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Gaming 12% Tree trunk	Desktop 71% Battleship	Workstation 12% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (85th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 15 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 75.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	6.41% 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	42.6% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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 0GH72M
Memory	13.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180108
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Feb 16 '18 at 00:22
Run Duration	118 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing above expectations (85^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)	75.2% Very good	Memory 83.2 1-Core 111 2-Core 209 77% 134 Pts	4-Core 362 8-Core 552 57% 457 Pts	64-Core 551 34% 551 Pts
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 75.2% 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.dll Ver. 22.20.16.4771 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	6.41% Terrible	Lighting 6.5 Reflection 39.8 Parallax 6.28 5% 17.5 fps	MRender 10.5 Gravity 6.3 Splatting 13.5 9% 10.1 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 6.41% Great: 6%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Dogfishssd 120G 120GB 6 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 61GB free (System drive) Firmware: Q0601B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 12 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 100 (A3) Unknown 100 100 9 (A4) Unknown 100 100 909 (A5) Unknown 100 100 1 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1500 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 8 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 4 (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 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 2693 (F2) Unknown 100 100 4791 (F5) Unknown 100 100 1830	42.6% Average	Read 301 Write 220 Mixed 192 53% 238 MB/s	4K Read 17.8 4K Write 42.2 4K Mixed 4.78 55% 21.6 MB/s	DQ Read 20.2 DQ Write 53.1 DQ Mixed 5.53 13% 26.3 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 42.6% Great: 59%
HGST Travelstar 7K1000 2.5" 1TB 546,982 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 796GB free Firmware: JB0OA3P0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (84^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 165 165 85899345922 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 7103 (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 61 61 17398 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1165 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 97 97 728 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 85 85 158794 (C2) HDA temperature 193 193 231928758303 (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 97 97 1351 (F1) Unknown 100 100 19454808070 (F2) Unknown 100 100 17851112168 (FE) Unknown 100 100 5	70.9% Very good	Read 118 Write 129 Mixed 129 95% 125 MB/s	4K Read 0.63 4K Write 1.3 4K Mixed 0.19 72% 0.71 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 70.9% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Samsung M471A1G43DB0-CPB 2x8GB 20,956 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 2 of 2 slots used 16GB SODIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	76% Very good	MC Read 27.9 MC Write 28.7 MC Mixed 24.2 77% 26.9 GB/s	SC Read 17.1 SC Write 29.8 SC Mixed 24.3 68% 23.7 GB/s	Latency 74.8 54% 74.8 ns
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 76% Great: 76%

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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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