Dell Studio XPS 9100

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 5% Tree trunk	Desktop 47% Yacht	Workstation 3% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (33rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 67 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 an average single core score, this CPU can handle browsing the web, email, video playback and the majority of general computing tasks including light gaming when coupled with an appropriate GPU. Finally, with a gaming score of 45.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is below average.
Graphics	9.72% 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	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	10GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 10GB 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.

High background CPU (21%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	Dell Studio XPS 9100 (all builds)
Motherboard	Dell 05DN3X
Memory	6.6 GB free of 10 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20101021
Uptime	1.1 Days
Run Date	Mar 21 '17 at 16:08
Run Duration	190 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	21%

PC Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-920-$90 69,074 User benchmarks, average bench 62% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 2.65 GHz, turbo 1.6 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile)	45.8% Average	Memory 79.8 1-Core 40.4 2-Core 61.8 43% 60.7 Pts	4-Core 71.3 8-Core 82 10% 76.7 Pts	64-Core 82.7 5% 82.7 Pts
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 45.8% Great: 72%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 550-Ti-$250 54,392 User benchmarks, average bench 9% Asus(1043 83BE) 1GB CLim: 910 MHz, MLim: 1026 MHz, Ram: 1GB, Driver: 376.53 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	9.72% Terrible	Lighting 10.8 Reflection 13 Parallax 9.34 9% 11 fps	MRender 15.4 Gravity 11.5 Splatting 15.1 12% 14 fps
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 9.72% Great: 9%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$32 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 850GB free (System drive) Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 189 189 1533 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 7 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 11 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 7 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 1 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 6 (C2) HDA temperature 109 108 34 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	72.1% Very good	Read 152 Write 99.5 Mixed 108 90% 120 MB/s	4K Read 0.06 4K Write 0.23 4K Mixed 0.04 11% 0.11 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 72.1% Great: 109%
Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB-$78 81,608 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 134GB free Firmware: CC32 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 99 1448 (03) Spinup time 93 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1512 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 70 60 10656923 (09) Power-on hours count 71 71 25986 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1501 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 96 96 4 (BE) vendor-specific 68 50 555024416 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 226 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1517 (C2) HDA temperature 32 50 64424509472 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 14 3 1448 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 5132485944786 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1204889826 (F2) Unknown 100 253 335877483	48.7% Average	Read 75.8 Write 94 Mixed 95.2 67% 88.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.39 4K Write 0.86 4K Mixed 0.39 76% 0.55 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 48.7% Great: 75%
SAMSUNG HD103SI 1TB 7 User benchmarks, average bench 17% 83GB free, PID 0278 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile)	13.8% Very poor	Read 30.3 Write 24.5 Mixed 26.6 34% 27.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 1.3 4K Mixed 0.29 56% 0.71 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 13.8% Great: 20%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 9905403-447.A00LF Elpida EBJ21UE8BDF0-DJ-F Elpida EBJ21UE8BDF0-DJ-F Elpida EBJ21UE8BDF0-DJ-F 10GB 1333, 1333, 1333, 1333 MHz 4096, 2048, 2048, 2048 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	29.6% Poor	MC Read 10.9 MC Write 9.8 MC Mixed 9.6 29% 10.1 GB/s	SC Read 7 SC Write 6.2 SC Mixed 6.8 19% 6.67 GB/s	Latency 80.9 49% 80.9 ns

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Gaming 36%

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Desktop 72%

Battleship

Workstation 29%

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System: Dell Studio XPS 9100

CPU
Core i7 930Intel $199Bench 64%, 19,497 samples	196x
Core i7 960Intel $220Bench 68%, 16,233 samples	90x
Core i7 X 980Intel $148Bench 76%, 8,133 samples	20x

GPU
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	30x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	23x
GTX 750-TiNvidia $92Bench 17%, 309,423 samples	18x

SSD
870 EVO 1TBSamsung $105Bench 112%, 129,044 samples	15x
SD8TB8U-256G-1006 256GBSandiskBench 73%, 213 samples	12x
FTM1TN325H 1TBBench 70%, 177 samples	11x

RAM
M378B5273DH0-CH9 M378B5273DH0-CH9 M378B5273CH0-CH9 M378B5273DH0-CH9 M378B5273CH0-CH9 M378B5273DH0-CH9 24GBSamsungBench 51%, 13 samples	13x
M378B5773CH0-CH9 6x2GBSamsungBench 50%, 43 samples	11x
KP223C-ELD 6x2GBKingstonBench 52%, 31 samples	9x

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Value: 70% - Good

Total price: $434

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 i5-12600K $165	Nvidia RTX 4070 $542	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $29

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $39	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