HP Z230 Tower Workstation

Performance Results


Gaming 9% Tree trunk	Desktop 69% Battle cruiser	Workstation 8% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (70th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 30 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 78.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	3.84% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	50.7% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	HP Z230 Tower Workstation (all builds)
Motherboard	Hewlett-Packard 1905
Memory	4 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit kleuren
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20131018
Uptime	0.9 Days
Run Date	Dec 15 '17 at 21:44
Run Duration	142 Seconds
Run User	BEL-User
Background CPU	10%

PC Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Xeon E3-1230 v3-$217 8,137 User benchmarks, average bench 73% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 3.55 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	78.3% Very good	Memory 81.7 1-Core 106 2-Core 207 75% 132 Pts	4-Core 408 8-Core 553 61% 481 Pts	64-Core 553 34% 553 Pts
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 78.3% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia Quadro K600 8,087 User benchmarks, average bench 3% HP(103C 094B) 1GB CLim: 875 MHz, MLim: 445 MHz, Ram: 1GB, Driver: 353.30 Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	3.84% Terrible	Lighting 4.3 Reflection 4.04 Parallax 4.28 4% 4.21 fps	MRender 5.05 Gravity 3.87 Splatting 6.91 4% 5.28 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 3.84% Great: 4%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Micron C400 RealSSD 128GB 11,312 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 95GB free (System drive) Firmware: 070H Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 24434 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 123 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 96 96 124 (AE) Unknown 100 100 67 (B5) Unknown 100 100 14718904568399 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 85 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 96 96 4 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0	50.7% Above average	Read 421 Write 181 Mixed 260 63% 287 MB/s	4K Read 20.2 4K Write 49.5 4K Mixed 5.24 64% 25 MB/s	DQ Read 124 DQ Write 105 DQ Mixed 7.56 35% 78.7 MB/s
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 50.7% Great: 70%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 500GB-$23 574,344 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 465GB free Firmware: HP73 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 175750536 (03) Spinup time 99 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2868 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 200 (07) Seek error rate 89 60 852625984 (09) Power-on hours count 53 53 41756 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 135 (B4) Unknown 100 100 1496431534 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032833 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 60 538181664 (C2) HDA temperature 32 40 73014444064 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 41 30 175750536 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 200 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 8 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	72% Very good	Read 125 Write 127 Mixed 119 93% 123 MB/s	4K Read 0.65 4K Write 1.12 4K Mixed 0.49 102% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 72% Great: 88%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 500GB-$23 574,344 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 464GB free Firmware: HP73 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (79^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 99 2880952 (03) Spinup time 100 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 830 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 56 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 128313163 (09) Power-on hours count 73 73 24501 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 123 (B4) Unknown 100 100 249372409 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 61 554958881 (C2) HDA temperature 33 40 81604378657 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 34 26 2880952 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 56 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	68.4% Good	Read 113 Write 126 Mixed 117 89% 118 MB/s	4K Read 0.66 4K Write 1.22 4K Mixed 0.44 99% 0.77 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 68.4% Great: 88%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Elpida EBJ41EF8BDWA-GN-F 2x4GB 121 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)	54.1% Above average	MC Read 19 MC Write 20.3 MC Mixed 16.7 53% 18.7 GB/s	SC Read 13.9 SC Write 19.3 SC Mixed 18.1 49% 17.1 GB/s	Latency 77.4 52% 77.4 ns
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 54.1% Great: 60%

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Gaming 8%

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Desktop 65%

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Workstation 7%

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System: HP Z230 Tower Workstation

CPU
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	613x
Core i7-4770Intel $75Bench 70%, 176,321 samples	491x
Core i5-4590Intel $188Bench 63%, 151,366 samples	238x

GPU
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	234x
Quadro K2000NvidiaBench 7%, 13,526 samples	173x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	161x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	121x
MTFDDAK256MBF-1AN1ZABHA 256GBCrucialBench 89%, 2,574 samples	56x
C400 RealSSD 256GBMicronBench 55%, 11,652 samples	46x

RAM
16JTF1G64AZ-1G6E1 2x8GBMicronBench 53%, 7,464 samples	57x
HMT41GU6BFR8C-PB 2x8GBHynixBench 54%, 3,233 samples	51x
8JTF51264AZ-1G6E1 4x4GBMicronBench 56%, 6,584 samples	45x

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Value: 74% - Very good

Total price: $178

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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 $182	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $30	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