Alienware Alienware M17

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 2% Tree trunk	Desktop 42% Speed boat	Workstation 1% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (66th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 34 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 45.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is below average.
Graphics	5.68% 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	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	6GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 6GB 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 9 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

5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago.

System	Alienware Alienware M17 (all builds)
Motherboard	alienware alienware
Memory	4.8 GB free of 6 GB @ 0.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20090304
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jun 06 '18 at 05:06
Run Duration	141 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	3%

PC Performing above expectations (66^th 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 below expectations (31^st percentile)	45.3% Average	Memory 73.4 1-Core 36.2 2-Core 72.6 41% 60.7 Pts	4-Core 106 8-Core 90.8 14% 98.2 Pts	64-Core 145 9% 145 Pts
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 45.3% 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)	5.68% Terrible	Lighting 6.6 Reflection 9.81 Parallax 2 5% 6.14 fps	MRender 6.38 Gravity 2.93 Splatting 11.9 6% 7.06 fps
Poor: 5% ↑ This bench: 5.68% Great: 6%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Seagate Momentus 5400.6 2.5" 500GB-$16 83,084 User benchmarks, average bench 31% 430GB free (System drive) Firmware: 0005HPM1 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 148217650 (03) Spinup time 98 98 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3346 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 75177130 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 1883 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3321 (B7) Unknown 100 253 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032971 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 55 43 30822563885 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 307 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 61 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 80 80 41754 (C2) HDA temperature 45 57 38654705709 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 52 42 148217650 (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 2	41.6% Average	Read 76.3 Write 68.9 Mixed 29.5 43% 58.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.19 4K Write 0.28 4K Mixed 0.17 32% 0.21 MB/s
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 41.6% Great: 43%
Seagate ST9402115AS 40GB 159 User benchmarks, average bench 14% 37GB free Firmware: 3.01 Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 57 51 18596828 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 136 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 7888271 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 306 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 134 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 63 48 622592037 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 250 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 136 (C2) HDA temperature 37 52 77309411365 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 57 51 18596828 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 253 0	16.8% Very poor	Read 26.6 Write 31.6 Mixed 15.9 18% 24.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 0.8 4K Mixed 0.3 69% 0.53 MB/s
Poor: 4% ↑ This bench: 16.8% Great: 18%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 6GB 111,301 User benchmarks, average bench 25% null MHz 2048, 4096 MB Performing as expected (41^st percentile)	19.6% Very poor	MC Read 7 MC Write 5.5 MC Mixed 5.6 17% 6.03 GB/s	SC Read 6.2 SC Write 5.3 SC Mixed 6.2 17% 5.9 GB/s	Latency 93.9 43% 93.9 ns
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 19.6% Great: 46%

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

Gaming 6%

Tree trunk

Desktop 40%

Speed boat

Workstation 6%

Tree trunk

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 $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $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