Alienware 17 R3

Performance Results


Gaming 8% Tree trunk	Desktop 40% Speed boat	Workstation 8% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (41st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 59 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a below average single core score, this CPU can handle email, web browsing and audio/video playback but it will struggle to handle modern 3D games or workstation tasks such as video editing. Finally, with a gaming score of 42.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is below average.
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	37.7% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce IO wait times.
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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (100%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

System	Alienware 17 R3 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware Alienware 17 R3
Memory	3.9 GB free of 8 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160415
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Sep 28 '16 at 04:21
Run Duration	149 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	100%

PC Performing as expected (41^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700HQ 320,434 User benchmarks, average bench 59% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 2.6 GHz, turbo 3.05 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile)	42.3% Average	Memory 34.8 1-Core 62.6 2-Core 130 40% 75.7 Pts	4-Core 266 8-Core 483 45% 374 Pts	64-Core 530 33% 530 Pts
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 42.3% Great: 69%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel HD 530 (Mobile Skylake) FAQ - How to force Optimus or Switchable discrete GPUs? Dell(1028 0708) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 20.19.15.4390 Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)	5.46% Terrible	Lighting 6.43 Reflection 39.3 Parallax 4.31 5% 16.7 fps	MRender 3.38 Gravity 5.83 Splatting 10.7 6% 6.62 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 5.46% Great: 6%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung CM871 M.2 2280 128GB 3,215 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 10GB free (System drive) Firmware: FXT21D1Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 643 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 192 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 99 99 14 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 1058 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (F1) Unknown 99 99 2101494010 (F2) Unknown 99 99 3665225113	37.7% Below average	Read 461 Write 33.8 Mixed 94.7 42% 196 MB/s	4K Read 17.8 4K Write 16.7 4K Mixed 7.95 46% 14.1 MB/s	DQ Read 151 DQ Write 23.4 DQ Mixed 18.6 31% 64.2 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 37.7% Great: 57%
HGST Travelstar 7K1000 2.5" 1TB 546,982 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 651GB free Firmware: JB0OA3W0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 188 188 60129542145 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 256 (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 99 99 646 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 188 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 10 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 17493 (C2) HDA temperature 200 200 227634380830 (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 100 100 74 (F1) Unknown 100 100 2958717550 (F2) Unknown 100 100 1922281874 (FE) Unknown 100 100 4	70.2% Very good	Read 120 Write 125 Mixed 118 91% 121 MB/s	4K Read 0.45 4K Write 1.54 4K Mixed 0.2 70% 0.73 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 70.2% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Hynix HMA451S6AFR8N-TF 2x4GB 17,761 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 2 of 2 slots used 8GB SODIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile)	54.3% Above average	MC Read 21 MC Write 25.7 MC Mixed 18.9 62% 21.9 GB/s	SC Read 4.4 SC Write 12.4 SC Mixed 6.7 22% 7.83 GB/s	Latency 228 18% 228 ns
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 54.3% Great: 74%

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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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System: Alienware 17 R3

CPU
Core i7-6700HQIntelBench 59%, 320,434 samples	978x
Core i7-6820HKIntelBench 69%, 20,362 samples	438x
Core i7-6820HQIntelBench 60%, 33,920 samples	3x

GPU
HD 530 (Mobile Skylake)IntelBench 5%, 213,495 samples	752x
GTX 970MNvidiaBench 31%, 21,995 samples	307x
GTX 980MNvidiaBench 41%, 14,160 samples	293x

SSD
PM951 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBSamsungBench 120%, 13,766 samples	241x
CM871 M.2 2280 128GBSamsungBench 45%, 3,215 samples	108x
PM951 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsungBench 140%, 7,011 samples	81x

RAM
HMA41GS6AFR8N-TF 2x8GBHynixBench 70%, 55,289 samples	317x
16ATF1G64HZ-2G1A2 2x8GBMicronBench 69%, 6,021 samples	138x
HMA451S6AFR8N-TF 2x4GBHynixBench 66%, 17,761 samples	125x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
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