Dell Studio 540

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 2% Tree trunk	Desktop 27% Raft	Workstation 1% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (34th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 66 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With an extremely low single core score, this CPU can barely handle email and light web browsing. Finally, with a gaming score of 26.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very poor.
Graphics	7.49% 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	6GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 6GB 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.

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System	Dell Studio 540 (all builds)
Motherboard	Dell 0M017G
Memory	1 GB free of 6 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	1440 x 900 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20080811
Uptime	19.3 Days
Run Date	Dec 08 '17 at 01:10
Run Duration	167 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	100%

PC Performing below expectations (34^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core2 Quad Q8200-$49 19,990 User benchmarks, average bench 43% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 2.35 GHz, turbo 2.3 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (3^rd percentile)	26.9% Poor	Memory 43.1 1-Core 20.7 2-Core 31.3 23% 31.7 Pts	4-Core 59.3 8-Core 89.5 9% 74.4 Pts	64-Core 86.1 5% 86.1 Pts
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 26.9% Great: 50%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R7 250 25,802 User benchmarks, average bench 8% XFX(1682 7250) 2GB CLim: 1050 MHz, MLim: 800 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 17.6.2 Performing below expectations (35^th percentile)	7.49% Terrible	Lighting 9.63 Reflection 9.81 Parallax 12.9 8% 10.8 fps	MRender 6.95 Gravity 9 Splatting 8.65 7% 8.2 fps
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 7.49% Great: 9%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Seagate ST3160812AS Q 160GB 94 User benchmarks, average bench 32% 87GB free Firmware: 3.BQK Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 253 0 (03) Spinup time 96 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 1 1 169260 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 83 60 210779179 (09) Power-on hours count 77 77 20578 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2733 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 66 45 589430818 (C2) HDA temperature 34 55 55834574882 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 60 45 39851554 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 253 0	38.2% Below average	Read 66.2 Write 66.9 Mixed 29.3 40% 54.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 1.22 4K Mixed 0.34 82% 0.69 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 38.2% Great: 40%
Seagate ST3160812AS 160GB-$47 10,399 User benchmarks, average bench 30% 6GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3.ADJ Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 91 225072636 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1260 (05) Reallocated sector count 98 98 94 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 41434560 (09) Power-on hours count 39 39 53724 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1247 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 13252 (BD) vendor-specific 96 96 4 (BE) vendor-specific 60 52 17120412303400 (C2) HDA temperature 40 48 68719476776 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 63 45 148816113 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 253 0	27.9% Poor	Read 52.9 Write 44.2 Mixed 35.8 33% 44.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.38 4K Write 0.99 4K Mixed 0.3 67% 0.56 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 27.9% Great: 40%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 6GB 111,301 User benchmarks, average bench 25% null MHz 2048, 1024, 2048, 1024 MB Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile)	12.2% Very poor	MC Read 4.4 MC Write 4.6 MC Mixed 4.4 13% 4.47 GB/s	SC Read 0.9 SC Write 1.9 SC Mixed 0.9 4% 1.23 GB/s	Latency 188 21% 188 ns
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 12.2% Great: 46%

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Typical Studio 540 Builds (Compare 110 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 4%

Tree trunk

Desktop 39%

Jet ski

Workstation 4%

Tree trunk

System: Dell Studio 540

CPU
Core2 Quad Q8200Intel $49Bench 43%, 19,990 samples	41x
Core2 Quad Q8300Intel $115Bench 44%, 20,482 samples	17x
Core2 Quad Q9400Intel $170Bench 46%, 24,176 samples	14x

GPU
G45/G43 Express ChipsetIntelBench 1%, 6,554 samples	12x
Radeon HD 4300ATIBench 1%, 14,988 samples	11x
Radeon HD 3450ATIBench 1%, 4,621 samples	9x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	5x
easystore 240GBWDBench 48%, 2,807 samples	4x
CS1311 240GBPNY $78Bench 81%, 26,547 samples	3x

RAM
4x2GBUnknownBench 25%, 183,252 samples	58x
6GBUnknownBench 25%, 111,301 samples	26x
4x1GBUnknownBench 18%, 54,972 samples	12x

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Value: 52% - Above average

Total price: $77

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