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Gaming 79% Battleship	Desktop 78% Battleship	Workstation 67% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (51st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 49 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 70.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	109% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	168% 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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

System	Alienware 17 R3 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 0M5CM7
Memory	24.3 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180717
Uptime	4.8 Days
Run Date	Dec 03 '19 at 08:04
Run Duration	144 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	5%

PC Performing as expected (51^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6820HK 20,362 User benchmarks, average bench 69% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 2.7 GHz, turbo 3.25 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile)	70.9% Very good	Memory 78.4 1-Core 98 2-Core 178 68% 118 Pts	4-Core 342 8-Core 554 55% 448 Pts	64-Core 542 34% 542 Pts
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 70.9% Great: 82%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Nvidia(10DE 120F) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 432.0 Performing below potential (6^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	109% Outstanding	Lighting 147 Reflection 148 Parallax 150 120% 148 fps	MRender 102 Gravity 147 Splatting 102 94% 117 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 133%
Intel HD 530 (Mobile Skylake) 213,495 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Dell(1028 0708) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 23.20.16.4973 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	5.99% Terrible	Lighting 6.27 Reflection 8.69 Parallax 6.38 5% 7.11 fps	MRender 8.76 Gravity 5.73 Splatting 12.5 8% 8.99 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 5.99% Great: 6%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung PM951 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB 1TB 2,610 User benchmarks, average bench 155% 459GB free (System drive) Firmware: BXV7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 660 650 666 656 661 650 MB/s Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile)	168% Outstanding	Read 985 Write 619 Mixed 520 SusWrite 657 155% 695 MB/s	4K Read 36.2 4K Write 120 4K Mixed 47.5 179% 67.8 MB/s	DQ Read 919 DQ Write 579 DQ Mixed 712 541% 737 MB/s
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 168% Great: 201%
HGST Travelstar 7K1000 2.5" 1TB 546,982 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 500GB free Firmware: JB0OA3P0 SusWrite @10s intervals: 111 110 112 112 112 112 MB/s Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)	66% Good	Read 118 Write 117 Mixed 21.2 SusWrite 112 66% 92 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.8 4K Mixed 0.6 129% 1.03 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 66% Great: 75%
Seagate Backup+ Hub BK 8TB 16,705 User benchmarks, average bench 60% 3.5TB free Firmware: D781 SusWrite @10s intervals: 147 144 150 152 149 151 MB/s Performing as expected (48^th percentile)	63.6% Good	Read 71.5 Write 135 Mixed 88 SusWrite 149 82% 111 MB/s	4K Read 3 4K Write 4.1 4K Mixed 0.6 268% 2.57 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 63.6% Great: 92%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Samsung M471A2K43BB1-CPB 2x16GB 4,393 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 2 of 2 slots used 32GB SODIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (13^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	64.2% Good	MC Read 23 MC Write 25.3 MC Mixed 21.2 66% 23.2 GB/s	SC Read 13.2 SC Write 21.5 SC Mixed 18.2 50% 17.6 GB/s	Latency 83.5 48% 83.5 ns
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 64.2% Great: 76%

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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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WD Blue 1TB (2012) $30	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
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