Dell Studio 540

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 2% Tree trunk	Desktop 39% Jet ski	Workstation 2% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (58th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 42 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a below average single core score, this CPU can handle email, web browsing and audio/video playback but it will struggle to handle modern 3D games or workstation tasks such as video editing. Finally, with a gaming score of 43.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is below average.
Graphics	6.01% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
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	6GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 6GB 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (14%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

System	Dell Studio 540 (all builds)
Motherboard	Dell 0M017G
Memory	4.1 GB free of 6 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20080926
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Jan 02 '17 at 04:19
Run Duration	99 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	14%

PC Performing as expected (58^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core2 Quad Q8200-$49 19,990 User benchmarks, average bench 43% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 2.35 GHz, turbo 2.3 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (49^th percentile)	43.1% Average	Memory 65.6 1-Core 32.5 2-Core 64.1 36% 54.1 Pts	4-Core 124 8-Core 105 16% 115 Pts	64-Core 114 7% 114 Pts
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 43.1% Great: 50%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GeForce 9800 GT 19,550 User benchmarks, average bench 5% EVGA(3842 C971) 512MB Ram: 512MB, Driver: 342.1 Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	6.01% Terrible	Lighting 8.07 Reflection 8.04 Parallax 2.81 7% 6.31 fps	MRender 6.9 Gravity 6.3 Splatting 5.22 5% 6.14 fps
Poor: 5% ↑ This bench: 6.01% Great: 6%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung HD642JJ 640GB-$70 13,060 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 500GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1AA01113 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (75^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 86 86 5200 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 3802 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 11646 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 17874 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 99 99 510 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 3549 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 64 470810652 (C2) HDA temperature 70 63 521142302 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 4762363 (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 1 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0	54.5% Above average	Read 90.1 Write 99.6 Mixed 93.8 71% 94.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 2.19 4K Mixed 0.34 99% 1.01 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 54.5% Great: 63%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 3x2GB 45,030 User benchmarks, average bench 30% 3 of 4 slots used 6GB DIMM DDR2 Performing below potential (22^nd percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	17.2% Very poor	MC Read 5 MC Write 5.9 MC Mixed 5.5 16% 5.47 GB/s	SC Read 4.4 SC Write 4.5 SC Mixed 5.1 13% 4.67 GB/s	Latency 112 36% 112 ns
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 17.2% Great: 52%

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

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Typical Studio 540 Builds (Compare 109 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 4%

Tree trunk

Desktop 39%

Jet ski

Workstation 4%

Tree trunk

System: Dell Studio 540

CPU
Core2 Quad Q8200Intel $49Bench 43%, 19,990 samples	40x
Core2 Quad Q8300Intel $115Bench 44%, 20,482 samples	17x
Core2 Quad Q9400Intel $170Bench 46%, 24,176 samples	14x

GPU
G45/G43 Express ChipsetIntelBench 1%, 6,554 samples	12x
Radeon HD 4300ATIBench 1%, 14,988 samples	11x
Radeon HD 3450ATIBench 1%, 4,621 samples	9x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	5x
easystore 240GBWDBench 48%, 2,807 samples	4x
CS1311 240GBPNY $78Bench 81%, 26,547 samples	3x

RAM
4x2GBUnknownBench 25%, 183,252 samples	57x
6GBUnknownBench 25%, 111,301 samples	26x
4x1GBUnknownBench 18%, 54,972 samples	12x

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Value: 52% - Above average

Total price: $77

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $186	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