Dell XPS 8900

Performance Results

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


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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 71.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Boot Drive	70.8% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	40GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 40GB 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 (57%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

System	Dell XPS 8900 (all builds)
Motherboard	Dell 0XJ8C4
Memory	31.7 GB free of 40 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1600 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161202
Uptime	1.3 Days
Run Date	Mar 05 '17 at 07:25
Run Duration	463 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	57%

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-$180 282,363 User benchmarks, average bench 72% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (41^st percentile)	71.6% Very good	Memory 81.7 1-Core 84.7 2-Core 168 65% 111 Pts	4-Core 331 8-Core 612 56% 472 Pts	64-Core 614 38% 614 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 71.6% Great: 80%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Transcend TS480GSSD220S 480GB 5,978 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 358GB free (System drive) Firmware: P0624AA Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 20 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 38 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 52 (A3) Unknown 100 100 537 (A4) Unknown 100 100 1039 (A5) Unknown 100 100 7 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 10 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 38625280851996 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 12161 (F2) Unknown 100 100 13308 (F5) Unknown 100 100 12273	70.8% Very good	Read 481 Write 243 Mixed 267 73% 330 MB/s	4K Read 27.4 4K Write 40.2 4K Mixed 21.9 91% 29.8 MB/s	DQ Read 257 DQ Write 158 DQ Mixed 46.3 78% 154 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 70.8% Great: 95%
Crucial M500 240GB-$73 31,779 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 172GB free Firmware: MU05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (1^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 18856 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 205 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 11 (AE) Unknown 100 100 83 (B4) Unknown 0 0 4066 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 67 52 206158430241 (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 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 0 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 4409766081 (F7) Unknown 100 100 138018599 (F8) Unknown 100 100 58611953	33.4% Below average	Read 483 Write 66.3 Mixed 118 48% 222 MB/s	4K Read 22.3 4K Write 1.87 4K Mixed 1.73 37% 8.64 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 33.4% Great: 91%
SiImage 120GB 244 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 112GB free Firmware: 0000 Performing as expected (50^th percentile)	51% Above average	Read 325 Write 93.6 Mixed 142 41% 187 MB/s	4K Read 22.4 4K Write 56.5 4K Mixed 16.3 85% 31.7 MB/s	DQ Read 224 DQ Write 104 DQ Mixed 52.9 69% 127 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 51% Great: 65%
Jmicron Generic DISK01 1TB 55 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 931GB free Firmware: 0103 Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	76% Very good	Read 129 Write 136 Mixed 113 95% 126 MB/s	4K Read 0.74 4K Write 1.45 4K Mixed 0.44 106% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 76% Great: 76%
Jmicron Generic DISK00 2TB 103 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 860GB free Firmware: 0103 Performing above expectations (66^th percentile)	60.4% Good	Read 99.3 Write 111 Mixed 102 78% 104 MB/s	4K Read 0.77 4K Write 1.33 4K Mixed 0.44 105% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 60.4% Great: 92%
Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.C 1TB-$40 97,793 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 760GB free Firmware: JP4OA3BF Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 84 1 (02) Throughput performance 135 100 97 (03) Spinup time 117 100 25791037763 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 3807 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 99 0 (08) Seek timer performance 128 42 36 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 47673 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 883 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (B9) Unknown 100 100 65535 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 95 859073347820 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 66 48 354615330 (C0) Power-off retract count 97 97 4787 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 4787 (C2) HDA temperature 176 117 223339216930 (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	71.2% Very good	Read 126 Write 123 Mixed 118 92% 122 MB/s	4K Read 0.76 4K Write 1.17 4K Mixed 0.43 101% 0.79 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 71.2% Great: 74%
Seagate ST31000333AS 1TB-$750 12,067 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 262GB free Firmware: CC3H Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 129897546 (03) Spinup time 92 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 2011 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 2 (07) Seek error rate 84 60 317531006 (09) Power-on hours count 36 36 56633 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 1 (0C) Power cycle count 99 37 1117 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 1 1 426 (BE) vendor-specific 64 44 4950589476 (C2) HDA temperature 36 56 55834574884 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 53 21 129897546 (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 39552353885189 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2554687179 (F2) Unknown 100 253 541184993	46.9% Average	Read 93.8 Write 69.5 Mixed 73.2 59% 78.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 1.6 4K Mixed 0.35 87% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 46.9% Great: 66%
Samsung D3 Station 2TB 2,805 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 515GB free, PID 6123 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing as expected (52^nd percentile)	58.1% Above average	Read 113 Write 96.1 Mixed 58.8 108% 89.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.39 4K Write 6.7 4K Mixed 0.53 247% 2.54 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 58.1% Great: 80%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Hynix HMA451U6AFR8N-TF HMA451U6AFR8N-TF 04CD0000802C F4-2133C15-16GVR 04CD0000802C F4-2133C15-16GVR 40GB 2133, 2133, 2133, 2133 MHz 4096, 4096, 16384, 16384 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	68.5% Good	MC Read 24.6 MC Write 27.3 MC Mixed 22.7 71% 24.9 GB/s	SC Read 13.6 SC Write 23.4 SC Mixed 17.2 52% 18.1 GB/s	Latency 77.4 52% 77.4 ns

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Desktop 72%

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Workstation 13%

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System: Dell XPS 8900

CPU
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	2,116x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	464x
Core i5-6400Intel $79Bench 61%, 171,457 samples	171x

GPU
GTX 745 (OEM)Nvidia $60Bench 10%, 26,874 samples	508x
GeForce GT 730NvidiaBench 5%, 164,888 samples	347x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	237x

SSD
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	71x
L8H-256V2G-11 M.2 2280 256GBLiteonBench 75%, 1,826 samples	66x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $75Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	59x

RAM
HMA41GU6AFR8N-TF 2x8GBHynixBench 73%, 22,760 samples	523x
16ATF1G64AZ-2G1A2 2x8GBMicronBench 73%, 4,057 samples	223x
M378A1G43DB0-CPB 2x8GBSamsungBench 72%, 8,407 samples	159x

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Value: 58% - Above average

Total price: $370

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