Dell XPS 8300

Performance Results


Gaming 48% Yacht	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 38% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (78th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 22 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 74.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	64.8% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	88.7% 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	12GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 12GB 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.

High background CPU (22%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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System	Dell XPS 8300 (all builds)
Motherboard	Dell 0Y2MRG
Memory	8.6 GB free of 12 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20111017
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Nov 27 '17 at 03:12
Run Duration	110 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	22%

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PC Performing above expectations (78^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-$167 185,630 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 (97^th percentile)	74.6% Very good	Memory 91.1 1-Core 93.5 2-Core 183 72% 123 Pts	4-Core 322 8-Core 415 47% 368 Pts	64-Core 444 28% 444 Pts
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 74.6% Great: 74%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% Gigabyte(1458 371A) CLim: 2126 MHz, MLim: 2327 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 388.31 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	64.8% Good	Lighting 80.3 Reflection 80.8 Parallax 71.7 65% 77.6 fps	MRender 81.1 Gravity 75.3 Splatting 76.7 64% 77.7 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 64.8% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 41GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 6954 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 195 (B1) Unknown 98 98 30 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 66 60 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 36 (F1) Unknown 99 99 10869204200	88.7% Excellent	Read 511 Write 404 Mixed 409 98% 441 MB/s	4K Read 32.2 4K Write 69.5 4K Mixed 36.7 133% 46.1 MB/s	DQ Read 37 DQ Write 78.3 DQ Mixed 20.1 26% 45.1 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 88.7% Great: 124%
WD Blue 500GB (2010)-$23 496,077 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 327GB free Firmware: 19.01H19 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 2 (03) Spinup time 143 141 3841 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4965 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 59 59 29968 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1157 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 245 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 4719 (C2) HDA temperature 110 95 33 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 61 61 28610 (F1) Unknown 200 200 52773744273 (F2) Unknown 200 200 41593307241	72.2% Very good	Read 135 Write 117 Mixed 115 92% 122 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 1.74 4K Mixed 0.34 90% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 72.2% Great: 69%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Nanya NT4GC64B8HG0NF-CG NT4GC64B8HG0NF-CG NT2GC64B88G0NF-CG NT2GC64B88G0NF-CG 12GB 15 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 1333, 1333, 1333, 1333 MHz 4096, 4096, 2048, 2048 MB Relative performance (0^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	29.4% Poor	MC Read 9.4 MC Write 9.1 MC Mixed 8.5 26% 9 GB/s	SC Read 9.4 SC Write 10.1 SC Mixed 9 27% 9.5 GB/s	Latency 65.6 61% 65.6 ns
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 29.4% Great: 51%

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

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Desktop 75%

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Workstation 20%

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System: Dell XPS 8300

CPU
Core i7-2600Intel $167Bench 67%, 185,630 samples	1,318x
Core i5-2320Intel $165Bench 64%, 38,345 samples	123x
Core i5-2400Intel $250Bench 61%, 166,255 samples	71x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	180x
HD 2000 (Desktop 1.1 GHz)IntelBench 1%, 150,891 samples	114x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	108x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	52x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	46x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	42x

RAM
NT2GC64B88B0NF-CG 4x2GBNanyaBench 47%, 1,368 samples	54x
HMT351U6CFR8C-H9 4x4GBHynixBench 48%, 2,925 samples	52x
M378B5773DH0-CH9 4x2GBSamsungBench 48%, 2,464 samples	41x

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Value: 73% - Very good

Total price: $302

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $176	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $124	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $549	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $39	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