Dell XPS420

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 1% Tree trunk	Desktop 30% Sail boat	Workstation 1% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (31st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 69 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With a relatively low single core score, this CPU can handle email, light web browsing and basic audio/video playback, but it will struggle to handle CPU intensive tasks. Finally, with a gaming score of 35.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is poor.
Graphics	1.26% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load times.
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.

Very high background CPU (70%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	Dell XPS420 (all builds)
Motherboard	Dell 0TP406
Memory	4.3 GB free of 8 GB @ 0.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20080623
Uptime	0.8 Days
Run Date	Feb 23 '18 at 13:22
Run Duration	132 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	70%

PC Performing below expectations (31^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core2 Quad Q6600-$100 59,658 User benchmarks, average bench 42% CPU, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 2.4 GHz, turbo 2.4 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile)	35.7% Below average	Memory 56.4 1-Core 24.6 2-Core 51.1 30% 44 Pts	4-Core 88.3 8-Core 95.2 12% 91.8 Pts	64-Core 105 6% 105 Pts
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 35.7% Great: 50%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTX 1,377 User benchmarks, average bench 6% Device(107D 2A70) 768MB Ram: 768MB, Driver: 341.96 Relative performance (0^th percentile)	1.26% Terrible	Lighting 1.07 Reflection 2.38 Parallax 0.41 1% 1.29 fps	MRender 4.38 Gravity 0.77 Splatting 2.43 2% 2.53 fps
Poor: 5% ↑ This bench: 1.26% Great: 6%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
WD Green 1TB (2011)-$109 43,695 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 878GB free Firmware: 51.0AB51 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (60^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 12287 (03) Spinup time 116 102 7158 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3071 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 9299 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3060 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 186 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 170 170 90658 (C2) HDA temperature 123 112 24 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	54.8% Above average	Read 93.7 Write 97 Mixed 93.7 71% 94.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.59 4K Write 1.76 4K Mixed 0.14 73% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 54.8% Great: 69%
Seagate ST3500312CS 500GB-$24 89,637 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 50GB free (System drive) Firmware: SC13 Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing below expectations (38^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 171406022 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 69 69 32235 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 84 60 9134675673 (09) Power-on hours count 72 72 25244 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2452 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 160 (BC) Unknown 100 99 2 (BD) vendor-specific 98 98 2 (BE) vendor-specific 73 47 571867163 (C2) HDA temperature 27 53 34359738395 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 53 39 171406022 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	43.7% Average	Read 79.5 Write 72.8 Mixed 74.1 57% 75.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.35 4K Write 1.38 4K Mixed 0.24 66% 0.65 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 43.7% Great: 60%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 4x2GB 183,252 User benchmarks, average bench 25% 4 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR2 Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile)	14.4% Very poor	MC Read 5.6 MC Write 4.3 MC Mixed 4.2 13% 4.7 GB/s	SC Read 3.5 SC Write 3.3 SC Mixed 3.5 10% 3.43 GB/s	Latency 139 29% 139 ns
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 14.4% Great: 45%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 10%

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Desktop 50%

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Workstation 8%

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System: Dell XPS420

CPU
Core2 Quad Q6600Intel $100Bench 42%, 59,658 samples	107x
Core2 Quad Q9550Intel $161Bench 49%, 34,093 samples	14x
Core2 Quad Q9650Intel $170Bench 51%, 16,719 samples	13x

GPU
GTX 750-TiNvidia $92Bench 17%, 309,423 samples	20x
GeForce GT 710NvidiaBench 3%, 187,161 samples	10x
GeForce 8800 GTNvidiaBench 6%, 5,568 samples	10x

SSD
CS900 1TB SSDPNYBench 78%, 7,281 samples	5x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	5x
MZ5PA064HMCD-01000 64GBSamsungBench 30%, 84 samples	5x

RAM
4x2GBUnknownBench 25%, 183,252 samples	104x
6GBUnknownBench 25%, 111,301 samples	24x
4x1GBUnknownBench 18%, 54,972 samples	24x

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Value: 50% - Average

Total price: $192

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $131	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	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