Dell XPS420

Performance Results


Gaming 2% Tree trunk	Desktop 42% Speed boat	Workstation 2% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (59th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 41 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
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 43%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is below average.
Graphics	1.83% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
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	4GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and although it's sufficient for most games, some will benefit from up to 8GB of RAM. 4GB is also enough for modest file and system caches which allow for a responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 11 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Sub-optimal background CPU (16%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	Dell XPS420 (all builds)
Motherboard	Dell 0TP406
Memory	1.4 GB free of 4 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	1280 x 1024 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20090225
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Sep 23 '16 at 17:30
Run Duration	203 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	16%

PC Performing as expected (59^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core2 Duo E8500-$110 18,841 User benchmarks, average bench 42% CPU, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 2 threads Base clock 3.15 GHz Performing as expected (55^th percentile)	43% Average	Memory 72.2 1-Core 43.9 2-Core 73.6 42% 63.2 Pts	4-Core 84.4 8-Core 75.5 11% 79.9 Pts	64-Core 87 5% 87 Pts
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 43% Great: 48%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GeForce GT 610 62,458 User benchmarks, average bench 2% Asus(1043 8496) 2GB Driver: nvd3dum.dll Ver. 10.18.13.5382 Performing as expected (55^th percentile)	1.83% Terrible	Lighting 2.3 Reflection 2.92 Parallax 1.91 2% 2.38 fps	MRender 1.86 Gravity 2.43 Splatting 2.09 2% 2.13 fps
Poor: 2% ↑ This bench: 1.83% Great: 2%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Synology iSCSI Storage 268GB 40 User benchmarks, average bench 24% 116GB free Firmware: 4.0 Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile)	17.4% Very poor	Read 70.5 Write 83.8 Mixed 96.8 19% 83.7 MB/s	4K Read 10.2 4K Write 9.14 4K Mixed 4.61 26% 7.99 MB/s	DQ Read 48.8 DQ Write 34 DQ Mixed 24.4 23% 35.7 MB/s
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 17.4% Great: 28%
Synology iSCSI Storage 16GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 16% 11GB free Firmware: 4.0 Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	14.8% Very poor	Read 53.5 Write 49 Mixed 78.3 14% 60.3 MB/s	4K Read 9.42 4K Write 8.22 4K Mixed 6.62 27% 8.09 MB/s	DQ Read 40 DQ Write 27.1 DQ Mixed 6.9 12% 24.6 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 14.8% Great: 18%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB-$80 31,610 User benchmarks, average bench 34% 365GB free Firmware: 3.AD Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 253 0 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5144 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 76199019 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 10998 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4172 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 66 55 571736098 (C2) HDA temperature 34 45 30064771106 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 79 54 939870 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 253 0	69% Good	Read 119 Write 121 Mixed 109 88% 117 MB/s	4K Read 0.53 4K Write 1.4 4K Mixed 0.61 116% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 69% Great: 43%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 500GB-$20 574,344 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 335GB free (System drive) Firmware: KC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (71^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 6920 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1741 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 84 60 264618612 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 4706 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1738 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 56 555024417 (C2) HDA temperature 33 44 64424509473 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 48 36 6920 (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 -135871290404266 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1648184813 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3653332871	65.8% Good	Read 120 Write 110 Mixed 83.7 78% 104 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.26 4K Mixed 0.58 109% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 65.8% Great: 88%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 4x1GB 54,972 User benchmarks, average bench 18% 4 of 4 slots used 4GB DIMM DDR2 Performing above expectations (66^th percentile)	18.4% Very poor	MC Read 5.9 MC Write 6 MC Mixed 5.6 17% 5.83 GB/s	SC Read 4 SC Write 4.4 SC Mixed 4.9 13% 4.43 GB/s	Latency 96.3 42% 96.3 ns
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 18.4% Great: 28%

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Gaming 10%

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Desktop 50%

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Workstation 8%

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System: Dell XPS420

CPU
Core2 Quad Q6600Intel $100Bench 42%, 59,658 samples	107x
Core2 Quad Q9550Intel $161Bench 49%, 34,093 samples	14x
Core2 Quad Q9650Intel $170Bench 51%, 16,719 samples	13x

GPU
GTX 750-TiNvidia $92Bench 17%, 309,423 samples	20x
GeForce GT 710NvidiaBench 3%, 187,161 samples	10x
GeForce 8800 GTNvidiaBench 6%, 5,568 samples	10x

SSD
CS900 1TB SSDPNYBench 78%, 7,281 samples	5x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	5x
MZ5PA064HMCD-01000 64GBSamsungBench 30%, 84 samples	5x

RAM
4x2GBUnknownBench 25%, 183,252 samples	105x
6GBUnknownBench 25%, 111,301 samples	24x
4x1GBUnknownBench 18%, 54,972 samples	24x

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