Dell OptiPlex 7040

Performance Results


Gaming 12% Tree trunk	Desktop 74% Battleship	Workstation 11% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (71st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 29 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 72.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	7.88% 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	124% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
Memory	24GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 24GB 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.

Very high background CPU (41%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	Dell OptiPlex 7040
Motherboard	Dell OptiPlex 7040 (all builds)
Memory	20.9 GB free of 24 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171205
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 21 '18 at 18:50
Run Duration	109 Seconds
Run User	SYC-User
Background CPU	41%

PC Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6600-$132 80,688 User benchmarks, average bench 68% Socket 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)	72.2% Very good	Memory 83.3 1-Core 115 2-Core 228 80% 142 Pts	4-Core 343 8-Core 408 49% 376 Pts	64-Core 432 27% 432 Pts
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 72.2% Great: 77%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD Radeon R7 350X 1,137 User benchmarks, average bench 7% Dell(1028 0081) ≥ 4GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 23.20.15017.3010 Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	7.88% Terrible	Lighting 9.8 Reflection 11.8 Parallax 13.9 8% 11.8 fps	MRender 8.62 Gravity 8.87 Splatting 10.2 8% 9.23 fps
Poor: 6% ↑ This bench: 7.88% Great: 8%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung MZ7LN512HMJP-000L7 512GB 1,627 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 324GB free (System drive) Firmware: MAV01L6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2030 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1056 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 99 99 12 (AE) Unknown 99 99 161 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 1618 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 58 51 210454511658 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 99 99 16609442 (F1) Unknown 99 99 5979 (F2) Unknown 99 99 26446 (F9) Unknown 99 99 6144	124% Outstanding	Read 505 Write 482 Mixed 499 111% 495 MB/s	4K Read 42.3 4K Write 107 4K Mixed 56.4 193% 68.6 MB/s	DQ Read 327 DQ Write 296 DQ Mixed 154 159% 259 MB/s
Poor: 69% ↑ This bench: 124% Great: 132%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1TB free Firmware: CC27 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 185715368 (03) Spinup time 98 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 570 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 34094325 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1582 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 640 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 60 52 672989224 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 65 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 95 95 11874 (C2) HDA temperature 40 48 81604378664 (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 -88948772699433 (F1) Unknown 100 253 4797297021 (F2) Unknown 100 253 55601278606	79.5% Very good	Read 141 Write 136 Mixed 139 105% 139 MB/s	4K Read 0.76 4K Write 1.59 4K Mixed 0.21 84% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 79.5% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 8ATF1G64AZ-2G3B1 802C0000802C 8ATF1G64AZ-2G3B1 859B0000802C CT8G4DFD8213.C16FAR2 24GB 4 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 2400, 2400, 2133 MHz 8192, 8192, 8192 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	57.9% Above average	MC Read 20.6 MC Write 21.2 MC Mixed 19.6 58% 20.5 GB/s	SC Read 12.7 SC Write 19.4 SC Mixed 16.6 46% 16.2 GB/s	Latency 74.6 54% 74.6 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 57.9% Great: 63%

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Gaming 11%

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Desktop 68%

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Workstation 10%

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Motherboard: Dell OptiPlex 7040

CPU
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	2,280x
Core i5-6500Intel $67Bench 64%, 241,476 samples	1,692x
Core i5-6500TIntelBench 61%, 9,313 samples	357x

GPU
HD 530 (Desktop Skylake)IntelBench 5%, 188,220 samples	3,239x
GT 1030NvidiaBench 14%, 185,384 samples	230x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	195x

SSD
KingFast 512GBBench 79%, 3,625 samples	122x
PM951 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBSamsungBench 120%, 13,766 samples	97x
THNSN5256GPUK NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBToshibaBench 109%, 23,829 samples	89x

RAM
HMA451U6AFR8N-TF 2x4GBUnknownBench 69%, 1,440 samples	341x
HMA41GU6AFR8N-TF 2x8GBUnknownBench 72%, 2,345 samples	315x
HMA81GU6AFR8N-UH 2x8GBUnknownBench 73%, 3,256 samples	152x

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Value: 82% - Excellent

Total price: $180

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	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