HP Pavilion dv7 Notebook PC

Performance Results


Gaming 2% Tree trunk	Desktop 41% Speed boat	Workstation 2% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (49th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 51 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
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 41.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is below average.
Graphics	1.99% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	32.2% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce IO wait times.
Memory	4GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and although it's sufficient for most games, some will benefit from up to 8GB of RAM. 4GB is also enough for modest file and system caches which allow for a responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (45%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	HP Pavilion dv7 Notebook PC (all builds)
Motherboard	Compal 30F4
Memory	2.4 GB free of 4 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	1440 x 900 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20081223
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Aug 09 '17 at 15:10
Run Duration	202 Seconds
Run User	RUS-User
Background CPU	45%

PC Performing as expected (49^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core2 Duo P8600-$42 8,502 User benchmarks, average bench 37% CPU, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 2 threads Base clock 2.4 GHz, turbo 2.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	41.8% Average	Memory 72.5 1-Core 35.4 2-Core 67.3 40% 58.4 Pts	4-Core 68.4 8-Core 68.4 9% 68.4 Pts	64-Core 69 4% 69 Pts
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 41.8% Great: 42%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GeForce 9600M-GT 3,959 User benchmarks, average bench 2% HP(103C 30F4) 512MB Ram: 512MB, Driver: 342.1 Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)	1.99% Terrible	Lighting 2.27 Reflection 4.35 Parallax 0.78 2% 2.46 fps	MRender 3.71 Gravity 1.6 Splatting 3 2% 2.77 fps
Poor: 1% ↑ This bench: 1.99% Great: 2%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Adata XPG SX900 64GB-$71 593 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 13GB free (System drive) Firmware: 5.0.5c 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 (01) Raw read error rate 105 105 11572388 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 2 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 125722282692738 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2602 (AB) Unknown 0 0 1 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 341 (B1) Unknown 0 0 3 (B5) Unknown 0 0 1 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 41 56 55838244905 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 11572388 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 2 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 11572388 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 11572388 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 5751 (EA) Unknown 0 0 5295 (F1) Unknown 0 0 5295 (F2) Unknown 0 0 6055	32.2% Below average	Read 250 Write 68 Mixed 111 31% 143 MB/s	4K Read 13 4K Write 31.1 4K Mixed 14.6 55% 19.6 MB/s	DQ Read 15.3 DQ Write 39.1 DQ Mixed 6.29 11% 20.2 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 32.2% Great: 70%
Hitachi HTS545050B9A300 500GB-$71 21,137 User benchmarks, average bench 33% 220GB free Firmware: PB4OC64G Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (25^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 136 136 94489280514 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 8621 (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 81 81 8348 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 2041 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 28967028 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 50 50 500943 (C2) HDA temperature 152 152 214749151268 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 1 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 2 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0	25.9% Poor	Read 45.9 Write 44.1 Mixed 48.3 35% 46.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.32 4K Write 1.03 4K Mixed 0.19 53% 0.51 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 25.9% Great: 45%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 2x2GB 446,702 User benchmarks, average bench 20% 2 of 2 slots used 4GB SODIMM DDR2 Performing above expectations (61^st percentile)	18.6% Very poor	MC Read 6.4 MC Write 5.3 MC Mixed 5.4 16% 5.7 GB/s	SC Read 5.9 SC Write 5.3 SC Mixed 5.6 16% 5.6 GB/s	Latency 95.8 42% 95.8 ns
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 18.6% Great: 44%

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Gaming 2%

Tree trunk

Desktop 51%

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Workstation 2%

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System: HP Pavilion dv7 Notebook PC

CPU
Core i7-2670QMIntel $200Bench 56%, 51,169 samples	232x
Core i7-2630QMIntel $199Bench 55%, 39,605 samples	184x
Core i7-3610QMIntel $300Bench 62%, 38,575 samples	137x

GPU
HD 3000 (Mobile V1 1.1/1.2 GHz)IntelBench 2%, 209,058 samples	485x
HD 4000 (Mobile 1.25 GHz)IntelBench 3%, 409,110 samples	142x
HD Graphics (Arrandale 0.667/0.766 GHz)IntelBench 1%, 99,513 samples	113x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	39x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	29x
A400 120GBKingston $29Bench 61%, 166,392 samples	20x

RAM
2x2GBUnknownBench 20%, 446,702 samples	108x
M471B5273DH0-CH9 2x4GBSamsungBench 43%, 15,815 samples	86x
HMT351S6CFR8C-PB 2x4GBHynixBench 50%, 25,458 samples	61x

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Value: 57% - Above average

Total price: $228

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 $15	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	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