Dell Studio 540

Performance Results


Gaming 4% Tree trunk	Desktop 42% Speed boat	Workstation 3% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (31st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 69 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 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 43.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is below average.
Graphics	5.06% 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	36.9% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce IO wait 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

3 years ago, 3 years ago.

System	Dell Studio 540 (all builds)
Motherboard	Dell 0M017G
Memory	3.5 GB free of 6 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20081225
Uptime	4.4 Days
Run Date	May 28 '20 at 21:56
Run Duration	115 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing below expectations (31^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core2 Quad Q6600-$100 59,658 User benchmarks, average bench 42% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 2.4 GHz, turbo 2.4 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (69^th percentile)	43.8% Average	Memory 69.4 1-Core 27.3 2-Core 55.6 36% 50.8 Pts	4-Core 108 8-Core 110 15% 109 Pts	64-Core 110 7% 110 Pts
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 43.8% Great: 50%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD Radeon HD 6670 32,193 User benchmarks, average bench 6% Sapphire(174B E247) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008 Performing way below expectations (20^th percentile)	5.06% Terrible	Lighting 6.53 Reflection 6.96 Parallax 6.91 5% 6.8 fps	MRender 4.62 Gravity 6.4 Splatting 5.57 5% 5.53 fps
Poor: 5% ↑ This bench: 5.06% Great: 7%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
PNY CS900 500GB SSD 16,267 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 427GB free (System drive) Firmware: CS900613 SusWrite @10s intervals: 143 153 154 69 48 53 MB/s Performing below potential (1^st percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable	36.9% Below average	Read 232 Write 99.6 Mixed 140 SusWrite 103 32% 144 MB/s	4K Read 23.3 4K Write 16.9 4K Mixed 17.3 66% 19.2 MB/s	DQ Read 29.3 DQ Write 17.2 DQ Mixed 19.8 16% 22.1 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 36.9% Great: 96%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 6GB 111,301 User benchmarks, average bench 25% null MHz 1024, 1024, 2048, 2048 MB Performing below potential (33^rd percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	17.5% Very poor	MC Read 6.8 MC Write 4.6 MC Mixed 4.8 15% 5.4 GB/s	SC Read 5.3 SC Write 4.5 SC Mixed 5.5 15% 5.1 GB/s	Latency 103 39% 103 ns
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 17.5% Great: 46%

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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 Studio 540 Builds (Compare 110 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 4%

Tree trunk

Desktop 39%

Jet ski

Workstation 4%

Tree trunk

System: Dell Studio 540

CPU
Core2 Quad Q8200Intel $49Bench 43%, 19,990 samples	41x
Core2 Quad Q8300Intel $115Bench 44%, 20,482 samples	17x
Core2 Quad Q9400Intel $170Bench 46%, 24,176 samples	14x

GPU
G45/G43 Express ChipsetIntelBench 1%, 6,554 samples	12x
Radeon HD 4300ATIBench 1%, 14,988 samples	11x
Radeon HD 3450ATIBench 1%, 4,621 samples	9x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	5x
easystore 240GBWDBench 48%, 2,807 samples	4x
CS1311 240GBPNY $78Bench 81%, 26,547 samples	3x

RAM
4x2GBUnknownBench 25%, 183,252 samples	58x
6GBUnknownBench 25%, 111,301 samples	26x
4x1GBUnknownBench 18%, 54,972 samples	12x

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Value: 52% - Above average

Total price: $77

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	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) $37	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