Dell Precision M6400

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 2% Tree trunk	Desktop 29% Raft	Workstation 1% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (22nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 78 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With a relatively low single core score, this CPU can handle email, light web browsing and basic audio/video playback, but it will struggle to handle CPU intensive tasks. Finally, with a gaming score of 29.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very poor.
Graphics	6.48% 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	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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 8 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Very high background CPU (61%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago.

System	Dell Precision M6400 (all builds)
Motherboard	Dell 0D138P
Memory	12.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.1 GHz
Display	1680 x 1050 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20130605
Uptime	0.8 Days
Run Date	Sep 30 '18 at 17:22
Run Duration	123 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	61%

PC Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core2 Extreme X9100-$150 548 User benchmarks, average bench 41% Microprocessor, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 2 threads Base clock 3.05 GHz Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile)	29.5% Poor	Memory 55.4 1-Core 15 2-Core 24.1 25% 31.5 Pts	4-Core 23.7 8-Core 24.2 3% 24 Pts	64-Core 28.5 2% 28.5 Pts
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 29.5% Great: 46%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia Quadro FX 3700M 383 User benchmarks, average bench 6% Dell(1028 019C) 1GB Ram: 1GB, Driver: 342.0 Performing above expectations (77^th percentile)	6.48% Terrible	Lighting 8.97 Reflection 7.23 Parallax 3.38 7% 6.52 fps	MRender 6.48 Gravity 6.43 Splatting 5.22 5% 6.04 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 6.48% Great: 6%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Seagate ST9320421ASG 320GB-$120 340 User benchmarks, average bench 35% 231GB free (System drive) Firmware: DE17 SusWrite @10s intervals: 23 28 34 35 26 26 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile)	16.1% Very poor	Read 27.4 Write 32.7 Mixed 19.3 SusWrite 28.6 20% 27 MB/s	4K Read 0.2 4K Write 1.1 4K Mixed 0.4 73% 0.57 MB/s
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 16.1% Great: 47%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 4x4GB 106,178 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 Performing way below expectations (1^st percentile)	12.6% Very poor	MC Read 4.5 MC Write 3.7 MC Mixed 3.4 11% 3.87 GB/s	SC Read 3.7 SC Write 3.5 SC Mixed 3.8 10% 3.67 GB/s	Latency 142 28% 142 ns
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 12.6% Great: 61%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Typical Precision M6400 Builds (Compare 61 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 5%

Tree trunk

Desktop 43%

Speed boat

Workstation 4%

Tree trunk

System: Dell Precision M6400

CPU
Core2 Extreme Q9300Intel $172Bench 46%, 660 samples	14x
Core2 Duo T9600Intel $170Bench 39%, 2,726 samples	11x
Core2 Duo T9550Intel $199Bench 39%, 1,427 samples	8x

GPU
Quadro FX 2700MNvidiaBench 3%, 788 samples	30x
Quadro FX 3700MNvidiaBench 6%, 383 samples	20x
FirePro M7740ATIBench 7%, 225 samples	6x

SSD
Fury 240GBHyperX $193Bench 71%, 27,826 samples	2x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $37Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	2x
RBX Series 1 128GBSamsungBench 15%, 26 samples	2x

RAM
4x2GBUnknownBench 25%, 183,252 samples	14x
4x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 106,178 samples	12x
2x2GBUnknownBench 20%, 446,702 samples	12x

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Value: 28% - Poor

Total price: $365

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