Alienware Alienware M17

Performance Results


Gaming 6% Tree trunk	Desktop 46% Yacht	Workstation 5% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (53rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 47 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an average single core score, this CPU can handle browsing the web, email, video playback and the majority of general computing tasks including light gaming when coupled with an appropriate GPU. Finally, with a gaming score of 49.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is below average.
Graphics	5.77% 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	23.1% is an extremely low SSD score, this system will benefit from a faster SSD.
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 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

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System	Alienware Alienware M17 (all builds)
Motherboard	alienware alienware
Memory	5.2 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	Jun 07 '18 at 15:40
Run Duration	132 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	10%

PC Performing as expected (53^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)	49.1% Average	Memory 73.5 1-Core 34.9 2-Core 72.8 41% 60.4 Pts	4-Core 146 8-Core 146 20% 146 Pts	64-Core 146 9% 146 Pts
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 49.1% 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)	5.77% Terrible	Lighting 6.83 Reflection 10.5 Parallax 2 6% 6.43 fps	MRender 6.48 Gravity 2.93 Splatting 11.5 6% 6.98 fps
Poor: 5% ↑ This bench: 5.77% Great: 6%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$38 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 71GB free (System drive) Firmware: 603ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 6454808 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 138925012158312 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 869 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 136 (B1) Unknown 0 0 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 41 52 81607786537 (C2) HDA temperature 41 52 81607786537 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 6454808 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 6454808 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 6454808 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 4294967296 (E9) Unknown 0 0 4314 (EA) Unknown 0 0 3393 (F1) Unknown 0 0 3393 (F2) Unknown 0 0 2916 (F4) Unknown 99 99 3014702	23.1% Poor	Read 93.1 Write 89.2 Mixed 89.9 20% 90.7 MB/s	4K Read 9.13 4K Write 37.5 4K Mixed 5.48 41% 17.4 MB/s	DQ Read 10.8 DQ Write 90 DQ Mixed 6.12 18% 35.7 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 23.1% Great: 73%
Seagate Momentus 5400.6 2.5" 500GB-$16 83,084 User benchmarks, average bench 31% 427GB free Firmware: 0005HPM1 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 218275393 (03) Spinup time 98 98 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3350 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 75604958 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 1894 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3325 (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 65 43 30721376291 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 307 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 61 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 79 79 42026 (C2) HDA temperature 35 57 38654705699 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 53 42 218275393 (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	43.7% Average	Read 75.4 Write 76.8 Mixed 23.7 43% 58.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.4 4K Write 0.93 4K Mixed 0.29 67% 0.54 MB/s
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 43.7% Great: 43%

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	19.5% Very poor	MC Read 7.1 MC Write 5.4 MC Mixed 5.6 17% 6.03 GB/s	SC Read 5.9 SC Write 5.3 SC Mixed 5.5 16% 5.57 GB/s	Latency 93.5 43% 93.5 ns
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 19.5% Great: 65%

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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 $300	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 $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