HP Pavilion dv6 Notebook PC

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 1% Tree trunk	Desktop 33% Sail boat	Workstation 1% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (50th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 50 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
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 38%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is poor.
Graphics	2.96% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
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	6GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 6GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 10 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 (60%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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System	HP Pavilion dv6 Notebook PC (all builds)
Motherboard	Hewlett-Packard 1805
Memory	2.6 GB free of 6 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1366 x 768 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20120622
Uptime	13.7 Days
Run Date	Jan 05 '19 at 16:18
Run Duration	120 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	60%

PC Performing as expected (50^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD A6-3420M APU 4,510 User benchmarks, average bench 36% Socket FS1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 1.5 GHz Performing as expected (58^th percentile)	38% Below average	Memory 61 1-Core 24.2 2-Core 48.1 31% 44.4 Pts	4-Core 90.1 8-Core 86.7 12% 88.4 Pts	64-Core 98.1 6% 98.1 Pts
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 38% Great: 43%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD Radeon HD 6520G 8,067 User benchmarks, average bench 2% HP(103C 358B) 512MB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 8.900.7.1000 Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	2.96% Terrible	Lighting 3.83 Reflection 1.19 Parallax 2.66 3% 2.56 fps	MRender 3.48 Gravity 2.07 Splatting 3.91 3% 3.15 fps
Poor: 2% ↑ This bench: 2.96% Great: 3%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Seagate ST640LM000 HM641JI 640GB 1,289 User benchmarks, average bench 36% 109GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2AJ1 SusWrite @10s intervals: 41 55 54 49 61 63 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile)	27.1% Poor	Read 40.5 Write 58.5 Mixed 34 SusWrite 53.9 34% 46.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.3 4K Write 1.2 4K Mixed 0.5 90% 0.67 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 27.1% Great: 50%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Hynix HMT351S6CFR8C-PB Micron 8KTF25664HZ-1G6M1 6GB 206 User benchmarks, average bench 37% 1333, 1333 MHz 4096, 2048 MB Performing below potential (24^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	28% Poor	MC Read 12.9 MC Write 9.7 MC Mixed 8.6 30% 10.4 GB/s	SC Read 4.8 SC Write 3.6 SC Mixed 5.4 13% 4.6 GB/s	Latency 125 32% 125 ns
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 28% Great: 52%

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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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Gaming 2%

Tree trunk

Desktop 51%

Yacht

Workstation 2%

Tree trunk

System: HP Pavilion dv6 Notebook PC

CPU
Core i7-2670QMIntel $200Bench 56%, 51,169 samples	337x
Core i7-2630QMIntel $199Bench 55%, 39,605 samples	256x
Core i7-3610QMIntel $300Bench 62%, 38,575 samples	183x

GPU
HD 3000 (Mobile V1 1.1/1.2 GHz)IntelBench 2%, 209,058 samples	840x
HD Graphics (Arrandale 0.667/0.766 GHz)IntelBench 1%, 99,513 samples	384x
HD 4000 (Mobile 1.25 GHz)IntelBench 3%, 409,110 samples	186x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	92x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	43x
MX500 500GBCrucial $53Bench 106%, 237,241 samples	40x

RAM
2x2GBUnknownBench 20%, 446,702 samples	111x
M471B5273DH0-CH9 2x4GBSamsungBench 43%, 15,815 samples	82x
M471B5673EH1-CH9 2x2GBSamsungBench 27%, 1,322 samples	70x

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Value: 57% - Above average

Total price: $228

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $176	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $128	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16