HP Z230 Tower Workstation

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 34% Sail boat	Desktop 65% Battle cruiser	Workstation 28% Raft


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (49th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 51 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. Despite its good single core score this processor isn't appropriate for workstation use due to its relatively weak multi-core performance. Finally, with a gaming score of 65.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	55.9% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (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	16GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 16GB 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.

Very high background CPU (37%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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

System	HP Z230 Tower Workstation (all builds)
Motherboard	Hewlett-Packard 1905
Memory	12 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150720
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 27 '20 at 00:12
Run Duration	125 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	37%

PC Performing as expected (49^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3-$209 19,313 User benchmarks, average bench 73% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.55 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile)	65.3% Good	Memory 71.4 1-Core 83.9 2-Core 160 61% 105 Pts	4-Core 319 8-Core 477 49% 398 Pts	64-Core 477 30% 477 Pts
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 65.3% Great: 81%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX 5500-XT-$217 72,993 User benchmarks, average bench 51% MSI(1462 3822) ≥ 4GB Ram: 8GB, Driver: 20.12.1 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	55.9% Above average	Lighting 75.6 Reflection 68.3 Parallax 92.1 62% 78.7 fps	MRender 54.8 Gravity 72.5 Splatting 42.1 45% 56.5 fps
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 55.9% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 413GB free (System drive) Firmware: HP51 SusWrite @10s intervals: 26 20 13 21 35 34 MB/s Performing way below expectations (1^st percentile)	19.1% Very poor	Read 41 Write 131 Mixed 57.3 SusWrite 25 47% 63.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 1.7 4K Mixed 0.3 98% 0.93 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 19.1% Great: 112%
Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB-$100 65,786 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 719GB free Firmware: 1AA01118 SusWrite @10s intervals: 89 88 88 92 96 93 MB/s Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	57.1% Above average	Read 108 Write 81.2 Mixed 67.6 SusWrite 90.9 64% 86.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 2.4 4K Mixed 1.1 200% 1.43 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 57.1% Great: 62%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Ramaxel RMR5040ED58E9W1600 RMR5040ED58E9W1600 Samsung M391B1G73QH0-CK0 16GB 4 User benchmarks, average bench 34% 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 4096, 8192 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	27.5% Poor	MC Read 8.8 MC Write 10.1 MC Mixed 8.2 26% 9.03 GB/s	SC Read 7.8 SC Write 9.4 SC Mixed 8.7 25% 8.63 GB/s	Latency 98.2 41% 98.2 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 27.5% Great: 38%

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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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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	625x
Core i7-4770Intel $65Bench 70%, 176,321 samples	503x
Core i5-4590Intel $188Bench 63%, 151,366 samples	241x

GPU
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	236x
Quadro K2000NvidiaBench 7%, 13,526 samples	175x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	164x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	122x
MTFDDAK256MBF-1AN1ZABHA 256GBCrucialBench 89%, 2,574 samples	56x
C400 RealSSD 256GBMicronBench 55%, 11,652 samples	47x

RAM
16JTF1G64AZ-1G6E1 2x8GBMicronBench 53%, 7,464 samples	57x
HMT41GU6BFR8C-PB 2x8GBHynixBench 54%, 3,233 samples	51x
8JTF51264AZ-1G6E1 4x4GBMicronBench 56%, 6,584 samples	46x

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