Alienware 17 R2

Performance Results


Gaming 84% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 78% Battleship	Workstation 71% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (65th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 35 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 71.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	116% 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	91.8% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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.

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System	Alienware 17 R2 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware Alienware 17 R2
Memory	11.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170728
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Dec 04 '17 at 17:54
Run Duration	200 Seconds
Run User	ZAF-User
Background CPU	27%

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PC Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4710HQ 69,536 User benchmarks, average bench 58% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 2.5 GHz, turbo 3.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	71.9% Very good	Memory 82 1-Core 103 2-Core 194 73% 126 Pts	4-Core 333 8-Core 542 54% 438 Pts	64-Core 551 34% 551 Pts
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 71.9% Great: 70%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Dell(1028 068B) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2025 MHz, MLim: 2627 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.43 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	116% Outstanding	Lighting 158 Reflection 156 Parallax 148 129% 154 fps	MRender 122 Gravity 149 Splatting 116 104% 129 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 116% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 1TB-$210 25,365 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 216GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXM04B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (20^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 10804 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1510 (B1) Unknown 99 1 39 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 55 42 45 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 3 (EB) Unknown 99 99 150 (F1) Unknown 99 99 48704638813	91.8% Outstanding	Read 508 Write 381 Mixed 482 102% 457 MB/s	4K Read 28 4K Write 67 4K Mixed 32.3 119% 42.5 MB/s	DQ Read 279 DQ Write 243 DQ Mixed 124 130% 215 MB/s
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 91.8% Great: 124%
Liteonit LGT-512L9G-11 M.2 2280 512GB 194 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 202GB free Firmware: HG9110C Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (71^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 487 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1683 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 26917 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 1376 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 189181 (F2) Unknown 100 100 395911	85.6% Excellent	Read 472 Write 419 Mixed 436 99% 442 MB/s	4K Read 23.9 4K Write 42.8 4K Mixed 27.4 94% 31.4 MB/s	DQ Read 283 DQ Write 261 DQ Mixed 80.1 113% 208 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 85.6% Great: 94%
WD My Book 25EE 6TB 6,646 User benchmarks, average bench 65% 4TB free, PID 25ee Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing below expectations (27^th percentile)	51.6% Above average	Read 136 Write 108 Mixed 102 142% 115 MB/s	4K Read 0.91 4K Write 2.61 4K Mixed 0.27 101% 1.26 MB/s
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 51.6% Great: 103%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Samsung M471B1G73QH0-YK0 2x8GB 22,647 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 2 of 2 slots used 16GB SODIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)	55.2% Above average	MC Read 20.2 MC Write 20.4 MC Mixed 16.7 55% 19.1 GB/s	SC Read 14.7 SC Write 18.6 SC Mixed 18.8 50% 17.4 GB/s	Latency 77 52% 77 ns
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 55.2% Great: 58%

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

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System: Alienware 17 R2

CPU
Core i7-4710HQIntelBench 58%, 69,536 samples	205x
Core i7-4720HQIntelBench 58%, 80,960 samples	199x
Core i7-4980HQIntelBench 69%, 2,147 samples	99x

GPU
HD 4600 (Mobile 1.15 GHz)IntelBench 3%, 258,091 samples	251x
GTX 970MNvidiaBench 31%, 21,995 samples	87x
GTX 980MNvidiaBench 41%, 14,160 samples	80x

SSD
PM851 M.2 2280 128GBSamsungBench 55%, 1,404 samples	35x
L8T-128L9G-11 M.2 2280 128GBLiteonitBench 75%, 553 samples	21x
L8T-256L9G-11 M.2 2280 256GBLiteonitBench 80%, 846 samples	20x

RAM
HMT41GS6BFR8A-PB 2x8GBHynixBench 52%, 34,976 samples	130x
M471B1G73EB0-YK0 2x8GBSamsungBench 52%, 10,651 samples	61x
KN2M64-ETB 2x8GBKingstonBench 51%, 2,986 samples	32x

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WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
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