Alienware 18

Performance Results


Gaming 8% Tree trunk	Desktop 33% Sail boat	Workstation 8% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (24th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 76 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 an extremely low single core score, this CPU can barely handle email and light web browsing. Finally, with a gaming score of 29.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very poor.
Graphics	10.8% 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	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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (37%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	Alienware 18 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 0FT9KT
Memory	4.4 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150904
Uptime	0.9 Days
Run Date	Oct 07 '17 at 21:54
Run Duration	140 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	37%

PC Performing below expectations (24^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4710MQ-$48 15,557 User benchmarks, average bench 60% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 2.5 GHz, turbo 1.6 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile)	29.1% Poor	Memory 38.6 1-Core 18.6 2-Core 41.3 22% 32.8 Pts	4-Core 105 8-Core 357 25% 231 Pts	64-Core 347 22% 347 Pts
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 29.1% Great: 73%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 M290X 1,411 User benchmarks, average bench 22% Dell(1028 05AB) ≥ 4GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.200.1045.0 Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile)	10.8% Very poor	Lighting 13.3 Reflection 12.2 Parallax 18.3 11% 14.6 fps	MRender 9.57 Gravity 13.6 Splatting 15.1 11% 12.8 fps
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 10.8% Great: 27%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Liteonit DMT-80 11GB 13 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 10GB free Firmware: MD1H Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile)	44.3% Average	Read 405 Write 202 Mixed 272 65% 293 MB/s	4K Read 10.9 4K Write 16.2 4K Mixed 10.8 39% 12.6 MB/s	DQ Read 76.4 DQ Write 92.8 DQ Mixed 43.5 44% 70.9 MB/s
Poor: 37% ↑ This bench: 44.3% Great: 65%
WD Blue 2.5" 1TB (2004)-$47 218,164 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 882GB free (System drive) Firmware: 100. Performing as expected (60^th percentile)	47.8% Average	Read 85.2 Write 81.7 Mixed 86 64% 84.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.2 4K Write 0.71 4K Mixed 0.21 44% 0.37 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 47.8% Great: 62%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Hynix HMT351S6EFR8A-PB 2x4GB 13,765 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB SODIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile)	44.4% Average	MC Read 16.3 MC Write 20.3 MC Mixed 16.8 51% 17.8 GB/s	SC Read 7.2 SC Write 4.4 SC Mixed 6.3 17% 5.97 GB/s	Latency 209 19% 209 ns
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 44.4% Great: 58%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

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Gaming 21%

Surfboard

Desktop 68%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 18%

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System: Alienware 18

CPU
Core i7-4700MQIntel $209Bench 59%, 69,603 samples	61x
Core i7-4910MQIntel $110Bench 67%, 6,703 samples	58x
Core i7-4710MQIntel $48Bench 60%, 15,557 samples	54x

GPU
GTX 880MNvidiaBench 28%, 2,147 samples	106x
GTX 770MNvidiaBench 16%, 6,357 samples	53x
GTX 780MNvidiaBench 23%, 3,739 samples	47x

SSD
Ultimate SU800 128GBAdata $30Bench 77%, 32,167 samples	11x
hynix SH920 mSATA 256GBSKBench 70%, 756 samples	10x
DMT-80M6M-11 mSATA 80GBLiteonitBench 67%, 888 samples	10x

RAM
M471B1G73DB0-YK0 4x8GBSamsungBench 54%, 2,172 samples	27x
HMT41GS6AFR8A-PB 4x8GBHynixBench 54%, 1,917 samples	25x
8KTF51264HZ-1G6E1 4x4GBMicronBench 53%, 1,119 samples	17x

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Value: 57% - Above average

Total price: $239

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16