Alienware 17 R4

Performance Results


Gaming 78% Battleship	Desktop 83% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 66% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 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 74.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	99.7% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	185% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
Memory	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

CPU throttled at 99% by Windows. Ensure maximum processor state is set to 100% via Settings > System > Power & sleep > Additional power settings > Change plan settings > Change advanced power settings > Processor power management > Maximum processor state.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	Alienware 17 R4 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware Alienware 17 R4
Memory	22.9 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170224
Uptime	1 Days
Run Date	Jun 24 '17 at 21:20
Run Duration	112 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	4%
CPU Throttled	99%

PC Performing as expected (60^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7820HK 18,903 User benchmarks, average bench 72% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 2.9 GHz, turbo 3.55 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)	74.6% Very good	Memory 82.7 1-Core 105 2-Core 209 75% 132 Pts	4-Core 359 8-Core 526 55% 443 Pts	64-Core 608 38% 608 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 74.6% Great: 83%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 1,686 User benchmarks, average bench 104% Dell(1028 0778) ≥ 4GB Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 22.21.13.8183 Performing below potential (66^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	99.7% Outstanding	Lighting 133 Reflection 124 Parallax 114 108% 123 fps	MRender 98.1 Gravity 112 Splatting 95.7 83% 102 fps
Poor: 81% ↑ This bench: 99.7% Great: 149%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 4TB-$470 765 User benchmarks, average bench 113% 2.5TB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 115 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 16 (B1) Unknown 99 99 1 (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 63 41 37 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 2 (F1) Unknown 99 99 10848259263	92.7% Outstanding	Read 509 Write 394 Mixed 412 97% 438 MB/s	4K Read 35.1 4K Write 64.3 4K Mixed 27.9 123% 42.4 MB/s	DQ Read 315 DQ Write 195 DQ Mixed 116 124% 209 MB/s
Poor: 85% ↑ This bench: 92.7% Great: 133%
Nvme PC300 SK hy 1TB 1,303 User benchmarks, average bench 145% 779GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2000 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	185% Outstanding	Read 1,788 Write 1,046 Mixed 1,351 309% 1,395 MB/s	4K Read 34 4K Write 95.7 4K Mixed 19.2 127% 49.6 MB/s	DQ Read 335 DQ Write 258 DQ Mixed 27.5 94% 207 MB/s
Poor: 85% ↑ This bench: 185% Great: 188%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown HMA82GS6AFR8N-UH 2x16GB 4,851 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 2 of 2 slots used 32GB SODIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing above expectations (60^th percentile)	77.1% Very good	MC Read 28.9 MC Write 29.1 MC Mixed 25.2 79% 27.7 GB/s	SC Read 15.7 SC Write 29.2 SC Mixed 22.2 64% 22.4 GB/s	Latency 75.7 53% 75.7 ns
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 77.1% Great: 82%

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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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Gaming 49%

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Desktop 71%

Battleship

Workstation 41%

Speed boat

System: Alienware 17 R4

CPU
Core i7-7700HQIntelBench 62%, 473,208 samples	1,206x
Core i7-7820HKIntelBench 72%, 18,903 samples	755x
Core i7-6700HQIntelBench 59%, 320,434 samples	528x

GPU
GTX 1070 (Mobile)NvidiaBench 72%, 73,882 samples	966x
HD Graphics 630IntelBench 5%, 310,249 samples	561x
GTX 1080 (Mobile)NvidiaBench 95%, 17,197 samples	436x

SSD
THNSN5256GPUK NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBToshibaBench 109%, 23,829 samples	191x
X400 M.2 2280 128GBSandiskBench 65%, 12,357 samples	153x
XG5 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBToshiba $33Bench 125%, 44,050 samples	131x

RAM
HMA81GS6AFR8N-UH 2x8GBUnknownBench 70%, 27,567 samples	780x
HMA82GS6AFR8N-UH 2x16GBUnknownBench 75%, 4,851 samples	190x
HMA81GS6AFR8N-VK 2x8GBUnknownBench 75%, 4,951 samples	176x

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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 $182	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $30	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