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Gaming 12% Tree trunk	Desktop 72% Battleship	Workstation 11% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (75th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 25 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 77%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	6.18% 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	70.2% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
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.

System	Alienware 17 R3 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 0CFV5H
Memory	12.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20190118
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Aug 15 '20 at 00:43
Run Duration	126 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6820HK 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 way above expectations (88^th percentile)	77% Very good	Memory 83.8 1-Core 106 2-Core 202 75% 131 Pts	4-Core 379 8-Core 562 58% 470 Pts	64-Core 558 34% 558 Pts
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 77% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel HD 530 (Mobile Skylake) FAQ - How to force Optimus or Switchable discrete GPUs? Dell(1028 0708) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 26.20.100.7263 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	6.18% Terrible	Lighting 6.37 Reflection 51.1 Parallax 6.81 5% 21.4 fps	MRender 9.9 Gravity 5.8 Splatting 12.9 8% 9.52 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 6.18% Great: 6%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung PM871 M.2 2280 128GB 841 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 64GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT23D0Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 135 120 134 143 127 135 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile)	70.2% Very good	Read 465 Write 146 Mixed 177 SusWrite 132 50% 230 MB/s	4K Read 24.9 4K Write 71.2 4K Mixed 24.7 107% 40.3 MB/s	DQ Read 357 DQ Write 147 DQ Mixed 178 151% 227 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 70.2% Great: 89%
HGST Travelstar 7K1000 2.5" 1TB 546,982 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 766GB free Firmware: JB0OA3P0 SusWrite @10s intervals: 124 123 123 124 124 123 MB/s Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	68.2% Good	Read 114 Write 113 Mixed 21.8 SusWrite 124 67% 93.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.7 4K Mixed 0.6 127% 1 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 68.2% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Micron 16ATF1G64HZ-2G1A2 2x8GB 6,021 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 2 of 2 slots used 16GB SODIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)	71.3% Very good	MC Read 26 MC Write 27.8 MC Mixed 23 73% 25.6 GB/s	SC Read 15.9 SC Write 24.7 SC Mixed 19.9 58% 20.2 GB/s	Latency 73.7 54% 73.7 ns
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 71.3% Great: 76%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 10%

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Desktop

Desktop 58%

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Workstation

Workstation 10%

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System: Alienware 17 R3

CPU
Core i7-6700HQIntelBench 59%, 320,434 samples	983x
Core i7-6820HKIntelBench 69%, 20,362 samples	438x
Core i7-6820HQIntelBench 60%, 33,920 samples	3x

GPU
HD 530 (Mobile Skylake)IntelBench 5%, 213,495 samples	755x
GTX 970MNvidiaBench 31%, 21,995 samples	309x
GTX 980MNvidiaBench 41%, 14,160 samples	293x

SSD
PM951 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBSamsungBench 120%, 13,766 samples	242x
CM871 M.2 2280 128GBSamsungBench 45%, 3,215 samples	111x
PM951 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsungBench 140%, 7,011 samples	81x

RAM
HMA41GS6AFR8N-TF 2x8GBHynixBench 70%, 55,289 samples	317x
16ATF1G64HZ-2G1A2 2x8GBMicronBench 69%, 6,021 samples	140x
HMA451S6AFR8N-TF 2x4GBHynixBench 66%, 17,761 samples	126x

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Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

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Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $39	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16

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