Dell Precision Tower 3420

Performance Results


Gaming 17% Surfboard	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 16% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (66th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 34 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 86.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	12.1% 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	149% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

System	Dell Precision Tower 3420
Motherboard	Dell Precision Tower 3420 (all builds)
Memory	5.5 GB free of 8 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20160327
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Feb 14 '17 at 15:46
Run Duration	115 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing above expectations (66^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700-$180 282,363 User benchmarks, average bench 72% Socket 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	86.3% Excellent	Memory 90.6 1-Core 119 2-Core 229 83% 146 Pts	4-Core 443 8-Core 631 67% 537 Pts	64-Core 634 39% 634 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 86.3% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia Quadro K620-$170 16,214 User benchmarks, average bench 11% Nvidia(10DE 1098) 2GB CLim: 1124 MHz, MLim: 450 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 361.91 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	12.1% Very poor	Lighting 15.5 Reflection 14.6 Parallax 10.8 13% 13.7 fps	MRender 12.1 Gravity 10.9 Splatting 15.8 11% 12.9 fps
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 12.1% Great: 11%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Toshiba THNSN5256GPU7 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB 19,151 User benchmarks, average bench 148% 81GB free (System drive) Firmware: 57DA Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing as expected (52^nd percentile)	149% Outstanding	Read 1,922 Write 613 Mixed 1,039 260% 1,191 MB/s	4K Read 22.9 4K Write 77.2 4K Mixed 20.2 102% 40.1 MB/s	DQ Read 28 DQ Write 166 DQ Mixed 19.9 38% 71.4 MB/s
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 149% Great: 207%
SK hynix SC308 SATA 256GB 182 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 6GB free Firmware: 3000 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 166 166 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 253 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 962 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 414 (64) Unknown 100 100 368852 (AB) Unknown 253 253 0 (AC) Unknown 253 253 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 45 (AF) Unknown 253 253 0 (B0) Unknown 253 253 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 4 (B2) Unknown 100 100 30 (B3) Unknown 100 100 246 (B4) Unknown 100 100 5226 (B5) Unknown 253 253 0 (B6) Unknown 253 253 0 (B7) Unknown 253 253 0 (BB) vendor-specific 253 253 0 (BC) Unknown 253 253 0 (BF) G-sense error rate 253 253 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 0 85901770782 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 253 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 253 253 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 96 91 144 (E7) Temperature 253 253 0 (EA) Unknown 100 100 1944608256 (F1) Unknown 100 100 762940690 (F2) Unknown 100 100 1964699577 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 174801	67.3% Good	Read 507 Write 246 Mixed 325 79% 359 MB/s	4K Read 27.3 4K Write 84.4 4K Mixed 12.4 102% 41.4 MB/s	DQ Read 30 DQ Write 103 DQ Mixed 13.2 26% 48.7 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 67.3% Great: 82%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown HMA451U6AFR8N-TF 2x4GB 1,440 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (35^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	68.4% Good	MC Read 26 MC Write 26.7 MC Mixed 20.1 69% 24.3 GB/s	SC Read 14.4 SC Write 23.8 SC Mixed 19.7 55% 19.3 GB/s	Latency 66.3 60% 66.3 ns
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 68.4% Great: 74%

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Desktop 69%

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Workstation 11%

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Motherboard: Dell Precision Tower 3420

CPU
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	224x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	152x
Core i5-6500Intel $67Bench 64%, 241,476 samples	113x

GPU
HD 530 (Desktop Skylake)IntelBench 5%, 188,220 samples	180x
HD 630 (Desktop Kaby Lake)IntelBench 5%, 153,031 samples	112x
Quadro K620Nvidia $170Bench 11%, 16,214 samples	82x

SSD
THNSN5256GPUK NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBToshibaBench 109%, 23,829 samples	21x
XG5 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBToshiba $33Bench 125%, 44,050 samples	21x
PM951 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBSamsungBench 120%, 13,766 samples	13x

RAM
HMA41GU6AFR8N-TF 2x8GBUnknownBench 72%, 2,345 samples	42x
HMA81GU6AFR8N-UH 2x8GBUnknownBench 73%, 3,256 samples	35x
HMA41GU6AFR8N-TF 1x8GBUnknownBench 40%, 853 samples	22x

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Value: 82% - Excellent

Total price: $180

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $179	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