Dell Vostro 230

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 2% Tree trunk	Desktop 45% Speed boat	Workstation 1% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (81st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 19 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a below average single core score, this CPU can handle email, web browsing and audio/video playback but it will struggle to handle modern 3D games or workstation tasks such as video editing. Finally, with a gaming score of 43.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is below average.
Graphics	8.07% 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	4GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and although it's sufficient for most games, some will benefit from up to 8GB of RAM. 4GB is also enough for modest file and system caches which allow for a responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 10 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	Dell Vostro 230 (all builds)
Motherboard	Dell 07N90W
Memory	2 GB free of 4 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20101209
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Jun 11 '17 at 04:59
Run Duration	122 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Pentium E5800-$58 8,890 User benchmarks, average bench 37% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 2 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	43.3% Average	Memory 71.5 1-Core 45.6 2-Core 90.9 44% 69.3 Pts	4-Core 90.5 8-Core 90.4 12% 90.4 Pts	64-Core 91.4 6% 91.4 Pts
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 43.3% Great: 44%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GeForce GT 740 30,433 User benchmarks, average bench 7% MSI(1462 8A9E) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1006 MHz, MLim: 445 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 373.6 Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	8.07% Terrible	Lighting 9.4 Reflection 8.5 Parallax 9.78 8% 9.23 fps	MRender 8.71 Gravity 11.6 Splatting 11.7 9% 10.7 fps
Poor: 6% ↑ This bench: 8.07% Great: 8%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
WD WD2500AVVS-61L2B0 250GB 2,518 User benchmarks, average bench 27% 153GB free (System drive) Firmware: 01.00A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 683 (03) Spinup time 150 148 3491 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6160 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 59 59 30157 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 94 94 6073 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 572 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 104 104 289277 (C2) HDA temperature 107 99 36 (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	55.4% Above average	Read 95.2 Write 97.6 Mixed 24.2 53% 72.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 2.18 4K Mixed 0.28 92% 0.98 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 55.4% Great: 35%
Seagate ST3320418AS 320GB-$54 24,309 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 148GB free Firmware: CC46 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 175782841 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 89 89 12156 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 86 60 4759456436 (09) Power-on hours count 66 66 30582 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 6078 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 68 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 64 57 605552676 (C2) HDA temperature 36 43 34359738404 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 55 39 175782841 (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 35369055730099 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2518581925 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3558053545	56.1% Above average	Read 97.2 Write 98.1 Mixed 27.3 54% 74.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.58 4K Mixed 0.43 98% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 56.1% Great: 58%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 2x2GB 446,702 User benchmarks, average bench 20% 2 of 2 slots used 4GB DIMM DDR3 Performing as expected (42^nd percentile)	16.1% Very poor	MC Read 5.9 MC Write 4.2 MC Mixed 4.4 14% 4.83 GB/s	SC Read 5 SC Write 4 SC Mixed 4.7 13% 4.57 GB/s	Latency 98 41% 98 ns
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 16.1% Great: 44%

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Gaming 2%

Tree trunk

Desktop 39%

Jet ski

Workstation 2%

Tree trunk

System: Dell Vostro 230

CPU
Core2 Duo E7500Intel $109Bench 39%, 39,897 samples	84x
Core2 Quad Q8400Intel $100Bench 45%, 18,432 samples	31x
Core2 Quad Q9400Intel $170Bench 46%, 24,176 samples	17x

GPU
G41 Express ChipsetIntelBench 0%, 33,874 samples	105x
GeForce GT 730NvidiaBench 5%, 164,888 samples	15x
GeForce 310NvidiaBench 1%, 4,147 samples	14x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	8x
A400 120GBKingston $26Bench 61%, 166,392 samples	7x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	4x

RAM
2x2GBUnknownBench 20%, 446,702 samples	125x
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples	59x
3GBUnknownBench 14%, 81,553 samples	25x

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Value: 45% - Average

Total price: $137

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12400F $110	Nvidia RTX 4060 $290	WD Black SN850X M.2 2TB $145
Intel Core i5-12600K $174	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	WD Black SN850X M.2 1TB $89
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $549	Crucial T700 M.2 4TB $369