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Gaming 12% Tree trunk	Desktop 74% Battleship	Workstation 11% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (76th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 24 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 80.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	5.98% 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	62.6% 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.

System	Alienware 17 R3 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 0M5CM7
Memory	12.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161212
Uptime	4.6 Days
Run Date	Aug 28 '17 at 09:40
Run Duration	110 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6820HK 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 way above expectations (95^th percentile)	80.5% Excellent	Memory 88.4 1-Core 107 2-Core 204 77% 133 Pts	4-Core 392 8-Core 566 60% 479 Pts	64-Core 563 35% 563 Pts
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 80.5% Great: 82%

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. 21.20.16.4627 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	5.98% Terrible	Lighting 6.1 Reflection 50.1 Parallax 6.19 5% 20.8 fps	MRender 8.43 Gravity 5.4 Splatting 13.6 8% 9.15 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 5.98% Great: 6%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk X400 512GB-$99 7,913 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 240GB free (System drive) Firmware: X4140000 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 72 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 48 (A5) Unknown 100 100 4456500 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 17 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1 (A9) Unknown 100 100 318 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 4 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 58 72 309239349290 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 60129542158 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 354 (EA) Unknown 100 100 507 (F1) Unknown 253 253 450 (F2) Unknown 253 253 368 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	62.6% Good	Read 481 Write 329 Mixed 293 81% 368 MB/s	4K Read 24 4K Write 32.4 4K Mixed 8.75 65% 21.7 MB/s	DQ Read 25.2 DQ Write 187 DQ Mixed 7.69 35% 73.2 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 62.6% Great: 104%
Seagate ST1000LM044 HN-M101SAD 1TB 3,391 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 927GB free Firmware: 2BD10001 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 90 90 3231 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 251 (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 46 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 114 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 139141 (BF) G-sense error rate 252 252 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 23 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1765 (C2) HDA temperature 64 48 223339479071 (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 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 36 (F1) Unknown 95 94 7293547 (F2) Unknown 97 94 5295546 (FE) Unknown 100 100 4	81.4% Excellent	Read 140 Write 143 Mixed 138 106% 141 MB/s	4K Read 0.78 4K Write 2.99 4K Mixed 0.43 136% 1.4 MB/s
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 81.4% Great: 78%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial CT8G4SFD8213.C16FBD1 2x8GB 670 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 2 of 2 slots used 16GB SODIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)	74.2% Very good	MC Read 27.3 MC Write 28.6 MC Mixed 23.2 75% 26.4 GB/s	SC Read 16.1 SC Write 27 SC Mixed 22.8 63% 22 GB/s	Latency 69.1 58% 69.1 ns
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 74.2% Great: 96%

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System: Alienware 17 R3

CPU
Core i7-6700HQIntelBench 59%, 320,434 samples	977x
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	307x
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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