Dell Precision Tower 3420

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 8% Tree trunk	Desktop 61% Destroyer	Workstation 7% 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. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 68.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	6.95% 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	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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (40%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	Dell Precision Tower 3420
Motherboard	Dell Precision Tower 3420 (all builds)
Memory	17.9 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170806
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Aug 25 '17 at 12:54
Run Duration	114 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	40%

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 Core i7-6700-$170 282,363 User benchmarks, average bench 72% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile)	68.2% Good	Memory 70.1 1-Core 94.1 2-Core 188 66% 117 Pts	4-Core 357 8-Core 592 58% 474 Pts	64-Core 595 37% 595 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 68.2% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD FirePro W4100 Graphics Adapter 379 User benchmarks, average bench 7% Dell(1028 2B1E) 2GB CLim: 630 MHz, MLim: 1000 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 16.6 Performing above expectations (69^th percentile)	6.95% Terrible	Lighting 7.9 Reflection 9.88 Parallax 10.4 6% 9.39 fps	MRender 8.76 Gravity 6.57 Splatting 12.6 8% 9.3 fps
Poor: 6% ↑ This bench: 6.95% Great: 8%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 500GB-$20 574,344 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 116GB free (System drive) Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 83 63 212686037 (03) Spinup time 98 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 186 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 87 60 590370511 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 7989 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 197 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 98 98 2 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 59 54 707264553 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 489 (C2) HDA temperature 41 19 81604378665 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 8 1 212686037 (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 12103217848116 (F1) Unknown 100 253 80954039690 (F2) Unknown 100 253 70869318469	71.3% Very good	Read 129 Write 120 Mixed 114 91% 121 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.13 4K Mixed 0.27 71% 0.63 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 71.3% Great: 88%
WD My Passport 259F 1TB 11,016 User benchmarks, average bench 31% 84GB free, PID 259f Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	39.2% Below average	Read 86.5 Write 96 Mixed 76.2 111% 86.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.29 4K Write 1.85 4K Mixed 0.2 71% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 39.2% Great: 45%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown HMA41GU6AFR8N-TF 80AD000080AD HMA41GU6AFR8N-TF 859B0000802C CT8G4DFD8213.C16FBD2 859B0000802C CT8G4DFD8213.C16FBD2 32GB 9 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 2133, 2133, 2133, 2133 MHz 8192, 8192, 8192, 8192 MB Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile)	59.9% Above average	MC Read 19.8 MC Write 24.7 MC Mixed 19.1 61% 21.2 GB/s	SC Read 14.6 SC Write 23.5 SC Mixed 19.5 55% 19.2 GB/s	Latency 101 40% 101 ns
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 59.9% Great: 71%

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Gaming 11%

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Desktop 69%

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Workstation 11%

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Motherboard: Dell Precision Tower 3420

CPU
Core i7-6700Intel $170Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	226x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	155x
Core i5-6500Intel $60Bench 64%, 241,476 samples	118x

GPU
HD 530 (Desktop Skylake)IntelBench 5%, 188,220 samples	182x
HD 630 (Desktop Kaby Lake)IntelBench 5%, 153,031 samples	116x
Quadro K620Nvidia $170Bench 11%, 16,214 samples	84x

SSD
XG5 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBToshiba $50Bench 125%, 44,050 samples	22x
THNSN5256GPUK NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBToshibaBench 109%, 23,829 samples	21x
PM951 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBSamsungBench 120%, 13,766 samples	13x

RAM
HMA41GU6AFR8N-TF 2x8GBUnknownBench 72%, 2,345 samples	47x
HMA81GU6AFR8N-UH 2x8GBUnknownBench 73%, 3,256 samples	40x
HMA41GU6AFR8N-TF 1x8GBUnknownBench 40%, 853 samples	22x

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