HP Z230 Tower Workstation

Performance Results


Gaming 53% Yacht	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 41% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (76th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 24 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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 79.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	65% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	33% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce IO wait 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.

Run History

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System	HP Z230 Tower Workstation (all builds)
Motherboard	Hewlett-Packard 1905
Memory	5.6 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1440 x 900 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140123
Uptime	0.4 Days
Run Date	Oct 08 '20 at 01:57
Run Duration	127 Seconds
Run User	MAR-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4570-$99 129,272 User benchmarks, average bench 62% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.45 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	79.1% Very good	Memory 88.4 1-Core 75.5 2-Core 208 70% 124 Pts	4-Core 404 8-Core 404 54% 404 Pts	64-Core 401 25% 401 Pts
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 79.1% Great: 72%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 56,417 User benchmarks, average bench 56% PNY(196E 11D8) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1936 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 456.71 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	65% Good	Lighting 82.2 Reflection 78.9 Parallax 67.1 67% 76.1 fps	MRender 77.1 Gravity 72.8 Splatting 74.2 61% 74.7 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 65% Great: 62%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
SSD 240GB 240GB 5,968 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 76GB free (System drive) Firmware: FW200326 SusWrite @10s intervals: 27 2.8 26 2.9 65 3.9 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile)	33% Below average	Read 471 Write 153 Mixed 6 SusWrite 21.3 35% 163 MB/s	4K Read 29.5 4K Write 2.6 4K Mixed 1.5 48% 11.2 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 33% Great: 90%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB-$36 203,102 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 399GB free Firmware: HP35 SusWrite @10s intervals: 119 118 116 120 120 119 MB/s Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	68.2% Good	Read 119 Write 112 Mixed 66.5 SusWrite 119 76% 104 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 2 4K Mixed 1 177% 1.23 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 68.2% Great: 70%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Hynix HMT325U7CFR8A-H9 HMT325U7BFR8A-H9 HMT325U7BFR8A-H9 HMT325U7BFR8A-H9 8GB 20 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 1333, 1333, 1333, 1333 MHz 2048, 2048, 2048, 2048 MB Performing above expectations (85^th percentile)	52.2% Above average	MC Read 17.8 MC Write 18.9 MC Mixed 16.4 51% 17.7 GB/s	SC Read 14.4 SC Write 19.3 SC Mixed 16.4 48% 16.7 GB/s	Latency 69.1 58% 69.1 ns
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 52.2% Great: 52%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

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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	616x
Core i7-4770Intel $75Bench 70%, 176,321 samples	493x
Core i5-4590Intel $188Bench 63%, 151,366 samples	239x

GPU
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	235x
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 $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16