HP Pavilion dv7 Notebook PC

Performance Results


Gaming 4% Tree trunk	Desktop 43% Speed boat	Workstation 4% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (50th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 50 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 43.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is below average.
Graphics	1.93% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	50.3% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

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

System	HP Pavilion dv7 Notebook PC (all builds)
Motherboard	Compal 30F4
Memory	6.5 GB free of 8 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	1440 x 900 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20090520
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Nov 15 '17 at 10:19
Run Duration	119 Seconds
Run User	BRA-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing as expected (50^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 T9600-$170 2,726 User benchmarks, average bench 39% CPU, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 2 threads Base clock 2.8 GHz, turbo 2.75 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	43.5% Average	Memory 74 1-Core 41 2-Core 79.4 43% 64.8 Pts	4-Core 79.6 8-Core 78.6 11% 79.1 Pts	64-Core 79.4 5% 79.4 Pts
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 43.5% Great: 44%

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)	1.93% Terrible	Lighting 2.23 Reflection 4.27 Parallax 0.78 2% 2.43 fps	MRender 3.67 Gravity 1.57 Splatting 2.65 2% 2.63 fps
Poor: 1% ↑ This bench: 1.93% Great: 2%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 266GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (0^th 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 1049 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 436 (B1) Unknown 99 99 1 (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 54 53 46 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 31 (F1) Unknown 99 99 2649234168	50.3% Above average	Read 262 Write 208 Mixed 216 51% 229 MB/s	4K Read 19.3 4K Write 24.5 4K Mixed 24.3 73% 22.7 MB/s	DQ Read 97 DQ Write 79.4 DQ Mixed 39.9 43% 72.1 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 50.3% Great: 134%
HGST Travelstar 7K1000 2.5" 1TB 546,982 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 293GB free Firmware: JB0OA3J0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (77^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 125 125 85899345922 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 2005 (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 94 94 2919 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1067 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 852020 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 91 91 91923 (C2) HDA temperature 150 150 231929348136 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 14 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0	68.8% Good	Read 120 Write 121 Mixed 113 88% 118 MB/s	4K Read 0.57 4K Write 1.47 4K Mixed 0.19 72% 0.74 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 68.8% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 2x4GB 424,126 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 2 of 2 slots used 8GB SODIMM DDR2 Performing below potential (11^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	18.8% Very poor	MC Read 6.8 MC Write 5.2 MC Mixed 5.1 16% 5.7 GB/s	SC Read 5.7 SC Write 5.5 SC Mixed 5.8 16% 5.67 GB/s	Latency 92.5 43% 92.5 ns
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 18.8% Great: 65%

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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 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