HP Pavilion dv6 Notebook PC

Performance Results


Gaming 9% Tree trunk	Desktop 65% Battle cruiser	Workstation 8% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 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 70.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	3.79% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	74.5% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	16GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 16GB also allows for very large file and system caches, software development and batch photo editing/processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

System	HP Pavilion dv6 Notebook PC (all builds)
Motherboard	Hewlett-Packard 181B
Memory	12.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20120619
Uptime	0.6 Days
Run Date	May 23 '16 at 17:15
Run Duration	119 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing as expected (60^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-3610QM-$300 38,575 User benchmarks, average bench 62% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 2.3 GHz, turbo 3.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	70.2% Very good	Memory 85.2 1-Core 90.1 2-Core 172 68% 116 Pts	4-Core 299 8-Core 428 46% 364 Pts	64-Core 434 27% 434 Pts
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 70.2% Great: 71%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel HD 4000 (Mobile 1.25 GHz) FAQ - How to force Optimus or Switchable discrete GPUs? HP(103C 181B) 2GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 10.18.10.4358 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	3.79% Terrible	Lighting 4.53 Reflection 5.46 Parallax 1.81 4% 3.94 fps	MRender 6.52 Gravity 5.2 Splatting 3.52 4% 5.08 fps
Poor: 2% ↑ This bench: 3.79% Great: 4%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 228GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (3^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 74 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 9 (B1) Unknown 99 99 1 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 62 50 38 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1125500840	74.5% Very good	Read 508 Write 402 Mixed 417 98% 442 MB/s	4K Read 28.9 4K Write 46.7 4K Mixed 18.9 93% 31.5 MB/s	DQ Read 32.9 DQ Write 60.1 DQ Mixed 122 71% 71.5 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 74.5% Great: 134%
Seagate Laptop SSHD 2.5" (32GB NAND) 1TB-$41 561 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 127GB free Firmware: SD02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 113 100 52859760 (03) Spinup time 99 98 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 33 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 900780 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 70 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 16 (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 69 53 521666591 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 2 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 167 (C2) HDA temperature 31 47 98784247839 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	40.1% Average	Read 66.3 Write 71.9 Mixed 69.6 52% 69.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.59 4K Write 4.92 4K Mixed 0.5 171% 2 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 40.1% Great: 66%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Hynix HMT41GS6MFR8C-PB 2x8GB 3,305 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 2 of 2 slots used 16GB SODIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	56.4% Above average	MC Read 21.6 MC Write 19.4 MC Mixed 18.1 56% 19.7 GB/s	SC Read 16 SC Write 16 SC Mixed 17.6 47% 16.5 GB/s	Latency 71.8 56% 71.8 ns
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 56.4% Great: 57%

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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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Gaming 2%

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Desktop 51%

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Workstation 2%

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System: HP Pavilion dv6 Notebook PC

CPU
Core i7-2670QMIntel $200Bench 56%, 51,169 samples	337x
Core i7-2630QMIntel $199Bench 55%, 39,605 samples	256x
Core i7-3610QMIntel $300Bench 62%, 38,575 samples	181x

GPU
HD 3000 (Mobile V1 1.1/1.2 GHz)IntelBench 2%, 209,058 samples	840x
HD Graphics (Arrandale 0.667/0.766 GHz)IntelBench 1%, 99,513 samples	384x
HD 4000 (Mobile 1.25 GHz)IntelBench 3%, 409,110 samples	183x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	91x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	43x
MX500 500GBCrucial $46Bench 106%, 237,241 samples	40x

RAM
2x2GBUnknownBench 20%, 446,702 samples	111x
M471B5273DH0-CH9 2x4GBSamsungBench 43%, 15,815 samples	82x
M471B5673EH1-CH9 2x2GBSamsungBench 27%, 1,322 samples	70x

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Value: 57% - Above average

Total price: $228

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