HP Z420 Workstation

Performance Results


Gaming 17% Surfboard	Desktop 78% Battleship	Workstation 15% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (78th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 22 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 79.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	11.5% 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	80.9% 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	12GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 12GB 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	HP Z420 Workstation (all builds)
Motherboard	Hewlett-Packard 1589
Memory	8.3 GB free of 12 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140325
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Aug 21 '16 at 20:57
Run Duration	136 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Xeon E5-1620 v2-$345 10,301 User benchmarks, average bench 71% CPU0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.7 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	79.5% Very good	Memory 90.2 1-Core 103 2-Core 205 77% 133 Pts	4-Core 375 8-Core 514 56% 445 Pts	64-Core 515 32% 515 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 79.5% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia Quadro 5000 751 User benchmarks, average bench 10% HP(103C 0770) 2.5GB Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.6839 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	11.5% Very poor	Lighting 12.9 Reflection 19.3 Parallax 11.2 10% 14.5 fps	MRender 22.9 Gravity 9.9 Splatting 16.7 13% 16.5 fps
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 11.5% Great: 11%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial MTFDDAK256MAY-1AH1ZABHA 256GB 909 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 106GB free (System drive) Firmware: M504 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2576 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 80 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 323 (AA) Unknown 100 100 16 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 98 98 67 (AE) Unknown 100 100 80 (B5) Unknown 100 100 1632089932120 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 317 (BE) vendor-specific 61 56 188979478567 (C2) HDA temperature 61 56 188979478567 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 2592960444 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 16 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0	80.9% Excellent	Read 494 Write 421 Mixed 443 101% 453 MB/s	4K Read 25.8 4K Write 83.6 4K Mixed 20.8 110% 43.4 MB/s	DQ Read 29.1 DQ Write 97.2 DQ Mixed 20.4 28% 48.9 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 80.9% Great: 105%
Liteonit LCS-256M6S 2.5 7mm 256GB 11,477 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 89GB free Firmware: DC8110E Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (60^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 727 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 55626 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 1280 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 120350 (F2) Unknown 100 100 80318	85.5% Excellent	Read 514 Write 426 Mixed 447 103% 463 MB/s	4K Read 27.8 4K Write 69 4K Mixed 27 113% 41.3 MB/s	DQ Read 30.9 DQ Write 177 DQ Mixed 19.8 40% 75.8 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 85.5% Great: 101%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 737GB free Firmware: HP64 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (85^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 100 238793711 (03) Spinup time 99 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1345 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 882733 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 409 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 322 (B4) Unknown 100 100 4263190777 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 1 504 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 65 60 622854179 (C2) HDA temperature 35 40 107374182435 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 54 48 238793711 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	63.5% Good	Read 103 Write 119 Mixed 112 84% 111 MB/s	4K Read 0.83 4K Write 1.74 4K Mixed 0.47 119% 1.01 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 63.5% Great: 68%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Micron 9JSF51272AZ-1G9E2 3x4GB 28 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 3 of 8 slots used 12GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1866 MHz Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	79% Very good	MC Read 32.1 MC Write 29.8 MC Mixed 28.6 86% 30.2 GB/s	SC Read 15.4 SC Write 13.5 SC Mixed 12.4 39% 13.8 GB/s	Latency 66.9 60% 66.9 ns
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 79% Great: 80%

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System: HP Z420 Workstation

CPU
Xeon E5-1620 0Intel $345Bench 70%, 17,464 samples	1,499x
Xeon E5-1650 v2Intel $635Bench 76%, 10,921 samples	772x
Xeon E5-1620 v2Intel $345Bench 71%, 10,301 samples	686x

GPU
Quadro K2000NvidiaBench 7%, 13,526 samples	495x
Quadro K4000NvidiaBench 13%, 11,114 samples	304x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	261x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	183x
C400 RealSSD 256GBMicronBench 55%, 11,652 samples	128x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	112x

RAM
M391B5273DH0-CK0 4x4GBSamsungBench 72%, 618 samples	65x
M391B5273DH0-CK0 8x4GBSamsungBench 89%, 244 samples	56x
9JSF51272AZ-1G9E2 4x4GBMicronBench 78%, 366 samples	55x

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Value: 62% - Good

Total price: $373

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $182	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $30	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