Dell OptiPlex 5040

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 8% Tree trunk	Desktop 73% Battleship	Workstation 7% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (92nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 8 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 84.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	5.41% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
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 9 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 (54%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 5 years ago.

System	Dell OptiPlex 5040
Motherboard	Dell OptiPlex 5040 (all builds)
Memory	12.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1680 x 1050 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20160627
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Sep 18 '17 at 10:24
Run Duration	108 Seconds
Run User	THA-User
Background CPU	54%

PC Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700-$180 282,363 User benchmarks, average bench 72% Socket 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	84.6% Excellent	Memory 88.6 1-Core 116 2-Core 231 82% 145 Pts	4-Core 438 8-Core 606 66% 522 Pts	64-Core 656 41% 656 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 84.6% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD Radeon R5 340X 2,285 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Dell(1028 0083) 2GB Ram: 2GB, Driver: 16.9.2 Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)	5.41% Terrible	Lighting 6.67 Reflection 8.69 Parallax 11.2 5% 8.84 fps	MRender 4.43 Gravity 8.5 Splatting 6.52 5% 6.48 fps
Poor: 4% ↑ This bench: 5.41% Great: 6%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 500GB-$23 574,344 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 145GB free (System drive) Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 63 0 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1180 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 79 60 83899424 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 2538 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1175 (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 62 57 639828006 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1210 (C2) HDA temperature 38 21 90194313254 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 1 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 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -120151710103068 (F1) Unknown 100 253 12668392811 (F2) Unknown 100 253 10954895976	89.9% Excellent	Read 164 Write 149 Mixed 143 114% 152 MB/s	4K Read 0.66 4K Write 1.48 4K Mixed 0.31 90% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 89.9% Great: 88%
WD My Passport 0830 1TB 8,379 User benchmarks, average bench 32% 865GB free, PID 0830 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	48.7% Average	Read 113 Write 119 Mixed 101 143% 111 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 2.02 4K Mixed 0.25 79% 0.95 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 48.7% Great: 45%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Hynix HMT41GU6BFR8A-PB 2x8GB 7,869 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	60.9% Good	MC Read 22.4 MC Write 22.3 MC Mixed 18.5 60% 21.1 GB/s	SC Read 15.4 SC Write 21.9 SC Mixed 20 55% 19.1 GB/s	Latency 68.9 58% 68.9 ns
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 60.9% Great: 61%

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Gaming 9%

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Desktop 65%

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Workstation 8%

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Motherboard: Dell OptiPlex 5040

CPU
Core i5-6500Intel $67Bench 64%, 241,476 samples	1,054x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	433x
Core i3-6100Intel $76Bench 55%, 110,166 samples	137x

GPU
HD 530 (Desktop Skylake)IntelBench 5%, 188,220 samples	1,155x
GT 1030NvidiaBench 14%, 185,384 samples	113x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	58x

SSD
PM961 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBSamsungBench 184%, 7,214 samples	33x
THNSN5256GPUK NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBToshibaBench 109%, 23,829 samples	30x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	26x

RAM
HMT451U6BFR8A-PB 2x4GBHynixBench 51%, 8,612 samples	172x
HMT41GU6DFR8A-PB 2x8GBHynixBench 52%, 2,722 samples	81x
M378B5173EB0-YK0 2x4GBUnknownBench 55%, 202 samples	64x

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Value: 94% - Outstanding

Total price: $67

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