Dell XPS 8500

Performance Results


Gaming 20% Surfboard	Desktop 77% Battleship	Workstation 17% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (57th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 43 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%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	22.3% 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	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.

System	Dell XPS 8500 (all builds)
Motherboard	Dell 0NW73C
Memory	10.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20130828
Uptime	0.8 Days
Run Date	May 28 '17 at 03:35
Run Duration	164 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	10%

PC Performing as expected (57^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-3770-$297 278,207 User benchmarks, average bench 69% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	73% Very good	Memory 83.6 1-Core 101 2-Core 193 73% 126 Pts	4-Core 337 8-Core 502 52% 419 Pts	64-Core 488 30% 488 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 73% Great: 76%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R7 260X-$120 38,521 User benchmarks, average bench 20% XFX(1682 7260) CLim: 1100 MHz, MLim: 1600 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 17.1.1 Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	22.3% Poor	Lighting 26.8 Reflection 30.3 Parallax 32.3 22% 29.8 fps	MRender 27.2 Gravity 23.9 Splatting 32.5 23% 27.9 fps
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 22.3% Great: 22%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Transcend TS128GSSD320 59GB 5 User benchmarks, average bench 38% 26GB free Firmware: 2 Performing below expectations (25^th percentile)	36.1% Below average	Read 172 Write 106 Mixed 113 29% 130 MB/s	4K Read 17.8 4K Write 35.1 4K Mixed 12.5 62% 21.8 MB/s	DQ Read 85.8 DQ Write 115 DQ Mixed 26.8 41% 75.7 MB/s
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 36.1% Great: 39%
Seagate Desktop HDD 4TB (2013)-$60 67,711 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 1TB free Firmware: CC52 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 151395224 (03) Spinup time 92 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4560 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 63 60 38673445031 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 6358 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1775 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 17180131334 (BD) vendor-specific 89 89 11 (BE) vendor-specific 70 58 21979463710 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 113 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 85 85 31419 (C2) HDA temperature 30 42 -140737488355298 (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 100751342832663 (F1) Unknown 100 253 76428108209 (F2) Unknown 100 253 12733560474	76% Very good	Read 119 Write 146 Mixed 132 100% 132 MB/s	4K Read 0.67 4K Write 0.86 4K Mixed 0.16 61% 0.56 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 76% Great: 96%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$60 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 825GB free Firmware: CC25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 171776672 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2760 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 9424007 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 4214 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1065 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 92 92 8 (BE) vendor-specific 64 56 605356068 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 26 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 93 93 15086 (C2) HDA temperature 36 44 73014444068 (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 -96456375531652 (F1) Unknown 100 253 89967285800 (F2) Unknown 100 253 38014073916	80.3% Excellent	Read 145 Write 135 Mixed 131 103% 137 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 1.49 4K Mixed 0.17 77% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 80.3% Great: 113%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$32 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 161GB free (System drive) Firmware: A008 Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	98.5% Outstanding	Read 184 Write 159 Mixed 154 124% 166 MB/s	4K Read 0.64 4K Write 2.61 4K Mixed 0.26 104% 1.17 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 98.5% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown NT4GC64B8HG0NF-DI 04EF Vulcan-1866 830B NT4GC64B8HG0NF-DI 04EF Vulcan-1866 16GB 9 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 1600, 1333, 1600, 1333 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing as expected (43^rd percentile)	48.6% Average	MC Read 17.5 MC Write 16.7 MC Mixed 15 47% 16.4 GB/s	SC Read 15.1 SC Write 16.2 SC Mixed 16.3 45% 15.9 GB/s	Latency 74.1 54% 74.1 ns
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 48.6% Great: 50%

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Gaming 10%

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Desktop 66%

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Workstation 9%

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System: Dell XPS 8500

CPU
Core i7-3770Intel $297Bench 69%, 278,207 samples	1,673x
Core i5-3450Intel $59Bench 66%, 34,199 samples	144x
Core i5-3350PIntel $60Bench 65%, 21,413 samples	139x

GPU
GeForce GT 640NvidiaBench 6%, 34,519 samples	162x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	155x
GeForce GT 620NvidiaBench 2%, 17,163 samples	112x

SSD
PM830 mSATA 256GBSamsungBench 63%, 9,379 samples	58x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	57x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	56x

RAM
HMT351U6CFR8C-PB 4x4GBHynixBench 58%, 7,298 samples	156x
HMT351U6CFR8C-PB 2x4GBHynixBench 53%, 17,809 samples	80x
NT4GC64B8HG0NF-DI 4x4GBNanyaBench 58%, 1,608 samples	77x

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Total price: $297

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