HP Z230 Tower Workstation

Performance Results


Gaming 28% Raft	Desktop 74% Battleship	Workstation 24% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (54th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 46 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 70.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	34.5% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	76.1% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	24GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 24GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (35%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago.

System	HP Z230 Tower Workstation (all builds)
Motherboard	Hewlett-Packard 1905
Memory	20.7 GB free of 24 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140715
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Aug 02 '20 at 19:31
Run Duration	218 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	35%

PC Performing as expected (54^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4770-$75 176,321 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.65 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (42^nd percentile)	70.4% Very good	Memory 73.3 1-Core 87.9 2-Core 196 66% 119 Pts	4-Core 379 8-Core 442 53% 411 Pts	64-Core 570 35% 570 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 70.4% Great: 78%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD HD 7950-$290 33,820 User benchmarks, average bench 29% Gigabyte(1458 254C) 3GB CLim: 1000 MHz, MLim: 1250 MHz, Ram: 3GB, Driver: 19.20 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	34.5% Below average	Lighting 44.5 Reflection 32.2 Parallax 55.6 36% 44.1 fps	MRender 29.9 Gravity 43.3 Splatting 39.6 31% 37.6 fps
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 34.5% Great: 32%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial MX100 512GB-$200 31,545 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 224GB free (System drive) Firmware: MU01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 319 272 257 229 292 278 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile)	76.1% Very good	Read 399 Write 430 Mixed 302 SusWrite 274 79% 352 MB/s	4K Read 27.9 4K Write 89.9 4K Mixed 38 139% 51.9 MB/s	DQ Read 2.1 DQ Write 22.6 DQ Mixed 3.3 5% 9.33 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 76.1% Great: 107%
Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB-$95 81,608 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 317GB free Firmware: CC32 SusWrite @10s intervals: 81 81 81 79 79 81 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile)	46.4% Average	Read 81.3 Write 82 Mixed 57.2 SusWrite 80.4 55% 75.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 0.8 4K Mixed 0.6 111% 0.7 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 46.4% Great: 75%
Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB-$83 138,859 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 110GB free Firmware: 1AJ10001 SusWrite @10s intervals: 19 0 0 32 24 59 MB/s Relative performance n/a - sequential test incomplete		Write 14.5 Mixed 1 SusWrite 22.5 9% 12.7 MB/s	4K Read 0 4K Write 0.4 4K Mixed 0.1 18% 0.17 MB/s
Poor: 39% Great: 75%
SDHC Card 32GB 13,791 User benchmarks, average bench 15% 18GB free, PID null SusWrite @10s intervals: 27 23 23 23 23 23 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	26.2% Poor	Read 38.8 Write 20.7 Mixed 30.5 SusWrite 23.4 36% 28.4 MB/s	4K Read 7 4K Write 4.5 4K Mixed 5.6 370% 5.7 MB/s
Poor: 5% ↑ This bench: 26.2% Great: 33%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 9965525-116.A00LF KHX1600C9D3/4GX 9965525-116.A00LF KHX1600C9D3/4GX 24GB 3 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 8192, 4096, 8192, 4096 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	48.3% Average	MC Read 16.8 MC Write 18.4 MC Mixed 14 47% 16.4 GB/s	SC Read 14.3 SC Write 19.9 SC Mixed 17.1 49% 17.1 GB/s	Latency 93.9 43% 93.9 ns
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 48.3% Great: 49%

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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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System: HP Z230 Tower Workstation

CPU
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	614x
Core i7-4770Intel $75Bench 70%, 176,321 samples	492x
Core i5-4590Intel $188Bench 63%, 151,366 samples	239x

GPU
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	234x
Quadro K2000NvidiaBench 7%, 13,526 samples	173x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	161x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	121x
MTFDDAK256MBF-1AN1ZABHA 256GBCrucialBench 89%, 2,574 samples	56x
C400 RealSSD 256GBMicronBench 55%, 11,652 samples	46x

RAM
16JTF1G64AZ-1G6E1 2x8GBMicronBench 53%, 7,464 samples	57x
HMT41GU6BFR8C-PB 2x8GBHynixBench 54%, 3,233 samples	51x
8JTF51264AZ-1G6E1 4x4GBMicronBench 56%, 6,584 samples	45x

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Value: 74% - Very good

Total price: $178

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $179	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