Alienware 17 R3

Performance Results


Gaming 32% Sail boat	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 28% Raft


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (68th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 32 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 74.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	33.6% 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	180% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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

5 years ago, 5 years ago.

System	Alienware 17 R3 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware Alienware 17 R3
Memory	12.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160805
Uptime	5.9 Days
Run Date	Apr 20 '18 at 19:12
Run Duration	114 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing above expectations (68^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)	74.9% Very good	Memory 86.7 1-Core 109 2-Core 203 77% 133 Pts	4-Core 341 8-Core 539 54% 440 Pts	64-Core 550 34% 550 Pts
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 74.9% 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. 22.21.13.8205 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	33.6% Below average	Lighting 42.6 Reflection 39.8 Parallax 38.3 35% 40.2 fps	MRender 42.1 Gravity 37.7 Splatting 36.1 31% 38.6 fps
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 33.6% Great: 33%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 165,668 User benchmarks, average bench 213% 379GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile)	180% Outstanding	Read 1,542 Write 1,045 Mixed 1,084 271% 1,224 MB/s	4K Read 55.7 4K Write 116 4K Mixed 25.6 178% 65.6 MB/s	DQ Read 53.4 DQ Write 91 DQ Mixed 24.2 32% 56.2 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 180% Great: 254%
Seagate FireCuda 2.5" 2TB-$79 71,106 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 974GB free Firmware: SDM1 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (70^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 84 64 227191281 (03) Spinup time 99 99 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5739 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 15753829 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 110337709835609 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 907 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 3 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 47 487915549 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 18 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 45 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 6790 (C2) HDA temperature 29 53 51539607581 (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 34690450852987 (F1) Unknown 100 253 5170321919 (F2) Unknown 100 253 5066640059 (FE) Unknown 1 1 2	52.2% Above average	Read 104 Write 77.8 Mixed 56.1 59% 79.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.45 4K Write 0.81 4K Mixed 0.61 101% 0.62 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 52.2% Great: 68%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR4 2133 C13 2x8GB 2,917 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 2 of 2 slots used 16GB SODIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)	74.1% Very good	MC Read 27.6 MC Write 26.6 MC Mixed 24.4 75% 26.2 GB/s	SC Read 16.6 SC Write 29.2 SC Mixed 22.1 65% 22.6 GB/s	Latency 70.7 57% 70.7 ns
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 74.1% Great: 107%

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System: Alienware 17 R3

CPU
Core i7-6700HQIntelBench 59%, 320,434 samples	976x
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	306x
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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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $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