Alienware 18

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 7% Tree trunk	Desktop 42% Speed boat	Workstation 5% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (36th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 64 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 below average single core score, this CPU can handle email, web browsing and audio/video playback but it will struggle to handle modern 3D games or workstation tasks such as video editing. Finally, with a gaming score of 40.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is below average.
Graphics	12.5% 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	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.

Run History

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

System	Alienware 18 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 01W2J2
Memory	13.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140623
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Nov 03 '17 at 11:04
Run Duration	134 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	10%

PC Performing below expectations (36^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4800MQ-$150 22,632 User benchmarks, average bench 63% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 2.7 GHz, turbo 0.8 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile)	40.4% Average	Memory 64.5 1-Core 22.9 2-Core 46.9 32% 44.8 Pts	4-Core 91.4 8-Core 124 14% 108 Pts	64-Core 123 8% 123 Pts
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 40.4% Great: 76%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 770M 6,357 User benchmarks, average bench 16% Dell(1028 05AB) 3GB CLim: 862 MHz, MLim: 1002 MHz, Ram: 3GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile)	12.5% Very poor	Lighting 18 Reflection 8.38 Parallax 9.84 15% 12.1 fps	MRender 10.7 Gravity 11.3 Splatting 8.96 8% 10.3 fps
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 12.5% Great: 17%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
HGST Travelstar 7K750 2.5" 750GB-$77 8,773 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 693GB free Firmware: JF4OA100 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 186 186 103079215106 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 10941 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 73 73 12194 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 6824 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 113 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 55 55 450839 (C2) HDA temperature 146 146 240518692905 (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 0 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (F0) Head flying hours 96 96 1970 (F1) Unknown 100 100 13610127881 (F2) Unknown 100 100 13199751660 (FE) Unknown 100 100 2	67.5% Good	Read 118 Write 117 Mixed 117 88% 117 MB/s	4K Read 0.64 4K Write 1.39 4K Mixed 0.22 77% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 67.5% Great: 68%
Hitachi Hitachi 750GB 40 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 637GB free (System drive) Firmware: JF4O Performing above expectations (66^th percentile)	55.4% Above average	Read 105 Write 87.8 Mixed 89.7 71% 94.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.41 4K Write 1.21 4K Mixed 0.18 59% 0.6 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 55.4% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Samsung M471B5173CB0-YK0 4x4GB 329 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB SODIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile)	42.8% Average	MC Read 15.9 MC Write 17.2 MC Mixed 16.7 47% 16.6 GB/s	SC Read 5.9 SC Write 4.7 SC Mixed 7 17% 5.87 GB/s	Latency 115 35% 115 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 42.8% Great: 57%

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Gaming 21%

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Desktop 68%

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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 $50Bench 60%, 15,557 samples	53x

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 $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $35	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