Alienware M18xR1

Performance Results


Gaming 18% Surfboard	Desktop 77% Battleship	Workstation 15% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (66th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 34 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	18.9% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	78.7% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (19%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

System	Alienware M18xR1 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware M18xR1
Memory	13.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20111129
Uptime	4.1 Days
Run Date	May 17 '16 at 08:07
Run Duration	110 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	19%

PC Performing above expectations (66^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-2960XM 863 User benchmarks, average bench 65% CPU1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 2.7 GHz, turbo 3.5 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	71.9% Very good	Memory 84 1-Core 94.9 2-Core 185 70% 121 Pts	4-Core 326 8-Core 453 49% 390 Pts	64-Core 458 28% 458 Pts
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 71.9% Great: 77%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GeForce GTX 580M 434 User benchmarks, average bench 13% Dell(1028 048F) 2GB Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.6510 Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	18.9% Very poor	Lighting 27 Reflection 16.5 Parallax 12.7 22% 18.7 fps	MRender 18.2 Gravity 14.8 Splatting 14.9 13% 16 fps
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 18.9% Great: 20%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 180GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4955 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1158 (B1) Unknown 97 97 28 (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 53 48 47 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 56 (F1) Unknown 99 99 11694376994	78.7% Very good	Read 497 Write 344 Mixed 352 88% 398 MB/s	4K Read 28.6 4K Write 39.4 4K Mixed 18.4 88% 28.8 MB/s	DQ Read 325 DQ Write 207 DQ Mixed 82.6 111% 205 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 78.7% Great: 118%
Seagate Momentus 2.5" 750GB (2010)-$70 21,848 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 472GB free Firmware: 0002 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (70^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 648 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6537 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 80 60 106421870 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 7326 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2879 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 6 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 59 42 254142644265 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 2 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 63 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 44 44 113674 (C2) HDA temperature 41 58 30064771113 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 117 99 648 (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 65876208391601 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3661752492 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1880531117 (FE) Unknown 1 1 2	54.6% Above average	Read 93.6 Write 97 Mixed 87.5 70% 92.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 0.78 4K Mixed 0.63 105% 0.64 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 54.6% Great: 62%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Samsung M471B5273DH0-CH9 Nanya NT4GC64B8HG0NS-DI M471B5273DH0-CH9 Nanya NT4GC64B8HG0NS-DI 16GB 4 User benchmarks, average bench 40% 1333, 1333, 1333, 1333 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	47.6% Average	MC Read 16.5 MC Write 16.7 MC Mixed 15 46% 16.1 GB/s	SC Read 13.7 SC Write 15.9 SC Mixed 16.7 44% 15.4 GB/s	Latency 73.5 54% 73.5 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 47.6% Great: 48%

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

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Desktop 57%

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Workstation 9%

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System: Alienware M18xR1

CPU
Core i7-2670QMIntel $200Bench 56%, 51,169 samples	34x
Core i7-2860QMIntel $469Bench 62%, 4,317 samples	16x
Core i7-2960XMIntelBench 65%, 863 samples	12x

GPU
GeForce GTX 560MNvidiaBench 7%, 6,267 samples	34x
GeForce GTX 580MNvidiaBench 13%, 434 samples	23x
GTX 680MNvidiaBench 19%, 1,365 samples	11x

SSD
MX300 750GBCrucial $160Bench 89%, 24,471 samples	5x
MTFDDAK256TBN-1AR1ZABHA 256GBCrucialBench 77%, 2,468 samples	5x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	4x

RAM
NT4GC64B8HG0NS-DI 4x4GBNanyaBench 52%, 422 samples	10x
HMT351S6BFR8C-PB 4x4GBHynixBench 51%, 254 samples	7x
NT2GC64B88G0NS-DI 4x2GBNanyaBench 48%, 68 samples	5x

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Value: 42% - Average

Total price: $360

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	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