Dell XPS 8300

Performance Results


Gaming 63% Destroyer	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 51% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (81st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 19 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 73.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	85.4% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	62.7% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	24GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 24GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

System	Dell XPS 8300 (all builds)
Motherboard	Dell 0Y2MRG
Memory	21.1 GB free of 24 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20111017
Uptime	1.4 Days
Run Date	Mar 21 '17 at 04:23
Run Duration	176 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing above expectations (81^st 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-$196 185,630 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 (93^rd percentile)	73.1% Very good	Memory 90.3 1-Core 96.8 2-Core 179 72% 122 Pts	4-Core 303 8-Core 469 48% 386 Pts	64-Core 470 29% 470 Pts
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 73.1% Great: 74%

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: 378.78 Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	85.4% Excellent	Lighting 109 Reflection 116 Parallax 105 89% 110 fps	MRender 95.6 Gravity 101 Splatting 92.6 79% 96.3 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 85.4% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB-$28 133,640 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 91GB free (System drive) Firmware: Z32080RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 100 143 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 92 (A5) Unknown 100 100 85904064578 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 2 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1 (AE) Unknown 100 100 61 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 57 47 227633266731 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 94490394646 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 295 (EA) Unknown 100 100 616 (F1) Unknown 253 253 439 (F2) Unknown 253 253 484 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	62.7% Good	Read 487 Write 239 Mixed 239 70% 321 MB/s	4K Read 15.5 4K Write 72.4 4K Mixed 4.73 68% 30.9 MB/s	DQ Read 240 DQ Write 206 DQ Mixed 4.91 63% 150 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 62.7% Great: 86%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$33 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 931GB free Firmware: CC56 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (80^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 37963720 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 539 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 67 60 21501214153 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 5256 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 280 (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 77 57 4749197335 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 147 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 539 (C2) HDA temperature 23 43 -140737488355305 (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 -63531156237204 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3633504347 (F2) Unknown 100 253 5112346131	104% Outstanding	Read 184 Write 180 Mixed 169 134% 178 MB/s	4K Read 1.07 4K Write 2.08 4K Mixed 0.25 111% 1.13 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 112%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB-$32 107,978 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 405GB free Firmware: JC49 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 110 99 26825957 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 761 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 40482965 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 5360 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 710 (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 77 60 471007255 (C2) HDA temperature 23 40 8589934615 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 28 20 26825957 (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 -91551522874352 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3504254152 (F2) Unknown 100 253 991735664	71.2% Very good	Read 126 Write 122 Mixed 113 90% 120 MB/s	4K Read 0.72 4K Write 1.92 4K Mixed 0.66 139% 1.1 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 71.2% Great: 70%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB-$32 107,978 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 362GB free Firmware: JC49 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 233504610 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 735 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 12938099330 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 5430 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 713 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 8 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 74 58 471072794 (C2) HDA temperature 26 42 17179869210 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 47 29 233504610 (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 -30094835835833 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1956001376 (F2) Unknown 100 253 4250032930	62% Good	Read 108 Write 108 Mixed 106 81% 107 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 1.85 4K Mixed 0.62 134% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 62% Great: 70%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 8GBH2X04F1AA28-15 CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 8GBH2X04F1AA28-15 24GB 10 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 1333, 1333, 1333, 1333 MHz 4096, 8192, 4096, 8192 MB Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	49.2% Average	MC Read 16.8 MC Write 17.2 MC Mixed 15.6 47% 16.5 GB/s	SC Read 14.3 SC Write 17.1 SC Mixed 15.6 45% 15.7 GB/s	Latency 66.8 60% 66.8 ns
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 49.2% Great: 50%

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Gaming 24%

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Desktop 75%

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Workstation 20%

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System: Dell XPS 8300

CPU
Core i7-2600Intel $196Bench 67%, 185,630 samples	1,305x
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	178x
HD 2000 (Desktop 1.1 GHz)IntelBench 1%, 150,891 samples	114x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	106x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	52x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	44x
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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Total price: $335

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