Dell OptiPlex 990

Performance Results


Gaming 10% Tree trunk	Desktop 72% Battleship	Workstation 9% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (86th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 14 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 76.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	7.03% 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	65.6% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	16GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 16GB also allows for very large file and system caches, software development and batch photo editing/processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (41%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	Dell OptiPlex 990
Motherboard	Dell OptiPlex 990 (all builds)
Memory	13.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170505
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 10 '17 at 02:26
Run Duration	114 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	41%

PC Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-2600-$197 185,630 User benchmarks, average bench 67% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	76.6% Very good	Memory 92.4 1-Core 97.5 2-Core 194 75% 128 Pts	4-Core 330 8-Core 469 50% 400 Pts	64-Core 476 30% 476 Pts
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 76.6% Great: 74%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GeForce GT 730 164,888 User benchmarks, average bench 5% EVGA(3842 3733) 2GB CLim: 901 MHz, MLim: 1252 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	7.03% Terrible	Lighting 8.83 Reflection 7.85 Parallax 9.19 7% 8.62 fps	MRender 10.7 Gravity 7.3 Splatting 7.17 7% 8.38 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 7.03% Great: 7%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB-$28 133,640 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 155GB free (System drive) Firmware: U21010RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 129 100 641 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 790 (A6) Unknown 100 100 3 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 11 (A9) Unknown 100 100 39 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 8 (AE) Unknown 100 100 42 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 67 100 231928234017 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 183 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 2237 (F1) Unknown 253 253 2147 (F2) Unknown 253 253 1865	65.6% Good	Read 512 Write 411 Mixed 449 102% 457 MB/s	4K Read 23.1 4K Write 47.7 4K Mixed 4.88 66% 25.2 MB/s	DQ Read 21.8 DQ Write 50.3 DQ Mixed 4.71 12% 25.6 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 65.6% Great: 86%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 500GB-$23 574,344 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 466GB free Firmware: HP74 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 102 99 1000 (03) Spinup time 100 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1472 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 61 60 1543047 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 985 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1186 (B4) Unknown 100 100 238740511 (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 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 64 521732127 (C2) HDA temperature 31 40 73014444063 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 33 27 1000 (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	74.3% Very good	Read 128 Write 131 Mixed 118 95% 126 MB/s	4K Read 0.64 4K Write 1.21 4K Mixed 0.39 92% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 74.3% Great: 88%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Nanya NT4GC64B8HG0NF-CG 4x4GB 641 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1333 MHz Performing above expectations (85^th percentile)	50.2% Above average	MC Read 17.4 MC Write 17.3 MC Mixed 15.2 48% 16.6 GB/s	SC Read 14.9 SC Write 17.7 SC Mixed 17.7 48% 16.8 GB/s	Latency 63.3 63% 63.3 ns
Poor: 37% ↑ This bench: 50.2% Great: 52%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

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Gaming 6%

Tree trunk

Desktop 60%

Destroyer

Workstation 6%

Tree trunk

Motherboard: Dell OptiPlex 990

CPU
Core i7-2600Intel $197Bench 67%, 185,630 samples	1,649x
Core i5-2400Intel $250Bench 61%, 166,255 samples	1,264x
Core i5-2500IntelBench 63%, 82,538 samples	690x

GPU
HD 2000 (Desktop 1.1 GHz)IntelBench 1%, 150,891 samples	766x
GT 1030NvidiaBench 14%, 185,384 samples	324x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	303x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	176x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	74x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	71x

RAM
M378B5273DH0-CH9 2x4GBSamsungBench 48%, 11,003 samples	67x
HMT351U6CFR8C-H9 2x4GBHynixBench 48%, 7,511 samples	60x
HMT351U6CFR8C-H9 4x4GBHynixBench 48%, 2,925 samples	60x

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Value: 67% - Good

Total price: $225

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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 $182	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) $30	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