Alienware M17xR4

Performance Results


Gaming 19% Surfboard	Desktop 74% Battleship	Workstation 16% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (57th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 43 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. Despite its good single core score this processor isn't appropriate for workstation use due to its relatively weak multi-core performance. Finally, with a gaming score of 69.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	23.2% 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	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load times.
Memory	9GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 9GB 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 M17xR4 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware M17xR4
Memory	5.8 GB free of 9 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1600 x 900 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20130913
Uptime	4 Days
Run Date	Oct 18 '16 at 21:25
Run Duration	142 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	8%

PC Performing as expected (57^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-3610QM-$300 38,575 User benchmarks, average bench 62% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 2.3 GHz, turbo 3.05 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	69.1% Good	Memory 83.4 1-Core 84.4 2-Core 172 66% 113 Pts	4-Core 300 8-Core 406 45% 353 Pts	64-Core 406 25% 406 Pts
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 69.1% Great: 71%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD Radeon HD 7970M 939 User benchmarks, average bench 21% Dell(1028 057B) 2GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 21.19.137.1 Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)	23.2% Poor	Lighting 28.7 Reflection 26.9 Parallax 35.8 23% 30.5 fps	MRender 24.7 Gravity 25 Splatting 31.8 23% 27.2 fps
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 23.2% Great: 24%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Apple TS512C 500GB 466GB free Firmware: CJAA0201 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 99 99 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (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 100 100 9048 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 4325 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (A9) Unknown 100 100 4059204426096 (AA) Unknown 100 100 223354814546 (AB) Unknown 100 100 945 (AD) Unknown 191 191 4312662079 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 42 (C2) HDA temperature 66 43 244814184482 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	34.9% Below average	Read 201 Write 163 Mixed 157 39% 174 MB/s	4K Read 13.9 4K Write 37.2 4K Mixed 9.47 53% 20.2 MB/s	DQ Read 16.3 DQ Write 42.9 DQ Mixed 11.4 14% 23.5 MB/s

Seagate ST1750LM000 HN-M171RAD 1.5TB 7 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 309GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2BC10001 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 458 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 87 87 4140 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 598 (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 2599 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 504 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 13 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 52 39 261994184752 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 53 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 3 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 27248	30.1% Below average	Read 14.5 Write 90 Mixed 94.6 51% 66.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.4 4K Write 1.43 4K Mixed 0.16 61% 0.66 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 30.1% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Hynix HMT325S6CFR8C-PB Samsung M471B5773DH0-CK0 HMT351S6CFR8C-PB Kingston ACR128X64D3S1333C9 9GB 1600, 1600, 1600, 1333 MHz 2048, 2048, 4096, 1024 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	42.6% Average	MC Read 15.1 MC Write 14.3 MC Mixed 13.3 41% 14.2 GB/s	SC Read 12.9 SC Write 14.1 SC Mixed 14.1 39% 13.7 GB/s	Latency 74.4 54% 74.4 ns

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Desktop 58%

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Workstation 7%

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System: Alienware M17xR4

CPU
Core i7-3630QMIntel $420Bench 61%, 65,927 samples	242x
Core i7-3610QMIntel $300Bench 62%, 38,575 samples	139x
Core i7-3740QMIntel $220Bench 64%, 14,369 samples	78x

GPU
HD 4000 (Mobile 1.25 GHz)IntelBench 3%, 409,110 samples	355x
GTX 660MNvidiaBench 7%, 7,381 samples	83x
GTX 680MNvidiaBench 19%, 1,365 samples	76x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	25x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	21x
MX500 1TBCrucial $66Bench 106%, 202,785 samples	16x

RAM
NT4GC64B8HG0NS-DI 4x4GBNanyaBench 52%, 422 samples	40x
HMT351S6CFR8C-PB 2x4GBHynixBench 50%, 25,458 samples	19x
NT4GC64B8HG0NS-DI 2x4GBNanyaBench 51%, 5,366 samples	19x

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Value: 46% - Average

Total price: $520

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	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