Dell XPS 8300

Performance Results


Gaming 64% Destroyer	Desktop 80% Battleship	Workstation 52% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (87th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 13 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 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 74%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	85.6% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	69% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	24GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 24GB 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.

System	Dell XPS 8300 (all builds)
Motherboard	Dell 0Y2MRG
Memory	21.9 GB free of 24 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1280 x 720 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20111017
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 14 '17 at 15:52
Run Duration	194 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing way above expectations (87^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-$187 185,630 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 (95^th percentile)	74% Very good	Memory 91.1 1-Core 98.2 2-Core 187 74% 125 Pts	4-Core 308 8-Core 466 48% 387 Pts	64-Core 470 29% 470 Pts
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 74% Great: 74%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 1996) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1531 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 378.78 Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	85.6% Excellent	Lighting 110 Reflection 116 Parallax 105 89% 110 fps	MRender 96.1 Gravity 101 Splatting 92.2 79% 96.5 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 85.6% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB-$30 133,640 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 132GB free (System drive) Firmware: Z32080RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (67^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 100 126 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 64 (A5) Unknown 100 100 4298309677 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 41 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 60 47 227633266728 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 64425230351 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 188 (EA) Unknown 100 100 420 (F1) Unknown 253 253 300 (F2) Unknown 253 253 304 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	69% Good	Read 506 Write 349 Mixed 210 78% 355 MB/s	4K Read 16.9 4K Write 68.5 4K Mixed 3.94 67% 29.8 MB/s	DQ Read 216 DQ Write 191 DQ Mixed 3.77 58% 137 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 69% Great: 86%
Seagate BUP Slim BK 2TB 21,039 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 2TB free Firmware: 0304 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	72.9% Very good	Read 119 Write 134 Mixed 109 91% 121 MB/s	4K Read 0.68 4K Write 4.17 4K Mixed 0.38 147% 1.74 MB/s
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 72.9% Great: 67%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB-$32 107,978 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 405GB free Firmware: JC49 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 109 99 23970799 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 723 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 40476345 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 5351 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 679 (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 78 60 370343958 (C2) HDA temperature 22 40 8589934614 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 28 20 23970799 (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 58317065952202 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3501369973 (F2) Unknown 100 253 990357502	71% Very good	Read 126 Write 122 Mixed 103 88% 117 MB/s	4K Read 0.68 4K Write 1.77 4K Mixed 0.67 136% 1.04 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 71% Great: 70%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB-$32 107,978 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 312GB free Firmware: JC49 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (76^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 126507675 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 705 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 12936867296 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 5409 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 683 (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 77 58 387186711 (C2) HDA temperature 23 42 17179869207 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 46 29 126507675 (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 -134050224268291 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1861544934 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2896834830	62.9% Good	Read 112 Write 107 Mixed 92.8 78% 104 MB/s	4K Read 0.76 4K Write 1.67 4K Mixed 0.64 133% 1.02 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 62.9% Great: 70%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB-$36 203,102 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 311GB free Firmware: AP2E Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 212573618 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 80 80 20874 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 82 60 190832973 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 12076 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1993 (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 77 42 313919799319 (C2) HDA temperature 23 58 17179869207 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 45 26 212573618 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	64.1% Good	Read 113 Write 110 Mixed 92.4 79% 105 MB/s	4K Read 0.58 4K Write 1.54 4K Mixed 0.52 110% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 64.1% Great: 70%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 8GBH2X04F1AA28-15 CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 8GBH2X04F1AA28-15 24GB 10 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 1333, 1333, 1333, 1333 MHz 4096, 8192, 4096, 8192 MB Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	49.6% Average	MC Read 17.2 MC Write 17.5 MC Mixed 15.2 48% 16.6 GB/s	SC Read 14 SC Write 17.1 SC Mixed 16.3 45% 15.8 GB/s	Latency 65.6 61% 65.6 ns
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 49.6% Great: 50%

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Desktop 75%

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Workstation 20%

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System: Dell XPS 8300

CPU
Core i7-2600Intel $187Bench 67%, 185,630 samples	1,316x
Core i5-2320Intel $165Bench 64%, 38,345 samples	123x
Core i5-2400Intel $250Bench 61%, 166,255 samples	71x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	180x
HD 2000 (Desktop 1.1 GHz)IntelBench 1%, 150,891 samples	114x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	108x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	52x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	46x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	42x

RAM
NT2GC64B88B0NF-CG 4x2GBNanyaBench 47%, 1,368 samples	54x
HMT351U6CFR8C-H9 4x4GBHynixBench 48%, 2,925 samples	52x
M378B5773DH0-CH9 4x2GBSamsungBench 48%, 2,464 samples	41x

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Value: 72% - Very good

Total price: $322

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $289	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

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 $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16