Alienware 17 R2

Performance Results


Gaming 29% Raft	Desktop 80% Battleship	Workstation 24% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (62nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 38 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 76.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	31.7% 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	86.4% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Sub-optimal background CPU (17%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	Alienware 17 R2 (all builds)
Motherboard	Alienware Alienware 17 R2
Memory	12.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20170728
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Nov 15 '17 at 13:08
Run Duration	193 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	17%

PC Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4720HQ 80,960 User benchmarks, average bench 58% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 2.6 GHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	76.4% Very good	Memory 83.9 1-Core 108 2-Core 166 71% 119 Pts	4-Core 374 8-Core 524 57% 449 Pts	64-Core 519 32% 519 Pts
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 76.4% Great: 71%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980M 14,160 User benchmarks, average bench 41% Dell(1028 0688) ≥ 4GB Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 22.21.13.8569 Performing below potential (10^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	31.7% Below average	Lighting 34.7 Reflection 41.6 Parallax 37 28% 37.8 fps	MRender 41.8 Gravity 44.2 Splatting 52.6 38% 46.2 fps
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 31.7% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Liteon CV3-8D512-11 SAA 512GB 4 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 476GB free Firmware: T891 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 47 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 286 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 2752 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 45 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EE) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 20720966 (F2) Unknown 100 100 38819050	108% Outstanding	Read 519 Write 494 Mixed 505 113% 506 MB/s	4K Read 36.7 4K Write 67.5 4K Mixed 45 149% 49.7 MB/s	DQ Read 228 DQ Write 231 DQ Mixed 124 122% 194 MB/s
Poor: 98% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 110%
Ts512gmt S800 512GB 21 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 476GB free Firmware: N111 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 14 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1859 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 40 (A3) Unknown 100 100 5 (A4) Unknown 100 100 4952 (A5) Unknown 100 100 13 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 4 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 31 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 1444 (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 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 42677 (F2) Unknown 100 100 74567 (F5) Unknown 100 100 79232	98.3% Outstanding	Read 519 Write 430 Mixed 470 105% 473 MB/s	4K Read 26.8 4K Write 89.7 4K Mixed 35.3 133% 50.6 MB/s	DQ Read 237 DQ Write 228 DQ Mixed 65.6 95% 177 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 98.3% Great: 98%
Ts512gmt S800 512GB 21 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 475GB free Firmware: N111 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (19^th percentile) - 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 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 320 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1889 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 32 (A3) Unknown 100 100 13 (A4) Unknown 100 100 16256 (A5) Unknown 100 100 76 (A6) Unknown 100 100 2 (A7) Unknown 100 100 16 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 48 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 294969 (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 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 127916 (F2) Unknown 100 100 220254 (F5) Unknown 100 100 260096	73% Very good	Read 267 Write 256 Mixed 262 58% 262 MB/s	4K Read 25.6 4K Write 73.5 4K Mixed 36.7 125% 45.3 MB/s	DQ Read 165 DQ Write 186 DQ Mixed 69.7 82% 140 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 73% Great: 98%
Micron 1100 SATA 512GBB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 403GB free (System drive) Firmware: M0D Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 41 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 246 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 5 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 69 37 270583922719 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EE) Unknown 100 100 0 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 0 0 2448 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 0 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 2901939684 (F2) Unknown 100 100 3791598669 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0	86.4% Excellent	Read 479 Write 412 Mixed 438 99% 443 MB/s	4K Read 17.4 4K Write 71.1 4K Mixed 28.1 100% 38.9 MB/s	DQ Read 251 DQ Write 253 DQ Mixed 65.5 100% 190 MB/s
Poor: 86% ↑ This bench: 86.4% Great: 92%
WD Blue 2.5" 1TB (2004)-$47 218,164 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 216GB free Firmware: 01.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 1 (03) Spinup time 180 176 1983 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5120 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 1698 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1845 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 55 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 195 195 17490 (C2) HDA temperature 128 94 19 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 5 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 144 (F1) Unknown 200 200 2758354446 (F2) Unknown 200 200 3232058871 (FE) Unknown 133 133 67	49.4% Average	Read 102 Write 70.4 Mixed 73.3 61% 81.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.33 4K Write 1.78 4K Mixed 0.27 77% 0.79 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 49.4% Great: 62%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Hynix HMT41GS6BFR8A-PB 2x8GB 34,976 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 2 of 2 slots used 16GB SODIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (85^th percentile)	56.6% Above average	MC Read 20.6 MC Write 20.2 MC Mixed 17.3 55% 19.4 GB/s	SC Read 16 SC Write 19.4 SC Mixed 20.3 53% 18.6 GB/s	Latency 73.7 54% 73.7 ns
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 56.6% Great: 59%

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System: Alienware 17 R2

CPU
Core i7-4710HQIntelBench 58%, 69,536 samples	206x
Core i7-4720HQIntelBench 58%, 80,960 samples	200x
Core i7-4980HQIntelBench 69%, 2,147 samples	99x

GPU
HD 4600 (Mobile 1.15 GHz)IntelBench 3%, 258,091 samples	252x
GTX 970MNvidiaBench 31%, 21,995 samples	88x
GTX 980MNvidiaBench 41%, 14,160 samples	80x

SSD
PM851 M.2 2280 128GBSamsungBench 55%, 1,404 samples	35x
L8T-128L9G-11 M.2 2280 128GBLiteonitBench 75%, 553 samples	21x
L8T-256L9G-11 M.2 2280 256GBLiteonitBench 80%, 846 samples	20x

RAM
HMT41GS6BFR8A-PB 2x8GBHynixBench 52%, 34,976 samples	130x
M471B1G73EB0-YK0 2x8GBSamsungBench 52%, 10,651 samples	61x
KN2M64-ETB 2x8GBKingstonBench 51%, 2,986 samples	32x

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HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $79	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16