Dell OptiPlex 990

Performance Results


Gaming 74% Battleship	Desktop 81% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 59% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (66th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 34 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 77.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	96.5% 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	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.

System	Dell OptiPlex 990
Motherboard	Dell OptiPlex 990 (all builds)
Memory	12.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180211
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Apr 20 '18 at 00:31
Run Duration	218 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing above expectations (66^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-2600-$197 185,630 User benchmarks, average bench 67% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	77.2% Very good	Memory 92 1-Core 95.4 2-Core 185 73% 124 Pts	4-Core 343 8-Core 457 51% 400 Pts	64-Core 465 29% 465 Pts
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 77.2% Great: 74%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-Ti-$299 412,133 User benchmarks, average bench 94% Gigabyte(1458 3794) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	96.5% Outstanding	Lighting 126 Reflection 135 Parallax 126 102% 129 fps	MRender 93.7 Gravity 118 Splatting 100 85% 104 fps
Poor: 86% ↑ This bench: 96.5% Great: 101%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 50GB free Firmware: EMT03B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 377 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 71 (B1) Unknown 99 99 3 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 64 59 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 66 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1089414746	90% Outstanding	Read 508 Write 413 Mixed 423 100% 448 MB/s	4K Read 31.1 4K Write 46.8 4K Mixed 32.1 113% 36.7 MB/s	DQ Read 254 DQ Write 176 DQ Mixed 102 107% 178 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 90% Great: 124%
WD Blue 500GB (2010)-$35 496,077 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 435GB free (System drive) Firmware: 19.01H19 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (76^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 144 141 3758 (04) Start/Stop count 83 83 17320 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 51 51 36182 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 292 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 68 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 195 195 17251 (C2) HDA temperature 108 100 35 (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 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 70 70 21915 (F1) Unknown 200 200 1385136145 (F2) Unknown 200 200 1364696304	63.1% Good	Read 113 Write 107 Mixed 109 83% 110 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 1.23 4K Mixed 0.44 91% 0.72 MB/s
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 63.1% Great: 69%
Lexar JD Secure II + 8GB 67 User benchmarks, average bench 7% 7GB free, PID a732 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing as expected (52^nd percentile)	7.02% Terrible	Read 21.4 Write 9.92 Mixed 13.5 17% 15 MB/s	4K Read 7.19 4K Write 0.02 4K Mixed 0.02 28% 2.41 MB/s
Poor: 4% ↑ This bench: 7.02% Great: 9%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Nanya NT4GC64B8HG0NF-CG 4x4GB 641 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1333 MHz Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)	49% Average	MC Read 16.8 MC Write 16.9 MC Mixed 15.1 46% 16.3 GB/s	SC Read 14.7 SC Write 16.8 SC Mixed 16.6 46% 16 GB/s	Latency 64 62% 64 ns
Poor: 37% ↑ This bench: 49% Great: 52%

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Desktop 60%

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Workstation 6%

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Motherboard: Dell OptiPlex 990

CPU
Core i7-2600Intel $197Bench 67%, 185,630 samples	1,644x
Core i5-2400Intel $250Bench 61%, 166,255 samples	1,264x
Core i5-2500IntelBench 63%, 82,538 samples	690x

GPU
HD 2000 (Desktop 1.1 GHz)IntelBench 1%, 150,891 samples	766x
GT 1030NvidiaBench 14%, 185,384 samples	323x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	302x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	176x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	74x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	71x

RAM
M378B5273DH0-CH9 2x4GBSamsungBench 48%, 11,003 samples	67x
HMT351U6CFR8C-H9 2x4GBHynixBench 48%, 7,511 samples	60x
HMT351U6CFR8C-H9 4x4GBHynixBench 48%, 2,925 samples	59x

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Value: 67% - Good

Total price: $225

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $131	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	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