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 71 60 25857375815 (09) Power-on hours count 79 79 18815 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 99 200 (0C) Power cycle count 100 37 819 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 131074 (BD) vendor-specific 76 76 24 (BE) vendor-specific 60 47 689045544 (C2) HDA temperature 40 53 42949673000 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 22 22 48557178 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	48.9% Average	Read 83.2 Write 87.3 Mixed 82.2 63% 84.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 1.56 4K Mixed 0.34 88% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 48.9% Great: 60%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Samsung M391B5273DH0-CK0 4x4GB 618 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 4 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	92.6% Outstanding	MC Read 38.7 MC Write 36.3 MC Mixed 33.9 104% 36.3 GB/s	SC Read 15.5 SC Write 13.8 SC Mixed 11.3 39% 13.5 GB/s	Latency 67.8 59% 67.8 ns
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 92.6% Great: 95%

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System: HP Z420 Workstation

CPU
Xeon E5-1620 0Intel $345Bench 70%, 17,464 samples	1,499x
Xeon E5-1650 v2Intel $635Bench 76%, 10,921 samples	772x
Xeon E5-1620 v2Intel $345Bench 71%, 10,301 samples	686x

GPU
Quadro K2000NvidiaBench 7%, 13,526 samples	495x
Quadro K4000NvidiaBench 13%, 11,114 samples	304x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	261x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	183x
C400 RealSSD 256GBMicronBench 55%, 11,652 samples	128x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	112x

RAM
M391B5273DH0-CK0 4x4GBSamsungBench 72%, 618 samples	65x
M391B5273DH0-CK0 8x4GBSamsungBench 89%, 244 samples	56x
9JSF51272AZ-1G9E2 4x4GBMicronBench 78%, 366 samples	55x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16