Alienware Alienware M17

Performance Results


Gaming 6% Tree trunk	Desktop 45% Yacht	Workstation 5% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (43rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 57 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a below average single core score, this CPU can handle email, web browsing and audio/video playback but it will struggle to handle modern 3D games or workstation tasks such as video editing. Finally, with a gaming score of 48.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is below average.
Graphics	5.75% 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	28.5% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce IO wait times.
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 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	Alienware Alienware M17 (all builds)
Motherboard	alienware alienware
Memory	6.8 GB free of 8 GB @ 0.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors, ,
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20090304
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Feb 18 '18 at 20:58
Run Duration	102 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	5%

PC Performing as expected (43^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core2 Extreme Q9300-$172 660 User benchmarks, average bench 46% U2E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 2.55 GHz Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)	48.9% Average	Memory 73.5 1-Core 27.4 2-Core 72.6 39% 57.8 Pts	4-Core 143 8-Core 144 19% 144 Pts	64-Core 146 9% 146 Pts
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 48.9% Great: 52%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870-X2 (Crossfire Disabled) 142 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Device(161F 207A) 512MB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 8.970.100.1100 Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)	5.75% Terrible	Lighting 6.73 Reflection 10.1 Parallax 2 6% 6.28 fps	MRender 6.33 Gravity 2.87 Splatting 12 6% 7.05 fps
Poor: 5% ↑ This bench: 5.75% Great: 6%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$37 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 62GB free (System drive) Firmware: 603ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 2598825 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 -7413113551120 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 709 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 109 (B1) Unknown 0 0 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 35 52 85902753827 (C2) HDA temperature 35 52 85902753827 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 2598825 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 2598825 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 2598825 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 4294967296 (E9) Unknown 0 0 3489 (EA) Unknown 0 0 2335 (F1) Unknown 0 0 2335 (F2) Unknown 0 0 2155 (F4) Unknown 99 99 2621480	28.5% Poor	Read 111 Write 97.6 Mixed 86.1 22% 98.3 MB/s	4K Read 10.9 4K Write 57.8 4K Mixed 6.47 56% 25.1 MB/s	DQ Read 14.1 DQ Write 87.1 DQ Mixed 6.34 18% 35.8 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 28.5% Great: 73%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 2x4GB 424,126 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 2 of 2 slots used 8GB SODIMM DDR2 Performing below potential (15^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	19.7% Very poor	MC Read 7.2 MC Write 5.5 MC Mixed 5.7 18% 6.13 GB/s	SC Read 5.5 SC Write 5.3 SC Mixed 6.2 16% 5.67 GB/s	Latency 93.6 43% 93.6 ns
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 19.7% Great: 65%

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Typical Alienware M17 Builds (Compare 9 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 6%

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Desktop 40%

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Workstation 6%

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System: Alienware Alienware M17

CPU
Core2 Duo P8400Intel $20Bench 37%, 6,904 samples	3x
Core2 Duo P9700IntelBench 40%, 485 samples	1x
Core2 Duo T9600Intel $170Bench 39%, 2,726 samples	1x

GPU
Mobility Radeon HD 3870-X2 (Crossfire Disabled)ATIBench 5%, 142 samples	8x
Mobility Radeon HD 3870ATIBench 5%, 11 samples	1x

SSD
SSDNow V300 240GBKingston $35Bench 64%, 176,713 samples	1x
SD8TB8U256G1001 256GBSandiskBench 73%, 4,613 samples	1x
320 Series 300GBIntel $289Bench 46%, 2,154 samples	1x

RAM
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples	3x
2x2GBUnknownBench 20%, 446,702 samples	3x
2x1GBUnknownBench 14%, 68,489 samples	2x

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Value: 39% - Below average

Total price: $55

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	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