Dell Studio XPS 8100

Performance Results


Gaming 13% Tree trunk	Desktop 73% Battleship	Workstation 11% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (75th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 25 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 75.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	12% 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	45.1% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

System	Dell Studio XPS 8100
Motherboard	Dell Studio XPS 8100 (all builds)
Memory	12.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20100708
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Sep 07 '17 at 01:07
Run Duration	118 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	8%

PC Performing above expectations (75^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 870-$100 37,228 User benchmarks, average bench 66% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 2.95 GHz, turbo 3.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	75.3% Very good	Memory 94.3 1-Core 89.7 2-Core 174 71% 119 Pts	4-Core 319 8-Core 372 45% 346 Pts	64-Core 384 24% 384 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 75.3% Great: 74%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD HD 5770 37,602 User benchmarks, average bench 10% AMD(1002 2543) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	12% Very poor	Lighting 17.2 Reflection 12.2 Parallax 1.91 14% 10.4 fps	MRender 0.33 Gravity 12.7 Splatting 13.9 8% 8.99 fps
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 12% Great: 11%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial M500 240GB-$79 31,779 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 54GB free (System drive) Firmware: MU03 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (1^st percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (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 9231 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 283 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 98 98 89 (AE) Unknown 100 100 68 (B4) Unknown 0 0 4066 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 63 54 201862807589 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 16 (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 98 98 2 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 9207156671 (F7) Unknown 100 100 296088731 (F8) Unknown 100 100 1146083518	45.1% Average	Read 268 Write 252 Mixed 262 58% 261 MB/s	4K Read 12 4K Write 39 4K Mixed 9.33 51% 20.1 MB/s	DQ Read 12.3 DQ Write 170 DQ Mixed 7.59 31% 63.4 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 45.1% Great: 91%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB-$89 40,945 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC4G Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (79^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 89 198416577 (03) Spinup time 100 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2510 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 17 (07) Seek error rate 86 60 4744353898 (09) Power-on hours count 65 65 31500 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2429 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 30 30 70 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 1 1 271 (BE) vendor-specific 60 52 689504296 (C2) HDA temperature 40 48 42949673000 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 25 21 198416577 (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 45350559709952 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2402592566 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2968987119	64.6% Good	Read 115 Write 110 Mixed 91.5 79% 106 MB/s	4K Read 0.72 4K Write 0.79 4K Mixed 0.34 82% 0.62 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 64.6% Great: 70%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown-15 4x4GB 7 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM 1333 MHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	42.1% Average	MC Read 16 MC Write 13.2 MC Mixed 12.3 40% 13.8 GB/s	SC Read 12.7 SC Write 12.7 SC Mixed 11.7 35% 12.4 GB/s	Latency 59.1 68% 59.1 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 42.1% Great: 42%

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Gaming 22%

Surfboard

Desktop 72%

Battleship

Workstation 18%

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Motherboard: Dell Studio XPS 8100

CPU
Core i7 860Intel $320Bench 64%, 51,451 samples	268x
Core i7 870Intel $100Bench 66%, 37,228 samples	194x
Core i5 650Intel $70Bench 46%, 42,063 samples	115x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	49x
GTX 750-TiNvidia $92Bench 17%, 309,423 samples	34x
Radeon HD 5450AMDBench 1%, 66,079 samples	30x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	16x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	14x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	13x

RAM
NT2GC64B8HC0NF-CG 4x2GBNanyaBench 41%, 938 samples	42x
M378B5673FH0-CH9 4x2GBSamsungBench 42%, 2,488 samples	31x
EBJ21UE8BDF0-DJ-F 4x2GBElpidaBench 40%, 1,380 samples	21x

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Value: 61% - Good

Total price: $474

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $128	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $165	Nvidia RTX 4070 $542	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