Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing CPU, GPU, SSD, RAM
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (51st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 49 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Boot Drive	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load times.
Memory	4GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and although it's sufficient for most games, some will benefit from up to 8GB of RAM. 4GB is also enough for modest file and system caches which allow for a responsive system.
OS Version	Windows Vista is considerably out of date. This system has enough RAM (4GB) and should be upgraded to Windows 10.

Very high background CPU (68%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	HP Compaq dx7400 Microtower (all builds)
Motherboard	MSI 0AB8
Memory	1.3 GB free of 4 GB @ 0.7 GHz
Display	1280 x 1024 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows Vista
BIOS Date	20071025
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Oct 30 '15 at 11:22
Run Duration	415 Seconds
Run User	GRC-User
Background CPU	68%

PC Performing as expected (51^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core2 Duo E6550-$15 11,349 User benchmarks, average bench 37% Socket 775, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 2 threads Base clock 2.3 GHz Relative performance n/a - benchmarks incomplete		1-Core 28.7 2-Core 53.8 19% 41.2 Pts	4-Core 55.2 8-Core 54.4 7% 54.8 Pts	64-Core 55.2 3% 55.2 Pts
Poor: 26% Great: 43%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Seagate ST3160815AS 160GB-$46 33,785 User benchmarks, average bench 30% 107GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3.CHF Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 253 0 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2630 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 87 60 527574347 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 6014 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2489 (B8) Unknown 100 253 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 56 554958880 (C2) HDA temperature 32 44 55834574880 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 78 73 151689418 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	36.1% Below average	Read 68.4 Write 57.2 Mixed 32.6 39% 52.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 1.14 4K Mixed 0.32 76% 0.64 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 36.1% Great: 42%
USB DISK 2.0 1GB 14 User benchmarks, average bench 3% 0GB free, PID 1900, Emtec 1GB Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing below expectations (30^th percentile)	2.14% Terrible	Read 8.2 Write 2.12 Mixed 3.65 5% 4.66 MB/s	4K Read 1.73 4K Write 0.03 4K Mixed 0.03 8% 0.59 MB/s
Poor: 2% ↑ This bench: 2.14% Great: 4%

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

Gaming 4%

Tree trunk

Desktop 37%

Jet ski

Workstation 4%

Tree trunk

CPU
Core2 Duo E6550Intel $15Bench 37%, 11,349 samples	5x
Core2 Duo E8400Intel $89Bench 40%, 68,540 samples	4x
Core2 Quad Q6600Intel $100Bench 42%, 59,658 samples	3x

GPU
GeForce GT 420NvidiaBench 2%, 9,903 samples	3x
GeForce GT 240NvidiaBench 4%, 11,020 samples	3x
GeForce 210NvidiaBench 1%, 98,254 samples	2x

SSD
SSDNow V300 60GBKingston $76Bench 48%, 24,219 samples	2x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	2x
SSDPR-CX300-120 120GBBench 68%, 1,185 samples	2x

Value: 16% - Very poor

Total price: $91

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