Alienware 17 R3

Performance Results


Gaming 29% Raft	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 24% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (58th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 42 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 73.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	32.5% 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	52.6% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	Alienware 17 R3 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 0GH72M
Memory	1.5 GB free of 8 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170728
Uptime	3 Days
Run Date	Nov 09 '17 at 04:21
Run Duration	124 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing as expected (58^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)	73.1% Very good	Memory 83.6 1-Core 109 2-Core 197 75% 130 Pts	4-Core 338 8-Core 524 53% 431 Pts	64-Core 513 32% 513 Pts
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 73.1% Great: 69%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970M 21,995 User benchmarks, average bench 31% Dell(1028 0708) 3GB Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 23.21.13.8800 Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	32.5% Below average	Lighting 41.6 Reflection 39.1 Parallax 35.6 34% 38.7 fps	MRender 39.7 Gravity 36.1 Splatting 34.5 30% 36.8 fps
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 32.5% Great: 33%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Toshiba THNSNK128GVN8 M.2 2280 128GB 5,253 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 13GB free (System drive) Firmware: K8DA4101 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 100 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1857 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1427 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 187 187 0 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 87 87 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B3) Unknown 100 100 100 (B4) Unknown 100 100 100 (B5) Unknown 100 100 100 (B6) Unknown 100 100 100 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 63 (C2) HDA temperature 47 23 330713202741 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EE) Unknown 87 87 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 131519 (F2) Unknown 100 100 148237	52.6% Above average	Read 493 Write 101 Mixed 156 54% 250 MB/s	4K Read 19.4 4K Write 46.6 4K Mixed 11.5 69% 25.8 MB/s	DQ Read 215 DQ Write 82.8 DQ Mixed 43.8 60% 114 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 52.6% Great: 71%
Seagate ST1000LM044 HN-M101SAD 1TB 3,391 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 120GB free Firmware: 2BD10001 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^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 3186 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3953 (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 1614 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 3 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1436 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 1146236 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 1 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 16 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 91 91 96754 (C2) HDA temperature 58 52 210454052906 (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 23 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 1529 (F1) Unknown 96 94 5524537 (F2) Unknown 95 88 7980605 (FE) Unknown 100 100 1	53.3% Above average	Read 94.9 Write 90.6 Mixed 83.1 67% 89.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.14 4K Write 2.19 4K Mixed 0.27 76% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 53.3% Great: 78%

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 below potential (20^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	61.6% Good	MC Read 23.4 MC Write 21.3 MC Mixed 18.2 60% 21 GB/s	SC Read 16.6 SC Write 24.8 SC Mixed 23.3 62% 21.6 GB/s	Latency 74.2 54% 74.2 ns
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 61.6% Great: 74%

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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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Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	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