Dell Precision Tower 3420

Performance Results


Gaming 17% Surfboard	Desktop 82% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 16% Surfboard


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 85.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	11.2% 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	93.4% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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.

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

Run History

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System	Dell Precision Tower 3420
Motherboard	Dell Precision Tower 3420 (all builds)
Memory	13.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170505
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 05 '21 at 04:51
Run Duration	125 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	11%

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 E3-1240 v6 526 User benchmarks, average bench 81% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.7 GHz, turbo 3.9 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	85.7% Excellent	Memory 81.1 1-Core 130 2-Core 253 85% 155 Pts	4-Core 487 8-Core 692 74% 589 Pts	64-Core 688 43% 688 Pts
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 85.7% Great: 89%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia Quadro K620-$170 16,214 User benchmarks, average bench 11% Nvidia(10DE 1098) 2GB CLim: 1124 MHz, MLim: 450 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 461.72 Performing above expectations (66^th percentile)	11.2% Very poor	Lighting 13.8 Reflection 15.9 Parallax 11.2 11% 13.6 fps	MRender 11.1 Gravity 13.8 Splatting 14.8 11% 13.2 fps
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 11.2% Great: 11%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Micron 1100 SATA 512GB 5,508 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 445GB free (System drive) Firmware: M0DL003 SusWrite @10s intervals: 382 431 423 405 401 400 MB/s Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	93.4% Outstanding	Read 387 Write 404 Mixed 347 SusWrite 407 87% 386 MB/s	4K Read 23.3 4K Write 82.7 4K Mixed 34.8 124% 46.9 MB/s	DQ Read 352 DQ Write 314 DQ Mixed 330 248% 332 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 93.4% Great: 100%
SanDisk Cruzer Glide 64GB 8,040 User benchmarks, average bench 13% 27GB free, PID 5575 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed SusWrite @10s intervals: 6.8 8.7 9.2 9.6 10 10 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^th percentile)	10.6% Very poor	Read 24.3 Write 10.2 Mixed 15.6 SusWrite 9.1 18% 14.8 MB/s	4K Read 7.4 4K Write 1.1 4K Mixed 3 167% 3.83 MB/s
Poor: 6% ↑ This bench: 10.6% Great: 19%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown HMA81GU7AFR8N-UH 2x8GB 140 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	79% Very good	MC Read 29.9 MC Write 31.3 MC Mixed 22.7 80% 28 GB/s	SC Read 18.8 SC Write 33.1 SC Mixed 24.5 73% 25.5 GB/s	Latency 78.5 51% 78.5 ns
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 79% Great: 79%

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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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Workstation 11%

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Motherboard: Dell Precision Tower 3420

CPU
Core i7-6700Intel $163Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	226x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	155x
Core i5-6500Intel $67Bench 64%, 241,476 samples	118x

GPU
HD 530 (Desktop Skylake)IntelBench 5%, 188,220 samples	182x
HD 630 (Desktop Kaby Lake)IntelBench 5%, 153,031 samples	116x
Quadro K620Nvidia $170Bench 11%, 16,214 samples	84x

SSD
XG5 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBToshiba $50Bench 125%, 44,050 samples	22x
THNSN5256GPUK NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBToshibaBench 109%, 23,829 samples	21x
PM951 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBSamsungBench 120%, 13,766 samples	13x

RAM
HMA41GU6AFR8N-TF 2x8GBUnknownBench 72%, 2,345 samples	47x
HMA81GU6AFR8N-UH 2x8GBUnknownBench 73%, 3,256 samples	40x
HMA41GU6AFR8N-TF 1x8GBUnknownBench 40%, 853 samples	22x

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