Dell Precision WorkStation T3500

Performance Results


Gaming 6% Tree trunk	Desktop 60% Destroyer	Workstation 5% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (51st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 49 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. Despite its good single core score this processor isn't appropriate for workstation use due to its relatively weak multi-core performance. Finally, with a gaming score of 70.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	1.84% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	10.2% is an extremely low SSD score, this system will benefit from a faster SSD.
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

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	Dell Precision WorkStation T3500 (all builds)
Motherboard	Dell 09KPNV
Memory	6 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1024 x 768 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20110121
Uptime	1.1 Days
Run Date	Jan 16 '18 at 14:27
Run Duration	327 Seconds
Run User	ROU-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing as expected (51^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Xeon W3530-$290 5,773 User benchmarks, average bench 65% CPU, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 2.8 GHz, turbo 2.9 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	70.8% Very good	Memory 89.7 1-Core 76 2-Core 143 63% 103 Pts	4-Core 288 8-Core 374 42% 331 Pts	64-Core 373 23% 373 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 70.8% Great: 71%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD Radeon HD 6450 32,407 User benchmarks, average bench 2% HP(103C 2128) 512MB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1101.1001 Performing as expected (52^nd percentile)	1.84% Terrible	Lighting 2.4 Reflection 2.42 Parallax 1.97 2% 2.26 fps	MRender 1.95 Gravity 1.6 Splatting 2.26 2% 1.94 fps
Poor: 2% ↑ This bench: 1.84% Great: 2%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk SSD Plus 120GB-$42 87,912 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 76GB free Firmware: 80RL Relative performance (0^th percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable	16.7% Very poor	Read 140 Write 8.05 Mixed 89.2 17% 78.9 MB/s	4K Read 12.1 4K Write 13.9 4K Mixed 3.22 30% 9.74 MB/s	DQ Read 46.2 DQ Write 54.9 DQ Mixed 2.63 15% 34.6 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 16.7% Great: 78%
SanDisk SSD Plus 120GB-$42 87,912 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 76GB free (System drive) Firmware: 80RL Relative performance (0^th percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable	10.2% Very poor	Read 165 Write 22.7 Mixed 89.7 20% 92.4 MB/s	4K Read 1.56 4K Write 3.55 4K Mixed 2.29 7% 2.47 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 10.2% Great: 78%
WD Black 4TB (2013)-$178 20,205 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 910GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 150 141 11491 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4843 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 12621 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 762 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 32 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 4807 (C2) HDA temperature 125 96 27 (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	69.5% Good	Read 124 Write 118 Mixed 119 91% 120 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 2.14 4K Mixed 0.24 88% 0.96 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 69.5% Great: 98%
WD Black 4TB (2013)-$178 20,205 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 910GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 152 146 11383 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4722 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 83 82 12597 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 764 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 64 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 4657 (C2) HDA temperature 124 100 28 (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	91.3% Outstanding	Read 187 Write 132 Mixed 126 111% 148 MB/s	4K Read 0.54 4K Write 2.29 4K Mixed 0.25 92% 1.02 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 91.3% Great: 98%
Seagate IronWolf 4TB (2016)-$95 26,217 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 520GB free Firmware: SC60 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 84 65 236542963 (03) Spinup time 93 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1023 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 76 60 37339101 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 85512798871114 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 15 (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 73 62 605421595 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 959 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 4914 (C2) HDA temperature 27 40 90194313243 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 89739046684838 (F1) Unknown 100 253 12972056056 (F2) Unknown 100 253 61819412754	66.6% Good	Read 126 Write 106 Mixed 137 93% 123 MB/s	4K Read 0.53 4K Write 1.53 4K Mixed 0.21 73% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 66.6% Great: 108%
Seagate IronWolf 4TB (2016)-$95 26,217 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 520GB free Firmware: SC60 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 84 64 233076449 (03) Spinup time 93 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 947 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 76 60 4331609786 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 -98844377342405 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 15 (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 72 60 655818780 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 902 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 4751 (C2) HDA temperature 28 40 90194313244 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -102662603274086 (F1) Unknown 100 253 72037358500 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2260965255	73.4% Very good	Read 126 Write 129 Mixed 119 94% 125 MB/s	4K Read 1.14 4K Write 1.48 4K Mixed 0.32 110% 0.98 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 73.4% Great: 108%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$40 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 380GB free Firmware: CC24 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (36^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 99 237807776 (03) Spinup time 96 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 8033 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 55 55 64430052250 (09) Power-on hours count 72 72 24548 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 722 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 327685 (BD) vendor-specific 83 83 17 (BE) vendor-specific 71 46 168159608861 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 277 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 84 84 33225 (C2) HDA temperature 29 54 -140737488355299 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -27144193306583 (F1) Unknown 100 253 44115202894 (F2) Unknown 100 253 106621350477	83.1% Excellent	Read 156 Write 134 Mixed 129 105% 140 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 0.93 4K Mixed 0.2 63% 0.56 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 83.1% Great: 113%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 8GB 82,857 User benchmarks, average bench 34% null MHz 1024, 1024, 1024, 2048, 1024, 2048 MB Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	42.5% Average	MC Read 15.9 MC Write 12 MC Mixed 15.5 41% 14.5 GB/s	SC Read 11.4 SC Write 11.3 SC Mixed 11.8 33% 11.5 GB/s	Latency 67.7 59% 67.7 ns
Poor: 20% ↑ This bench: 42.5% Great: 51%

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System: Dell Precision WorkStation T3500

CPU
Xeon W3530Intel $290Bench 65%, 5,773 samples	477x
Xeon W3550IntelBench 66%, 7,649 samples	330x
Xeon X5670IntelBench 73%, 9,061 samples	243x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	172x
Quadro 2000NvidiaBench 6%, 15,855 samples	156x
GTX 750-TiNvidia $92Bench 17%, 309,423 samples	126x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	145x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	75x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	54x

RAM
6x2GBUnknownBench 46%, 38,297 samples	648x
6x4GBUnknownBench 47%, 28,320 samples	576x
3x4GBUnknownBench 42%, 39,448 samples	324x

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Value: 69% - Good

Total price: $377

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	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