Alienware 17 R3

Performance Results


Gaming 17% Surfboard	Desktop 73% Battleship	Workstation 15% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (64th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 36 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 70.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	14.8% 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	43.2% 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	Alienware 17 R3 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 0GH72M
Memory	11.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170728
Uptime	24.2 Days
Run Date	Feb 22 '18 at 00:09
Run Duration	127 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing above expectations (64^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 (99^th percentile)	70.4% Very good	Memory 81.8 1-Core 96.4 2-Core 186 70% 121 Pts	4-Core 319 8-Core 549 53% 434 Pts	64-Core 550 34% 550 Pts
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 70.4% 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. 23.21.13.8831 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	14.8% Very poor	Lighting 10 Reflection 11.5 Parallax 38.1 8% 19.9 fps	MRender 28.5 Gravity 35.3 Splatting 36.1 28% 33.3 fps
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 14.8% Great: 33%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung CM871 M.2 2280 128GB 3,215 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 65GB free (System drive) Firmware: FXT21D1Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (46^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2167 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1980 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 97 97 51 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 1065 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (F1) Unknown 99 99 7851657770 (F2) Unknown 99 99 8440198517	43.2% Average	Read 489 Write 67.2 Mixed 97.3 46% 218 MB/s	4K Read 25 4K Write 29.3 4K Mixed 8.75 65% 21 MB/s	DQ Read 21.3 DQ Write 24 DQ Mixed 22.5 17% 22.6 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 43.2% Great: 57%
Seagate FireCuda 2.5" 2TB-$79 71,106 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 1.5TB free Firmware: SDM1 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (79^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 80 64 107289305 (03) Spinup time 99 99 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 611 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 4309759336 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 -94673964105527 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 247 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 77 44 387121175 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 17 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 32 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 830 (C2) HDA temperature 23 56 64424509463 (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 115371411505810 (F1) Unknown 100 253 5536452927 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1895610495 (FE) Unknown 1 1 17	55.4% Above average	Read 111 Write 81.7 Mixed 70.2 65% 87.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.75 4K Write 3.07 4K Mixed 0.54 148% 1.45 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 55.4% Great: 68%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 2400 C15 Series Hynix HMA81GS6AFR8N-UH 16GB 69 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 2133, 2133 MHz 8192, 8192 MB Performing below potential (34^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	66.9% Good	MC Read 25.3 MC Write 26.4 MC Mixed 19.6 68% 23.8 GB/s	SC Read 14.7 SC Write 23.8 SC Mixed 21 57% 19.8 GB/s	Latency 77.3 52% 77.3 ns
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 66.9% Great: 83%

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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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Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $179	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

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Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	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