Alienware 17 R3

Performance Results


Gaming 33% Sail boat	Desktop 76% Battleship	Workstation 29% Raft


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 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 68.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	39.4% 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	123% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (15%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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

System	Alienware 17 R3 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 0M5CM7
Memory	25.4 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.7 GHz
Display	1360 x 768 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161212
Uptime	1.2 Days
Run Date	Jul 30 '17 at 22:01
Run Duration	110 Seconds
Run User	ARG-User
Background CPU	15%

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 i7-6820HK 20,362 User benchmarks, average bench 69% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 2.7 GHz, turbo 3.2 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (41^st percentile)	68.2% Good	Memory 79.6 1-Core 89.6 2-Core 179 67% 116 Pts	4-Core 306 8-Core 523 50% 415 Pts	64-Core 530 33% 530 Pts
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 68.2% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980M 14,160 User benchmarks, average bench 41% Dell(1028 0708) ≥ 4GB Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 22.21.13.8494 Performing below potential (44^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	39.4% Below average	Lighting 47.9 Reflection 42.8 Parallax 38.8 39% 43.2 fps	MRender 53.7 Gravity 46.8 Splatting 47.5 40% 49.3 fps
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 39.4% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung PM951 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB 1TB 2,610 User benchmarks, average bench 155% 180GB free (System drive) Firmware: BXV7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile)	123% Outstanding	Read 1,496 Write 307 Mixed 632 176% 812 MB/s	4K Read 35 4K Write 109 4K Mixed 23.2 141% 55.8 MB/s	DQ Read 35.7 DQ Write 124 DQ Mixed 22.3 34% 60.6 MB/s
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 123% Great: 201%
HGST Travelstar 7K1000 2.5" 1TB 546,982 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 841GB free Firmware: JB0OA3W0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 149 149 98784247810 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 2788 (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 88 88 5501 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 687 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 23 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 94 94 69930 (C2) HDA temperature 200 200 223339151390 (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 99 445 (F1) Unknown 100 100 15072108542 (F2) Unknown 100 100 9261284920 (FE) Unknown 100 100 7	73.4% Very good	Read 128 Write 128 Mixed 128 97% 128 MB/s	4K Read 0.72 4K Write 1.18 4K Mixed 0.17 71% 0.69 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 73.4% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance SODIM DDR4 3000 C16 2x16GB 649 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 2 of 2 slots used 32GB SODIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2667 MHz Performing below potential (6^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	70.8% Very good	MC Read 25.6 MC Write 28.4 MC Mixed 23.5 74% 25.8 GB/s	SC Read 13.5 SC Write 24.5 SC Mixed 18.4 54% 18.8 GB/s	Latency 81.3 49% 81.3 ns
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 70.8% Great: 103%

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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	976x
Core i7-6820HKIntelBench 69%, 20,362 samples	437x
Core i7-6820HQIntelBench 60%, 33,920 samples	3x

GPU
HD 530 (Mobile Skylake)IntelBench 5%, 213,495 samples	750x
GTX 970MNvidiaBench 31%, 21,995 samples	306x
GTX 980MNvidiaBench 41%, 14,160 samples	293x

SSD
PM951 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBSamsungBench 120%, 13,766 samples	240x
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	316x
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 $279	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 $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