HP Z230 Tower Workstation

Performance Results


Gaming 8% Tree trunk	Desktop 68% Battle cruiser	Workstation 8% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (55th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 45 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 68.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	3.87% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	61.5% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	20GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 20GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	HP Z230 Tower Workstation (all builds)
Motherboard	Hewlett-Packard 1905
Memory	17.1 GB free of 20 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180124
Uptime	0.9 Days
Run Date	Mar 04 '18 at 13:02
Run Duration	229 Seconds
Run User	GRC-User
Background CPU	3%

PC Performing as expected (55^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 below expectations (23^rd percentile)	68.1% Good	Memory 69 1-Core 111 2-Core 223 73% 134 Pts	4-Core 361 8-Core 600 59% 480 Pts	64-Core 600 37% 600 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 68.1% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)-$15 230,189 User benchmarks, average bench 3% HP(103C 1905) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 20.19.15.4835 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	3.87% Terrible	Lighting 3.93 Reflection 6.31 Parallax 6.34 3% 5.53 fps	MRender 8.86 Gravity 2.43 Splatting 7.43 5% 6.24 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 3.87% Great: 3%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 143GB free Firmware: 3B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	244% Outstanding	Read 2,519 Write 1,181 Mixed 1,372 371% 1,691 MB/s	4K Read 56.6 4K Write 127 4K Mixed 31.1 193% 71.6 MB/s	DQ Read 361 DQ Write 334 DQ Mixed 26.2 108% 241 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 244% Great: 236%
SanDisk Ultra II 240GB-$40 53,931 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 138GB free Firmware: X31200RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (2^nd percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 2610 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 642 (A5) Unknown 100 100 12889096240 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 24 (A8) Unknown 100 100 15 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1 (AE) Unknown 100 100 35 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 71 38 163209412637 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 94490591254 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 232 (EA) Unknown 100 100 327 (F1) Unknown 253 253 298 (F2) Unknown 253 253 2635 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	50.3% Above average	Read 135 Write 216 Mixed 90.3 33% 147 MB/s	4K Read 30.7 4K Write 58 4K Mixed 12.4 93% 33.7 MB/s	DQ Read 31.5 DQ Write 199 DQ Mixed 1.97 35% 77.5 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 50.3% Great: 101%
Intenso Sata III 120GB 964 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 110GB free Firmware: P0510E Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 964 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 317 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 133 (A3) Unknown 100 100 19 (A4) Unknown 100 100 608 (A5) Unknown 100 100 10 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 19 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 40 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (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 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 1702 (F2) Unknown 100 100 1348 (F5) Unknown 100 100 1216	84.9% Excellent	Read 493 Write 336 Mixed 395 90% 408 MB/s	4K Read 27.7 4K Write 84.1 4K Mixed 38.3 136% 50 MB/s	DQ Read 28.4 DQ Write 87.9 DQ Mixed 11 22% 42.4 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 84.9% Great: 90%
HyperX Fury 240GB-$193 27,826 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 91GB free (System drive) Firmware: 603ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 16228937 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 127345780326472 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 78 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 45 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 26 41 42952359962 (C2) HDA temperature 26 41 42952359962 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 16228937 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 16228937 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 16228937 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 12884901888 (E9) Unknown 0 0 173 (EA) Unknown 0 0 139 (F1) Unknown 0 0 139 (F2) Unknown 0 0 244 (F4) Unknown 100 100 2424844	61.5% Good	Read 452 Write 198 Mixed 222 64% 291 MB/s	4K Read 17.8 4K Write 102 4K Mixed 13.1 98% 44.3 MB/s	DQ Read 31.4 DQ Write 109 DQ Mixed 12.9 26% 51.1 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 61.5% Great: 84%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 500GB-$24 574,344 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 328GB free Firmware: HP74 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 104 99 1504336 (03) Spinup time 100 99 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 953 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 67 60 5359717 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 3324 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 924 (B4) Unknown 100 100 1033607936 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032833 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 57 538050592 (C2) HDA temperature 32 43 47244640288 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 29 26 1504336 (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	40.8% Average	Read 70.5 Write 71.6 Mixed 67.4 53% 69.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 1.11 4K Mixed 0.3 74% 0.63 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 40.8% Great: 88%
Intenso External USB 3.0 2TB 498 User benchmarks, average bench 37% 1TB free, PID 0701 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	69.1% Good	Read 159 Write 189 Mixed 162 223% 170 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 1.53 4K Mixed 0.32 66% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 69.1% Great: 71%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 0215 CMZ4GX3M1A1600C9 0215 CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 0215 CMZ8GX3M1A1600C10 20GB 4 User benchmarks, average bench 40% 1333, 1333, 1333, 1333 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 8192 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	38.2% Below average	MC Read 12.5 MC Write 13.8 MC Mixed 12.1 37% 12.8 GB/s	SC Read 11 SC Write 15.7 SC Mixed 13.9 39% 13.5 GB/s	Latency 104 38% 104 ns
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 38.2% Great: 42%

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Gaming 8%

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Desktop 65%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 7%

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System: HP Z230 Tower Workstation

CPU
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	614x
Core i7-4770Intel $75Bench 70%, 176,321 samples	493x
Core i5-4590Intel $188Bench 63%, 151,366 samples	239x

GPU
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	234x
Quadro K2000NvidiaBench 7%, 13,526 samples	173x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	161x

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 $269	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $37	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