Dell XPS 8300

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 7% Tree trunk	Desktop 67% Battle cruiser	Workstation 6% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 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 76%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	5.77% 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.
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

5 years ago, 5 years ago.

System	Dell XPS 8300 (all builds)
Motherboard	Dell 0Y2MRG
Memory	8.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	2560 x 1600 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20111017
Uptime	4 Days
Run Date	Mar 03 '19 at 17:35
Run Duration	161 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing as expected (60^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-2600-$187 185,630 User benchmarks, average bench 67% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	76% Very good	Memory 92.3 1-Core 95.7 2-Core 184 73% 124 Pts	4-Core 325 8-Core 457 49% 391 Pts	64-Core 469 29% 469 Pts
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 76% Great: 74%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD Radeon HD 6770 16,639 User benchmarks, average bench 10% AMD(1002 3000) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.301.1901.0 Performing way below expectations (3^rd percentile)	5.77% Terrible	Lighting 7.6 Reflection 5.62 Parallax 6.22 6% 6.48 fps	MRender 5.48 Gravity 5.4 Splatting 6.91 5% 5.93 fps
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 5.77% Great: 11%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$94 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 214GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Relative performance n/a - sequential test incomplete		Read 5,133 Write 4,143 Mixed 4,828 1,048% 4,702 MB/s	4K Read 336 4K Write 200 4K Mixed 229 909% 255 MB/s	DQ Read 800 DQ Write 500 DQ Mixed 619 470% 640 MB/s
Poor: 80% Great: 134%
Seagate ST32000641AS 2TB-$89 8,506 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 699GB free Firmware: CC44 SusWrite @10s intervals: 120 123 123 123 124 123 MB/s Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	71.1% Very good	Read 125 Write 124 Mixed 59.5 SusWrite 123 79% 108 MB/s	4K Read 0.9 4K Write 1 4K Mixed 1 167% 0.97 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 71.1% Great: 73%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Hynix HMT351U6CFR8C-PB Kingston 99U5403-034.A00LF HMT351U6CFR8C-PB Kingston 99U5403-034.A00LF 16GB 6 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 1333, 1333, 1333, 1333 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing as expected (50^th percentile)	49.3% Average	MC Read 17.1 MC Write 17.2 MC Mixed 15.4 47% 16.6 GB/s	SC Read 13.6 SC Write 16 SC Mixed 15.8 43% 15.1 GB/s	Latency 63.5 63% 63.5 ns
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 49.3% Great: 50%

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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 24%

Surfboard

Desktop 75%

Battleship

Workstation 20%

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System: Dell XPS 8300

CPU
Core i7-2600Intel $187Bench 67%, 185,630 samples	1,314x
Core i5-2320Intel $165Bench 64%, 38,345 samples	121x
Core i5-2400Intel $250Bench 61%, 166,255 samples	71x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	179x
HD 2000 (Desktop 1.1 GHz)IntelBench 1%, 150,891 samples	114x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	108x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $79Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	52x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	46x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	42x

RAM
NT2GC64B88B0NF-CG 4x2GBNanyaBench 47%, 1,368 samples	54x
HMT351U6CFR8C-H9 4x4GBHynixBench 48%, 2,925 samples	52x
M378B5773DH0-CH9 4x2GBSamsungBench 48%, 2,464 samples	41x

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Value: 71% - Very good

Total price: $325

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $290	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 $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16