Dell Precision WorkStation 690

Performance Results


Gaming 4% Tree trunk	Desktop 35% Sail boat	Workstation 3% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (26th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 74 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 a relatively low single core score, this CPU can handle email, light web browsing and basic audio/video playback, but it will struggle to handle CPU intensive tasks. Finally, with a gaming score of 37.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is poor.
Graphics	1.26% 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	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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 8 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Very high background CPU (56%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	Dell Precision WorkStation 690 (all builds)
Motherboard	Dell 0MY171
Memory	10.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 0.7 GHz
Display	1440 x 900 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20070404
Uptime	2.1 Days
Run Date	Aug 27 '16 at 21:22
Run Duration	203 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	56%

PC Performing below expectations (26^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
1st CPU: Intel Xeon 5140 168 User benchmarks, average bench 39% Microprocessor, 2 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 2.35 GHz Performing below expectations (27^th percentile)	37.3% Below average	Memory 61.8 1-Core 24.1 2-Core 47 31% 44.3 Pts	4-Core 76 8-Core 82.4 10% 79.2 Pts	64-Core 95 6% 95 Pts
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 37.3% Great: 43%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia Quadro FX 4500 309 User benchmarks, average bench 1% Nvidia(10DE 02AF) 512MB Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 9.18.13.908 Performing as expected (50^th percentile)	1.26% Terrible	Lighting 2.33 Reflection 1.46 Parallax 0.47 2% 1.42 fps
Poor: 1% ↑ This bench: 1.26% Great: 1%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 60GB-$76 24,219 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 20GB free Firmware: BBF0 Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile)	30% Poor	Read 131 Write 81.8 Mixed 106 24% 106 MB/s	4K Read 18 4K Write 28.6 4K Mixed 13.1 59% 19.9 MB/s	DQ Read 28.1 DQ Write 61 DQ Mixed 12.9 19% 34 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 30% Great: 69%
Sandisk SC032G 32GB 542 User benchmarks, average bench 36% 14GB free Firmware: 2.0.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (8^th percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 12618 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1090 (AB) Unknown 100 100 1 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 90 (AE) Unknown 100 100 42 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 300 (E8) Unknown 95 100 0 (EA) Unknown 100 100 215 (F1) Unknown 100 100 409280687 (F2) Unknown 100 100 279913782	27.7% Poor	Read 237 Write 100 Mixed 66.4 29% 135 MB/s	4K Read 14.8 4K Write 12.6 4K Mixed 6.74 38% 11.4 MB/s	DQ Read 36.8 DQ Write 12.3 DQ Mixed 7.35 10% 18.8 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 27.7% Great: 41%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$35 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 814GB free (System drive) Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (52^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 176 174 2200 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 568 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 62 62 28068 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 554 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 44 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 523 (C2) HDA temperature 105 94 38 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 63 63 27714 (F1) Unknown 200 200 71572075977 (F2) Unknown 200 200 68600198569	85.3% Excellent	Read 143 Write 154 Mixed 84.9 94% 127 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 2.33 4K Mixed 0.28 96% 1.04 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 85.3% Great: 109%
Toshiba MK5075GSX 500GB-$127 6,562 User benchmarks, average bench 32% 194GB free Firmware: GT001M Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 2067 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1072 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 2391 (0A) Spinup retry count 121 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 963 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 47 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 26 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 96 96 42164 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 223339348006 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 40 (DE) Loaded hours 97 97 1574 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 319 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	27.7% Poor	Read 54.5 Write 42.1 Mixed 20.1 29% 38.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.37 4K Write 0.33 4K Mixed 0.21 44% 0.3 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 27.7% Great: 47%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 8x2GB 8,850 User benchmarks, average bench 114% 8 of 8 slots used 16GB FB-DIMM DDR2 FB-DIMM Performing way below expectations (1^st percentile)	18.1% Very poor	MC Read 5.7 MC Write 5.5 MC Mixed 7.4 18% 6.2 GB/s	SC Read 2.8 SC Write 4.5 SC Mixed 3.2 10% 3.5 GB/s	Latency 123 33% 123 ns
Poor: 76% ↑ This bench: 18.1% Great: 142%

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Gaming 11%

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Desktop 42%

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Workstation 11%

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System: Dell Precision WorkStation 690

CPU
CPU: Intel Xeon E53451stBench 41%, 462 samples	8x
CPU: Intel Xeon 51601stBench 43%, 632 samples	6x
CPU: Intel Xeon X53551stBench 42%, 426 samples	5x

GPU
GeForce GT 730NvidiaBench 5%, 164,888 samples	9x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	6x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	5x

SSD
256GB 256GBHs256eBench 63%, 119 samples	3x
CS900 240GBPNY $22Bench 73%, 61,417 samples	2x
SSD 240GBBench 75%, 38,401 samples	2x

RAM
8x4GBUnknownBench 90%, 5,222 samples	16x
4x1GBUnknownBench 18%, 54,972 samples	8x
8x2GBUnknownBench 114%, 8,850 samples	7x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $35	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