HP Z230 Tower Workstation

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 5% Tree trunk	Desktop 60% Gunboat	Workstation 4% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (53rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 47 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 65.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	3.88% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
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 (32%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

System	HP Z230 Tower Workstation (all builds)
Motherboard	Hewlett-Packard 1905
Memory	25.5 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160505
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Aug 20 '16 at 01:50
Run Duration	278 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	32%

PC Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790-$135 255,027 User benchmarks, average bench 71% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.8 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile)	65.9% Good	Memory 67.2 1-Core 110 2-Core 218 72% 132 Pts	4-Core 348 8-Core 554 55% 451 Pts	64-Core 586 36% 586 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 65.9% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)-$15 230,189 User benchmarks, average bench 3% HP(103C 1905) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 20.19.15.4331 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	3.88% Terrible	Lighting 3.9 Reflection 6.46 Parallax 6.34 3% 5.57 fps	MRender 9.14 Gravity 2.43 Splatting 7.48 5% 6.35 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 3.88% Great: 3%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 512GB-$190 68,849 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 312GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXM02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 9370 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 66 (B1) Unknown 99 99 31 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 60 60 40 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 27 (F1) Unknown 99 99 11679507846
Poor: 71% Great: 124%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 653GB free Firmware: HP51 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 204652232 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 379 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 74 60 26737673 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 12318 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 149 (B4) Unknown 100 100 1108728781 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 98 98 2 (BE) vendor-specific 67 62 572391457 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 13 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 10 10 180723 (C2) HDA temperature 33 40 68719476769 (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	94.4% Outstanding	Read 185 Write 144 Mixed 156 122% 162 MB/s	4K Read 0.53 4K Write 1.87 4K Mixed 0.24 83% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 94.4% Great: 112%
Lexar USB Flash Drive 2GB 27 User benchmarks, average bench 6% 0GB free, PID a793, lexar Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing above expectations (85^th percentile)	6.62% Terrible	Read 19.2 Write 5.53 Mixed 9.49 12% 11.4 MB/s	4K Read 10.8 4K Write 0.02 4K Mixed 0.02 42% 3.61 MB/s
Poor: 5% ↑ This bench: 6.62% Great: 7%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
AXIOM MEMORY 4x8GB 53 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile)	45.8% Average	MC Read 15.8 MC Write 17.6 MC Mixed 14.8 46% 16.1 GB/s	SC Read 11.6 SC Write 16.1 SC Mixed 15.1 41% 14.3 GB/s	Latency 108 37% 108 ns
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 45.8% Great: 59%

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

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Gaming 8%

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Desktop 65%

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Workstation 7%

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System: HP Z230 Tower Workstation

CPU
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	617x
Core i7-4770Intel $75Bench 70%, 176,321 samples	497x
Core i5-4590Intel $188Bench 63%, 151,366 samples	239x

GPU
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	235x
Quadro K2000NvidiaBench 7%, 13,526 samples	173x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	162x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	121x
MTFDDAK256MBF-1AN1ZABHA 256GBCrucialBench 89%, 2,574 samples	56x
C400 RealSSD 256GBMicronBench 55%, 11,652 samples	46x

RAM
16JTF1G64AZ-1G6E1 2x8GBMicronBench 53%, 7,464 samples	57x
HMT41GU6BFR8C-PB 2x8GBHynixBench 54%, 3,233 samples	51x
8JTF51264AZ-1G6E1 4x4GBMicronBench 56%, 6,584 samples	45x

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Value: 74% - Very good

Total price: $178

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $280	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $128	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $160	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $29

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