HP Z230 Tower Workstation

Performance Results


Gaming 93% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 81% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 79% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (54th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 46 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 74.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	125% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	96% 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	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	HP Z230 Tower Workstation (all builds)
Motherboard	Hewlett-Packard 1905
Memory	12.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	3840 x 1600 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161018
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Feb 01 '18 at 04:22
Run Duration	107 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing as expected (54^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790-$135 255,027 User benchmarks, average bench 71% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.8 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	74.6% Very good	Memory 78.8 1-Core 113 2-Core 220 77% 137 Pts	4-Core 380 8-Core 599 60% 490 Pts	64-Core 599 37% 599 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 74.6% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Nvidia(10DE 120F) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 390.77 Performing below potential (59^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	125% Outstanding	Lighting 176 Reflection 188 Parallax 175 143% 179 fps	MRender 116 Gravity 170 Splatting 114 108% 133 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 125% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 512GB-$190 68,849 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 96GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXM04B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2211 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 829 (B1) Unknown 99 99 19 (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 99 99 9 (EB) Unknown 99 99 15 (F1) Unknown 99 99 9919168525	96% Outstanding	Read 516 Write 481 Mixed 452 108% 483 MB/s	4K Read 36.1 4K Write 107 4K Mixed 26.3 145% 56.5 MB/s	DQ Read 37.1 DQ Write 112 DQ Mixed 26 34% 58.5 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 96% Great: 124%
Toshiba DT01ACA100 1TB-$28 763,289 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 398GB free Firmware: MS2OA7C0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (48^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 98 0 (02) Throughput performance 142 100 69 (03) Spinup time 127 100 12896698549 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 2382 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 110 100 36 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 11588 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 959 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (B9) Unknown 100 100 65535 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 3 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 59 438304799 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 2393 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 2393 (C2) HDA temperature 193 146 176094642207 (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	85.7% Excellent	Read 136 Write 163 Mixed 153 114% 151 MB/s	4K Read 0.37 4K Write 1.6 4K Mixed 0.19 66% 0.72 MB/s
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 85.7% Great: 107%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown Micron 8JTF51264AZ-1G6E1 1315 Micron 8JTF51264AZ-1G6E1 16GB 27 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing as expected (52^nd percentile)	55.2% Above average	MC Read 20.1 MC Write 20.5 MC Mixed 16.4 54% 19 GB/s	SC Read 14.5 SC Write 21.7 SC Mixed 18.8 52% 18.3 GB/s	Latency 82.8 48% 82.8 ns
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 55.2% Great: 77%

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Workstation 7%

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System: HP Z230 Tower Workstation

CPU
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	617x
Core i7-4770Intel $75Bench 70%, 176,321 samples	494x
Core i5-4590Intel $188Bench 63%, 151,366 samples	239x

GPU
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	235x
Quadro K2000NvidiaBench 7%, 13,526 samples	173x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	162x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	121x
MTFDDAK256MBF-1AN1ZABHA 256GBCrucialBench 89%, 2,574 samples	56x
C400 RealSSD 256GBMicronBench 55%, 11,652 samples	46x

RAM
16JTF1G64AZ-1G6E1 2x8GBMicronBench 53%, 7,464 samples	57x
HMT41GU6BFR8C-PB 2x8GBHynixBench 54%, 3,233 samples	51x
8JTF51264AZ-1G6E1 4x4GBMicronBench 56%, 6,584 samples	45x

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Value: 74% - Very good

Total price: $178

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16