Alienware 17 R3

Performance Results


Gaming 10% Tree trunk	Desktop 48% Yacht	Workstation 10% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (48th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 52 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
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 45.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is below average.
Graphics	6.28% 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	72.7% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago.

System	Alienware 17 R3 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware 0GH72M
Memory	11.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180108
Uptime	0.4 Days
Run Date	May 25 '18 at 13:08
Run Duration	147 Seconds
Run User	VNM-User
Background CPU	10%

PC Performing as expected (48^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 below expectations (12^th percentile)	45.5% Average	Memory 30.8 1-Core 97.2 2-Core 186 53% 105 Pts	4-Core 322 8-Core 544 53% 433 Pts	64-Core 541 34% 541 Pts
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 45.5% 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. 21.20.16.4590 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	6.28% Terrible	Lighting 6.9 Reflection 40.1 Parallax 5.66 6% 17.6 fps	MRender 5.1 Gravity 6.03 Splatting 14.3 8% 8.48 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 6.28% Great: 6%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 EVO M.2 120GB 3,551 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 50GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT21B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1051 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 456 (B1) Unknown 98 98 32 (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 44 37 56 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 18 (F1) Unknown 99 99 8630173421	72.7% Very good	Read 497 Write 365 Mixed 215 79% 359 MB/s	4K Read 29.5 4K Write 65.1 4K Mixed 14.5 98% 36.4 MB/s	DQ Read 30.3 DQ Write 74 DQ Mixed 20.8 25% 41.7 MB/s
Poor: 69% ↑ This bench: 72.7% Great: 112%
Apple HDD HTS541010A9E662 1TB 4,614 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 928GB free Firmware: JA0AB5D0 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (80^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 163 163 77309411329 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 6687 (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 79 79 9467 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 6682 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 175 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 64 64 367865 (C2) HDA temperature 162 162 223339413541 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (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 (FE) Unknown 100 100 34	53% Above average	Read 91.1 Write 93.6 Mixed 87.4 68% 90.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.38 4K Write 1.31 4K Mixed 0.08 49% 0.59 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 53% Great: 59%
Adata XPG EX500 480GB 3 User benchmarks, average bench 22% 437GB free Firmware: 9301 Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples
Poor: 20% Great: 24%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Hynix HMA41GS6AFR8N-TF 2x8GB 55,289 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 2 of 2 slots used 16GB SODIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing as expected (42^nd percentile)	70.1% Very good	MC Read 27.1 MC Write 28.8 MC Mixed 23.4 76% 26.4 GB/s	SC Read 13.7 SC Write 25.1 SC Mixed 20.4 56% 19.7 GB/s	Latency 250 16% 250 ns
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 70.1% Great: 76%

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System: Alienware 17 R3

CPU
Core i7-6700HQIntelBench 59%, 320,434 samples	982x
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	754x
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	241x
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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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $290	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16