Dell Precision Tower 3420

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 7% Tree trunk	Desktop 66% Battle cruiser	Workstation 7% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 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 73.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	3.9% 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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB 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.

High background CPU (27%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

3 years ago, 3 years ago.

System	Dell Precision Tower 3420
Motherboard	Dell Precision Tower 3420 (all builds)
Memory	24.7 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151204
Uptime	4.2 Days
Run Date	Aug 24 '20 at 23:26
Run Duration	107 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	27%

PC Performing as expected (60^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6600-$130 80,688 User benchmarks, average bench 68% Socket 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 3.65 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	73.7% Very good	Memory 79.6 1-Core 117 2-Core 221 78% 139 Pts	4-Core 389 8-Core 408 53% 398 Pts	64-Core 452 28% 452 Pts
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 73.7% Great: 77%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia Quadro K420 3,707 User benchmarks, average bench 3% Nvidia(10DE 1162) 2GB CLim: 875 MHz, MLim: 445 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 353.62 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	3.9% Terrible	Lighting 4.4 Reflection 4 Parallax 4.38 4% 4.26 fps	MRender 5.05 Gravity 3.87 Splatting 7 4% 5.3 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 3.9% Great: 4%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 500GB-$23 574,344 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 21GB free (System drive) Firmware: KC48 SusWrite @10s intervals: 40 52 50 57 58 59 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile)	25.9% Poor	Read 37.5 Write 74.5 Mixed 53.4 SusWrite 52.7 40% 54.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 0.9 4K Mixed 0.7 119% 0.73 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 25.9% Great: 88%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Hynix HMA41GU6AFR8N-TF HMA41GU6AFR8N-TF Micron 16ATF1G64AZ-2G1A2 Micron 16ATF1G64AZ-2G1A2 32GB 20 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 2133, 2133, 2133, 2133 MHz 8192, 8192, 8192, 8192 MB Performing as expected (50^th percentile)	73.3% Very good	MC Read 24.8 MC Write 28.2 MC Mixed 25 74% 26 GB/s	SC Read 17.9 SC Write 28.7 SC Mixed 22.8 66% 23.1 GB/s	Latency 81.3 49% 81.3 ns
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 73.3% Great: 77%

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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 Precision Tower 3420 Builds (Compare 814 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 11%

Tree trunk

Desktop 69%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 11%

Tree trunk

Motherboard: Dell Precision Tower 3420

CPU
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	225x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	152x
Core i5-6500Intel $67Bench 64%, 241,476 samples	115x

GPU
HD 530 (Desktop Skylake)IntelBench 5%, 188,220 samples	180x
HD 630 (Desktop Kaby Lake)IntelBench 5%, 153,031 samples	113x
Quadro K620Nvidia $170Bench 11%, 16,214 samples	83x

SSD
THNSN5256GPUK NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBToshibaBench 109%, 23,829 samples	21x
XG5 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBToshiba $33Bench 125%, 44,050 samples	21x
PM951 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBSamsungBench 120%, 13,766 samples	13x

RAM
HMA41GU6AFR8N-TF 2x8GBUnknownBench 72%, 2,345 samples	46x
HMA81GU6AFR8N-UH 2x8GBUnknownBench 73%, 3,256 samples	37x
HMA41GU6AFR8N-TF 1x8GBUnknownBench 40%, 853 samples	22x

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Value: 82% - Excellent

Total price: $180

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	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) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16