Dell Studio XPS 8100

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 55% Yacht	Desktop 74% Battleship	Workstation 42% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (57th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 43 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 73.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	79.1% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
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	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.

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System	Dell Studio XPS 8100
Motherboard	Dell Studio XPS 8100 (all builds)
Memory	5.6 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20100708
Uptime	0.7 Days
Run Date	Apr 03 '18 at 16:21
Run Duration	252 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	24%

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PC Performing as expected (57^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 860-$339 51,451 User benchmarks, average bench 64% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 2.8 GHz, turbo 2.95 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	73.1% Very good	Memory 93.5 1-Core 80.4 2-Core 155 67% 110 Pts	4-Core 294 8-Core 374 43% 334 Pts	64-Core 373 23% 373 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 73.1% Great: 72%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% PNY(196E 11A0) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1923 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing below potential (50^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	79.1% Very good	Lighting 99 Reflection 107 Parallax 91.2 81% 99 fps	MRender 94.5 Gravity 93.5 Splatting 91.5 76% 93.2 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 79.1% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Seagate Expansion Desk 3TB 13,194 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 2.5TB free Firmware: 9401 Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile)	16.7% Very poor	Read 28.9 Write 27.8 Mixed 28.4 21% 28.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.59 4K Write 4.14 4K Mixed 0.56 163% 1.76 MB/s
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 16.7% Great: 103%
Hitachi HDT721010SLA360 1TB-$497 27,212 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 817GB free Firmware: ST6OA31B Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 132 132 114 (03) Spinup time 118 118 38686622179 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 4557 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 2 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 125 125 33 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 45766 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 264 (C0) Power-off retract count 87 87 15754 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 87 87 15754 (C2) HDA temperature 171 171 240519413795 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 3 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	50.8% Above average	Read 93.1 Write 83.9 Mixed 91.5 68% 89.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.64 4K Write 1.76 4K Mixed 0.42 106% 0.94 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 50.8% Great: 61%
Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB-$83 138,859 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 760GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1AJ10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 3 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 75 69 7751 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 692 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 68893 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 8 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 634 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 1563 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 1 1 1362625 (C2) HDA temperature 64 54 197569544223 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 185 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 68724 (F1) Unknown 100 94 125176 (F2) Unknown 95 94 7173272 (FE) Unknown 100 100 1	86.2% Excellent	Read 140 Write 160 Mixed 130 108% 144 MB/s	4K Read 0.84 4K Write 2.64 4K Mixed 0.55 145% 1.34 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 86.2% Great: 75%
WD WD5000AACS-00ZUB0 500GB 19,716 User benchmarks, average bench 36% 302GB free Firmware: 05.04C05 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (77^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 135 132 6241 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9932 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 1 1 76512 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 440 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 28 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 9931 (C2) HDA temperature 117 95 30 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 51 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	41% Average	Read 74.1 Write 68.6 Mixed 65.3 52% 69.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.38 4K Write 2.08 4K Mixed 0.29 86% 0.91 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 41% Great: 49%
WD My Book 25EE 4TB 13,827 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 2.5TB free, PID 25ee Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile)	18.9% Very poor	Read 36.5 Write 33.5 Mixed 30.1 42% 33.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.79 4K Write 1.99 4K Mixed 0.28 80% 1.02 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 18.9% Great: 100%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Samsung M378B5673EH1-CF8 4x2GB 121 User benchmarks, average bench 36% 4 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM 1066 MHz Performing as expected (56^th percentile)	36.5% Below average	MC Read 13.1 MC Write 11.9 MC Mixed 10.1 33% 11.7 GB/s	SC Read 10.3 SC Write 10.5 SC Mixed 11.9 31% 10.9 GB/s	Latency 60.9 66% 60.9 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 36.5% Great: 44%

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Gaming 22%

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Desktop 72%

Battleship

Workstation 18%

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Motherboard: Dell Studio XPS 8100

CPU
Core i7 860Intel $339Bench 64%, 51,451 samples	267x
Core i7 870Intel $100Bench 66%, 37,228 samples	194x
Core i5 650Intel $70Bench 46%, 42,063 samples	115x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	49x
GTX 750-TiNvidia $92Bench 17%, 309,423 samples	34x
Radeon HD 5450AMDBench 1%, 66,079 samples	30x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	15x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	14x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	13x

RAM
NT2GC64B8HC0NF-CG 4x2GBNanyaBench 41%, 938 samples	42x
M378B5673FH0-CH9 4x2GBSamsungBench 42%, 2,488 samples	31x
EBJ21UE8BDF0-DJ-F 4x2GBElpidaBench 40%, 1,380 samples	21x

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Value: 59% - Above average

Total price: $507

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