HP Pavilion dv7 Notebook PC

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 1% Tree trunk	Desktop 24% Surfboard	Workstation 1% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way below expectations (20th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 80 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 an extremely low single core score, this CPU can barely handle email and light web browsing. Finally, with a gaming score of 28.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very poor.
Graphics	2.14% 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	6GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 6GB 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (11%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago.

System	HP Pavilion dv7 Notebook PC (all builds)
Motherboard	Hewlett-Packard 3593
Memory	3.5 GB free of 6 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1600 x 900 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20110913
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Dec 15 '18 at 06:22
Run Duration	140 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	11%

PC Performing way below expectations (20^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD A8-3500M APU-$60 1,332 User benchmarks, average bench 37% Socket FS1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 1.5 GHz, turbo 1.2 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile)	28.9% Poor	Memory 45.6 1-Core 12.3 2-Core 25.8 21% 27.9 Pts	4-Core 69 8-Core 93 10% 81 Pts	64-Core 93.8 6% 93.8 Pts
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 28.9% Great: 44%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD Radeon HD 6620G 3,311 User benchmarks, average bench 3% HP(103C 3593) 512MB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.0 Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile)	2.14% Terrible	Lighting 2.6 Reflection 4.04 Parallax 2.16 2% 2.93 fps	MRender 2.62 Gravity 1.83 Splatting 3.3 2% 2.59 fps
Poor: 2% ↑ This bench: 2.14% Great: 4%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Hitachi Travelstar 5K750 750GB-$52 41,501 User benchmarks, average bench 38% 581GB free (System drive) Firmware: JE4OA50A SusWrite @10s intervals: 78 70 73 76 59 69 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile)	38.9% Below average	Read 64.9 Write 76.8 Mixed 40 SusWrite 70.7 46% 63.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.1 4K Mixed 0.5 97% 0.7 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 38.9% Great: 53%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Samsung M471B5273DH0-CH9 M471B5773DH0-CH9 6GB 2,099 User benchmarks, average bench 37% 1333, 1333 MHz 4096, 2048 MB Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile)	21.1% Poor	MC Read 10.4 MC Write 6.1 MC Mixed 7.1 22% 7.87 GB/s	SC Read 4 SC Write 2.8 SC Mixed 4.1 10% 3.63 GB/s	Latency 178 22% 178 ns
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 21.1% Great: 48%

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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 2%

Tree trunk

Desktop 51%

Yacht

Workstation 2%

Tree trunk

System: HP Pavilion dv7 Notebook PC

CPU
Core i7-2670QMIntel $200Bench 56%, 51,169 samples	232x
Core i7-2630QMIntel $199Bench 55%, 39,605 samples	184x
Core i7-3610QMIntel $300Bench 62%, 38,575 samples	137x

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	142x
HD Graphics (Arrandale 0.667/0.766 GHz)IntelBench 1%, 99,513 samples	113x

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

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Value: 57% - Above average

Total price: $228

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $178	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