Dell Precision WorkStation T5400

Performance Results


Gaming 30% Raft	Desktop 53% Yacht	Workstation 24% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way below expectations (12th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 88 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 below average single core score, this CPU can handle email, web browsing and audio/video playback but it will struggle to handle modern 3D games or workstation tasks such as video editing. Finally, with a gaming score of 45.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is below average.
Graphics	63.1% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
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.

High background CPU (24%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	Dell Precision WorkStation T5400 (all builds)
Motherboard	Dell 0RW203
Memory	9.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 0.7 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20120430
Uptime	1 Days
Run Date	Jan 14 '17 at 11:24
Run Duration	397 Seconds
Run User	BGR-User
Background CPU	24%

PC Performing way below expectations (12^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 X5450 826 User benchmarks, average bench 47% CPU, 2 CPU, 8 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3 GHz, turbo 2.95 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile)	45.1% Average	Memory 60.7 1-Core 42 2-Core 83.2 39% 62 Pts	4-Core 161 8-Core 274 26% 217 Pts	64-Core 299 18% 299 Pts
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 45.1% Great: 50%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 1996) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1531 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 376.33 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	63.1% Good	Lighting 70.5 Reflection 97.9 Parallax 101 58% 89.9 fps	MRender 88.6 Gravity 97.7 Splatting 86.3 74% 90.9 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 63.1% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 120GB-$85 104,444 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 77GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 13753 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1202 (B1) Unknown 88 88 136 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 73 41 27 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 674 (F1) Unknown 99 99 33344309319
Poor: 63% Great: 108%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 27GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (1^st 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 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2633 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 174 (B1) Unknown 100 99 0 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 57 28 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 17 (F1) Unknown 99 99 516760620	50.9% Above average	Read 258 Write 208 Mixed 218 51% 228 MB/s	4K Read 29.3 4K Write 42.1 4K Mixed 15.3 86% 28.9 MB/s	DQ Read 28.3 DQ Write 90.1 DQ Mixed 51.8 42% 56.7 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 50.9% Great: 124%
WD Red 3TB (2012)-$50 68,726 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 343GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 180 173 5966 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2058 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 11410 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1104 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 611 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1445 (C2) HDA temperature 129 94 21 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	55.4% Above average	Read 86.8 Write 106 Mixed 82.9 69% 92 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 1.91 4K Mixed 0.21 77% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 55.4% Great: 88%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB-$36 203,102 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 46GB free Firmware: CC44 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 126152517 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 445 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 73 60 22341297 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 7756 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 445 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 75 58 420216857 (C2) HDA temperature 25 42 38654705689 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 39 22 126152517 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 133564892979737 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1351524686 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1184569074	38% Below average	Read 65.8 Write 66.2 Mixed 66.8 50% 66.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.71 4K Write 1.54 4K Mixed 0.6 124% 0.95 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 38% Great: 70%
WD Red 3TB (2012)-$50 68,726 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 45GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 2 (03) Spinup time 180 171 5958 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1688 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 11572 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1114 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 625 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1062 (C2) HDA temperature 126 91 24 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	57.8% Above average	Read 96.8 Write 105 Mixed 92.4 74% 98 MB/s	4K Read 0.17 4K Write 1.07 4K Mixed 0.13 41% 0.46 MB/s
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 57.8% Great: 88%
Seagate Expansion 2TB 275 User benchmarks, average bench 31% 824GB free, PID 2312 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile)	11.1% Very poor	Read 19.6 Write 19.8 Mixed 19.5 25% 19.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.36 4K Write 1.25 4K Mixed 0.26 53% 0.62 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 11.1% Great: 52%
WD 325AS External 500GB 3 User benchmarks, average bench 15% 353GB free, PID 1100 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	10.7% Very poor	Read 19.9 Write 19.2 Mixed 19.9 25% 19.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.36 4K Write 1.15 4K Mixed 0.31 51% 0.61 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 10.7% Great: 17%
TOSHIBA External USB 3.0 1TB 880 User benchmarks, average bench 30% 49GB free, PID a100 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing way below expectations (3^rd percentile)	9.84% Terrible	Read 29.1 Write 23.6 Mixed 24.3 32% 25.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.07 4K Write 0.15 4K Mixed 0.07 8% 0.09 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 9.84% Great: 44%

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)	18.4% Very poor	MC Read 4.7 MC Write 6.5 MC Mixed 7.8 18% 6.33 GB/s	SC Read 2.3 SC Write 5.3 SC Mixed 3.7 11% 3.77 GB/s	Latency 126 32% 126 ns
Poor: 76% ↑ This bench: 18.4% Great: 142%

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System: Dell Precision WorkStation T5400

CPU
CPU: Intel Xeon X54601stBench 48%, 616 samples	21x
CPU: Intel Xeon E54101stBench 43%, 392 samples	18x
CPU: Intel Xeon E54201stBench 44%, 603 samples	15x

GPU
GTX 750-TiNvidia $92Bench 17%, 309,423 samples	12x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	10x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	9x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	7x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	7x
WDS500G2B0A-00SM50 500GBWDCBench 93%, 97,462 samples	6x

RAM
8x4GBUnknownBench 90%, 5,222 samples	66x
4x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 106,178 samples	34x
8x2GBUnknownBench 114%, 8,850 samples	25x

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Value: 36% - Below average

Total price: $172

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $182	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) $30	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