Dell Inspiron 546

Performance Results


Gaming 4% Tree trunk	Desktop 27% Raft	Workstation 4% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (39th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 61 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With an extremely low single core score, this CPU can barely handle email and light web browsing. Finally, with a gaming score of 26.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very poor.
Graphics	1.16% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	47.7% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 11 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Very high background CPU (48%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	Dell Inspiron 546 (all builds)
Motherboard	Dell 0F896N
Memory	6.1 GB free of 8 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20100119
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Feb 22 '16 at 14:52
Run Duration	130 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	48%

PC Performing below expectations (39^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Athlon 7450 Dual-Core 256 User benchmarks, average bench 38% AM2, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 2 threads Base clock 2.4 GHz Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile)	26.1% Poor	Memory 41.2 1-Core 30 2-Core 39.3 25% 36.8 Pts	4-Core 65.4 8-Core 69.1 9% 67.2 Pts	64-Core 69.1 4% 69.1 Pts
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 26.1% Great: 44%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
ATI Radeon HD 4300 14,988 User benchmarks, average bench 1% Dell(1028 904E) 512MB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 8.970.100.3000 Performing as expected (50^th percentile)	1.16% Terrible	Lighting 1.53 Reflection 2.19 Parallax 1.28 1% 1.67 fps	MRender 1.43 Gravity 0.7 Splatting 1.39 1% 1.17 fps
Poor: 1% ↑ This bench: 1.16% Great: 1%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 130GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (1^st 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 99 99 47 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 8 (B1) Unknown 100 99 0 (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 65 63 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 99 99 357536206	47.7% Average	Read 222 Write 177 Mixed 176 43% 192 MB/s	4K Read 29.4 4K Write 37.1 4K Mixed 18.4 88% 28.3 MB/s	DQ Read 33.5 DQ Write 53.4 DQ Mixed 18.7 21% 35.2 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 47.7% Great: 124%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 528GB free Firmware: CC45 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 110 99 26141977 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 5079 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 159680572 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 8566 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2515 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032850 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 69 61 521338911 (C2) HDA temperature 31 40 60129542175 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 34 27 26141977 (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 -62062277411822 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1725470709 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1467270077	64.8% Good	Read 115 Write 111 Mixed 33.2 63% 86.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 1.46 4K Mixed 0.45 107% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 64.8% Great: 68%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 4x2GB 183,252 User benchmarks, average bench 25% 4 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR2 Performing as expected (49^th percentile)	20.9% Poor	MC Read 9.1 MC Write 5 MC Mixed 8.4 21% 7.5 GB/s	SC Read 5.3 SC Write 4.5 SC Mixed 6 15% 5.27 GB/s	Latency 197 20% 197 ns
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 20.9% Great: 45%

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

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Typical Inspiron 546 Builds (Compare 23 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 4%

Tree trunk

Desktop 46%

Yacht

Workstation 4%

Tree trunk

System: Dell Inspiron 546

CPU
Phenom II X4 945AMDBench 51%, 12,746 samples	3x
Athlon II X3 425AMDBench 42%, 1,367 samples	3x
Athlon II X4 630AMDBench 45%, 7,197 samples	3x

GPU
Radeon HD 3200ATIBench 1%, 5,730 samples	8x
GTX 1650Nvidia $155Bench 43%, 259,091 samples	2x
Radeon HD 6670AMDBench 6%, 32,193 samples	1x

SSD
PLUS 480GBSandiskBench 48%, 58,990 samples	2x
CS1311 480GBPNY $31Bench 86%, 13,149 samples	1x
SSDNow V300 480GBKingston $250Bench 52%, 15,510 samples	1x

RAM
4x2GBUnknownBench 25%, 183,252 samples	10x
4x1GBUnknownBench 18%, 54,972 samples	3x
4GBUnknownBench 26%, 42,830 samples	2x

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