Dell XPS 8300

Performance Results


Gaming 14% Tree trunk	Desktop 75% Battleship	Workstation 12% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (62nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 38 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 77.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	11.8% 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	80% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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.

Very high background CPU (53%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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

System	Dell XPS 8300 (all builds)
Motherboard	Dell 0Y2MRG
Memory	9.8 GB free of 12 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20111017
Uptime	1.1 Days
Run Date	Mar 29 '18 at 03:10
Run Duration	162 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	53%

PC Performing above expectations (62^nd 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-$187 185,630 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 (99^th percentile)	77.4% Very good	Memory 92.1 1-Core 97.6 2-Core 184 74% 125 Pts	4-Core 344 8-Core 459 51% 402 Pts	64-Core 471 29% 471 Pts
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 77.4% Great: 74%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GeForce GTX 555 717 User benchmarks, average bench 11% Nvidia(10DE 0958) 1GB CLim: 736 MHz, MLim: 957 MHz, Ram: 1GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing above expectations (77^th percentile)	11.8% Very poor	Lighting 14 Reflection 16.7 Parallax 12.1 11% 14.3 fps	MRender 18 Gravity 13.8 Splatting 14.6 12% 15.5 fps
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 11.8% Great: 12%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 186GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT03B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 913 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 522 (B1) Unknown 99 99 6 (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 63 59 37 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 23 (F1) Unknown 99 99 5463859045	80% Very good	Read 514 Write 414 Mixed 422 100% 450 MB/s	4K Read 27 4K Write 77.4 4K Mixed 19.7 107% 41.3 MB/s	DQ Read 32.3 DQ Write 84.5 DQ Mixed 19.2 26% 45.3 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 80% Great: 124%
Seagate ST32000641AS 2TB-$89 8,506 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 2TB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 102694736 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5357 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 67 60 5435121 (09) Power-on hours count 59 59 36737 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 972 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 87 1133888667917 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 62 55 639631398 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 1 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 91 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 5795 (C2) HDA temperature 38 45 68719476774 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 31 19 102694736 (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 -49383533959980 (F1) Unknown 100 253 4127392412 (F2) Unknown 100 253 411446641	71.7% Very good	Read 128 Write 122 Mixed 119 93% 123 MB/s	4K Read 0.9 4K Write 1.63 4K Mixed 0.62 137% 1.05 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 71.7% Great: 73%
WD My Passport 0820 2TB 18,744 User benchmarks, average bench 29% 1.5TB free, PID 0820 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile)	15.1% Very poor	Read 27.5 Write 23.7 Mixed 24.2 32% 25.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 1.88 4K Mixed 0.22 73% 0.86 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 15.1% Great: 42%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Samsung M378B5773CH0-CH9 Nanya NT4GC64B8HB0NF-CG M378B5773CH0-CH9 Nanya NT4GC64B8HB0NF-CG 12GB 32 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 1333, 1333, 1333, 1333 MHz 2048, 4096, 2048, 4096 MB Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	49.9% Average	MC Read 17.4 MC Write 17.3 MC Mixed 15.2 48% 16.6 GB/s	SC Read 14.3 SC Write 17.7 SC Mixed 16.5 46% 16.2 GB/s	Latency 63.8 63% 63.8 ns
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 49.9% Great: 50%

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Gaming 24%

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Desktop 75%

Battleship

Workstation 20%

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System: Dell XPS 8300

CPU
Core i7-2600Intel $187Bench 67%, 185,630 samples	1,313x
Core i5-2320Intel $165Bench 64%, 38,345 samples	121x
Core i5-2400Intel $250Bench 61%, 166,255 samples	71x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	179x
HD 2000 (Desktop 1.1 GHz)IntelBench 1%, 150,891 samples	114x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	107x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 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: 71% - Very good

Total price: $326

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 $163	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16