Dell Precision Tower 3420

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 7% Tree trunk	Desktop 65% Battle cruiser	Workstation 7% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (75th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 25 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 75.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	3.91% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (57%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	Dell Precision Tower 3420
Motherboard	Dell Precision Tower 3420 (all builds)
Memory	12.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160526
Uptime	2.7 Days
Run Date	Nov 15 '17 at 08:15
Run Duration	116 Seconds
Run User	FRA-User
Background CPU	57%

PC Performing above expectations (75^th 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, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	75.9% Very good	Memory 79.9 1-Core 101 2-Core 217 74% 133 Pts	4-Core 386 8-Core 629 62% 508 Pts	64-Core 624 39% 624 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 75.9% Great: 80%

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: 369.39 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	3.91% Terrible	Lighting 4.4 Reflection 4.08 Parallax 4.41 4% 4.29 fps	MRender 5.05 Gravity 3.87 Splatting 7.04 4% 5.32 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 3.91% Great: 4%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Toshiba MQ01ACF050 500GB-$150 24,380 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 246GB free (System drive) Firmware: AV002D Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 2000 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 85 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 67 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 2 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 28 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 107 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 197569216547 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 84 (F1) Unknown 100 100 1637570237 (F2) Unknown 100 100 1160543933 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	59.2% Above average	Read 112 Write 94.2 Mixed 78.9 71% 95 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.63 4K Mixed 0.17 73% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 59.2% Great: 69%
Seagate ST9320320AS 320GB-$60 2,404 User benchmarks, average bench 27% 158GB free Firmware: 0303 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 98 97 104210885 (03) Spinup time 99 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1935 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 6 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 37587159 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1118 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 1 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 996 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 25 25 75 (BC) Unknown 100 99 11 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 73 42 417066057755 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 215 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 144 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 92 92 16038 (C2) HDA temperature 27 58 51539607579 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 56 42 104210885 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	35.6% Below average	Read 64 Write 60.1 Mixed 60.4 46% 61.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.41 4K Write 1.11 4K Mixed 0.23 63% 0.58 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 35.6% Great: 37%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown HMA451U6AFR8N-TF 4x4GB 454 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing as expected (41^st percentile)	71.8% Very good	MC Read 26.1 MC Write 28.6 MC Mixed 23.4 74% 26 GB/s	SC Read 15.1 SC Write 25.4 SC Mixed 19.2 57% 19.9 GB/s	Latency 80.6 50% 80.6 ns
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 71.8% Great: 77%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 11%

Tree trunk

Desktop 69%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 11%

Tree trunk

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	112x

GPU
HD 530 (Desktop Skylake)IntelBench 5%, 188,220 samples	179x
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 $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	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) $35	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