Alienware 17 R4

Performance Results


Gaming 89% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 74% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (66th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 34 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 81.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	107% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	101% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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.

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	9.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170914
Uptime	0.6 Days
Run Date	Nov 27 '17 at 00:05
Run Duration	109 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	2%
CPU Throttled	99%

PC Performing above expectations (66^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700HQ 473,208 User benchmarks, average bench 62% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 2.8 GHz, turbo 3.45 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	81.7% Excellent	Memory 88.9 1-Core 106 2-Core 202 76% 132 Pts	4-Core 402 8-Core 589 62% 496 Pts	64-Core 592 37% 592 Pts
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 81.7% Great: 73%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% EVGA(3842 6598) ≥ 4GB Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 23.21.13.8831 Performing below potential (4^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	107% Outstanding	Lighting 141 Reflection 152 Parallax 132 115% 142 fps	MRender 111 Gravity 136 Splatting 107 96% 118 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Liteon CV3-8D128-11 SATA 128GB 3,445 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 22GB free (System drive) Firmware: T87110D Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 328 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 352 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 12 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 712 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 60 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 4 (EE) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 3824761323 (F2) Unknown 100 100 4513582059	101% Outstanding	Read 511 Write 476 Mixed 489 110% 492 MB/s	4K Read 31.8 4K Write 50.7 4K Mixed 35.8 121% 39.4 MB/s	DQ Read 348 DQ Write 280 DQ Mixed 112 139% 247 MB/s
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 87%
HGST Travelstar 7K1000 2.5" 1TB 546,982 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 469GB free Firmware: JB0OA3W0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (46^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 127 127 94489280514 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 507 (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 98 98 1069 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 331 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 24 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 92 92 87299 (C2) HDA temperature 200 200 180389740574 (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 100 100 357 (F1) Unknown 100 100 5151972425 (F2) Unknown 100 100 6250640547 (FE) Unknown 100 100 2	59.2% Above average	Read 106 Write 99.7 Mixed 102 77% 103 MB/s	4K Read 0.68 4K Write 1.63 4K Mixed 0.22 84% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 59.2% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown HMA81GS6AFR8N-UH 2x8GB 27,567 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 2 of 2 slots used 16GB SODIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing above expectations (77^th percentile)	75.4% Very good	MC Read 29.2 MC Write 28.6 MC Mixed 22.3 76% 26.7 GB/s	SC Read 17.1 SC Write 27 SC Mixed 24.2 65% 22.8 GB/s	Latency 68.6 58% 68.6 ns
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 75.4% Great: 78%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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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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