HP Z230 Tower Workstation

Performance Results


Gaming 90% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 76% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (53rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 47 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 71.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	126% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	88.4% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum IO wait times.
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.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago.

System	HP Z230 Tower Workstation (all builds)
Motherboard	Hewlett-Packard 1905
Memory	29.6 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161018
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Sep 24 '18 at 09:14
Run Duration	129 Seconds
Run User	THA-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Xeon E3-1240 v3-$203 3,014 User benchmarks, average bench 72% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (45^th percentile)	71.8% Very good	Memory 78.8 1-Core 111 2-Core 198 74% 129 Pts	4-Core 350 8-Core 545 55% 448 Pts	64-Core 555 34% 555 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 71.8% Great: 81%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Nvidia(10DE 120F) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 398.36 Performing below potential (64^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	126% Outstanding	Lighting 174 Reflection 194 Parallax 171 142% 180 fps	MRender 125 Gravity 172 Splatting 124 114% 140 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 126% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra 3D 250GB-$50 5,775 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 109GB free (System drive) Firmware: X61110RL SusWrite @10s intervals: 259 213 199 199 200 201 MB/s Performing as expected (58^th percentile)	88.4% Excellent	Read 486 Write 456 Mixed 324 SusWrite 212 83% 369 MB/s	4K Read 31.5 4K Write 63.4 4K Mixed 38.4 130% 44.4 MB/s	DQ Read 377 DQ Write 321 DQ Mixed 276 227% 325 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 88.4% Great: 106%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$31 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 297GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 SusWrite @10s intervals: 154 156 156 157 153 154 MB/s Performing as expected (56^th percentile)	86.7% Excellent	Read 147 Write 147 Mixed 69.5 SusWrite 155 95% 130 MB/s	4K Read 1.2 4K Write 3 4K Mixed 1 217% 1.73 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 86.7% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 4x8GB 8,730 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing as expected (43^rd percentile)	57.7% Above average	MC Read 20.7 MC Write 21.8 MC Mixed 18.1 58% 20.2 GB/s	SC Read 15.5 SC Write 20.4 SC Mixed 18.1 51% 18 GB/s	Latency 82.8 48% 82.8 ns
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 57.7% Great: 63%

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Desktop 65%

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Workstation 7%

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System: HP Z230 Tower Workstation

CPU
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	616x
Core i7-4770Intel $75Bench 70%, 176,321 samples	494x
Core i5-4590Intel $188Bench 63%, 151,366 samples	239x

GPU
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	235x
Quadro K2000NvidiaBench 7%, 13,526 samples	173x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	161x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	121x
MTFDDAK256MBF-1AN1ZABHA 256GBCrucialBench 89%, 2,574 samples	56x
C400 RealSSD 256GBMicronBench 55%, 11,652 samples	46x

RAM
16JTF1G64AZ-1G6E1 2x8GBMicronBench 53%, 7,464 samples	57x
HMT41GU6BFR8C-PB 2x8GBHynixBench 54%, 3,233 samples	51x
8JTF51264AZ-1G6E1 4x4GBMicronBench 56%, 6,584 samples	45x

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Total price: $178

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $290	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16