Alienware M17xR3

Performance Results


Gaming 9% Tree trunk	Desktop 44% Speed boat	Workstation 7% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (33rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 67 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With a relatively low single core score, this CPU can handle email, light web browsing and basic audio/video playback, but it will struggle to handle CPU intensive tasks. Finally, with a gaming score of 37.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is poor.
Graphics	13.3% 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	12GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 12GB also allows for very large file and system caches, software development and batch photo editing/processing.
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.

Very high background CPU (34%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	Alienware M17xR3 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware M17xR3
Memory	9.7 GB free of 12 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1680 x 1050 - 32 Bit kleuren,
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20120820
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Aug 10 '17 at 17:39
Run Duration	177 Seconds
Run User	NLD-User
Background CPU	34%

PC Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-2630QM-$199 39,605 User benchmarks, average bench 55% CPU1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 2 GHz Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile)	37.8% Below average	Memory 63.5 1-Core 21.1 2-Core 40.7 31% 41.8 Pts	4-Core 68.3 8-Core 99.3 10% 83.8 Pts	64-Core 105 6% 105 Pts
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 37.8% Great: 65%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD HD 6970M 1,595 User benchmarks, average bench 11% Dell(1028 04BA) 2GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 9.3.0.0 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	13.3% Very poor	Lighting 17.9 Reflection 12.8 Parallax 17 15% 15.9 fps	MRender 10.8 Gravity 12.2 Splatting 15.7 11% 12.9 fps
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 13.3% Great: 13%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial M4 256GB-$218 17,938 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 238GB free Firmware: 070H Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (6^th percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 4096 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 7511 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 3019 (AA) Unknown 100 100 1 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 97 97 110 (AE) Unknown 100 100 167 (B5) Unknown 100 100 12438275754062 (B7) Unknown 100 100 1 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 89 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 660 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 1 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 1775 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 97 97 3 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0	43.6% Average	Read 264 Write 217 Mixed 188 50% 223 MB/s	4K Read 16.2 4K Write 40.7 4K Mixed 5.8 54% 20.9 MB/s	DQ Read 109 DQ Write 101 DQ Mixed 6.24 32% 72 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 43.6% Great: 74%
WD Blue 2.5" 500GB (2013) 72,354 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 360GB free (System drive) Firmware: 02.01A02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 153 145 1308 (04) Start/Stop count 83 83 17920 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 2978 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1230 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 89 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 189 189 33834 (C2) HDA temperature 106 77 37 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (F0) Head flying hours 99 99 970	47.9% Average	Read 84.1 Write 82.8 Mixed 51.2 54% 72.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.11 4K Write 1.02 4K Mixed 0.11 35% 0.41 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 47.9% Great: 63%
WD My Book 500GB 3,986 User benchmarks, average bench 19% 346GB free, PID 1100 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile)	14.2% Very poor	Read 31.5 Write 27 Mixed 17.2 31% 25.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.67 4K Write 1.17 4K Mixed 0.35 54% 0.73 MB/s
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 14.2% Great: 22%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown CMSO4GX3M1A1333C9 Micron 8JSF25664HZ-1G4D1 CMSO4GX3M1A1333C9 Micron 8JSF25664HZ-1G4D1 12GB 6 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 1333, 1333, 1333, 1333 MHz 4096, 2048, 4096, 2048 MB Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile)	36% Below average	MC Read 13.5 MC Write 14.3 MC Mixed 13.5 39% 13.8 GB/s	SC Read 5.3 SC Write 4.4 SC Mixed 5.6 15% 5.1 GB/s	Latency 118 34% 118 ns
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 36% Great: 48%

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Gaming 7%

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Desktop 53%

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Workstation 7%

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System: Alienware M17xR3

CPU
Core i7-2670QMIntel $200Bench 56%, 51,169 samples	70x
Core i7-2760QMIntel $130Bench 60%, 10,423 samples	65x
Core i7-2630QMIntel $199Bench 55%, 39,605 samples	45x

GPU
HD 3000 (Mobile V1 1.1/1.2 GHz)IntelBench 2%, 209,058 samples	67x
HD 3000 (Mobile V2 1.3 GHz)IntelBench 2%, 110,588 samples	61x
GeForce GTX 580MNvidiaBench 13%, 434 samples	45x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	8x
870 EVO 1TBSamsung $100Bench 112%, 129,044 samples	7x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	5x

RAM
NT4GC64B8HG0NS-DI 4x4GBNanyaBench 52%, 422 samples	10x
HMT351S6BFR8C-PB 4x4GBHynixBench 51%, 254 samples	9x
HMT351S6BFR8C-H9 4x4GBHynixBench 44%, 326 samples	8x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	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