HP Z230 SFF Workstation

Performance Results


Gaming 8% Tree trunk	Desktop 71% Battleship	Workstation 7% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (64th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 36 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 73.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	6.67% 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	76.9% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
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

3 years ago, 3 years ago.

System	HP Z230 SFF Workstation (all builds)
Motherboard	Hewlett-Packard 1906
Memory	14.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1680 x 1050 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140815
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Sep 05 '20 at 13:34
Run Duration	125 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	5%

PC Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4690S-$141 2,142 User benchmarks, average bench 73% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.55 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (49^th percentile)	73.8% Very good	Memory 79.1 1-Core 115 2-Core 220 77% 138 Pts	4-Core 394 8-Core 410 53% 402 Pts	64-Core 404 25% 404 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 73.8% Great: 81%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD Radeon HD 8570 3,522 User benchmarks, average bench 6% Dell(1028 2121) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.200.1062.1004 Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	6.67% Terrible	Lighting 8.13 Reflection 9.38 Parallax 10.6 7% 9.36 fps	MRender 8.19 Gravity 7.97 Splatting 8.43 7% 8.2 fps
Poor: 6% ↑ This bench: 6.67% Great: 7%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk X110 128GB-$89 11,245 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 86GB free (System drive) Firmware: X231706 SusWrite @10s intervals: 264 277 277 271 281 279 MB/s Performing above expectations (66^th percentile)	76.9% Very good	Read 404 Write 256 Mixed 219 SusWrite 275 64% 289 MB/s	4K Read 22.4 4K Write 89.9 4K Mixed 22 110% 44.8 MB/s	DQ Read 314 DQ Write 194 DQ Mixed 122 126% 210 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 76.9% Great: 89%
Seagate ST3500411SV 500GB 993 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 73GB free Firmware: CV15 SusWrite @10s intervals: 122 124 123 124 125 125 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	71.1% Very good	Read 124 Write 125 Mixed 64.9 SusWrite 124 80% 109 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.9 4K Mixed 1 176% 1.2 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 71.1% Great: 71%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 9DECCO4E-TATP 2x8GB 7 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing below potential (14^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	33.4% Below average	MC Read 11.5 MC Write 11.9 MC Mixed 9.2 31% 10.9 GB/s	SC Read 10.1 SC Write 12.1 SC Mixed 11 32% 11.1 GB/s	Latency 82.3 49% 82.3 ns
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 33.4% Great: 58%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 8%

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Desktop 66%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 8%

Tree trunk

System: HP Z230 SFF Workstation

CPU
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	159x
Core i7-4770Intel $75Bench 70%, 176,321 samples	110x
Core i5-4590Intel $188Bench 63%, 151,366 samples	96x

GPU
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	155x
Quadro K620Nvidia $170Bench 11%, 16,214 samples	87x
GT 1030NvidiaBench 14%, 185,384 samples	73x

SSD
MX500 500GBCrucial $50Bench 106%, 237,241 samples	19x
MX500 250GBCrucial $40Bench 101%, 77,177 samples	13x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	12x

RAM
8JTF51264AZ-1G6E1 4x4GBMicronBench 56%, 6,584 samples	18x
8JTF51264AZ-1G6E1 2x4GBMicronBench 52%, 17,707 samples	17x
M378B5173QH0-CK0 4x4GBSamsungBench 55%, 3,356 samples	16x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	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 $177	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 $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16