HP Z230 Tower Workstation

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 14% Tree trunk	Desktop 72% Battleship	Workstation 12% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (56th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 44 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 74.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	15.7% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 8 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 5 years ago.

System	HP Z230 Tower Workstation (all builds)
Motherboard	Hewlett-Packard 1905
Memory	25.1 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20141117
Uptime	0.3 Days
Run Date	Oct 11 '18 at 12:03
Run Duration	119 Seconds
Run User	TUR-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing as expected (56^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790-$135 255,027 User benchmarks, average bench 71% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	74.5% Very good	Memory 72.2 1-Core 114 2-Core 223 75% 136 Pts	4-Core 414 8-Core 603 64% 508 Pts	64-Core 600 37% 600 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 74.5% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia Quadro K2200-$440 13,860 User benchmarks, average bench 16% HP(103C 1097) ≥ 4GB Ram: 4GB, Driver: 340.52 Performing as expected (42^nd percentile)	15.7% Very poor	Lighting 22.5 Reflection 16.7 Parallax 19.6 18% 19.6 fps	MRender 23.8 Gravity 20 Splatting 0.13 10% 14.7 fps
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 15.7% Great: 17%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$35 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 312GB free (System drive) Firmware: 03.0 SusWrite @10s intervals: 129 129 129 147 149 142 MB/s Performing as expected (58^th percentile)	87.8% Excellent	Read 168 Write 164 Mixed 79.5 SusWrite 138 100% 137 MB/s	4K Read 1.2 4K Write 2.2 4K Mixed 1.2 224% 1.53 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 87.8% Great: 109%
Generic Flash Disk 8GB 32,093 User benchmarks, average bench 5% 7GB free, PID 6387 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed SusWrite @10s intervals: 6.3 5.6 7.4 7.5 6.8 7.4 MB/s Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)	4.63% Terrible	Read 15.5 Write 5.5 Mixed 4.5 SusWrite 6.8 9% 8.07 MB/s	4K Read 3.8 4K Write 0 4K Mixed 0 14% 1.27 MB/s
Poor: 2% ↑ This bench: 4.63% Great: 7%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Hynix HMT41GU6BFR8C-PB 4x8GB 745 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing below potential (28^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	52.1% Above average	MC Read 17.7 MC Write 19.6 MC Mixed 16.5 51% 17.9 GB/s	SC Read 14.1 SC Write 20.7 SC Mixed 19.3 52% 18 GB/s	Latency 96.4 42% 96.4 ns
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 52.1% Great: 61%

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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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Typical Z230 Tower Workstation Builds (Compare 2,713 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 8%

Tree trunk

Desktop 65%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 7%

Tree trunk

System: HP Z230 Tower Workstation

CPU
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	611x
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 $275	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	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) $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