HP 500-242ea

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 1% Tree trunk	Desktop 34% Sail boat	Workstation 1% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (37th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 63 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 a relatively low single core score, this CPU can handle email, light web browsing and basic audio/video playback, but it will struggle to handle CPU intensive tasks. Finally, with a gaming score of 34.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is poor.
Graphics	4.15% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
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	6GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 6GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (39%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

3 years ago, 2 years ago.

System	HP 500-242ea (all builds)
Motherboard	MSI 2AE0
Memory	3.1 GB free of 6 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1680 x 1050 - 32 Bit colors, 1680 x 1050 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140415
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 29 '21 at 20:23
Run Duration	121 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	39%

PC Performing below expectations (37^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD A8-5500 APU-$135 10,478 User benchmarks, average bench 48% P0, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.45 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile)	34.9% Below average	Memory 44.7 1-Core 53.5 2-Core 105 39% 67.7 Pts	4-Core 142 8-Core 168 20% 155 Pts	64-Core 162 10% 162 Pts
Poor: 37% ↑ This bench: 34.9% Great: 56%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD Radeon R5 235 974 User benchmarks, average bench 2% MSI(1462 B499) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008 Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	4.15% Terrible	Lighting 4.8 Reflection 8.1 Parallax 4.6 4% 5.83 fps	MRender 4.9 Gravity 4.1 Splatting 7.2 5% 5.4 fps
Poor: 2% ↑ This bench: 4.15% Great: 4%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 891GB free (System drive) Firmware: HP36 SusWrite @10s intervals: 142 89 71 98 68 42 MB/s Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile)	29.1% Poor	Read 16.2 Write 55 Mixed 31.1 SusWrite 85.1 34% 46.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.3 4K Write 1.3 4K Mixed 0.7 114% 0.77 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 29.1% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Hynix HMT325U6EFR8C-PB Samsung M378B5173DB0-CK0 6GB 148 User benchmarks, average bench 32% 1600, 1600 MHz 2048, 4096 MB Performing as expected (50^th percentile)	28.9% Poor	MC Read 15.2 MC Write 6.4 MC Mixed 9.9 30% 10.5 GB/s	SC Read 6.2 SC Write 6.6 SC Mixed 9.6 21% 7.47 GB/s	Latency 182 22% 182 ns
Poor: 16% ↑ This bench: 28.9% Great: 47%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

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Typical 500-242ea Builds (Compare 25 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 4%

Tree trunk

Desktop 48%

Yacht

Workstation 4%

Tree trunk

System: HP 500-242ea

CPU
A8-5500 APUAMD $135Bench 48%, 10,478 samples	19x
A8-6500 APUAMD $135Bench 50%, 7,219 samples	3x
A10-6800K APU (2013 D.Ri)AMD $467Bench 51%, 11,295 samples	1x

GPU
Radeon R5 235AMDBench 2%, 974 samples	15x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	2x
Radeon HD 7560DAMDBench 4%, 10,029 samples	1x

SSD
MX500 1TBCrucial $66Bench 106%, 202,785 samples	3x
BX500 480GBCrucial $38Bench 63%, 83,298 samples	2x
MX500 250GBCrucial $40Bench 101%, 77,177 samples	1x

RAM
HMT325U6EFR8C-PB Samsung M378B5173DB0-CK0 6GBHynixBench 32%, 148 samples	3x
8JTF25664AZ-1G6K1 Kingston HP698650-154-HYAG 6GBMicronBench 29%, 9 samples	3x
HMT325U6EFR8C-PB HMT351U6CFR8C-PB 6GBHynixBench 34%, 113 samples	2x

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Value: 57% - Above average

Total price: $201

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 $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $46

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	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