HP Pavilion dv7 Notebook PC

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 2% Tree trunk	Desktop 27% Raft	Workstation 2% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (23rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 77 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With a relatively low single core score, this CPU can handle email, light web browsing and basic audio/video playback, but it will struggle to handle CPU intensive tasks. Finally, with a gaming score of 35.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is poor.
Graphics	1.1% 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	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (52%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	HP Pavilion dv7 Notebook PC (all builds)
Motherboard	Hewlett-Packard 1802
Memory	4.8 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1600 x 900 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20120622
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Feb 12 '18 at 01:02
Run Duration	192 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	52%

PC Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-2430M-$53 41,461 User benchmarks, average bench 50% CPU1, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 4 threads Base clock 2.4 GHz, turbo 2 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile)	35.7% Below average	Memory 51.2 1-Core 17.5 2-Core 27.7 24% 32.1 Pts	4-Core 110 8-Core 184 18% 147 Pts	64-Core 178 11% 178 Pts
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 35.7% Great: 59%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel HD 3000 (Mobile V1 1.1/1.2 GHz) 209,058 User benchmarks, average bench 2% HP(103C 165B) 2GB Driver: igdumd64.dll Ver. 9.17.10.4459 Performing way below expectations (20^th percentile)	1.1% Terrible	Lighting 1.23 Reflection 1.81 Parallax 0.81 1% 1.28 fps	MRender 1.71 Gravity 0.67 Splatting 2.13 1% 1.5 fps
Poor: 1% ↑ This bench: 1.1% Great: 2%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Microsoft Virtual Disk 248GB 4 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 173GB free Firmware: 1.0 Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	25.1% Poor	Read 60.1 Write 27.5 Mixed 35.2 31% 40.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.24 4K Write 0.33 4K Mixed 0.08 24% 0.21 MB/s
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 25.1% Great: 58%
Apple HDD HTS547575A9E384 750GB 514 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 122GB free (System drive) Firmware: JE4AD70F Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 178 178 73014444033 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 8686 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 11 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 4551 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 6593 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 4542693454 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 92 92 83606 (C2) HDA temperature 150 150 223339151400 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 78 78 7864424 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 11 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (FE) Unknown 59 59 10622	43.8% Average	Read 76.7 Write 75.9 Mixed 77.9 58% 76.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 1 4K Mixed 0.13 52% 0.52 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 43.8% Great: 55%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Micron 16KTF51264HZ-1G6M1 2x4GB 5,422 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 2 of 2 slots used 8GB SODIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile)	39.4% Below average	MC Read 14.9 MC Write 16.5 MC Mixed 15.6 45% 15.7 GB/s	SC Read 4.8 SC Write 4 SC Mixed 5 13% 4.6 GB/s	Latency 156 26% 156 ns
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 39.4% Great: 58%

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Gaming 2%

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Desktop 51%

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Workstation 2%

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System: HP Pavilion dv7 Notebook PC

CPU
Core i7-2670QMIntel $200Bench 56%, 51,169 samples	232x
Core i7-2630QMIntel $230Bench 55%, 39,605 samples	184x
Core i7-3610QMIntel $300Bench 62%, 38,575 samples	138x

GPU
HD 3000 (Mobile V1 1.1/1.2 GHz)IntelBench 2%, 209,058 samples	485x
HD 4000 (Mobile 1.25 GHz)IntelBench 3%, 409,110 samples	143x
HD Graphics (Arrandale 0.667/0.766 GHz)IntelBench 1%, 99,513 samples	114x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	39x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	29x
A400 120GBKingston $28Bench 61%, 166,392 samples	20x

RAM
2x2GBUnknownBench 20%, 446,702 samples	108x
M471B5273DH0-CH9 2x4GBSamsungBench 43%, 15,815 samples	86x
HMT351S6CFR8C-PB 2x4GBHynixBench 50%, 25,458 samples	62x

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Value: 57% - Above average

Total price: $228

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