HP Presario CQ42 Notebook PC

Performance Results


Gaming 3% Tree trunk	Desktop 36% Jet ski	Workstation 3% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (39th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 61 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
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 36.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is poor.
Graphics	0.51% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	37.4% 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.

High background CPU (21%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	HP Presario CQ42 Notebook PC (all builds)
Motherboard	Hewlett-Packard 1444
Memory	5.5 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20110407
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 11 '18 at 22:57
Run Duration	149 Seconds
Run User	MEX-User
Background CPU	21%

PC Performing below expectations (39^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Athlon II P340-$50 2,473 User benchmarks, average bench 35% Socket S1G4, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 2 threads Base clock 2.2 GHz, turbo 2.2 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (66^th percentile)	36.6% Below average	Memory 62.5 1-Core 33.3 2-Core 66.3 36% 54 Pts	4-Core 65.2 8-Core 66.5 9% 65.8 Pts	64-Core 65.1 4% 65.1 Pts
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 36.6% Great: 46%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4250 11,054 User benchmarks, average bench 1% HP(103C 1444) 256MB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 8.970.100.9001 Performing as expected (58^th percentile)	0.51% Terrible	Lighting 0.57 Reflection 1.38 Parallax 0.41 0% 0.79 fps	MRender 0.81 Gravity 0.13 Splatting 1.13 1% 0.69 fps
Poor: 0% ↑ This bench: 0.51% Great: 1%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
P300-MTFDBAC050SAL 50GB 24 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 17GB free (System drive) Firmware: 0001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 8192 (06) Read channel margin 100 100 1024 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 8 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 22375 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 658 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (0F) Unknown 100 100 50 (AA) Unknown 100 100 35483 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 353 (AE) Unknown 100 100 0 (AF) Unknown 100 100 397 (B5) Unknown 100 100 15135663718887 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 8 (BE) vendor-specific 60 46 231929348136 (C2) HDA temperature 61 46 231929348135 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 8 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 100 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 0 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0	37.4% Below average	Read 256 Write 230 Mixed 225 53% 237 MB/s	4K Read 10.7 4K Write 25.6 4K Mixed 8.12 40% 14.8 MB/s	DQ Read 14.4 DQ Write 37.4 DQ Mixed 9.02 12% 20.3 MB/s
Poor: 37% ↑ This bench: 37.4% Great: 64%
Toshiba MQ01ABD100 1TB-$55 322,803 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 465GB free Firmware: AX0A4M Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 1736 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 3108 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 4786 (0A) Spinup retry count 161 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2397 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 190 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 56 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 88 88 123472 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 231928954917 (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 200 200 0 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 0 (DE) Loaded hours 96 96 1727 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 259 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	50.6% Above average	Read 104 Write 71.9 Mixed 82 65% 86.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 1.17 4K Mixed 0.16 58% 0.59 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 50.6% Great: 62%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HP691160-H63-KEB 1x8GB 1,140 User benchmarks, average bench 29% 1 of 2 slots used 8GB SODIMM DDR3 1066 MHz Performing below potential (5^th percentile) - ensure that an XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	17% Very poor	MC Read 6.1 MC Write 4.8 MC Mixed 5.2 15% 5.37 GB/s	SC Read 5 SC Write 4.9 SC Mixed 5 14% 4.97 GB/s	Latency 120 33% 120 ns
Poor: 20% ↑ This bench: 17% Great: 32%

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Desktop 19%

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Workstation 1%

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System: HP Presario CQ42 Notebook PC

CPU
Core i3 M 350Intel $199Bench 38%, 14,351 samples	13x
Pentium T4500IntelBench 34%, 8,800 samples	10x
Pentium P6300IntelBench 38%, 178 samples	7x

GPU
HD Graphics (Arrandale 0.667/0.766 GHz)IntelBench 1%, 99,513 samples	36x
Mobile Series 4 Express Chipset FamilyIntelBench 0%, 23,924 samples	9x
Radeon HD 5400ATIBench 1%, 10,400 samples	8x

SSD
WDS500G2B0A-00SM50 500GBWDCBench 93%, 97,462 samples	2x
SA400S37/120G 120GBKingstonBench 60%, 96 samples	2x
A400 120GBKingston $28Bench 61%, 166,392 samples	2x

RAM
M471B5673FH0-CH9 1x2GBSamsungBench 19%, 884 samples	3x
HMT325S6CFR8C-H9 Elpida EBJ20UF8BCS0-DJ-F 4GBHynixBench 40%, 21 samples	3x
EBJ21UE8BDS0-DJ-F 1x2GBElpidaBench 20%, 220 samples	2x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $171	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i3-12100F $80	Nvidia RTX 4070 $542	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $39	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16