Dell Precision M6400

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 2% Tree trunk	Desktop 28% Raft	Workstation 1% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (41st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 59 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an extremely low single core score, this CPU can barely handle email and light web browsing. Finally, with a gaming score of 28.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very poor.
Graphics	5.97% 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	12GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 12GB 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.

CPU throttled at 52% by Windows. Ensure maximum processor state is set to 100% via Settings > System > Power & sleep > Additional power settings > Change plan settings > Change advanced power settings > Processor power management > Maximum processor state.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	Dell Precision M6400 (all builds)
Motherboard	Dell 076V94
Memory	8.7 GB free of 12 GB @ 1.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20100730
Uptime	16.3 Days
Run Date	Feb 14 '18 at 01:27
Run Duration	183 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	5%
CPU Throttled	52%

PC Performing as expected (41^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core2 Duo T9900-$161 1,008 User benchmarks, average bench 41% Microprocessor, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 2 threads Base clock 3.05 GHz, turbo 1.2 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile)	28.8% Poor	Memory 53.5 1-Core 13.5 2-Core 12.3 22% 26.4 Pts	4-Core 26.3 8-Core 29.1 4% 27.7 Pts	64-Core 26.3 2% 26.3 Pts
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 28.8% Great: 45%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia Quadro FX 3700M 383 User benchmarks, average bench 6% Dell(1028 019C) 1GB Ram: 1GB, Driver: 342.1 Performing above expectations (77^th percentile)	5.97% Terrible	Lighting 8.07 Reflection 6.46 Parallax 2.56 7% 5.7 fps	MRender 6.57 Gravity 6.3 Splatting 5.09 5% 5.99 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 5.97% Great: 6%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Hitachi HTS545050A7E680 500GB 66,048 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 186GB free Firmware: GR2OA3E0 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 230 230 55834574849 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 11416 (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 60 60 17943 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 327 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 6 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 89 89 117590 (C2) HDA temperature 181 181 219044577313 (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 0 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0	42.7% Average	Read 74.8 Write 74.2 Mixed 71.9 55% 73.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.18 4K Write 1.28 4K Mixed 0.16 49% 0.54 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 42.7% Great: 58%
WD Blue 2.5" 320GB (2010)-$18 39,749 User benchmarks, average bench 33% 134GB free (System drive) Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (70^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 202 187 891 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2233 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 73 73 19988 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2222 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 74 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 1 1 1206438 (C2) HDA temperature 115 98 32 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	38.2% Below average	Read 67.9 Write 65.2 Mixed 60.4 48% 64.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.3 4K Write 1.33 4K Mixed 0.19 58% 0.61 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 38.2% Great: 47%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 12GB 85,415 User benchmarks, average bench 35% null MHz 2048, 4096, 2048, 4096 MB Performing way below expectations (1^st percentile)	10.5% Very poor	MC Read 3.8 MC Write 3.5 MC Mixed 2.7 10% 3.33 GB/s	SC Read 1.4 SC Write 2.5 SC Mixed 2.5 6% 2.13 GB/s	Latency 148 27% 148 ns
Poor: 20% ↑ This bench: 10.5% Great: 50%

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Gaming 5%

Tree trunk

Desktop 43%

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Workstation 4%

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System: Dell Precision M6400

CPU
Core2 Extreme Q9300Intel $172Bench 46%, 660 samples	14x
Core2 Duo T9600Intel $170Bench 39%, 2,726 samples	11x
Core2 Duo T9550Intel $199Bench 39%, 1,427 samples	8x

GPU
Quadro FX 2700MNvidiaBench 3%, 788 samples	30x
Quadro FX 3700MNvidiaBench 6%, 383 samples	20x
FirePro M7740ATIBench 7%, 225 samples	6x

SSD
Fury 240GBHyperX $193Bench 71%, 27,826 samples	2x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $37Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	2x
RBX Series 1 128GBSamsungBench 15%, 26 samples	2x

RAM
4x2GBUnknownBench 25%, 183,252 samples	14x
4x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 106,178 samples	12x
2x2GBUnknownBench 20%, 446,702 samples	12x

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Value: 28% - Poor

Total price: $365

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