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Alienware 17 R3

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Gaming 12% Tree trunk	Desktop 69% Battle cruiser	Workstation 11% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (84th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 16 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 76.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	5.61% 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	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	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.

System	Alienware 17 R3 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware Alienware 17 R3
Memory	11.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160805
Uptime	3 Days
Run Date	Aug 15 '17 at 05:05
Run Duration	120 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700HQ 320,434 User benchmarks, average bench 59% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 2.6 GHz, turbo 3.15 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	76.7% Very good	Memory 81.3 1-Core 98.1 2-Core 193 71% 124 Pts	4-Core 393 8-Core 535 59% 464 Pts	64-Core 547 34% 547 Pts
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 76.7% 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 Ver. 21.20.16.4590 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	5.61% Terrible	Lighting 6.33 Reflection 39.5 Parallax 5.59 5% 17.1 fps	MRender 8.33 Gravity 5.37 Splatting 9.43 6% 7.71 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 5.61% Great: 6%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung CM871 M.2 2280 128GB 3,215 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 12GB free Firmware: FXT21D1Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 954 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 548 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 98 98 36 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 1060 (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 6807345485 (F2) Unknown 99 99 6322651539	52.7% Above average	Read 492 Write 127 Mixed 205 60% 275 MB/s	4K Read 24.4 4K Write 41.1 4K Mixed 9.68 71% 25.1 MB/s	DQ Read 177 DQ Write 40.7 DQ Mixed 29.1 42% 82.2 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 52.7% Great: 57%
Seagate ST1000LM044 HN-M101SAD 1TB 3,391 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 709GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2BD10001 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (75^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 55 55 9317 (03) Spinup time 90 90 3260 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 803 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 844 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 3 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 542 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 620917 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 10 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 27 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 33638 (C2) HDA temperature 64 51 210454249508 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 22 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 809 (F1) Unknown 95 94 7828948 (F2) Unknown 96 94 5718463 (FE) Unknown 100 100 11	70.5% Very good	Read 104 Write 142 Mixed 111 90% 119 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 1.95 4K Mixed 0.26 84% 0.89 MB/s
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 70.5% Great: 78%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Hynix HMA41GS6AFR8N-TF 2x8GB 55,289 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 2 of 2 slots used 16GB SODIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing as expected (60^th percentile)	72.1% Very good	MC Read 27.5 MC Write 26.7 MC Mixed 23.4 74% 25.9 GB/s	SC Read 14.9 SC Write 27.3 SC Mixed 20.7 60% 21 GB/s	Latency 78.1 51% 78.1 ns
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 72.1% Great: 76%

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System: Alienware 17 R3

CPU
Core i7-6700HQIntelBench 59%, 320,434 samples	983x
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	755x
GTX 970MNvidiaBench 31%, 21,995 samples	309x
GTX 980MNvidiaBench 41%, 14,160 samples	293x

SSD
PM951 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBSamsungBench 120%, 13,766 samples	242x
CM871 M.2 2280 128GBSamsungBench 45%, 3,215 samples	111x
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	140x
HMA451S6AFR8N-TF 2x4GBHynixBench 66%, 17,761 samples	126x

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