Dell XPS 8500

Performance Results


Gaming 46% Yacht	Desktop 78% Battleship	Workstation 37% Jet ski


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 good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 71.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	61.3% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	60.8% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait 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 (31%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	Dell XPS 8500 (all builds)
Motherboard	Dell 0NW73C
Memory	6.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20130828
Uptime	3.3 Days
Run Date	Feb 18 '18 at 21:05
Run Duration	486 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	31%

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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 Core i7-3770-$297 278,207 User benchmarks, average bench 69% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)	71.6% Very good	Memory 87.3 1-Core 101 2-Core 183 73% 124 Pts	4-Core 309 8-Core 406 46% 357 Pts	64-Core 432 27% 432 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 71.6% Great: 76%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% EVGA(3842 6267) CLim: 2012 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 390.77 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	61.3% Good	Lighting 76.5 Reflection 78.5 Parallax 68.3 62% 74.5 fps	MRender 69.9 Gravity 71.5 Splatting 74.5 59% 71.9 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 61.3% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung PM830 mSATA 256GB 9,379 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 88GB free (System drive) Firmware: CXM13D1Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 23038 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 822 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 95 95 181 (B2) Unknown 91 91 280 (B3) Unknown 91 91 560 (B4) Unknown 91 91 5968 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 253 253 0 (E8) Unknown 91 91 2984 (F1) Unknown 99 99 4204507005 (F2) Unknown 99 99 3544496473	60.8% Good	Read 454 Write 230 Mixed 280 71% 321 MB/s	4K Read 17.6 4K Write 46.9 4K Mixed 17.5 74% 27.4 MB/s	DQ Read 212 DQ Write 68.1 DQ Mixed 12.4 42% 97.5 MB/s
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 60.8% Great: 80%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 854GB free Firmware: CC24 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 78184784 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 4054 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 77 60 30477216214 (09) Power-on hours count 74 74 22897 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 803 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 98 98 2 (BE) vendor-specific 71 59 571670557 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 151 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 86 86 28470 (C2) HDA temperature 29 41 30064771101 (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 -27105538584534 (F1) Unknown 100 253 70473095982 (F2) Unknown 100 253 63054620181	83.9% Excellent	Read 142 Write 151 Mixed 138 108% 143 MB/s	4K Read 0.71 4K Write 0.92 4K Mixed 0.3 80% 0.64 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 83.9% Great: 114%
WD My Passport 0740 500GB 3,483 User benchmarks, average bench 24% 292GB free, PID 0740 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)	30.4% Below average	Read 68.4 Write 66.8 Mixed 53.7 80% 63 MB/s	4K Read 0.52 4K Write 1.88 4K Mixed 0.22 73% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 30.4% Great: 36%
SanDisk Gaming Xbox 360 16GB 213 User benchmarks, average bench 7% 14GB free, PID 5151 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing below expectations (37^th percentile)	6.32% Terrible	Read 22.1 Write 4.64 Mixed 4.42 10% 10.4 MB/s	4K Read 6.02 4K Write 0.22 4K Mixed 1.14 68% 2.46 MB/s
Poor: 5% ↑ This bench: 6.32% Great: 11%
Multiple Card Reader 16GB 2,333 User benchmarks, average bench 10% 13GB free, PID 6366 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile)	4.44% Terrible	Read 18.9 Write 4.69 Mixed 6.09 10% 9.88 MB/s	4K Read 2.84 4K Write 0.005 4K Mixed 0.1 14% 0.98 MB/s
Poor: 4% ↑ This bench: 4.44% Great: 20%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Nanya NT4GC64B8HG0NF-DI 4x4GB 1,608 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing below potential (22^nd percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	51.7% Above average	MC Read 19.1 MC Write 17.9 MC Mixed 15.8 50% 17.6 GB/s	SC Read 15.8 SC Write 16.4 SC Mixed 16.4 46% 16.2 GB/s	Latency 70.2 57% 70.2 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 51.7% Great: 91%

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Gaming 10%

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Desktop 66%

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Workstation 9%

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System: Dell XPS 8500

CPU
Core i7-3770Intel $297Bench 69%, 278,207 samples	1,662x
Core i5-3450Intel $59Bench 66%, 34,199 samples	144x
Core i5-3350PIntel $60Bench 65%, 21,413 samples	139x

GPU
GeForce GT 640NvidiaBench 6%, 34,519 samples	162x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	154x
GeForce GT 620NvidiaBench 2%, 17,163 samples	112x

SSD
PM830 mSATA 256GBSamsungBench 63%, 9,379 samples	58x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	56x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	55x

RAM
HMT351U6CFR8C-PB 4x4GBHynixBench 58%, 7,298 samples	154x
HMT351U6CFR8C-PB 2x4GBHynixBench 53%, 17,809 samples	80x
NT4GC64B8HG0NF-DI 4x4GBNanyaBench 58%, 1,608 samples	76x

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Value: 68% - Good

Total price: $297

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 $178	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $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