Alienware 17 R2

Performance Results


Gaming 23% Surfboard	Desktop 72% Battleship	Workstation 20% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (53rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 47 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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 66.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	28.3% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	68.5% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
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.

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

Run History

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System	Alienware 17 R2 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware Alienware 17 R2
Memory	11 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150724
Uptime	12.9 Days
Run Date	Sep 15 '16 at 00:41
Run Duration	126 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	48%

PC Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4720HQ 80,960 User benchmarks, average bench 58% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 2.6 GHz, turbo 3.3 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)	66.5% Good	Memory 76.5 1-Core 93.8 2-Core 150 64% 107 Pts	4-Core 305 8-Core 485 48% 395 Pts	64-Core 500 31% 500 Pts
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 66.5% Great: 71%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970M 21,995 User benchmarks, average bench 31% Dell(1028 0688) 3GB Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.6869 Performing below potential (21^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	28.3% Poor	Lighting 35.7 Reflection 40.2 Parallax 32.2 29% 36 fps	MRender 28.6 Gravity 32 Splatting 35.8 27% 32.1 fps
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 28.3% Great: 33%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Liteon L8H-128V2G-11 MM 128GB 3 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 7GB free (System drive) Firmware: F87110A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 357 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 593 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 43 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 129 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 108012 (F2) Unknown 100 100 174882	68.5% Good	Read 501 Write 144 Mixed 224 63% 290 MB/s	4K Read 23.2 4K Write 62.2 4K Mixed 27.7 104% 37.7 MB/s	DQ Read 238 DQ Write 120 DQ Mixed 61.1 77% 140 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 68.5% Great: 69%
Hitachi HTS721010A9E6300 1TB 1,420 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 698GB free Firmware: JB0OA3P0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 164 164 98784247810 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1192 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 1506 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 593 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 11 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 91 91 98567 (C2) HDA temperature 214 214 253402742812 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (F0) Head flying hours 99 99 527 (F1) Unknown 100 100 12428504606 (F2) Unknown 100 100 14447199066 (FE) Unknown 100 100 25	75.3% Very good	Read 130 Write 133 Mixed 132 99% 131 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.55 4K Mixed 0.21 81% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 75.3% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance SODIM DDR3 1600 C9 2x8GB 2,188 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 2 of 2 slots used 16GB SODIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing below potential (18^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	49.7% Average	MC Read 18.8 MC Write 20.3 MC Mixed 16.4 53% 18.5 GB/s	SC Read 9.2 SC Write 10 SC Mixed 9.5 27% 9.57 GB/s	Latency 87.3 46% 87.3 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 49.7% Great: 61%

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

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System: Alienware 17 R2

CPU
Core i7-4710HQIntelBench 58%, 69,536 samples	205x
Core i7-4720HQIntelBench 58%, 80,960 samples	199x
Core i7-4980HQIntelBench 69%, 2,147 samples	99x

GPU
HD 4600 (Mobile 1.15 GHz)IntelBench 3%, 258,091 samples	251x
GTX 970MNvidiaBench 31%, 21,995 samples	87x
GTX 980MNvidiaBench 41%, 14,160 samples	80x

SSD
PM851 M.2 2280 128GBSamsungBench 55%, 1,404 samples	35x
L8T-128L9G-11 M.2 2280 128GBLiteonitBench 75%, 553 samples	21x
L8T-256L9G-11 M.2 2280 256GBLiteonitBench 80%, 846 samples	20x

RAM
HMT41GS6BFR8A-PB 2x8GBHynixBench 52%, 34,976 samples	130x
M471B1G73EB0-YK0 2x8GBSamsungBench 52%, 10,651 samples	61x
KN2M64-ETB 2x8GBKingstonBench 51%, 2,986 samples	32x

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