Dell OptiPlex 990

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 47% Yacht	Desktop 77% Battleship	Workstation 37% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (85th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 15 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 75.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	63.2% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
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	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

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System	Dell OptiPlex 990
Motherboard	Dell OptiPlex 990 (all builds)
Memory	5.4 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150826
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Nov 05 '17 at 21:15
Run Duration	136 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

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PC Performing above expectations (85^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-2600-$197 185,630 User benchmarks, average bench 67% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	75.4% Very good	Memory 91.6 1-Core 97.4 2-Core 185 74% 125 Pts	4-Core 321 8-Core 460 49% 391 Pts	64-Core 470 29% 470 Pts
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 75.4% Great: 74%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-3GB-$119 627,793 User benchmarks, average bench 52% EVGA(3842 6160) CLim: 2126 MHz, MLim: 2352 MHz, Ram: 3GB, Driver: 388.0 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	63.2% Good	Lighting 77.9 Reflection 75.9 Parallax 66 64% 73.3 fps	MRender 79.5 Gravity 73.4 Splatting 76.5 63% 76.4 fps
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 63.2% Great: 56%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Seagate ST3500514NS 500GB-$19 1,968 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 342GB free Firmware: SN12 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 78 63 76936231 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1466 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 8589934594 (07) Seek error rate 79 60 4379022831 (09) Power-on hours count 54 54 40688 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 455 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 65 49 655687715 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 119 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1556 (C2) HDA temperature 35 51 68719476771 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 48 9 76936231 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 2	68.1% Good	Read 117 Write 120 Mixed 96.4 83% 111 MB/s	4K Read 0.85 4K Write 2.11 4K Mixed 0.51 131% 1.16 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 68.1% Great: 75%
Hitachi HDS721050CLA362 500GB-$59 47,815 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 278GB free (System drive) Firmware: JP2OA3GC Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (79^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 59 0 (02) Throughput performance 136 100 94 (03) Spinup time 118 100 12897681602 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 3684 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 3014707 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 138 100 31 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 24242 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 90 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 3472 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (B9) Unknown 95 95 393215 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 65536 (BC) Unknown 100 93 4295300212 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 44 371523617 (C0) Power-off retract count 97 97 3692 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 3692 (C2) HDA temperature 181 109 240518561825 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 51 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1	67.9% Good	Read 121 Write 116 Mixed 107 86% 115 MB/s	4K Read 0.34 4K Write 1.45 4K Mixed 0.3 74% 0.69 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 67.9% Great: 74%
Toshiba MQ01ABF050 500GB-$32 118,349 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 114GB free Firmware: AM003M Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (74^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 1343 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 3967 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 68 68 12949 (0A) Spinup retry count 178 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2640 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 3060 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 302 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 89 89 115120 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 253403791390 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 0 (DE) Loaded hours 76 76 9719 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 276 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	50.7% Above average	Read 89.7 Write 86.9 Mixed 79.7 64% 85.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 1.55 4K Mixed 0.18 68% 0.73 MB/s
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 50.7% Great: 60%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown NT2GC64B88B0NF-CG Hynix HMT325U6BFR8C-H9 Hynix HMT325U6BFR8C-H9 830B NT2GC64B88B0NF-CG 8GB 1333, 1333, 1333, 1333 MHz 2048, 2048, 2048, 2048 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	48.8% Average	MC Read 16.9 MC Write 16.8 MC Mixed 14.9 46% 16.2 GB/s	SC Read 14.3 SC Write 17.7 SC Mixed 16 46% 16 GB/s	Latency 64.8 62% 64.8 ns

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Gaming 6%

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Desktop 60%

Destroyer

Workstation 6%

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Motherboard: Dell OptiPlex 990

CPU
Core i7-2600Intel $197Bench 67%, 185,630 samples	1,649x
Core i5-2400Intel $250Bench 61%, 166,255 samples	1,264x
Core i5-2500IntelBench 63%, 82,538 samples	690x

GPU
HD 2000 (Desktop 1.1 GHz)IntelBench 1%, 150,891 samples	766x
GT 1030NvidiaBench 14%, 185,384 samples	324x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	303x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	176x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	74x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	71x

RAM
M378B5273DH0-CH9 2x4GBSamsungBench 48%, 11,003 samples	67x
HMT351U6CFR8C-H9 2x4GBHynixBench 48%, 7,511 samples	60x
HMT351U6CFR8C-H9 4x4GBHynixBench 48%, 2,925 samples	60x

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Value: 67% - Good

Total price: $225

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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 $182	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $30	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