HP Z420 Workstation

Performance Results

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


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (73rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 27 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 83.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Boot Drive	199% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
Memory	48GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 48GB 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	HP Z420 Workstation (all builds)
Motherboard	Hewlett-Packard 1589
Memory	45.4 GB free of 48 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1280 x 1024 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150527
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 17 '18 at 22:09
Run Duration	165 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Xeon E5-2687W v2 443 User benchmarks, average bench 79% CPU0, 1 CPU, 8 cores, 16 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	83.3% Excellent	Memory 91.1 1-Core 110 2-Core 214 79% 138 Pts	4-Core 405 8-Core 796 71% 601 Pts	64-Core 998 62% 998 Pts
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 83.3% Great: 84%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel Raid 0 Volume 713GB 32 User benchmarks, average bench 123% 372GB free Firmware: 1.0. Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)	130% Outstanding	Read 739 Write 725 Mixed 710 162% 725 MB/s	4K Read 33.9 4K Write 61.8 4K Mixed 42.2 138% 46 MB/s	DQ Read 318 DQ Write 268 DQ Mixed 144 148% 243 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 130% Great: 199%
Intel Raid 0 Volume 487GB 751 User benchmarks, average bench 125% 340GB free Firmware: 1.0. Performing below expectations (28^th percentile)	94.1% Outstanding	Read 483 Write 484 Mixed 472 107% 480 MB/s	4K Read 28.2 4K Write 55.2 4K Mixed 30.5 111% 38 MB/s	DQ Read 235 DQ Write 262 DQ Mixed 119 125% 205 MB/s
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 94.1% Great: 214%
OCZ RevoDrive 350 PCIe 480GB-$396 526 User benchmarks, average bench 139% 190GB free Firmware: 2.50 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 11074288 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 -33449205300728 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 421 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 206 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 31 52 90197721119 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 11074288 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 11074288 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 11074288 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 2135 (EA) Unknown 0 0 1862 (F1) Unknown 0 0 1862 (F2) Unknown 0 0 3655	144% Outstanding	Read 1,319 Write 830 Mixed 904 225% 1,018 MB/s	4K Read 24 4K Write 63.1 4K Mixed 23.2 99% 36.7 MB/s	DQ Read 277 DQ Write 184 DQ Mixed 117 118% 193 MB/s
Poor: 95% ↑ This bench: 144% Great: 172%
Samsung SM951 AHCI PCIe M.2 256GB-$223 7,621 User benchmarks, average bench 175% 93GB free (System drive) Firmware: BXW2500Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (74^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 336 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 260 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 99 99 14 (AE) Unknown 99 99 41 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 979 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 48 36 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 99 99 3584 (F1) Unknown 99 99 2673 (F2) Unknown 99 99 4392	199% Outstanding	Read 1,981 Write 1,080 Mixed 1,319 322% 1,460 MB/s	4K Read 27.4 4K Write 91.1 4K Mixed 43.9 146% 54.1 MB/s	DQ Read 226 DQ Write 153 DQ Mixed 90.7 94% 156 MB/s
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 199% Great: 220%
Seagate ST500LM021-1KJ152 500GB 40,079 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 385GB free Firmware: LIM1 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 122363488 (03) Spinup time 98 98 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 786 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 77 60 55620370 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 11489037521663 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 719 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032833 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 61 471531548 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 26 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 45 45 111961 (C2) HDA temperature 28 40 60129542172 (C4) Reallocation count 95 95 70188355555774 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	74.1% Very good	Read 130 Write 128 Mixed 117 94% 125 MB/s	4K Read 0.98 4K Write 0.96 4K Mixed 0.21 82% 0.72 MB/s
Poor: 19% ↑ This bench: 74.1% Great: 77%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Samsung M391B1G73QH0-CMA M391B5173QH0-CMA M391B1G73QH0-CMA M391B5173QH0-CMA M391B5173QH0-CMA M391B1G73QH0-CMA M391B5173QH0-CMA M391B1G73QH0-CMA 48GB 20 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 1866, 1866, 1866, 1866, 1866, 1866, 1866, 1866 MHz 8192, 4096, 8192, 4096, 4096, 8192, 4096, 8192 MB Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	108% Outstanding	MC Read 47.9 MC Write 41.5 MC Mixed 40 123% 43.1 GB/s	SC Read 14.9 SC Write 13.8 SC Mixed 12.1 39% 13.6 GB/s	Latency 65.6 61% 65.6 ns
Poor: 74% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 108%

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System: HP Z420 Workstation

CPU
Xeon E5-1620 0Intel $345Bench 70%, 17,464 samples	1,501x
Xeon E5-1650 v2Intel $635Bench 76%, 10,921 samples	780x
Xeon E5-1620 v2Intel $345Bench 71%, 10,301 samples	689x

GPU
Quadro K2000NvidiaBench 7%, 13,526 samples	496x
Quadro K4000NvidiaBench 13%, 11,114 samples	307x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	261x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	184x
C400 RealSSD 256GBMicronBench 55%, 11,652 samples	128x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	112x

RAM
M391B5273DH0-CK0 4x4GBSamsungBench 72%, 618 samples	65x
M391B5273DH0-CK0 8x4GBSamsungBench 89%, 244 samples	56x
9JSF51272AZ-1G9E2 4x4GBMicronBench 78%, 366 samples	55x

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Value: 62% - Good

Total price: $373

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16