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Alienware 17 R3

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Gaming 12% Tree trunk	Desktop 69% Battle cruiser	Workstation 12% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (54th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 46 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 70.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	6.15% 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	166% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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 17 R3 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 02VCTC
Memory	12.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180108
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 22 '18 at 21:15
Run Duration	143 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing as expected (54^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700HQ 320,434 User benchmarks, average bench 59% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 2.6 GHz, turbo 3.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	70.4% Very good	Memory 85.9 1-Core 87.6 2-Core 159 66% 111 Pts	4-Core 298 8-Core 458 47% 378 Pts	64-Core 468 29% 468 Pts
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 70.4% Great: 69%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel HD 530 (Mobile Skylake) FAQ - How to force Optimus or Switchable discrete GPUs? Dell(1028 0708) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 22.20.16.4836 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	6.15% Terrible	Lighting 6.43 Reflection 115 Parallax 6.44 5% 42.5 fps	MRender 9.29 Gravity 5.83 Splatting 12.7 8% 9.27 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 6.15% Great: 6%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Sandisk SD8SNAT128G1122 128GB 1,041 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 103GB free Firmware: Z2333000 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 141 100 141 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 769 (A6) Unknown 100 100 20 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 66 (A9) Unknown 100 100 122 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 44 (AE) Unknown 100 100 48 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 50 100 292057776178 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 324 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 4687 (F1) Unknown 253 253 2593 (F2) Unknown 253 253 6061	49.7% Average	Read 470 Write 176 Mixed 250 65% 299 MB/s	4K Read 21.9 4K Write 55.7 4K Mixed 3.72 67% 27.1 MB/s	DQ Read 21 DQ Write 51.3 DQ Mixed 3.69 12% 25.4 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 49.7% Great: 70%
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 36GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile)	166% Outstanding	Read 1,455 Write 1,022 Mixed 1,080 263% 1,186 MB/s	4K Read 47.8 4K Write 87.2 4K Mixed 22.7 148% 52.6 MB/s	DQ Read 48.8 DQ Write 83.4 DQ Mixed 21.8 29% 51.3 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 166% Great: 236%
Seagate ST1000LM044 HN-M101SAD 1TB 3,391 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 220GB free Firmware: 2BD10001 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 1 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 92 90 2611 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1713 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1439 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 1 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 866 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 829299 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 13 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 33 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 91 91 98813 (C2) HDA temperature 64 50 214749544483 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 23 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 1182 (F1) Unknown 94 94 8183614 (F2) Unknown 96 94 6409418 (FE) Unknown 100 100 19	67.6% Good	Read 112 Write 124 Mixed 126 91% 121 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 3.24 4K Mixed 0.23 106% 1.32 MB/s
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 67.6% Great: 78%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR4 2133 C13 2x8GB 2,917 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 2 of 2 slots used 16GB SODIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (40^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	72.6% Very good	MC Read 26.4 MC Write 28.4 MC Mixed 24 75% 26.3 GB/s	SC Read 14.3 SC Write 24.5 SC Mixed 19.3 55% 19.4 GB/s	Latency 71.3 56% 71.3 ns
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 72.6% Great: 107%

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System: Alienware 17 R3

CPU
Core i7-6700HQIntelBench 59%, 320,434 samples	983x
Core i7-6820HKIntelBench 69%, 20,362 samples	438x
Core i7-6820HQIntelBench 60%, 33,920 samples	3x

GPU
HD 530 (Mobile Skylake)IntelBench 5%, 213,495 samples	755x
GTX 970MNvidiaBench 31%, 21,995 samples	309x
GTX 980MNvidiaBench 41%, 14,160 samples	293x

SSD
PM951 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBSamsungBench 120%, 13,766 samples	242x
CM871 M.2 2280 128GBSamsungBench 45%, 3,215 samples	111x
PM951 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsungBench 140%, 7,011 samples	81x

RAM
HMA41GS6AFR8N-TF 2x8GBHynixBench 70%, 55,289 samples	317x
16ATF1G64HZ-2G1A2 2x8GBMicronBench 69%, 6,021 samples	140x
HMA451S6AFR8N-TF 2x4GBHynixBench 66%, 17,761 samples	126x

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Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16

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