HP Pavilion dv6 Notebook PC

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing GPU, SSD
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (30th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 70 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 an average single core score, this CPU can handle browsing the web, email, video playback and the majority of general computing tasks including light gaming when coupled with an appropriate GPU. Finally, with a gaming score of 49.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is below average.
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	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.

System	HP Pavilion dv6 Notebook PC (all builds)
Motherboard	Hewlett-Packard 1448
Memory	5.3 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.3 GHz
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20110112
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 23 '18 at 22:00
Run Duration	129 Seconds
Run User	SAU-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing below expectations (30^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 Q 720-$220 13,149 User benchmarks, average bench 51% CPU, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 1.6 GHz, turbo 1.4 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile)	49.4% Average	Memory 77.8 1-Core 53.5 2-Core 79.4 47% 70.2 Pts	4-Core 122 8-Core 141 17% 131 Pts	64-Core 138 9% 138 Pts
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 49.4% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Seagate ST2000LM015-2E8174 2TB 39,476 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 12GB free (System drive) Firmware: SDM1 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (58^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 78 64 57267058 (03) Spinup time 99 99 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 187 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 114256377 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 -77567109364931 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 172 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 4295032834 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 41 30 17992677261371 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 3 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 20 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 5154 (C2) HDA temperature 59 70 68719476795 (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 -86388972190937 (F1) Unknown 100 253 9472100370 (F2) Unknown 100 253 11581737118 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	54.2% Above average	Read 107 Write 81.9 Mixed 53.7 60% 80.8 MB/s	4K Read 1.1 4K Write 2.14 4K Mixed 0.54 146% 1.26 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 54.2% Great: 70%
WD My Passport Essential USB 3.0 500GB 2,842 User benchmarks, average bench 21% 42GB free, PID 0730 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile)	11.5% Very poor	Read 26.6 Write 18.2 Mixed 11.7 22% 18.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.33 4K Write 1.19 4K Mixed 0.13 46% 0.55 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 11.5% Great: 32%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Samsung M471B5273CH0-YK0 Nanya NT4GC64B8HG0NS-DI 8GB 17 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 1333, 1333 MHz 4096, 4096 MB Performing below potential (18^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	37.5% Below average	MC Read 15.1 MC Write 11.3 MC Mixed 13.3 38% 13.2 GB/s	SC Read 8.2 SC Write 8 SC Mixed 10 25% 8.73 GB/s	Latency 84.8 47% 84.8 ns
Poor: 37% ↑ This bench: 37.5% Great: 56%

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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	184x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	92x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	43x
MX500 500GBCrucial $50Bench 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 $254	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 $163	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16