Alienware M17xR3

Performance Results


Gaming 73% Battleship	Desktop 76% Battleship	Workstation 57% Gunboat


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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 72.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	101% 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	41.7% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	10GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 10GB 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 M17xR3 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware M17xR3
Memory	7.8 GB free of 10 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20120820
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 27 '17 at 02:48
Run Duration	121 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	7%

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 i7-2760QM-$130 10,423 User benchmarks, average bench 60% CPU1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 2.4 GHz, turbo 3.05 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	72.3% Very good	Memory 88.3 1-Core 87.4 2-Core 169 68% 115 Pts	4-Core 312 8-Core 397 46% 355 Pts	64-Core 393 24% 393 Pts
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 72.3% Great: 72%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GeForce GTX 580M 434 User benchmarks, average bench 13% Dell(1028 04BA) 2GB Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 9.18.13.697 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	101% Outstanding	Lighting 188 Reflection 3.12 Parallax 1.62 153% 64.1 fps	MRender 3.33 Gravity 1.33 Splatting 4.48 3% 3.05 fps
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 20%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung PM830 mSATA 256GB 9,379 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 195GB free (System drive) Firmware: CXM02D1Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (2^nd percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 13325 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2634 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 84 84 582 (B2) Unknown 94 94 218 (B3) Unknown 94 94 422 (B4) Unknown 94 94 7642 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 253 253 145 (E8) Unknown 94 94 3814 (F1) Unknown 10 10 26157186088 (F2) Unknown 136 136 20684229756	41.7% Average	Read 258 Write 246 Mixed 254 56% 253 MB/s	4K Read 14.5 4K Write 31.2 4K Mixed 10.3 52% 18.6 MB/s	DQ Read 13.6 DQ Write 34.6 DQ Mixed 9.7 12% 19.3 MB/s
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 41.7% Great: 80%
Seagate Momentus 2.5" 500GB-$39 47,332 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 466GB free Firmware: 0003SDM1 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 95 232914705 (03) Spinup time 100 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1675 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 74 60 8647636988 (09) Power-on hours count 81 81 16797 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1343 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 130 (BC) Unknown 100 80 55835426908 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 57 42 65148551211 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 39 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 119 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 69 69 62468 (C2) HDA temperature 43 58 55834574891 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 47 42 232914705 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -17673790407884 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2803924457 (F2) Unknown 100 253 286932792 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	53.8% Above average	Read 98.4 Write 89.2 Mixed 89 69% 92.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 0.87 4K Mixed 0.37 78% 0.58 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 53.8% Great: 58%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown HMT325S6BFR8C-PB HMT325S6BFR8C-PB HMT351S6CFR8C-PB HMT325S6BFR8C-PB 10GB 5 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 2048, 2048, 4096, 2048 MB Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	50.4% Above average	MC Read 18.8 MC Write 19.6 MC Mixed 13.4 49% 17.3 GB/s	SC Read 15.2 SC Write 16.1 SC Mixed 13.9 43% 15.1 GB/s	Latency 69.2 58% 69.2 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 50.4% Great: 51%

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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	44x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	8x
870 EVO 1TBSamsung $89Bench 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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Total price: $309

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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 $184	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) $33	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