Alienware M17xR4

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 17% Surfboard	Desktop 76% Battleship	Workstation 14% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (70th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 30 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 73.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	20.5% 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	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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 8 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

System	Alienware M17xR4 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware M17xR4
Memory	11 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20120629
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Nov 28 '17 at 06:52
Run Duration	112 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-3840QM-$549 3,981 User benchmarks, average bench 66% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 2.8 GHz Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	73.4% Very good	Memory 88.5 1-Core 98.9 2-Core 194 74% 127 Pts	4-Core 315 8-Core 487 50% 401 Pts	64-Core 488 30% 488 Pts
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 73.4% Great: 76%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 680M 1,365 User benchmarks, average bench 19% Dell(1028 057B) 2GB CLim: 758 MHz, MLim: 900 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 388.31 Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	20.5% Poor	Lighting 24.9 Reflection 22.5 Parallax 29.6 20% 25.7 fps	MRender 28.9 Gravity 27.4 Splatting 21.8 21% 26 fps
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 20.5% Great: 31%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Seagate Momentus 2.5" 500GB-$39 47,332 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 262GB free (System drive) Firmware: 0005 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 72100752 (03) Spinup time 98 98 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2326 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 84 60 316123300 (09) Power-on hours count 79 79 19050 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2315 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 50 40 2887059767346 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 1110 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 162 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 45 45 111360 (C2) HDA temperature 50 60 60129542194 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 114 99 72100752 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 17686675343521 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2207072607 (F2) Unknown 100 253 174595564 (FE) Unknown 1 1 91	40.2% Average	Read 76.7 Write 63.5 Mixed 87.8 58% 76 MB/s	4K Read 0.41 4K Write 0.8 4K Mixed 0.2 54% 0.47 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 40.2% Great: 58%
Seagate Momentus 2.5" 500GB-$39 47,332 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 170GB free Firmware: 0005 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (56^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 98 204052384 (03) Spinup time 98 98 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 5031 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 73 60 21886792 (09) Power-on hours count 79 79 19005 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2317 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 92 92 8 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 43 32 27634778898489 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 35 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 52 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 1 1 218604 (C2) HDA temperature 57 68 55834574905 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 119 99 204052384 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -111102214004714 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1251072184 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2955226032 (FE) Unknown 1 1 17	44.6% Average	Read 79.1 Write 76.5 Mixed 74.3 58% 76.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.2 4K Write 0.8 4K Mixed 0.15 40% 0.38 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 44.6% Great: 58%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Nanya NT4GC64B8HG0NS-DI 4x4GB 422 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB SODIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing above expectations (77^th percentile)	55% Above average	MC Read 20.6 MC Write 19.6 MC Mixed 16.7 54% 19 GB/s	SC Read 16.3 SC Write 15.7 SC Mixed 17.6 47% 16.5 GB/s	Latency 69 58% 69 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 55% Great: 56%

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Gaming 8%

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Desktop 58%

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Workstation 7%

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System: Alienware M17xR4

CPU
Core i7-3630QMIntel $420Bench 61%, 65,927 samples	242x
Core i7-3610QMIntel $300Bench 62%, 38,575 samples	139x
Core i7-3740QMIntel $220Bench 64%, 14,369 samples	77x

GPU
HD 4000 (Mobile 1.25 GHz)IntelBench 3%, 409,110 samples	355x
GTX 660MNvidiaBench 7%, 7,381 samples	83x
GTX 680MNvidiaBench 19%, 1,365 samples	76x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	25x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	21x
MX500 1TBCrucial $84Bench 106%, 202,785 samples	16x

RAM
NT4GC64B8HG0NS-DI 4x4GBNanyaBench 52%, 422 samples	40x
HMT351S6CFR8C-PB 2x4GBHynixBench 50%, 25,458 samples	19x
NT4GC64B8HG0NS-DI 2x4GBNanyaBench 51%, 5,366 samples	19x

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Total price: $520

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $132	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	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