Dell Precision Tower 3420

Performance Results


Gaming 11% Tree trunk	Desktop 69% Battle cruiser	Workstation 11% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (45th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 55 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 72.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	5.46% 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	58.1% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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.

High background CPU (21%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	Dell Precision Tower 3420
Motherboard	Dell Precision Tower 3420 (all builds)
Memory	13 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170806
Uptime	13.2 Days
Run Date	Feb 13 '18 at 22:50
Run Duration	234 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	21%

PC Performing as expected (45^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700-$180 282,363 User benchmarks, average bench 72% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (41^st percentile)	72.1% Very good	Memory 80.8 1-Core 103 2-Core 205 74% 130 Pts	4-Core 342 8-Core 561 55% 452 Pts	64-Core 593 37% 593 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 72.1% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD FirePro W2100 Graphics Adapter 323 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Dell(1028 2120) 2GB CLim: 680 MHz, MLim: 900 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 16.6 Performing as expected (50^th percentile)	5.46% Terrible	Lighting 6.5 Reflection 8.12 Parallax 7.88 5% 7.5 fps	MRender 7.48 Gravity 5.53 Splatting 7.83 6% 6.95 fps
Poor: 5% ↑ This bench: 5.46% Great: 6%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel SSDSC2BF360A5 SATA 360GB 97 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 282GB free (System drive) Firmware: LWDi Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (85^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1407 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 180 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 10 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 99 100 2768736 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 9494 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 30 100 77311967262 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 10 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 109 100 21683147 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 33550 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 65535 (E3) Torque amplification count 100 100 54 (E4) Power-off retract count 100 100 65535 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 33550 (F2) Unknown 100 100 40952 (F9) Unknown 100 100 9620	58.1% Above average	Read 490 Write 235 Mixed 258 72% 328 MB/s	4K Read 19.6 4K Write 17.8 4K Mixed 16.2 60% 17.9 MB/s	DQ Read 189 DQ Write 70.8 DQ Mixed 46.6 56% 102 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 58.1% Great: 62%
SMI USB DISK 64GB 1,634 User benchmarks, average bench 22% 52GB free, PID null Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile)	5.36% Terrible	Read 21.4 Write 5.51 Mixed 5.81 11% 10.9 MB/s	4K Read 4.46 4K Write 0.001 4K Mixed 0.45 32% 1.64 MB/s
Poor: 6% ↑ This bench: 5.36% Great: 40%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 16ATF1G64AZ-2G1A2 2x8GB 131 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing as expected (44^th percentile)	73.5% Very good	MC Read 27.5 MC Write 28.9 MC Mixed 23.7 76% 26.7 GB/s	SC Read 14.1 SC Write 24.8 SC Mixed 21.3 57% 20.1 GB/s	Latency 79.1 51% 79.1 ns
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 73.5% Great: 78%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 11%

Tree trunk

Desktop 69%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 11%

Tree trunk

Motherboard: Dell Precision Tower 3420

CPU
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	224x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	152x
Core i5-6500Intel $67Bench 64%, 241,476 samples	113x

GPU
HD 530 (Desktop Skylake)IntelBench 5%, 188,220 samples	180x
HD 630 (Desktop Kaby Lake)IntelBench 5%, 153,031 samples	112x
Quadro K620Nvidia $170Bench 11%, 16,214 samples	82x

SSD
THNSN5256GPUK NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBToshibaBench 109%, 23,829 samples	21x
XG5 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBToshiba $33Bench 125%, 44,050 samples	21x
PM951 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBSamsungBench 120%, 13,766 samples	13x

RAM
HMA41GU6AFR8N-TF 2x8GBUnknownBench 72%, 2,345 samples	42x
HMA81GU6AFR8N-UH 2x8GBUnknownBench 73%, 3,256 samples	35x
HMA41GU6AFR8N-TF 1x8GBUnknownBench 40%, 853 samples	22x

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Value: 82% - Excellent

Total price: $180

CPU	GPU	SSD
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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