HP Z230 Tower Workstation

Performance Results


Gaming 50% Yacht	Desktop 80% Battleship	Workstation 43% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (65th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 35 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 75%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	63.5% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	91.7% 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	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.

Run History

3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

System	HP Z230 Tower Workstation (all builds)
Motherboard	Hewlett-Packard 1905
Memory	29.5 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1440 x 900 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20200422
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 02 '20 at 14:24
Run Duration	145 Seconds
Run User	FRA-User
Background CPU	4%

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PC Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790K-$348 455,746 User benchmarks, average bench 79% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.1 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile)	75% Very good	Memory 64.2 1-Core 117 2-Core 242 75% 141 Pts	4-Core 464 8-Core 645 70% 555 Pts	64-Core 645 40% 645 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 75% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1650S (Super)-$300 180,577 User benchmarks, average bench 59% PNY(196E 1350) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2220 MHz, MLim: 3055 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 457.30 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	63.5% Good	Lighting 82.4 Reflection 82.4 Parallax 79.1 67% 81.3 fps	MRender 64.9 Gravity 79.2 Splatting 64.2 56% 69.4 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 63.5% Great: 62%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial M500 240GB-$54 31,779 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 184GB free (System drive) Firmware: MU05 SusWrite @10s intervals: 156 255 256 264 245 257 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	91.7% Outstanding	Read 440 Write 269 Mixed 312 SusWrite 239 70% 315 MB/s	4K Read 26.9 4K Write 116 4K Mixed 39.5 153% 60.8 MB/s	DQ Read 318 DQ Write 256 DQ Mixed 182 165% 252 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 91.7% Great: 91%
Corsair Force NVMe PCIe M.2 240GB 26,501 User benchmarks, average bench 162% 223GB free Firmware: ECFM12.3 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 481 801 871 507 301 297 MB/s Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)	177% Outstanding	Read 1,084 Write 961 Mixed 962 SusWrite 543 199% 888 MB/s	4K Read 48.2 4K Write 135 4K Mixed 54.8 215% 79.2 MB/s	DQ Read 710 DQ Write 888 DQ Mixed 715 563% 771 MB/s
Poor: 95% ↑ This bench: 177% Great: 223%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 685GB free Firmware: 1A03 SusWrite @10s intervals: 132 172 171 172 173 170 MB/s Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)	95.4% Outstanding	Read 167 Write 168 Mixed 138 SusWrite 165 118% 159 MB/s	4K Read 1.2 4K Write 3.1 4K Mixed 1.2 241% 1.83 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 95.4% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown CMY16GX3M2A2400C11 Kingston 99U5471-052.A00LF 0215 CMY16GX3M2A2400C11 Kingston 99U5471-038.A00LF 32GB 21 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 1333, 1333, 1333, 1333 MHz 8192, 8192, 8192, 8192 MB Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile)	44.7% Average	MC Read 14 MC Write 16.8 MC Mixed 14.5 43% 15.1 GB/s	SC Read 14.9 SC Write 19.3 SC Mixed 16.6 48% 16.9 GB/s	Latency 116 34% 116 ns
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 44.7% Great: 59%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Desktop 65%

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Workstation 7%

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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	493x
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 $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