HP Presario CQ42 Notebook PC

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 0% Tree trunk	Desktop 17% Surfboard	Workstation 0% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (47th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 53 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a below average single core score, this CPU can handle email, web browsing and audio/video playback but it will struggle to handle modern 3D games or workstation tasks such as video editing. Finally, with a gaming score of 38.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is poor.
Graphics	0.34% 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	2GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows however a minimum of 4GB is recommended for gaming or any other RAM intensive tasks such as photo/video editing. This system will also be a little more responsive with 4GB of RAM.
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 Presario CQ42 Notebook PC (all builds)
Motherboard	Hewlett-Packard 1484
Memory	0.7 GB free of 2 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	1366 x 768 - 32 Bit colores, 1366 x 768 - 32 Bit colores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20101123
Uptime	8.8 Days
Run Date	Jan 07 '19 at 23:59
Run Duration	146 Seconds
Run User	PER-User
Background CPU	8%

PC Performing as expected (47^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Celeron Dual-Core T3500 1,736 User benchmarks, average bench 34% CPU, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 2 threads Base clock 2.1 GHz, turbo 1.95 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	38.2% Below average	Memory 66.7 1-Core 30 2-Core 58.7 36% 51.8 Pts	4-Core 59.2 8-Core 59.7 8% 59.5 Pts	64-Core 58.8 4% 58.8 Pts
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 38.2% Great: 41%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel Mobile Series 4 Express Chipset Family 23,924 User benchmarks, average bench 0% HP(103C 1484) 797MB Driver: igdumd64.dll Ver. 8.15.10.2413 Performing as expected (50^th percentile)	0.34% Terrible	Lighting 0.4 Reflection 0.35 Parallax 0.41 0% 0.38 fps	MRender 0.43 Gravity 0.4 Splatting 0.48 0% 0.44 fps
Poor: 0% ↑ This bench: 0.34% Great: 1%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WD Blue 2.5" 320GB (2009)-$80 42,987 User benchmarks, average bench 29% 154GB free (System drive) Firmware: 02.01A02 SusWrite @10s intervals: 6.3 14 16 13 16 22 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile)	18.3% Very poor	Read 49.6 Write 16.9 Mixed 18.6 SusWrite 14.5 18% 24.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.1 4K Write 0 4K Mixed 0 4% 0.03 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 18.3% Great: 41%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Micron 8JSF25664HZ-1G4D1 1x2GB 438 User benchmarks, average bench 17% 1 of 2 slots used 2GB SODIMM DDR3 800 MHz Performing as expected (50^th percentile)	13.8% Very poor	MC Read 4.9 MC Write 3.8 MC Mixed 3.5 12% 4.07 GB/s	SC Read 4.5 SC Write 4.1 SC Mixed 3.5 12% 4.03 GB/s	Latency 109 37% 109 ns
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 13.8% Great: 28%

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

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Gaming 1%

Tree trunk

Desktop 19%

Surfboard

Workstation 1%

Tree trunk

System: HP Presario CQ42 Notebook PC

CPU
Core i3 M 350Intel $199Bench 38%, 14,351 samples	13x
Pentium T4500IntelBench 34%, 8,800 samples	10x
Pentium P6300IntelBench 38%, 178 samples	7x

GPU
HD Graphics (Arrandale 0.667/0.766 GHz)IntelBench 1%, 99,513 samples	36x
Mobile Series 4 Express Chipset FamilyIntelBench 0%, 23,924 samples	9x
Radeon HD 5400ATIBench 1%, 10,400 samples	8x

SSD
WDS500G2B0A-00SM50 500GBWDCBench 93%, 97,462 samples	2x
SA400S37/120G 120GBKingstonBench 60%, 96 samples	2x
A400 120GBKingston $32Bench 61%, 166,392 samples	2x

RAM
M471B5673FH0-CH9 1x2GBSamsungBench 19%, 884 samples	3x
HMT325S6CFR8C-H9 Elpida EBJ20UF8BCS0-DJ-F 4GBHynixBench 40%, 21 samples	3x
EBJ21UE8BDS0-DJ-F 1x2GBElpidaBench 20%, 220 samples	2x

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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