Dell Precision Tower 3420

Performance Results


Gaming 14% Tree trunk	Desktop 78% Battleship	Workstation 13% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (70th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 30 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 82%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	7.51% 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	52.1% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (51%). 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	27.4 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170929
Uptime	15.1 Days
Run Date	Feb 27 '18 at 20:40
Run Duration	114 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	51%

PC Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700-$167 256,717 User benchmarks, average bench 76% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	82% Excellent	Memory 88.1 1-Core 123 2-Core 243 85% 152 Pts	4-Core 408 8-Core 645 65% 527 Pts	64-Core 673 42% 673 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 82% Great: 84%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
Nvidia Quadro K420 3,707 User benchmarks, average bench 3% Nvidia(10DE 1162) 2GB CLim: 875 MHz, MLim: 445 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 376.84 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	3.96% Terrible	Lighting 4.37 Reflection 4.04 Parallax 4.44 4% 4.28 fps	MRender 5 Gravity 4.97 Splatting 6.91 5% 5.63 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 3.96% Great: 4%
Intel HD 630 (Desktop Kaby Lake) 153,031 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Dell(1028 06C7) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64 Ver. 22.20.16.4836 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	7.51% Terrible	Lighting 7.87 Reflection 11.1 Parallax 7.94 6% 8.97 fps	MRender 11.2 Gravity 7 Splatting 15.6 10% 11.3 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 7.51% Great: 7%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Sandisk X400 2.5 7MM 128GB 1,555 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 35GB free (System drive) Firmware: X4152012 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 4246 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 49 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 3 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 5142 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 72 38 163209936924 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 1189708693781 (EE) Unknown 99 100 16573640 (F1) Unknown 253 253 3190986367 (F2) Unknown 253 253 841127592	52.1% Above average	Read 478 Write 170 Mixed 283 68% 311 MB/s	4K Read 20.9 4K Write 45.9 4K Mixed 12 71% 26.2 MB/s	DQ Read 27.4 DQ Write 53.2 DQ Mixed 11.1 17% 30.6 MB/s
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 52.1% Great: 90%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown KM0VW4-MID 4x8GB 61 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing as expected (44^th percentile)	77.4% Very good	MC Read 27.5 MC Write 30.6 MC Mixed 24.8 79% 27.6 GB/s	SC Read 16.4 SC Write 29.2 SC Mixed 22.5 65% 22.7 GB/s	Latency 69.4 58% 69.4 ns
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 77.4% Great: 105%

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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

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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