Dell Precision Tower 3420

Performance Results


Gaming 8% Tree trunk	Desktop 75% Battleship	Workstation 7% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (72nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 28 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 85.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	3.9% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	62.7% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB 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.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago.

System	Dell Precision Tower 3420
Motherboard	Dell Precision Tower 3420 (all builds)
Memory	5.7 GB free of 8 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1680 x 1050 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160526
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 22 '16 at 17:51
Run Duration	88 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	5%

PC Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Xeon E3-1270 v5 1,290 User benchmarks, average bench 78% Socket 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.75 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	85.8% Excellent	Memory 86.8 1-Core 119 2-Core 244 84% 150 Pts	4-Core 457 8-Core 657 70% 557 Pts	64-Core 656 41% 656 Pts
Poor: 69% ↑ This bench: 85.8% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia Quadro K420 3,707 User benchmarks, average bench 3% Nvidia(10DE 1162) 2GB CLim: 875 MHz, MLim: 445 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 361.91 Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	3.9% Terrible	Lighting 4.37 Reflection 4.12 Parallax 4.41 4% 4.3 fps	MRender 5.1 Gravity 3.93 Splatting 7.04 4% 5.36 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 3.9% Great: 4%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SK hynix SC308 SATA 256GB 6,224 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 195GB free (System drive) Firmware: 30000P10 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 166 166 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 253 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 17 (64) Unknown 100 100 159942 (AB) Unknown 253 253 0 (AC) Unknown 253 253 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 7 (AF) Unknown 253 253 0 (B0) Unknown 253 253 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 1 (B2) Unknown 100 100 82 (B3) Unknown 100 100 292 (B4) Unknown 100 100 5180 (B5) Unknown 253 253 0 (B6) Unknown 253 253 0 (B7) Unknown 253 253 0 (BB) vendor-specific 253 253 0 (BC) Unknown 253 253 0 (BF) G-sense error rate 253 253 0 (C2) HDA temperature 31 23 98787131423 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 253 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 253 253 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 1 1 68489 (E7) Temperature 253 253 0 (EA) Unknown 100 100 288402688 (F1) Unknown 100 100 172918170 (F2) Unknown 100 100 155710805 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 555711	62.7% Good	Read 497 Write 242 Mixed 320 78% 353 MB/s	4K Read 24.1 4K Write 65.5 4K Mixed 13.7 89% 34.4 MB/s	DQ Read 26.7 DQ Write 75.2 DQ Mixed 11 20% 37.6 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 62.7% Great: 86%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown HMA41GU6AFR8N-TF 1x8GB 853 User benchmarks, average bench 40% 1 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	41.9% Average	MC Read 14.8 MC Write 14.6 MC Mixed 12 39% 13.8 GB/s	SC Read 12.7 SC Write 14.3 SC Mixed 14.3 39% 13.8 GB/s	Latency 70.6 57% 70.6 ns
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 41.9% Great: 43%

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Gaming 11%

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Desktop 69%

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Workstation 11%

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Motherboard: Dell Precision Tower 3420

CPU
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	224x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	152x
Core i5-6500Intel $67Bench 64%, 241,476 samples	113x

GPU
HD 530 (Desktop Skylake)IntelBench 5%, 188,220 samples	180x
HD 630 (Desktop Kaby Lake)IntelBench 5%, 153,031 samples	112x
Quadro K620Nvidia $170Bench 11%, 16,214 samples	82x

SSD
THNSN5256GPUK NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBToshibaBench 109%, 23,829 samples	21x
XG5 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBToshiba $33Bench 125%, 44,050 samples	21x
PM951 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBSamsungBench 120%, 13,766 samples	13x

RAM
HMA41GU6AFR8N-TF 2x8GBUnknownBench 72%, 2,345 samples	42x
HMA81GU6AFR8N-UH 2x8GBUnknownBench 73%, 3,256 samples	35x
HMA41GU6AFR8N-TF 1x8GBUnknownBench 40%, 853 samples	22x

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Value: 82% - Excellent

Total price: $180

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