Alienware 17 R4

Performance Results


Gaming 65% Destroyer	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 55% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (76th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 24 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 77.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	79.7% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	191% 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.

High background CPU (26%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	Alienware 17 R4 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware Alienware 17 R4
Memory	9.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170914
Uptime	5 Days
Run Date	May 21 '18 at 16:15
Run Duration	113 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	26%

PC Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700HQ 473,208 User benchmarks, average bench 62% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 2.8 GHz, turbo 3.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	77.2% Very good	Memory 84.4 1-Core 104 2-Core 200 74% 129 Pts	4-Core 377 8-Core 580 59% 479 Pts	64-Core 571 35% 571 Pts
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 77.2% Great: 73%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070 (Mobile) 73,882 User benchmarks, average bench 72% Dell(1028 0778) ≥ 4GB Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 23.21.13.9135 Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	79.7% Very good	Lighting 104 Reflection 111 Parallax 85.7 85% 100 fps	MRender 82.9 Gravity 81.6 Splatting 90 70% 84.8 fps
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 79.7% Great: 82%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Toshiba THNSN5512GPUK NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB 19,561 User benchmarks, average bench 122% 250GB free (System drive) Firmware: 5KDA4103 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	191% Outstanding	Read 1,434 Write 897 Mixed 1,157 258% 1,162 MB/s	4K Read 30.7 4K Write 126 4K Mixed 63.6 194% 73.3 MB/s	DQ Read 424 DQ Write 338 DQ Mixed 177 188% 313 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 191% Great: 170%
HGST Travelstar 7K1000 2.5" 1TB 546,982 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 628GB free Firmware: JB0OA3W0 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 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 132 132 94489280514 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1399 (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 98 98 1283 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 586 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 30 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 14344 (C2) HDA temperature 200 200 201864314910 (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 100 100 125 (F1) Unknown 100 100 17262346539 (F2) Unknown 100 100 16585304314 (FE) Unknown 100 100 5	65.7% Good	Read 111 Write 118 Mixed 116 87% 115 MB/s	4K Read 0.52 4K Write 1.56 4K Mixed 0.2 73% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 65.7% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown HMA81GS6AFR8N-UH 2x8GB 27,567 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 2 of 2 slots used 16GB SODIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing below potential (22^nd percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	66% Good	MC Read 25.6 MC Write 24.6 MC Mixed 20 67% 23.4 GB/s	SC Read 14.5 SC Write 22.7 SC Mixed 20.5 55% 19.2 GB/s	Latency 72.8 55% 72.8 ns
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 66% Great: 78%

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Desktop 71%

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Workstation 41%

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System: Alienware 17 R4

CPU
Core i7-7700HQIntelBench 62%, 473,208 samples	1,210x
Core i7-7820HKIntelBench 72%, 18,903 samples	759x
Core i7-6700HQIntelBench 59%, 320,434 samples	533x

GPU
GTX 1070 (Mobile)NvidiaBench 72%, 73,882 samples	974x
HD Graphics 630IntelBench 5%, 310,249 samples	562x
GTX 1080 (Mobile)NvidiaBench 95%, 17,197 samples	441x

SSD
THNSN5256GPUK NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBToshibaBench 109%, 23,829 samples	193x
X400 M.2 2280 128GBSandiskBench 65%, 12,357 samples	154x
XG5 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBToshiba $33Bench 125%, 44,050 samples	133x

RAM
HMA81GS6AFR8N-UH 2x8GBUnknownBench 70%, 27,567 samples	787x
HMA82GS6AFR8N-UH 2x16GBUnknownBench 75%, 4,851 samples	193x
HMA81GS6AFR8N-VK 2x8GBUnknownBench 75%, 4,951 samples	176x

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Intel Core i5-12600K $168	Nvidia RTX 4070 $490	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $38	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $39	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16